Traditional Wedding Essay

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Every boy and girl wants to get married at some point in her/his life. The marriage is so important, so the wedding day is the most beautiful day for the couple and their family. Every country and city has some special things to do on this day. The weddings of the past were so unique. Nowadays, since the technology makes the world small, the weddings become alike. I believe that every country has a specific traditional wedding that is different from any other country. So I would like to introduce some of lovely traditional weddings in some countries such as China, Korea and Saudi Arabia. The traditional wedding in China is quite different from weddings now. In the past, the girls wore a long gown, red shoes and a red silk sash, which was called cheongsam. Cheongsam had many different types and there were usually phoenixes on the girls’ dresses and dragons on the boys’. Those were all very pretty dresses. Before the wedding, there was a procession on the way to pick up the bride. It was like an opportunity to show everyone that the girl was going to get married. The level of procession was based on how wealthy the boy's family was. During the wedding, the groom and the bride knelt and kowtowed to the family. In addition, several days after the wedding, the girl’s family had to send a dowry to the boy’s house. The dowry consisted of practical items, including food and fruit, kitchenware and even some strings of coins. That was how traditional Chinese weddings were. Traditional wedding ceremonies in South Korea were very different than Western weddings which are used nowadays. First of all, there were unique and funny customs before South Korean weddings. The groom would send "Ham" which is a box containing precious jewels, cosmetics, wedding gifts and so on. The groom's friends would wear funny clothes like squid masks and carry the

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