My co-worker Hannah who is Canadian Korea had her wedding in December on New Years Eve. Korean weddings from what I gathered from this experience are quite different than at home. First off, this wedding was held in a big wedding hall called "Wedding Fiesta" and many weddings take place at the same time but in different rooms. You sit down at big tables and most people were dressed rather informal, some people were even wearing jeans. During the ceremony people were walking in and out of the room and some on their cellphones, talking to each other etc. It seemed really rude but I guess this is just normal. There were multi colored lights they used to light up the room when people walked down the aisle and had these really cheesy light up heart fixtures people held up as the bride and groom walked under it. This whole ceremony thing took about an hour. Following the ceremony you went upstair to a big buffet dinner thing. There was lots of food and everyone just took food and sat down. During the food time, the bride and groom stood on a small stage and cut the cake. After eating, the bride and groom took off their western style dress and tuxedo and put on their traditional hanboks for another much smaller intimate ceremony held in a small room. I failed to mention us foreigners had a part in this wedding. Hannah wanted us girls to catch her bouquet. (nobody else) This is mainly because there is a tradition that if you catch the bouquet you have to marry in 6 months. Her friends are very superstitious so she had us do it. Natty caught the bouquet. This was all staged. Hannah held the bouquet the slowly threw it as us so Nat could catch it all for photos. We also had to take lots of photos together with Hannah and then the whole wedding party. I have no photos of this but she said hopefully she will have them in about a month. I will post them later. I have a few of my own photos to share.
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