Traditionally, wedding ceremonies include cake cutting and champagne tower pouring. However, nowadays, young couples have created many other unique and innovative rituals for their own weddings. These rituals are not only meaningful and economical but also deeply rooted in traditional cultural values.
Recently, a video circulated on social media showing a bride and groom pouring rice together as part of a traditional wedding ceremony. On stage, the couple performed the special ritual of "sharing rice to cook together," pouring rice and water into a rice cooker, symbolizing harmony, sharing, and building a family together. The image of the rice cooker symbolizes married life; a delicious meal requires the joint effort, love, and responsibility of both partners.
With its unique concept, this video has received a lot of support from the online community. One user commented: "I strongly support this ritual, it's very practical. After marriage, cooking and housework are shared responsibilities between the two of you."
"Young people these days have so many creative, fun, interesting, cute, and meaningful ideas," another account commented.
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The couple performed a ritual together, symbolizing sharing a meal to cook together (Image taken from a video clip). |
Earlier in late 2024, netizens also shared a similar video showing a bride and groom bringing a rice cooker and rice onto the stage to perform a unique rice-cooking act on their big day at a restaurant in Tay Ho ( Hanoi ).
According to the bride, the entire rice-cooking ritual was performed spontaneously, without prior rehearsal: "We did it with the meaning of both of us nurturing our little home. Before getting married, we often ate out, but from now on we will cook together to have complete meals. This also marks a milestone in our life together, loving and sharing with each other."
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A couple in Hanoi performed the ritual of cooking rice right on the wedding stage. |
At the wedding of businessman Hai Long and hot girl Salim, held on March 19th in Hanoi, the "rice pouring ceremony" was performed solemnly and received support from many. Accordingly, the bride and groom each held a jar of rice and slowly poured it into a vase placed in the center. The two streams of rice mixed together, creating an intertwined and close bond, symbolizing two strangers who have found each other and decided to spend their lives together.
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The rice-pouring ceremony for the wedding of social media celebrity couple Hai Long and Salim. |
As can be seen, the ritual of pouring rice at a wedding is one of the meaningful traditional customs in Vietnamese culture. Rice symbolizes abundance, prosperity, and affluence – a crucial element in traditional agricultural life. When the bride and groom pour rice together, it is a wish for their upcoming married life to be full and without material shortages; it is also a symbol of the bond and the nurturing of marital happiness.
Countless unique rituals on the big day.
Besides the traditional rice-pouring ritual, many young people today have come up with other creative rituals such as pouring sand art, planting trees together, painting... or even eating hot pot together.
In early February 2025, at their wedding, bride Thu Linh and groom Mạnh Đạt (Tiên Lữ, Hưng Yên) performed the ritual of pouring sand art. Groom Mạnh Đạt shared: "After researching, I found that sand symbolizes life, representing eternal existence. With this sand art ritual, I hope for a happy and fulfilling marriage, where the two of us are in harmony and stay together for life."
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Bride Thu Linh and groom Mạnh Đạt (Photo: Ngọc Nga) |
In October 2022, at MC Lieu Ha Trinh's wedding, the traditional cake-cutting ceremony was replaced with planting a tree. Through this act, the female MC expressed her wish for her marriage to grow stronger and more prosperous each day. It was truly a special and unexpected replacement. Moreover, it added a unique touch to the bride and groom's wedding.
Many people strongly agree with this, because planting greenery at a wedding is more environmentally friendly than using a cake that's mostly made of styrofoam, or a champagne tower full of chemicals.
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Another unusual ritual performed at the wedding of groom Nguyen Duy Tung (born in 1994, in Hanoi) in November 2024 caused a stir on social media: Groom Tung dipped hot pot meat into the broth and offered it to the bride right on the stage.
Sharing the idea behind this ceremony, the groom revealed that he and his nephew came up with it. However, he didn't apply it mechanically, but rather based it on his work and love story to create this "one-of-a-kind" ritual.
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Because Mr. Tung's family owns a hotpot restaurant and his wife is a regular customer, she often gives him honest feedback when she comes to eat hotpot at his restaurant. They started communicating and texting each other from then on. They also participated in the same youth group activities in their local area, giving them opportunities to interact, gradually developing feelings for each other and deciding to get married. Inspired by these special memories, Mr. Tung decided to surprise his bride by bringing hotpot to the stage.
Source: https://baophapluat.vn/doc-dao-cap-doi-rot-gao-hop-hon-post543547.html
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