Last Sunday my good friend Reena accompanied me to our first Korean wedding. My co-teachers. Much like everything else in Korea, it was done in a balli balli formation. Hurry up, get out of the way, move, honk, go faster.
Why would I have expected a wedding to be any different. It's not one of the most important days of your life, no. Why would you want it to be quiet, without having to listen to the people talk in the hallway and in the audience.
Well, this is Korea. And as we've all realized by now that things that are "normal" to us are not considered normal here.
Let's set the scene.
Wedding Palace, Sunday, 1130am.
A wedding palace is a HUGE building which specializes in, yep, weddings! There are 3 floors with a room where you get married and a big huge dining area, buffet style.
My first question mark was, hmm 1130. Man, you're going to have to get up really early in order to get ready!
Well you better hurry, because there are 2 more weddings right behind you once the guy is finished with you! 1130, 130 and 330 are the scheduled wedding times.
My co-teacher looked beautiful. There are no bridesmaids or groomsmen, no flower girl or cute kids walking down the aisle. The mothers do some sort of thing at the start and then it is the usual walk down the aisle with the wedding song. Then some important looking Korean man yells at them for about 15 minutes, then some guy sang them a song, they bowed to each side of the room, took pictures and then walked down the aisle and had ribbons and stuff shot at them from a trumpet looking thing.
Why would I have expected a wedding to be any different. It's not one of the most important days of your life, no. Why would you want it to be quiet, without having to listen to the people talk in the hallway and in the audience.
Well, this is Korea. And as we've all realized by now that things that are "normal" to us are not considered normal here.
Let's set the scene.
Wedding Palace, Sunday, 1130am.
A wedding palace is a HUGE building which specializes in, yep, weddings! There are 3 floors with a room where you get married and a big huge dining area, buffet style.
My first question mark was, hmm 1130. Man, you're going to have to get up really early in order to get ready!
Well you better hurry, because there are 2 more weddings right behind you once the guy is finished with you! 1130, 130 and 330 are the scheduled wedding times.
My co-teacher looked beautiful. There are no bridesmaids or groomsmen, no flower girl or cute kids walking down the aisle. The mothers do some sort of thing at the start and then it is the usual walk down the aisle with the wedding song. Then some important looking Korean man yells at them for about 15 minutes, then some guy sang them a song, they bowed to each side of the room, took pictures and then walked down the aisle and had ribbons and stuff shot at them from a trumpet looking thing.
They had better get out of there quick cause they were catching a flight from Incheon airport that afternoon!
Whoa!
But overall, it was very pretty and yet another interesting Korean experience.
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