I found a wonderful web site on Chinese wedding customs. Very thankful as I need to understand the wedding custom of my own culture…the following 4 posts are taken from this page.

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Up to a month and at least three days before the wedding day, the groom and a friend or a matchmaker will deliver the betrothal gifts on the auspicious date chosen.

Western and chinese wedding cakes, peanut candies, together with two bottles of brandy, at least six tins of canned pork legs and even number of oranges are included in the wedding gift baskets. Two pairs of dragon and phoenix candles ???are also included.

Also included is gold jewellery from the groom?s parents to the bride such as the cantonese?s dragon and phoenix bangle ??? or the teochew?s four items of gold ???.

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For this week, I had completed some of the necessary things to be done. I met up with my uncle who owns a printing firm and he is willing to print my inserts at zero-profit. (If you go to outside printer, they may charg you at about 80cents per insert)

Inserts are the little piece of paper in between the wedding invitation cards:

Below are the 11 info you need to fill in before you go to the printer:

1) couples names in Chinese and English

2) couples’ parents names in Chinese and Mandarin

3) Hotel’s ballroom in Chinese and English, inclusive of address in both languages

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It was as if the proposal was done yesterday. 9 months plus had passed and we had been really busy preparing the necessary preparations for our wedding day. To summarise, we spent about a month to scout for the hotel, another month for the bridal studio.

In the midst of searching, we had to “update” our parents and convinced them that we had made the right choice. Choosing the hotel and the bridal studio were easy; convincing people took more time.

In June, we took the photoshots for our wedding. It was really early as we could have taken in September. We chose the photos in July, picked the design for our bedroom in August and bought our wedding bands in September.

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ok, I have just paid my Actual photographer the deposit. Looks like most things are set. What I think has to be done are done… What else is to be done? Sigh…so many things on my mind and I think I’m going nuts…

Heard from my photographer there are some customary items we need to get:

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