My Wedding in Korea

My Wedding in Korea

Our wedding in Korea was held in ELBLESS 엘블레스 (an elegant wedding hall located in Gangnam). I personally preferred this kind of wedding ceremony as not it is because it looks like my dream wedding setup, also the whole wedding process was a quick and sweet ceremony which is more comfortable to a “I” (my MBTI was INFJ) type person. The whole process is typically around 15 mins and guest can head to the buffet hall for buffet. p/s: that their buffet is the best buffet I’d ever had. All my guest was impress with the tasting.

Here, I’ll show you the whole wedding process.

Bridal Room

Brides will stay inside the bridal room before the wedding ceremony starts. Our wedding are starts around 6:30pm but we are there since 3:30pm to take some photoshoot, rehearsal and prepare to welcome the guests when they arrived. Our makeup was done in elsewhere and dress up at the make up studio before we headed to the wedding hall.

Guests who arrive before the ceremony starts can swing by the bridal room and snap some photos with me! We do hire a photographer thus he will also help to snapshot any friends/relatives who wanting to take a photos with the bride and groom.

While I need to be stay inside the bridal room, my husband and our both parents will standing outside the wedding hall to greet all the guests. For this wedding hall, there is a small table with pens and white envelopes for the guests who wish to put in cash and they can write down their name behind the envelope. Upon giving the cash envelopes, a meal voucher will be given as exchange for them to head over to buffet places after the wedding ceremony over.

After most of the guests has seated, the wedding hall door will closed and we will be standing outside to get ready, (Aside of this, those guests who are late, they are not allowed to enter the wedding hall until the bride and groom has enter).

Firstly, the groom father will enter first and seated down, follow by groom and bride mom who hold hands side by side and walk in.

From what I know, bride mom and groom mom hanbok has a typical colour that they can wear. For example: Groom mom commonly wear blue, purple or green, while bride mom commonly wear red, pink or orange.

After they walked down the aisle together, they will light up the candle on each side and then came in front together and bow

Next will be my husband walking in and wait for me and my dad to come in.

My father walked me down the aisle

After my father handover me to my husband, we will then walk to the stage and firstly bow to each other and then bow to the guests as a form of “thank you for coming”. After that, we will read the vow together in Korean, (Even though my husband is Korean and I’m Malaysian but luckily I have study Korean for over 1 year and know how to read in Korean character).

Reading vows

After that, we will read the vow together in Korean, (Even though my husband is Korean and I’m Malaysian but luckily I have study Korean for over 1 year and know how to read in Korean character).

His father have approximately 2 minutes speech to say thank you for all the guests and also some wish to us and the emcee will announce we will be doing our appreciation to both of our parents to raised us so well.

Basically, we are just bow to them, starting from bride side, and hug each other and went to groom side, same bow and hug each other.

Lastly, we will go wedding ring exchange and yay our ceremony finally ends.

Wedding ring exchange

After wedding ceremony was over, the guests will seated a while and waiting for a group photo sessions.

After wedding ceremony was over, the guests will seated a while and waiting for a group photo sessions.

For a normal wedding ceremony, the group photo sessions usually will starts like this (Parents, both parents, groom family, bride family, both families, and the colleagues/friends). But for us, because our wedding was quite late, and most of our friends travel far from Seoul and some my friends traveled from Singapore, to save time, we changed the sequences which we let our colleagues and friends to take a group photo first and then they can head to have buffet and go home early. Families will be the last as they tend to take more photos with us especially from my side cause this the first time they attended a Korean wedding.

After the ceremony ends, me and my husband will change into hanbok and head to the buffet hall to greets all the guests.

Greeting sessions

Voilà! Our first sessions of Korean wedding will ends here and we have another traditional wedding which held the same day right after ceremony. The traditional wedding only invited closed family, thus guests don’t need to stay after they had their buffet.

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