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Chinese Style Asian Wedding Decorating Ideas
In nearly all East Asian countries, especially China, red is the
color of happiness, especially for Asian wedding decorating
ideas. White, by contrast, is for funerals! A Chinese wedding
must include red and ceremonial objects such as candles and
attire must exclude white.
Asian wedding decorating ideas should include the tradition of
respecting elders and remembering departed ancestors, especially
a very important part of Chinese traditions. Set aside a table
or altar decorated with white flowers for the ancestors. Fruits,
a glass of offertory wine, and burning incense are also usually
included.
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A beautiful alternative to a unity candle which is very popular
in Asian wedding decorating ideas could be to join two altars
during the ceremony. Have two small altars on which the couple
can kneel, and after the vows, join the two altars together to
represent the new union. Have the immediate family members kneel
with the bride and groom at the joined altar as a symbol of
unity and joining families. Remember that for the Chinese,
marriage is more about the families joined than the couple
themselves.
They perform a tea ceremony in a private anteroom following the
wedding ceremony. In this ceremony the couple serves tea to
their parents and grandparents from traditional porcelain set,
often with dragons, flowers, or a double happiness design.
One of the Asian wedding decorating ideas is to incorporate the
special wedding character called double happiness because it is
two xi (joy) characters put side by side and compressed into a
single character, it is symbolic of the bride and groom's union
and is usually put on everything. The character is gold on a red
background.
Among other popular Asian wedding decorating ideas, is having
the traditional guestbook, in Chinese tradition it is made of
silk. Usually a medium-to-lightweight Silk Square, often
embroidered around the edges and always red, guests sign their
witness to this cloth with a black pen. The cloth is then
carefully folded and stored as a special memento of the wedding.
If you really want to be authentic, use a brush pen and ink.
Why not include Chinese traditional instruments like the
funky-sounding zither in your ceremony music? Chinese use
firecrackers to scare away evil spirits who may want to cause
problems later.
When considering any Asian wedding decorating ideas, you will be
working with flowers. In most Asian cultures, flowers are not
only objects of beauty, but symbols of life, happiness, and
fertility. You could use Peony, which is a symbol of spring and
renewed life, or an Orchid which is a luxuriant, long-pedaled
flower symbol of love and fertility, or a Lotus which represents
four virtues in the Buddhist religion: scent, purity, softness
and loveliness.
As another Asian wedding decorating idea, consider what the
Japanese do. The newlyweds face the guests and light a single
high candle on the center table which is symbolic for their
unity in marriage.
If you want to follow the Japanese style for your Asian wedding
decoration ideas, consider having the bride and groom make an
entrance from different doors with drum and flute music are
playing. At the reception the bride and groom sit at an elevated
table and are applauded by the guests. This is when the wedding
march is played.
You can ask marriage officiator or as the Japanese say “The
Nakodo” to wave a sacred tree over the head of the couple to
keep away evil spirits and to symbolize purification. The tree
is made of paper streamers.
At the end of the evening the couple gives the mothers a bouquet
of flowers and the fathers a carnation for the lapel, as a thank
you gesture.
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