Attractive to Cultural Weddings

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Japan –

Shinto Ceremony is the standardize type of traditional Japanese wedding.

Sake Sharing: 

Sake Sharing is the oldest traditional Japanese wedding custom; it is the heart

of a Japanese wedding ceremony that occurs when vows are presented.

 Steps:

-       The groom and the bride takes three sips of sake from three different sake cups.

-       The wedding couple will Offer the sake to their families, first to the groom’s father and mother, then the bride’s.

Represents:

-       It symbolizes a respect and the joint of a new family

-       Finally, in order for the marriage to be approve, the wedding couple have to sign a civil document. 

Wedding attire (dresses):

Japanese bride often wears colorful silk kimono or Shiromuku on their wedding day. 

Make ups:

-       The Bride will also covers white make up on face, which symbolizes virginity, wears red lipsticks, puts on wig with expensive combs and decorations.

After the wedding:

-       Bride will change into Irouchiakake. It is a Silk kimono with red, gold, silver and white colors, and usually has designs with cranes on it, which it symbolizes long life.

Toward the end of the reception:

-       Bride wears Furisode, a kind of kinomo with wide sleeves, which unmarried women wear them. It will be the last time a bride wears them. 

Reception: 

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There is no particular style or scale for the reception settings, but traditional wedding couple follow the ritual of lighting a candle at every guest table to share their warmth. 

Wedding guests are very respectful in Japan; It is not common for wedding couple to spend more than $50 on one guest for parting gifts. 

Kohaku manjyu is one of the options for parting gifts. They are round sticky rice buns with been paste filling, and it is often give out in pairs to guests, a red one and a white one. 

Shugi – Bukuro:

-       Oshugi is a package of cash gift that every wedding guests are suppose to bring to the wedding reception. There is no specific amount of cash that guests have to put, but Sometimes it will be notify on the wedding invitation. 

Moroccan –

Hammam: 

-       For Moroccan, Hammam is a bounden process before the wedding starts. It is a Moorish bath ceremony that the bride has to take together with women close to her to be purify.

-       It is often take place in a dark room surrounding with pleasant odor, and candles light up.

Henna: 

-       Henna is an event that occurs in festivals and marriages by woman tattoo artist, “hannaya.” The meaning of Henna event in wedding is to protect against disease and achieving prosperity.

-       This event is hold the day before the wedding with women in both families and friends attending.

-       The bride had to dress in a green caftan and tattoos her hands and feet with tattoo designs, which this leads to her status of wife. 

H’dia:

H’dia is an occasion when the groom have to give all kinds of gifts to the bride depending on his social class and region. Each kind of gift symbolizes something different, for examples, sugar is a symbolism of happy life, and milk for clarity and purity.

Berza: 

-       The ceremony begins with songs and dance, and then all the guest will be gather in a huge room.

-       The bride will then come on stage wearing her traditional wedding dress to be seen and admire by the audience.

-       The bride dresses in white caftan with matching ornaments setting on “the Amariya” with her groom, and people that carry along.

Chinese –

General information:

-       Red and gold are colors that uses throughout the wedding, on wedding invitation, bridal dress, and wedding decorations. Red symbolizes love, happiness, and fortune. 

-       The character “雙喜”is the combination of two Chinese character “xi”, which wishing the wedding couple a happy and unify life is the meaning behind.

Tea Ceremony: 

-       The wedding couple will offer tea to their elders, which are usually serve to the parents and new in-law as a respect and simultaneously to receive their blessings.

Hong Bao: 

-       Hong Bao is a package of money that mostly presents in red or gold envelope from guests to the wedding couple.

-       Every guest that gives a Hong Bao will has to sign in the guest book, and will all be turn into the wedding couple after.

Reception: 

The wedding reception is mostly held in a restaurant or a build up tends in open spaces. The banquet will include at least ten courses meal and the name of each course is name after specific praise on the menu.

Wedding Attire: 

Brides often change their dresses three times throughout the wedding day, sometimes more. They change once for the wedding ceremony, two or three times during the reception. Traditionally, Brides wear “旗袍”made from silk along with brocade and embroidery of phoenix or dragon patterns on it. As the old saying, the dragon represents the groom and phoenix will be the bride.