NOTE: This is two days late because my sister had to be born on November 22nd.
In America last year I went to thirteen weddings (technically twelve in America and one in Italy). You can say I'm a wedding expert. That said, I haven't experience anything like my first Vietnamese wedding. The wedding was for my former student Trang and her fiance/now husband Dzung. Trang is one of my favorite students I've taught. She's frankly hilarious in a half Woody Allen half Rodney Dangerfield way. I was really honored to be invited to her wedding and she seemed extremely happy that I came.
Anyway, I'm sure some of you are asking, "What is a Vietnamese wedding like?" Well, just based on this one experience I wold that the best analogy to describe a Vietnamese wedding is that it is like a sporting event. Here are some similarities:
1. People come dressed in whatever they want. Some people come right after work and wear suits and ties, others just wear jeans, sandals and t-shirts.
2. They have loud ear thumping starting line-up like music to announce the families (okay, we have that in the states too).
3. They have indoor fireworks.
4. They have a jumbo-tron of sorts.
5. People leave whenever they want. Literally there was a mass exodus as soon as the food was gone.
6. Like a game, it lasted about two hours.
Here's some classic video footage:
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I'll pass on some of the ideas to Brad and Kari. Indoor fireworks, jumbo tron, fake cake, etc..(just kidding). I hope we don't reach the 300 mark. I noticed there wasn't any dancing is that the usual for a Vietnamese wedding? 2 hours is not enough time to celebrate, just the hors d'oeuvres alone take an hour.
Can't wait to party!
typical viet wedding banquet at a restaurant lasts around 6 hours actually :P
im guessing from this that there was no traditional engagement ceremony?
Aunt Susan you're so great, come and light candle number 8!
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