A quincenera for many girls in(pronounced Spanish-speaking"kin-sin-yera") is special celebration held communities of the United States and Latin America on their fifteenth birthday. The celebration may different in different countries. The word quincen can refer to the celebration or to the girl. This birthday is special because it celebrates that a girl is not a child anymore and has become a woman. It is a very important day for many young girls, a day they dream about for a long time. Everyone who knows the girl will celebrate it with a church ceremony and a big party There is a lot of preparation before a quincenera celebration. The most important and expensive thing is the girl's dress. The dress is like a bride's dress but is usually pink, however, today many girls wear dresses in other light colors, also. The birthday girl chooses fourteen girls and fourteen boys who will be her attendants at the ceremony and the dinner dance that follows. Traditionally, these girls and boys are younger than the birthday girl, but sometimes they are the same age. The dresses for the girls must be in the same color and style, just as the suits for the boys are in the same color and style. The reason for this is that all eyes will go to the birthday girl on that special day. Then the family orders a cake that is special like a wedding cake. Sometimes the godparents pay for it. Many times, the cake is so big that it needs a special table. Next, the parents rent a hall for the party and rent a band to play music. After that, they decide on the special food to serve celebration can cost as much as a big the guests. Often a quincenera wedding, the size of the party depends on how much the girl's parents can afford On the night before the girl's fifteenth birthday, a band plays in he evening outside her window. Then the day of her birthday arrives First, the girl's family, her godparents, and her attendants go to a religious ceremony in the church. The girl receives a bouquet of flowers and blessings and prayers that will help her to live a strong life. Her daughter, and they embrace her parents are proud of their grown-up hen she leaves the church with her attendants and goes to the hall for the Rafara thar, ao to the party they pose for photographs