Sunday, April 22, 2012

Korean Wedding

 Now days, in korea, almost of all the people follow the way of western wedding, and many women like to wear a white wedding dress. I also want to wear it when I have a wedding ceremony. Even though it is common many people have a western wedding ceremony, I'd like to tell you about Korean traditional wedding today. Korean traditional wedding is generally divided into four steps.

 Firstly, parents of bride and groom dicide whether their daughter or son will get merried, and promise to have a wedding ceremony for their children.

 Secondly, the bride of family and the groom of family exchange a letter about the wedding. When the birde sends a letter that she can get married him and about the exact date of wedding, the groom replies to the letter.

 Thirdly, the groom of family send a present for the bride such as a ring and some goods to use in their married life before their wedding.

 Finally, they have a wedding ceremony that is held at a bride's house. The groom goes to the bride's house by riding a horse, and other people play some instruments to elate. When the groom gets the house, he gives a wooden goose to the bride's family. In this case, the goose means a constant married life. After that, the groom and the bride can meet and see each face, then they bow together. The bride bows two times, and the groom bows once. Actually, they don't know each other and meet together before having a wedding ceremony. Next, they drink traditional alcohol three times a cup. The first sipping means thanks for himself/herself, and the others mean their married life goes forever. Lastly, they bow to their parents, guests and ancestor.

 After the wedding ceremony, they have one more thing to do. The bride and the groom meet the groom's parents in a room. At there, the bride bows to the groom's parents, and serves some food.

When they go through all of these steps, they finally finish the ceremony, and become a husband and a wife :)


 Before wirting this blog, I did't know about the traditional wedding well. Now, however, I know the steps of traditional wedding and how old people have a wedding. It's so good that I know about the Korean wedding, and I'd like to try the traditional wedding!!

1 comment:

  1. so different! but i like it so much, when you get married, call me please!

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