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Red is central to the wedding theme of Asia. It signifies love, joy and prosperity and is used in a variety of ways in
thailand introductions traditions. The thailand wives wedding down is often red, as are the wedding invitations, and asian
introductionsenvelopes for cash gifts. Even the asian wives and groom's homes are decorated in red on the wedding day. Before
the wedding day before her wedding celebration, a single thailand woman traditionally goes into seclusion with her
closest friends. This Chinese custom gives the bride to be some time to symbolically mourn the loss of her friends and family.
Some time before the couple are married, the groom's family carries wedding gifts in red baskets and boxes to the asian woman
house. One of the baskets will contain uang susu. Others will contain personal things for the asian lady, so that on her wedding
day all of her personal belongings will be in the groom's house. The thailand lady takes the gifts to another room where they
are sorted through. Three days before the wedding day, women from the bride's family reciprocate, bearing gifts including
some returns in red wrappings to the groom's family. Wedding anniversaries in Asia are carefully chosen according to
astrological signs. It is also customary for couples to be married on the half hour or their wedding day rather than at the
top of the hour. In this way, the couple begins their new lives together on an upswing, while the hands of the clock are moving
up, rather than down. On the morning of his wedding day, the groom is symbolically dressed by his parents. The groom arrives
at the house of his asian penpals on the way to the wedding chapel. He brings gifts of cash, wrapped in red tissue, to give
to his bride's friends, in exchange for letting her go. In some families, the wedding couple serves tea to both sets of parents
while kneeling in front of them. a symbolic gesture of asking for permission. The thailand penpals then leave for the wedding
site together.
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