Wedding #2

Me, Duong, Duc, and Mymy

This past Thursday I attended my second Vietnamese wedding! My homestay family's cousin, Duong, married Duc. Duc is Vietnamese-German, which I found pretty funny since Duc means German in Vietnamese. This is the first of two weddings, next year they will hold another ceremony in Germany so all of Duc's friends and family can attend.

This wedding was very similar to the first wedding I went to. There was a small private ceremony in the morning that only family attended at the bride's house. I got to the behind the scenes action since Mymy and her cousin are very close. We went extra early in the morning to help Duong get ready and also following the ceremony I got to drive around in their wedding car. I really enjoyed going around Hanoi with the bride and groom and taking pictures. I definitely got a lot of strange looks from both tourists and locals when they saw an American all dressed up just hanging out with a Vietnamese bride and groom. We went to the opera house, their hotel, and a fountain to take photos. It was pretty entertaining when we were at the hotel because the photographer was having them pose very seductively on the bed, which no one else was allowed to sit on besides the bride and groom.

This is right after the ceremony outside the bride's house.

The Opera House

At the fountain. I like this photo because it shows two completely
different lifestyles.

At the hotel!

Following the photographs we went to the reception which consisted of introducing the bride and groom, taking more photos, and eating a big lunch. Then Mymy and I left and explored Hanoi. Again, we got lots of strange looks from people because we were both still dressed up in our wedding clothes while we explored. Oh well.

The banquet hall.

One of the biggest difference in the two weddings
I've attended: This one had bubbles.

The old quarter from the rooftop of a coffee house.

I could have a whole blog post just for this kid. I have so many
adorable photos of him. He was the cutest!