🇻🇳 Wedding traditions of Vietnam
11 traditions from Vietnam, best known first, across 12 cities and towns.
A wedding in Vietnam, stage by stage
The customs written up so far, in the order a wedding unfolds.
🇻🇳 VietnamTraditional Vietnamese weddingLễ cưới truyền thống Việt Nam
The multi-stage ceremony of betrothal, engagement and union that marks a marriage in Vietnam.Attire · Finding a match
🇨🇳 China and 3 moreDouble Happiness双喜 (shuāngxǐ)
The red calligraphy symbol made of two joy characters that marks Chinese wedding celebrations.Adornment · The weeks before
🇰🇭 Cambodia and 3 moreTugging rituals and games
A rope-pulling game played across Southeast and East Asia to mark the farming season and build community bonds.Play · The weeks before
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tugging rituals and games: Steve46814 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Double Happiness: kanegen, CC BY 2.0, source
- Traditional Vietnamese wedding: Gabrielle M. Vassal, Public domain, source