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Asian Wedding Customs by Thomas
Asian Wedding Customs
Old World traditions add a unique element to any wedding day, giving the bride and groom a way to celebrate historic customs during their important celebration. Add real Asian wedding customs to your theme wedding, and incorporate interesting ideas that will make your big day even more memorable and special.
Hair and Head
o Two Chinese wedding traditions involve important hair and head embellishments. The bride's hair dressing ritual is a rite of passage in Chinese wedding ceremonies, symbolizing her transition into adulthood. Before the wedding, the bride bathes in water containing pumelo juice. An important older woman receives the honor of serving as the "good luck woman," who dresses the bride's hair in a married woman's style just before the wedding ceremony. The traditional Chinese custom is one-half of the ritual, which includes the groom's capping ceremony. Before the wedding ceremony, the groom kneels at the altar so his father may place a cap of cypress leaves on his head.
Food
o Food plays an essential role in Korean wedding customs. Traditionally, the groom presents the bride's family with a live, wild goose. In today's times, many grooms who observe the tradition use a wooden goose rather than a living one. Geese choose a single mate in life, so the symbolism suggests long-lasting marriage and a promise from the groom to care for the bride throughout her life. The traditional Korean wedding ceremony takes place at the bride's family's home. After the couple exchanges vows, the bride and groom sip wine from a gourd, which the mother of the bride grows. During the wedding feast, noodle soup is a necessary dish at Korean ceremonies. The dish of long noodles conveys wishes for long, happy life.
Clothing
o Clothing gives many brides and grooms a chance to observe traditional Asian wedding customs and themes. In Chinese ceremonies, the bride often wears red silk, a colorful gown embellished with a Chinese dragon or phoenix. A red veil and shoes add to the traditional ensemble. The groom matches his bride by wearing an embroidered red silk jacket with the dragon or phoenix. In Japanese wedding customs, the bride dresses in a quilted robe called an uchikake. Usually, the robe includes cranes and pines, which symbolize happiness. The robe is traditionally made of white silk. The groom wears a black kimono over a white under-kimono in the traditional Japanese ceremony. Korean brides and grooms wear embellished headwear for their ceremonies.
Ceremony
o Asian wedding customs may also dictate the place and time of the ceremony itself. In Japanese tradition, weddings generally take placeMuslim Matrimony in a shrine or chapel, during the spring or fall. Buddhist ceremonies, which feature largely in Chinese weddings, occur at temples. Incense, ceremonial drinking and prayer are part of the traditional Buddhist wedding customs.
Family
o Family often plays a large role in Asian wedding customs. The parents of the bride and groom may feature heavily in some rituals and traditions. In traditional Indian ceremonies, which take place over several days, the bride's hands and feet feature henna. The longevity ofTamil matrimony the color predicts how well the bride will get along with her mother-in-law---the longer the color lasts, the better the relationship. One traditional Vietnamese custom involves the groom's visit to his bride's family, where both parties light firecrackers.
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