Cultural explanations

Double happiness

In Chinese culture, there’s a saying that happiness comes in twos (like yin and yang).

On top of that, the character ‘double happiness’ comes from a tale where a scholar was on his way to sit an exam to become a minister of the royal court. On the trip, he fell ill and was taken in by a herbalist and his daughter who nursed him back to health. The scholar fell in love with the daughter and when the scholar had to leave, the daughter gave him half of a rhyming couplet in the hope he will return.

As the final part of the exam, the scholar was asked to complete the rhyming couplet along with the missing half the herbalist’s daughter gave him. Smashing the exam, the scholar went back to marry the girl he fell in love with, and On their wedding day, they wrote the Chinese character ‘happiness’ twice on red paper which is the character we know today.

Chinese Tea Ceremony

The tea ceremony is the Chinese equivalent of saying our I do’s at the altar.

This is typically a very intimate event held behind closed doors but we’re breaking the mould and want to share this experience with our closest friends.

This ceremony comprises seating our family elders in pairs and the bride and groom, dressed in cultural wedding outfits, will serve a cup of tea to our elders as a sign of respect.

Walk into fortune

Just as the wedding breakfast is named to represent the first meal we have as a married couple, we have something similar at Chinese weddings. After the Chinese Tea ceremony, we’ll go for a quiet walk (and probably take the photographer with us) in the beautiful Netherbyres estate.

Importance of Red and gold

Honestly, we just grew up to associate red and gold as lucky colours. but that would make a terrible explanation page so after a bit of research, we found some answers. the colour red is associated with luck, happiness, honour and fertility whilst the colour gold is more literal, it’s supposed to represent wealth.