Vietnamese Wedding Games (1)

Tò He

Tò He is a game that could be used to entertain children at a wedding. Tò He is the craft of making toys and figurines from molded rice dough. Have the children compete to make the best depiction of the bride and groom. Designate an area for the figurine crafting where it will not create a mess in the middle of the wedding. Provide each child with the rice dough and food coloring to paint them. They can set to work crafting the figurines during the wedding festivities, keeping them entertained.

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Vietnamese Wedding Superstitions

Many Vietnamese (like most people in the world) to respect the beliefs and superstitions many.Some are practiced primarily due to a "there is nothing to lose if we comply" attitude while others are completely ignored because they seem quite ridiculous. Some Vietnamese wedding superstitions:

• Brides should not try their wedding gown before the wedding day or the marriage will not come out. 
• Knives and other sharp objects are said to be a bad choice for wedding gifts for this will lead to a broken marriage. 
• arinola Donner (chamber pot) as a wedding gift is supposed to bring good luck to newlyweds. 
• Altar-bound couples are accident-prone and should avoid long trips or traveling before their wedding for security. 
• The groom who sits in front of his wife during the marriage ceremony will be a henpecked husband. 
• If it rains during the marriage, it is synonymous with prosperity and happiness for the newlyweds. 
• A flame extinguished on one of the candles wedding means one on which side the candle, will die before the other. 
• Launch confetti rice at newlyweds to bring them prosperity throughout their lives. 
• The groom must arrive before the bride to the church to avoid bad luck. 
• Breaking something during the reception brings good luck to newlyweds. 
• The bride must walk on the foot of the young man while walking down the aisle if she wants to suit her every whim. 
• A bride who is on the pearls of her marriage will be a woman unhappy experience of many sorrows and tears. 
• Dropping the wedding ring, the veil or arrhae during the ceremony spells unhappiness for the couple.

Ao Dai for men

  Do you ever see Ao Dai for men ? Of course men also have “Ao Dai” They look like ao dai for women but something differences such as they are bigger and shorter than ao dai’s women. In the past only rich men wear them because of it expensive and gorgeous but now everybody can wear them and usually in public every Vietnamese New Year and for wedding.Especially in Wedding have a question about What color looks good for male Ao Dai that will match with women Ao Dai?

        I think blue is for straight men its look good for guy but can wear gold or red color and please avoid tan or gray color because it makes you look old.

Most expensive wedding dress in Vietnam: $117,000

$117,000 wedding dress is most expensive in Vietnam
The wedding gown is made of white silk and satin, and laviously highlighted with a big gemstone-made flower. The wedding dress flower consists of 22 big rubies and eight big diamonds. The pistil is a huge water drop-shaped ruby, symbolising love.

The gown was presented a certificate for being the most expensive bridal gown in Vietnam from the Vietnam Record Book Centre on the day of introduction.

Hours and hours of handwork make the most expensive wedding dress
The most expensive wedding dress in Vietnam took 40 days of hand sewing, idea creation, choosing and processing gems and 24 hours alone for attaching the gemstones.

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How to buy fabric for ao dai

Check the materials carefully for holes, cuts, rips, etc. before you ask them to cut. Once, we asked to check the material before the woman cut the fabric and they all said we were worrying for nothing; however, upon close inspection, there was a thumb-size hole in the yard that they cut for us so they had to cut us another yard.

There are always a lot of customers and not enough sales associates so you have to hunt them down to get them to cut the fabric for you.

After selecting the fabric that you like (such as for the pants of the ao dai), ask them to recommend alternative materials. They might be able to recommend something in stock that is similar in quality but more reasonably priced.

How Partners are selected in Vietnamese Wedding Traditions?

You will find that the marriage proposals in the past used to be made between families who were equal economically and socially. The purpose of the marriage was establishment of a social alliance between the two families. Hence, the groom’s family approached the bride’s family through an agent. These agents could be relatives of the groom or an official matchmaker. The matchmaker collected the horoscope of the bride and the groom respectively and made the bride’s horoscope available to the groom and vice versa. The families then consulted fortune tellers to see if the horoscopes were compatible and also used their services to select auspicious days for performing the ceremonies for the bride and groom, on the basis of the horoscopes. Hence in the past, the couple had almost no say in the matter.

However, the modern Vietnamese wedding traditions allow the girl and the boy to choose their partners. They need to obtain formal permission from the families to their marriage. The groom has to visit the house of the bride with a group of friends or relatives and formally request the parents of the girl for her hand in marriage. You will be told by the natives that this Vietnamese marriage custom is known as Nap thai or cham ngo. This is a speech given by the groom or his family elders requesting the bride’s family for her hand in marriage. The groom then presents the wife with beetal nuts and leaves symbolizing the unbreakable bond of marriage. The family of the bride then makes a formal request with betel leaves and areca nuts to their ancestors at their family altar.


Every family member (including members of the extended family) is expected to participate in the organization and arrangement of the wedding. The van danh or an hoi is the formal introduction of the bride and groom to each other and the future relatives on both sides. This is followed by nap cat, which is an elaboration of the wedding plans by the groom’s family to the bride’s family. The thinh ky is the announcement of the final decisions taken by the bride’s family about the wedding.

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Betrothal ceremony in vietnamese wedding

This procedure takes place before the wedding day. During this time the groom and his family show the tendency to visit the bride and her family with round lacquered boxes. Traditionally, the boxes as composed of gifts of areca nuts and betel leaves, tea, cake, fruits, wines and other delicacies. The delicacies are covered with red cloth that is carried by unmarried girls or boys. The wedding day is carefully chosen by the members of both families.

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European-style gowns

French and general Western media influence, many Vietnamese like to wear white or other color European-style gowns for at least some events in their multi-part marriage ceremonies. Unlike in the U.S., Vietnamese and other Southeast Asians usually participate in a sequence of ceremonies to complete their transition to married status. This provides them with the opportunity to wear several kinds of costumes during their wedding events.

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History of Vietnamese wedding dress

The Vietnamese wedding dress history can be traced back to the early 1700’s, when Vietnamese clothing was greatly influenced by the imperial Chinese garment during the Qing dynasty called the qipao.

Compared to the qipao, the áo dài is a bit looser, with a wide and flowing skirt. Another distinct difference between the two garments includes the length of the áo dài’s slits. Unlike the qipao, the áo dài had slits that extended to the wearer’s waist, showing a part of the wearer’s sides.

Since its inception, the áo dài has had numerous alterations and modifications designed to make the outfit more appealing and practical for the succeeding Vietnamese generations. Today, shorter, more revealing and more form-fitting versions of the áo dài are available to Vietnamese women.

Vietnamese and Western Wedding

Most Vietnamese wedding takes place in the autumn and winter, when the weather is cooler and famers have less fieldwork. Europeans, meanwhile, tend to marry in the summer. What most Westerners fail to realize is that ancient superstitions influence their wedding dates. Accoding to an old rhyme, couples marrying in June (the most popular month for Western weddings) may look forward to”one long honeymoon”. This belief goes back 2000 years, since the sixth month was named after Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage. May, meanwhile, was deemed disastrous for marriage, as the Romans presented offerings to the dead at this time.

Many Vietnamese families turn to astrologers to help determine the bride and groom’s compatibility and to choose an auspicious wedding day. For a Vietnamese woman, getting married at the age of 22, 23, 26, or 28 is considered unlucky.
In both Vietnam and the West, getting married traditionally involved two steps: the engagement and the wedding.

Vietnamese wedding gifts

The wedding favour has long been a part of every culture's wedding traditions.
It is the way to show your appreciate to the obliging guests who care enough to turn up at your wedding and thank them for this nice gesture with a gift that they will always treasure!

The almost vietnamese wedding celemony use a wide range of wooden souvenir gifts for wedding guests such as, miniature woodcarving of Vietnamese dolls, key chains, pocket mirrors, pocket Business card case, mini boat, jewel-box, clay statues...

This is some picture of them

Vietnamese Wedding Traditions and Customs

It is customary for the mother-in-law to bestow upon the bride pink chalk, which symbolizes a rosy future for the couple. The date and time of the ceremony is usually determined by a Buddhist monk or fortune teller.

The wedding consists of several ceremonies including asking permission to receive the bride, the procession to receive the bride, the procession to the groom’s house, the second ancestor ceremony, and the banquet party.

In the morning, the groom’s mother and a few close relatives would walk to the bride’s house with a gift of betel to ask permission to receive the bride at her house. This ceremony was often done in the times of arranged marriages to insure that the bride had not fled from the home and that the wedding was still taking place.

In the procession to receive the bride, the groom and his family often carry decorated lacquer boxes covered in red cloth to represent his wealth and which include various gifts for the bride’s family. There are either 6 or 8 boxes, but never 7 because it is bad luck.

After paying their respects to their ancestors, the bride and groom will serve tea to their parents who will then give them advice regarding marriage and family. During the candle ceremony, the bride and groom’s families union is celebrated and the mother in law of the bride will open the boxes filled with jewelry and dress her new daughter in law in the jewelry.

Finally, the groom officially asks for permission to take his new bride home and they make their way back to his house. During the banquet there is usually a 7-10 course meal and the bride and groom make their rounds to each table to express their gratitude and collect their gifts.
During this time, the bride usually wears three outfits, one modern western wedding gown, another western dress, and finally a traditional ao dai.