Find out who conducts the pre-wedding hair-combing ceremony, how to play door games on the big day and the role a red umbrella plays A Chinese wedding has many of the trappings of a Western ...

2. Rituals leading up to the big day Couples often hire a dai kam jie (bride's chaperone) to help them perform traditional rituals in the run-up to the wedding and on the big day itself.

These rituals, all derived from Chinese historical practice, differentiated their wedding from more modern, Western-inspired affairs in which the couple exchanges rings and vows. Nevertheless, some ...

For Chinese weddings, the traditional “Three Letters and Six Rites” is a series of ceremonies that were designed to ensure social recognition, family consent and spiritual blessing of the union.

When A Kang and his partner decided to get married in February, they quickly realized they didn’t want a traditional wedding. The elaborate rituals that have become common in China — the fleet of ...

East-Meets-Dress created this dress for a Chinese-Indian wedding. It was paired with a bridal dupatta created from red and gold fabric and with Indian design motifs.

A new documentary project, “Me, My Mother’s Favorite Monkey” (Aku, Monyet Kesayangan Ibuku), helmed by director Ivonne Kani, examines Chinese-Indonesian identity through the lens of ...