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Posted: Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 01:14 am

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Canadian immigrants can learn from Lea Salonga and Robert Chien in their unique wedding ceremony which combine traditions from their multi-racial backgrounds.

See: http://www.canadianimmigrant.org/CULTURE/LeaSalonga.htm

Lea Salonga is from the Philippines and Robert Chien is an American of Chinese/Japanese/Hawaiian ancestry.

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Posted: Tue Nov 24th, 2009 04:07 am

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Here's another example of a mixed race wedding in which a Chinese tea ceremony was modernized to suit a Chinese Canadian couple.

Here is the link to this story:
http://www.thenewcanadians.com/wpblogs/2009/08/23/chinese-canadian-modern-wedding-tea-ceremony/

The Chinese has a long history with many traditions dating back to ancient times. One of the strongest tradition is the Chinese wedding ritual of tea ceremony, where the bride and groom offers tea to the parents of both families and in return the parents offer the gift of a red envelope, containing money. Traditionally the parents of the bride would give jewellery to the daughter as part of the dowry.
Above link is a video clip of a Vancouver wedding at The Hollyburn Country Club. Note that the ceremony has been modernized because the groom is a westerner. If you watch carefully, you will see that after the tea was served, both sets of parents slipped red envelopes as well as a western wedding cards on the tea tray.

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