Malian women take a lot of pride in their jewelry especially when they are going to weddings. To go with their expensive embroidered bazin outfits they wear gold necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. This is because gold symbolizes wealth, money, and prestige between Malian women. Such that women see weddings as the perfect occasion to dress up and wear their most expensive gold jewelry to go and celebrate the union of the new couple. Where the Djeli's sing to them, in such a way that they are praising them for their beauty and respectful family name, in which the women front and give money out to the Djeli's.
