How to Plan a Chinese Wedding

Weddings in China are cause for great celebration, since they mark the joining together of two families. Many rituals are performed to shower the bride and groom with happiness and good luck, and to keep evil spirits away.

Steps:
1. Distribute customary bridal cakes to friends and relatives to announce the upcoming wedding and invite them to attend. (These cakes are originally given by the groom's family to the bride's to send out.)

2. Expect everyone who receives a bridal cake to reciprocate with congratulatory gifts for the bride's family.

3. Select a red bridal dress to symbolize love and joy.

4. Prepare a cleansing bath for the bride to take the night before the wedding. Infuse the water with pomelo, a type of grapefruit, to chase away evil spirits.

5. Plan an eight-course meal for the reception, plus dessert. Include such foods as roasted suckling pig, shark's fin soup, deep-fried crab claws, and fish. Be prepared for the meal to last as long as three hours or more.

6. Have the bride serve tea (holding the teacup with both hands) to her parents at home on the wedding day before the groom arrives. This is her way of paying her respect and thanking her parents for raising her.

7. Ask a lion dance team to perform at the wedding to bring good luck and to ward off evil spirits. The lion presents a scroll with a calligraphy message wishing the couple good luck.

8. Plan a tea ceremony during the wedding, in which the newlyweds serve tea together to the groom's parents as a sign of respect.

9. Include lotus seeds and two red dates in the tea. The ancient Chinese believed that these items would help the newlyweds produce children early in their marriage, and the sweetness of the special tea also ensures sweet relations between the bride and her new family.

10. Set off firecrackers during the wedding celebration to keep evil spirits at bay.


Tips:
Arrange for both of you to have your hair combed out by a good luck person(someone who in the Chinese tradition is said to bring you good luck) the night before the wedding, as is traditionally done. The combing should be done for each of you four times. Remember that each combing has a special meaning. These are: from the beginning to the end, harmony, sons, wealth and a long-lasting

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