Our Chinese Wedding Traditions
Posted on March 21, 2008 - Filed Under Chinese Wedding Traditions | 3 Comments
As our wedding will be mainly a chinese based wedding and not a vietnamese one. We have been told by Dave’s mom which chinese wedding traditions we will have to carry out.
Here is the list
The chinese weddding dowery which is a tradition we cannot miss out, poor Dave.
A day before the wedding Dave’s mom’s […]
How many dress changes for the banquet??
Posted on February 28, 2008 - Filed Under General Wedding Plans, Chinese Wedding Traditions | 16 Comments
I’m in abit of a dilemma now as I have 4 dresses for my wedding but I don’t know if I should get another dress. So far I have 1 white wedding dress which will be worn at the start fo rthe ceremony and cutting of the wedding cake. I will then change into my […]
Read More...Auspicious date = Good Weather??
Posted on October 9, 2007 - Filed Under Chinese Wedding Traditions | 7 Comments
I always thought if you picked an auspicious date then the weather would always be on your side but today there are 2 weddings taking place and its raining. The 9th October is meant to be the last Auspicious date in the book, thats what a bride to be told me. So I guess nothing […]
Read More...Notice to all those who want 2008 Auspicious dates
Posted on October 7, 2007 - Filed Under Chinese Wedding Traditions | 7 Comments
Hi, I know there are quite a few of you ladies who have left comments about the Auspicious dates for 2008 but my fiancee has gone on holiday for 2 weeks to Hong Kong and Thailand. So we won’t be able to post the dates until he come back. Please check back in a few […]
Read More...Auspicious Chinese Wedding Dates for March 2008
Posted on September 24, 2007 - Filed Under Chinese Wedding Traditions | 24 Comments
Well Dave’s Dad Has had a look in the Tong Sing book for us and translated the good, bad and neutral dates for march 2008.
As you can see its all written in chinese, so you need someone who can read traditional chinese characters to translate the book.
So according to this 2008 Hong Kong edition of […]
Read More...Selecting an Auspicious wedding date
Posted on September 21, 2007 - Filed Under Chinese Wedding Traditions | Leave a Comment
When selecting your auspicious wedding it is said to be bad luck if you or your partner chooses your own auspicious date for your wedding as you are not meant to perform a self analysis using the almanac. That is why it is better to consult a chinese fortune teller or feng shui master but […]
Read More...Chinese Almanac 2008
Posted on September 16, 2007 - Filed Under Chinese Wedding Traditions | 7 Comments
Good news, my fiancee has finally gotten hold of the chinese almanac for 2008. That means we are one step closer to finding our auspicious wedding date. So far Dave has got his relatives to decipher it and apparently there are 2 auspiscious dates that land on a tuesday in March but we both agree […]
Read More...Chinese Wedding Door Games
Posted on August 17, 2007 - Filed Under Chinese Wedding Traditions | 6 Comments
I have to organise the Wedding Door Games for my sisters wedding in October. I have come up with a few ideas but I think I need to be abit more evil.
So all the guys come to the house in the morning, all the gee mui’s are stood behind the door. We wait for them […]
Chinese Tradition of Groom bringing the flowers
Posted on July 21, 2007 - Filed Under Chinese Wedding Traditions | 11 Comments
I’m not sure if this is true or not but from attending friends and families weddings, the groom picks up the bridal flowers and gives them to the bride when he goes to pick her up. Now is this tradition or is this just more convenient if the groom picks up the flowers anyway. I […]
Read More...Chinese wedding door games
Posted on June 20, 2007 - Filed Under Chinese Wedding Traditions | Leave a Comment
When I was Maid of Honor for my cousins wedding in 2006, I was in charge of coming up with ideas for the chinese wedding door games for when the groom comes to pick up the bride. I decided to base the games on a quiz about how well the groom knows his wife to […]
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