Korean Wedding!
October 29, 2006

Today was Jin's sister's (Yu Jin) wedding!  She married a very kind man and I think they'll have a wonderful life together.  It was a beautiful ceremony.  One very strange thing about the ceremony was the whole time everyone was talking.  The priest was up front with the bride and groom performing the ceremony and the crowd was babbling through the whole thing.  That is VERY different from an American wedding.  I think if the crowd was talking like that an American bride would turn around and shoot everyone with the shotgun that her father was holding.

Before the wedding

The ceremony

The new Mr. & Mrs. Han!

Picture time!

I was honored to be invited to stand with the family in the family photo.

(See if you can find my big white head in the sea of Koreans)

Traditional post-wedding ceremony (Pae beck)

Chow time!

What I learned today about Korea:  1)  At the post wedding ceremony (Pae Beck), the husband's parents toss chestnuts onto a small blanket that the bride and groom are holding.  It's to wish them many children!