One might find better luck looking for the origens of the tradition of the man going down on one knee to seek the woman's permission to marry after having the fathers blessing itself from Burgundian influence on traditions of courtly love. To the best of my recollection its mainly a eurocentric tradition.

A lot of societies relied on arranged marriges, where a groom and bride may not even have so much as seen each other before the wedding ceremony as they viewed such things as a pact between families or clans.

Where as some more primative cultures required a man to simply bring a sutible gift of x number of livestock or something else of appropriate value to the house of the father and then lead his bride away in due course like an exchange of goods.

Remnents of such activities even making it into modern times with the carrying over the threshold tradition which is a whole other can of worms.