Star Sign Weddings

Weddings in the Asian culture are very different then western weddings. I think you can write a whole book on the ceremonies, traditions, and small details which needs to follow. From gifts, number of cars to pick up the bride, who to give red envelops too…everything has some sort of meaning which people still follow even though they may not fully understand it.

One of the traditions is that when picking out a wedding date, you don’t just pick the most convenient time or when your place to hold the ceremony is available. The main factor in selecting a wedding date depends on the star signs. Everyday there is a whole systems of factors in which the Chinese fortune tellers knows if it is a lucky day or a bad day. So if you want to get married and are selecting a date, you will look at which days is considered a lucky day…then you can see if your ceremony place or restaurant is available on that day.

The star signs not only apply to weddings, but they also influence in a smaller scale to moving to new house, traveling, and even when you should hold funerals. So for example in the Lunar calendar, the 7th month is called the ghost month in which the spirits are more closer to the real world. During this month, you are not suppose to get married or move to a new place. So during ghost month wedding halls are all pretty empty.

Last Sunday Nov 29th was a very lucky day for weddings. That day, Annie and I went up to Taipei to attend Annie’s classmates wedding. My parents and sister went to TaiChong to attend my cousin’s wedding. Annie’s parents took Mimi to attend their daughter-in-law’s brother’s wedding. So on the same day our family attended 3 different weddings. I want to wish congratulations to Lyon and Isabella, my cousin Vivian and Steve, and to the people whose wedding my daughter attended.

I don’t know if star sign weddings have any real meaning or not. It is very inconvenient in a lot of ways because on lucky days everyone wants to hold their wedding so wedding halls or restaurants have to be fought over. Also no one really understands how the days are selected and why they are luckier then others. But then I guess that is why you call it a tradition.