As I have promised you, here is more about my brother's wedding in Seoul, South Korea.
The wedding took place in a Wedding Hall and consisted of a white wedding and a traditional Korean wedding. However, that wasn't an official wedding but more of a "fun-wedding" because you don't have to celebrate your marriage in Korea. You can just go to the register office and tell them you are married now.
The ceremony started with the white wedding.
At first, my mum and Jinhee's mum had to walk down the aisle and light two candles on the altar. My mum had to wear a traditional Korean dress but everybody else could dress normal. Only the girls were not supposed to wear something sexy, for example a short dress with a plunging neckline.
Then the groom came in and at last the bride with her father.
Daniel and Jinhee had written a text as a marriage promise and together they read it out loud. Daniel said his part in English and Jinhee hers in Korean, so that everybody was able to understand something. Everything else, however, was in Korean, so we didn't really understand anything!
After that, my sister and I played a song on the piano for them. I played "River flows in You" by Yiruma (who is a Korean pianist) and my sister Jessica played "People help the People" by Birdy.
Then some friends of Jinhee danced to a Korean song and after a while Jinhee joined them as a surprise for Daniel. We thought that was hilarious because nobody would do that at a wedding in Austria :)
When the first part was over, the bride and the groom had to change into traditional wedding clothes.
This was the wedding gown and suit →
← That were the clothes they had to wear overhead
There was a table with dried fruits and soju (the traditional alcohol in South Korea). The groom had to pour soju in a cup for the bride and the other way around. Then they had to eat a date together and whoever got the stone wears the pants, which was my brother. There was another tradition: the parents of the groom had to throw dates and chestnuts and the bridal couple had to catch them. The dates were a symbol for girls and the chestnuts symbolized boys. Daniel and Jinhee caught three dates so they are destined to have three girls according to that ritual!
At the end, Daniel had to carry Jinhee on his back and had to run in a circle around the room and the bigger this circle was the bigger will be their house.
All in all, I have to say I am really glad that I could be part of this experience. I really enjoyed the wedding and I was pretty curious about the traditions.
Have a great weekend :)
See you soon,
Larissi ♥
Very interesting indeed!
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