Chinese American Wedding Traditions. Top 10 Chinese Wedding Superstitions and Traditions to Follow. Today modern weddings call for the bride to wear a white bridal gown and third ball gown throughout the evening.
While American weddings include a reception exchange of vows and dinner Chinese weddings are broken down with a series of events throughout the day. Although Chinese wedding customs varies from area to area there are essential rituals they have in common. For a brief introduction to Chinese marriage traditions in history see Chinese Marriage Custom.
Thus giving chopsticks to the couple represents giving them happiness.
Lucky and Unlucky Months. Two online websites world-wedding-traditions and dazhongdianping because of their detailed records of wedding components are analyzed as evidences of wedding traditions in each country. Chopsticks in Chinese is 筷子 kuai zi which sounds very similar to the word happiness in Chinese 快乐 kuai le. First the guests at a Chinese wedding sign in to the reception and are greeted by the bride groom and their families.