Our session today talked about S. Korean families and
wedding celebrations. Dojun and his
girlfriend have made arrangements for their families to meet for lunch to
discuss upcoming wedding plans. The way
Dojun explained it to me, this luncheon is the start of a series of visits to
begin the process of planning his wedding. Although I didn’t understand all of
the details, he explained that previously the bride’s parents give the groom’s
family presents frequently in the form of clothes. Nowadays, however, the bride’s family gives a
certain amount of money to help prepare for the wedding ceremony. He talked
about a process that phonetically is spelled Z – N -May which is how I
understood his pronunciation. I believe it meant the practice of selecting a
studio for the wedding, getting a dress and putting on make-up. At any rate, it was intended to discuss a
rather required and somewhat complicated procedure or perhaps tradition is a
better term. We talked about wedding
traditions in different cultures and how sometimes they seem to be a bit
outdated particularly when it comes to things like dress and food. One
interesting part of the conversation was that he said that in the wedding
party, the men dressed in Western suits and the bride dressed in traditional
Korean attire. I asked if there would be
a honeymoon and he said that they would plan one although the details are up
for discussion. He would like to go to
Hawaii and rest while she is interested in a trip to Europe. I told him that these discussions sound very
much like American traditions. But the
most important thing is for the parents to meet and to get to know each other.
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