CHINESE

WEDDING
CUSTOMS

Group 10:
Bagus Wahyu H.
Dessy Rahma Dianti S.
Sustikaning Dhinar

8 MAJOR PROCEDURES OF A
WEDDING
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Proposal Making
Birthday Matching
Marriage Divination
Betrothal Gifts Presenting
Wedding Date Fixing
Dowry Urging
Welcoming The Bride to The Wedding
Performing the Formal Wedding Ceremony.

1. Proposal Making

Important role in the application process is a

matchmaker. Typically, the matchmaker
comes from the groom. He or she is someone
who is usually appointed or elder.

2. Birthday Matching

The boys parents would send the girls family to

enquire about her name and date of birth. They
send the girls and their sons name to a
matchmaker.

3. Marriage
Divination

The matchmaker begin to see if the marriage

between the two would be appropriate. If according
to Chinese astrology, the couple was compatible and
both families agreed to the marriage, the boys
family would then send Betrothal Gifts to the girls
family.
APPROPRIATE

BETROTHAL

4. Betrothal Gifts

Clothes
and
Jewelries

Gold

Silver and
Cash


In addition, a gilded silver coin bearing the
word Qiu (meaning proposal) was among
the gifts.
The girls family would send back another coin
bearing the word Yun (meaning agreed)
among their gifts presented in return. Thus,
the marriage was CONFIRMED

5. Wedding Date
Fixing

When everything was ready, the boys family

would invite a fortune teller to choose a
wedding date believed to bring the most luck
to the couple based on Chinese calendar
mythology.

6. Dowry Urging