This post continues a short series about marriage traditions and my own adaptation of them for my wedding years ago. In my first two posts, I identified a few defining characteristics of Vietnamese marriage patterns based on the existing research, including patrilocal residence, bride price, arranged marriages, ancestor worship, and the custom of betel chewing. […]
This post continues a short series about marriage traditions and my own adaptation of them for my wedding years ago. In the first and second post, I identified a few defining characteristics of Vietnamese marriage patterns and explain how those characteristics are reflected in the marriage ritual, namely, the engagement ceremony and wedding ceremony. This
Wedding season is just around the corner in the US, and every wedding season makes me think of my own wedding years ago. I wanted my wedding to reflect Vietnamese tradition, but as a historian, I knew that there was no such thing as a single, timeless tradition and that practices change over time in
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