Korean Wedding Traditions

chelcee22

My fiance is half Korean, and I would really like to incorporate his heritage into our ceremony/reception somehow. We are planning on having the wedding ducks at our sweetheart table, but I'm not sure what else to do. Any ideas?

ameraznhuney

There's not a huge slew of traditions to choose from.  I'm half-Korean and asked my mom about doing a Pae-baek, but she says if you're not going to do it right (i.e. allllll of the right food items/clothing/wedding screen) then you shouldn't do it.. and it's REALLY expensive to obtain all of these items state-side.  We're doing the geese as well, but traditionally the groom presents these to the mother of the bride, symbolizing that he will take care of you for life (geese mate for life).. so my FI is going to give decorative wooden geese to my mother at the RD.

One fun idea that you could try, though it will probably be very confusing to any non-Korean guests, is your husband giving you a piggy-back-ride around the reception room.  Or, if you're open to it, wearing a han-bok sometime during the reception.  My hal-mo-ni wants to get me a han-bok as a wedding present, so my FI and I are going to do a mini-photo shoot with me wearing it and send it to her.

I found that weddingbee.com is a great resource for cultural ideas for weddings, take a look!

chelcee22

Thank you! And thanks for the correction about the Geese. I'm still familiarizing myself with everything, and yes, unfortunately it's too expensive for us to do a Pae-baek. But the piggy back ride might be fun

ameraznhuney

just make sure that if you do choose to do the piggy-back, you and you groom or one of you BP explain to the guests the symbolism behind it.  (husband is now strong enough to take care of you and ready to fully support you)  ;-)