Wedding Customs Essay

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Different Wedding Customs in Turkey And In Sorth Korea In most countries, there are a lot of customs which are specific and special for them. In this essay, I will focus on differences between Turkey and South Korea. We can easily see two big differences in wedding ceremony and kinds of wedding gifts. It is interesting that the wedding ceremony in Turkey is totally different from South Korea. At first, we can see the obvious difference when bride enters the wedding-saloon. In Turkey, the groom accompanies the bride. Meanwhile two traditional players sing songs for them. However, in South Korea the bride father gets her to the wedding saloon, then the bride takes her from him. The second difference between Turkey and South Korea is music. In Turkey, the music starts at the beginning of the wedding and goes on until the end of it. On the contrary, in South Korea no music is played in the weddings. Peoples speak each other, laugh and participate in the wedding ceremony. The last difference between two countries is distribution of foods. It is usually in Turkey that a meal consisting of rice and roasted beef is distributed in the wedding ceremony. But in South Korea giving meals is not a custom. The bride families invite the guests to the restaurant and they can eat something in there. The second big difference is gifts. In Turkey families of the bride and groom usually give gold to the bride. Especially, necklaces bracelet, and rings. But in South Korea they only give money. In addition to that the guests give money to the couple and they rarely give other presents. In South Korea the guests give gifts which are like small things that the couple can you in their home. Finally, in Turkey the couple never gives gifts to their parents. However, it is interesting that in South Korea, the new couple gives some presents to their parents after the wedding. In
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