Posted by sandy | Posted in Asian Wedding Planning | Posted on 23-11-2009
Planning an Asian wedding can be difficult and frustrating (just like any wedding). The hardest part of the planning tends to be ways to celebrate the right traditions with specific cultural and religious needs. But when you have the correct information and a little time you could plan an Asian wedding quite nicely
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- Food and Music- Traditional Japanese wedding foods are sea breams, red rice, rice wine and kelp. But, the Chinese usually serve foods that are phonetic plays on words. The Chinese word for apple, for instance, is close to the “go safely” meaning. Fat choy sounds like “be prosperous”. A Chinese menu may have lotus seed, tea, apple and seaweed. In the Korean wedding culture, they serve noodles which usually is a symbol for “long life”
- Choose Correct Traditions- Shinto weddings happen at a Shinto chapel or shrine and are held during the spring and fall. In this kind of wedding the bridegroom enters with the family of the bride. The groom and bride are seated in front of the priest and the family sits behind them in age order and sitting between them are the “go-betweens”. Buddhist wedding ceremonies are a bit different. They are held in a temple. The ceremony includes the presentation of the Buddhist rosaries, prayer, burning incense, drinking of the oath and hand clapping.
- Proper Attire- In a Japanese wedding, the bride wears a quilted robe called a uchikake and an elaborately tied obi. The bride changes her outfit three to four times during the ceremony. The first outfit is white, which shows the bride is adopting the groom’s family. Her head have to be covered. The second outfit is a western-style wedding gown. Then she changes into a colorful kimono. The groom in a Japanese ceremony wears a white under kimono, a black kimono and haore cords. In Korea, the bride wears a delicate gown decorated with beads, flowers and tiny pendants. The man wears a hat for the first time on his wedding day.
- Reception Planning- The reception is usually held in a different area. The guests are seated first. The bride and groom, each with their go-betweens, then make their entrance. The go-betweens make short speeches and then introduce the groom and the bride to their new family’s history.
