Wedding Culture In Korea(1)
I've been to a wedding on the last weekend with my sister. One of the couple was my mother's old neighbor's child in her hometown, so we barely knew the couple nor any of their family. But we went there anyway cause my mom wanted to give some wedding money(the money people give to the couple or the family in celebration) and we can also get to free food. Also the place was very close from where we live in Seoul.
It made me think of our culture of wedding here. As I mentioned we barely knew them. So we decided to hand in the money, go directly to the dining place, have buffet and leave fast(That is okay, don't blame us!!). After 20 or 30 minutes later, people were starting to show up to the dining room. My sister told me it's about time the wedding ceremony to be finished. Wow, It was very surprising. One of the biggest and most important events of people's life take only around 20 minutes?
I know in some countries like France, the wedding takes really long time, like a day or two? as far as know. At least It wasn't like this when I was a kid. I remember It took about an hour or more. But I guess people here nowadays are becoming more impatient and only care about superficial things (like whose name on the envelopes of money and who's not). On the other hand it is very convenient. people go to weddings and wait only for 20 minutes and they can go home. As I mentioned in my another entry that people here like to be fast and are inpatient.
But the problem is obvious. If it's going to be this way, why would people still have the weddings and invite all the people they know even if they're not close to them. Korea is still a small country but some people have to drive like 5 hours to get to the wedding and some of them are very busy. Some may think it's because they want money from the guests, but it's not true. cause the food they serve for the guests is mostly buffet, so sometimes It is more expensive than the money they get from all the guests.
The answer is probably the strange culture here. People here think, if more people show up to the wedding the more people will think they have good reputation and relationships with a lot of people. And also in here a marriage doesn't only mean the couple together but also mean the combination of two families. So by the meaning of "they" doesn't only mean the couple but also the families.
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Wedding Culture In Korea(1)
I went to a wedding(too many alsos happening)
It made me think of the culture of the Korean wedding. As I mentioned, we barely knew the couple. We decided to give them the money and go directly to the dining area which had buffet. We decided to leave soon after that. (It's okay to do that, don't blame us!). After 20 or 30 minutes
I know in some countries like France, the wedding takes really long time... like a day or two as far as I know.
But the problem is obvious. If it's going to be this way, why would people still have the weddings and invite all the people they know even if they're not close to them. Korea is still a small country but some people have to drive like 5 hours to get to the wedding and some of them are very busy. Some may think it's because they want money from the guests, but it's not true. The food they serve for the guests is mostly buffet, so sometimes it costs more than all the money they get from
The answer is probably the strange culture here. People here think, if more people show up to the wedding then more people will think they have good reputation and good relationships with a lot of people. Also in Korea a marriage doesn't only mean the only the couple but also
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Very good overall.
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Yes there's a part after the wedding where the bride and groom wear Korean traditional clothes and say hi to their parents. I didn't know until now that most of people still do that stuff after the ceremony.. personally It was only once that I witnessed it. It's held in a small room so not everyone at the hall can enter. most people would just go to eat lunch which the place supplies, so did I. And nowadays it's simplified, I think it's only for taking shots and keeping some memories.
And for the before the wedding there was a tradition that groom's side sending a box of present to the wife's family. And the guys who do the task wore ridiculous costumes making a lot of noises and doing vulgar things. I don't think many people still do it as I can't almost hear it at all around the city.
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:-) I heard about this too :-)) in fact someone joked that if you need to go to as many as 5 weddings in korea, you have all the chances to do it on the same day.
But i always thought that there might be a non-official part of the wedding. Maybe more private, with more of traditional elements that happens before or after the official "Guest Hall part" ? I.e. like families introduction, or exchange ceremony with a bride and groom wearing traditional clothes? Nothing of that kind?
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It's funny to read. I didn't go to many weddings but it never tooks only 20 minutes. I think french really like to partying so we take 2 days (or more?) for a wedding and we drink and eat a lot (it's sometimes a little boring and sicking!). It's should be a very happy time so everybody enjoy it, so they danse and sing .. People who you're not really close come only for what we call "vin d'honneur" (honnor vine?) and friends, family are present during all the time.
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