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We're both Viet and doing just a tea ceremony and reception at a restaurant in November.  I'm just wearing an ao dai in the morning and my white brides dress at night.  I can't believe all the DETAILS involved!  I'm not at all good at that crafty creative stuff.  I enjoy reading about it though!!

FI and i are both chinese-american, except i'm cantonese and he's taiwanese. my family is big, boisterous and traditional so he and his family have to deal with us throwing in a lot of traditions =P! i'm excited though =)...our wedding is slated for next august 2009!

we'll be having a morning ceremony with an american style lunch reception for 175-200 people so i can have all my fun planning the type of wedding we want. then we'll be having a tea ceremony and an evening chinese banquet that's scaled down just for close friends, family, and some of our more traditional family friends who would appreciate a banquet more. i know traditionally the banquet is larger, but since it wasn't a first choice and only my side of the family wants one, we're compromising on guests so we don't have to spend so much money! and of course i'll be rocking out my qipao and evening gown dress changes!

Between the FI and me, we are Filipino, Chinese, and Thai.  On top of that, neither of us lives in the same city as our parents/majority of our relatives, so we're having THREE receptions (one in our city of residence and one each in our hometown/parents' home city, each at least 150 attendees).

The first reception/wedding (Oct. '08) will be the western reception though I'll be changing into a fancy red dress at the end of the night instead of a qipao.  At our second reception a week later, we're having the lion dance and centerpieces that nod to my Filipino heritage.  Then the final leg of our wedding tour (June '09) will be a Thai water ceremony.  

So it looks like I'll be using Weddingbee as a resource for at least another year! 

I'm so happy they made a culture section of the boards!

Nice to meet you all.  I'm Sophie and my Fiance is William.  We are both Vietnamese-American.

We are doing the traditional Vietnamese procession and tea ceremony at home, then a religious Buddhist ceremony at the temple followed by a banquet reception at a restaurant. 

Congratulations all around!!!

Hi Ladies..

I'm korean and my FI is chinese and we're getting married Sept 2009. We're actually trying to figure out a way to incorporate both the traditional chinese tea ceremony and the korean ceremony (pae baek) into our wedding plans.

Our parents were fine with us not doing anything traditional and just having the western wedding but FI and I are both very close to our families and proud of our cultural backgrounds so we wanted to do it. Plus I think it'll be fun to wear all the different dresses. I already have my wedding dress and qipao and will be having a hanbok made later.

Because we're trying to fit in the tea ceremony and pae baek ontop of our regular ceremony, we're trying to condense things and keep things simple. We're planning on having an extended cocktail hour and performing the ceremonies then so that our guests have the option of watching only if they want to.

 Time may be tight but it should be an awesome experience!

Hi,

 I'm Lori (half Chinese) and marrying Brian (Italian white boy).  We're getting married in November here in Atlanta.  We will be having a traditional American ceremony & reception, but will be having a small Chinese banquet as our rehearsal dinner.   I plan on wearing a white empire evening gown as my dress for the ceremony & reception, and will just wear the qi pao at the rehearsal "banquet".

 Is anyone wearing a qi pao that isn't red?  I have to say that it's not the most flattering color on me, and I'm planning on wearing a black one with red emboidery on it.

Hi and congrats to all!!

I just got in engaged a few days ago and just starting my research.   I am Vietnamese and my FH is Colombian.  We haven't really decided on much -- except for the fact that we do not want to start our lives together with a huge debt.

With that being said, any advice and words of wisdom any one would be willing to offer would be graciously appreciated.

I am currently researching to see the different venues available in Orange County, CA that allows or has chinese food.  I have found a few references to The Villa from Lifetime Wedding, Royal Banquet (don't know the complete name) and Prince Seafood.  The first two are in Westminster and the last is in Cerritos.  Wondering if any one has any experience with them.  Any feed back would be greatly appreciated!

Best wishes and good luck to everyone!

Hi everyone,

I've been reading boards from a number of wedding sites for months now, and I've just decided to "dive in" this past weekend and finally post!  

I'm Chinese-American and FI is my good 'ol boy from Tennessee.  :)  We got engaged Sept 2008, and are just starting the wedding planning process.   The plan is a Late Spring/Early Summer 2010 wedding, as FI is serving in the air force as an officer in S. Korea for the next year or so.  That being said, making big decisions without him is a struggle. :(  We're looking at venues in both Columbus and Cincinnati, OH, but until we find an auspicious date, we can't do much with it.  

Finding a good day for the wedding has been my biggest issue thus far, and my parents aren't helping much.  My mom is not always the most rational, and my parents both think it's too early to find a date in 2010.  Thus, they're not working too hard at finding someone to pick our day for us.  I'm trying to tell them that these days it's important to book even up to a year early... but still slow moving.  At first, they said this guy they know that does this calendar watching for a career is too booked, but would get back to us in a month.  Now I'm being told he just said to call back in a month to CHECK to see if he'd have time.  NOW WHAT?!  I don't want to wait and miss a chance on a perfect venue and then have to wait even longer when the guy says he doesn't have the time to find a good date for us.  He needs our birth dates?  I started to look on dates online, but they don't take into account FI and my birthdays.  Anybody know about auspicious dates in May or June in general that may work as our backup?

I have my heart set on late May or early June (Sunday or Memorial Day weekend would be ideal!), but because of this whole auspicious date thing, chances are slim.  My mom claims she heard from someone that getting married in June (midyear) wasn't good.  Is she crazy or is this a legit saying?

 AHHH!  Stressed, and feeling helpless.  It only adds to my needing to hop on sites like these to vent and feel as though someone is actually listening.

 Nice to meet all of you lovely ladies!  Looking forward to sharing ideas and such with all of you! 

i'm vietnamese/chinese and he's japanese.  asian theme wedding.  would love to wear ao dai in the morning for the tea ceremony, but have trouble deciding where to get an ao dai or order it online.  then white dress for the western evening ceremony and cheongsam for the reception. 

I'm basically german-american and my fiance is vietnamese.  I'll be wearing an ao dai for the morning ceremony at my parents house with a lite lunch afterwards.  We are traveling to LA to have the ao dai made for me, which is what both of his sister's did.  Then we'll have a western ceremony and dinner reception in the evening wearing a traditional western dress, though I haven't decided if I want white yet.  I'd love a blue dress.

SO excited there's a board for me! I was really getting sad that my wedding wouldn't be able to incorporate my Chinese(cantonese) traditions in it!

My FH is American and I'm Chinese. While this is extremely common, I don't know what else to do in terms of incorporating my culture into the western outdoor wedding!! I tried food but my chinese caterer declined so now I'm stuck with going 100% American food. My colors are pink, green, brown, and white so there goes the 'red' idea! (I could use pink though- it's a variation). I MAY have a little tea ceremony but I genuinely don't know how it'll match my decor and reception food!

 Do any of you guys know what else I can incorporate my culture into the wedding details? I am at a loss! My whole theme is rustic, outdoorsy, and whimsical.

thanks!!

Angrybunni, those are some of my colors too! How funny! My folks were not strict on the red color, but  at least I have pink and gold. Pink is a "shade of red" as my grandmother said. Do you think maybe you could still have something printed with the double happiness character? I was thinking of having something like that. I might also have to include my fiance's Japanese background, so instead of the traditional toast that you do for each table, we might have the banzai. Maybe you could still do the toast. Are you wearing a qipao (cheongsam)?

I'm Chinese and my FI is not asian. We're doing a tea ceremony during the rehearsal dinner - a bit unusual, but it just works better for timing since my wedding ceremony and reception are at different locations. We'll have a simple western ceremony (non-religious) followed by a chinese banquet in a restaurant. I wasn't sure how much of my chinese culture I would incorporate into my wedding, but it seems like it's going more chinese than western. My parents have been pretty relaxed on most things and are pretty much leaving it to me and my FI on what we want to do.