Bucheon City Hold Weddings for Multi-cultural Couples
Sang-dong Resident Community Center, a town office of Bucheon City, announced that the center would hold Korean traditional wedding ceremonies for multi-cultural couples on May 25, 2013 in order to promote its new project of "Sang-dong's Happy Town 2013".
The center has held free traditional weddings for two couples among multi-cultural families every year. Call the center, +82-32-625-5921 till April 15, 2013 if a multi-cultural couple wants.
The Korean traditional wedding starts as the groom walks in, who is following a group of performers playing traditional rural music with several Korean traditional instruments and followed by the bride on a sedan chair, which is a traditional carrier for women or higher persons powered by four men..
The procedure of Korean traditional wedding ceremony consists of 3 steps;
The first step is that the groom presents the bride a couple of wild geese. The couple of wild geese stands for endless promise of love. It's known that one of a wild goose couple dies alone without re-coupling after it loses the other spouse. People of old times used living wild geese at ancient days but nowadays they use wooden ones.
The second is that the couple, a bride and a groom, exchange deep bows each other. The bride makes a deep bow twice first and then the groom does it once. They repeat those twice.
The last step is that the couple share special drinks in order to celebrate becoming a wife and a husband officially and to wish to get along with each other forever.
After all the main steps of wedding, there remains an additional but important step, that the bride makes a deep bow to the husband's parents and his elder relatives for the first time after the wedding. Nowadays both the bride and groom do it together.
Kyeoho Hwang, the chairman of Sang-dong Resident Committee, who will host the traditional wedding, said "During the wedding ceremony, I will explain every step and its meaning in order for children and teenagers to understand and experience our traditional culture."
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