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Sunday, 27. June 2010
tying the knot chinese style
flooo, 19:00h
dear Shuaiguy,
I went to a Chinese wedding today and it was a fascinating morning. (yes, why do Beijing weddins have to start that early??)
The good thing about any kind of event in China is that you never have to be too concerned about what to wear. Whatever you pick, there will always been at least one person who is dressed more casual than you (most of the time def. more than one) and there is always going to be someone dressed a lot more over the top than you.
keeping this in mind always helps when picking the outfit. If only there were not that many color limitations. The combined western and chinese cultures then add up to: No white, no black, no red.
quite some limitations here..
Next thing then is the "hongbao". how much to give, even number, nothing with four of course, should not be too stingy.....dun forget the red envelope (which I of course did, thanks to 7/11 for stocking those)
then millions of picture taking throughout the whole day, but then again we are used to it by now right...
and then a really tight packed programm of western and chinese traditions packed into one morning.
Today this added up to: walking down the aile, flower girls (and a boy, bet he was happy about his task) vows, speeches by best man and bridesmaid, pouring champagne into glass tower, cutting the cake, piano performance by groom, picture slide show with fog machine, first dance of bride and groom, chinese tea drinking cereomony and finally having to go from table to table to drink with everyone...
man that must be such an exhausting day for the newly weds....
ohh and I forgot the bouquet throwing part,although that was a quite intense experience, because it took me quite some efforts to hide behind the other girls...
the girl who jumped up and caught it (massive efforts on her side) broke out in tears (of happiness I wonder) and held a spontanious speech..
phewww...busy day..and guess what..the next wedding is just a week from now...
getting married is in style right now..maybe I should have caught the flowers to be en vogue but then again.....not really
I went to a Chinese wedding today and it was a fascinating morning. (yes, why do Beijing weddins have to start that early??)
The good thing about any kind of event in China is that you never have to be too concerned about what to wear. Whatever you pick, there will always been at least one person who is dressed more casual than you (most of the time def. more than one) and there is always going to be someone dressed a lot more over the top than you.
keeping this in mind always helps when picking the outfit. If only there were not that many color limitations. The combined western and chinese cultures then add up to: No white, no black, no red.
quite some limitations here..
Next thing then is the "hongbao". how much to give, even number, nothing with four of course, should not be too stingy.....dun forget the red envelope (which I of course did, thanks to 7/11 for stocking those)
then millions of picture taking throughout the whole day, but then again we are used to it by now right...
and then a really tight packed programm of western and chinese traditions packed into one morning.
Today this added up to: walking down the aile, flower girls (and a boy, bet he was happy about his task) vows, speeches by best man and bridesmaid, pouring champagne into glass tower, cutting the cake, piano performance by groom, picture slide show with fog machine, first dance of bride and groom, chinese tea drinking cereomony and finally having to go from table to table to drink with everyone...
man that must be such an exhausting day for the newly weds....
ohh and I forgot the bouquet throwing part,although that was a quite intense experience, because it took me quite some efforts to hide behind the other girls...
the girl who jumped up and caught it (massive efforts on her side) broke out in tears (of happiness I wonder) and held a spontanious speech..
phewww...busy day..and guess what..the next wedding is just a week from now...
getting married is in style right now..maybe I should have caught the flowers to be en vogue but then again.....not really
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