Wedding Blog: How about an Asian wedding???

So Rashida and I went to Wells Fargo yesterday (Thursday) to set up a joint bank account so that we could budget and manage our wedding finances. Hopefully this will prevent us from overspending because once the account is empty, there's no more money!

Anyway, we were talking with Paul, the guy helping us set up our accounts. Turns out he's also engaged and is planning to get married in August. He asked us how many people were going to be in our wedding and we said around 100 folks or so. He told us that he and his fianceé are inviting 600 people! We're slowly seeing the work involved in just planning a 100-person wedding, so the thought of 6 times that amount sounds ridiculous.

Paul told us that original he and his fianceé wanted to have a nicer, small, intimate wedding, but their parents (both Chinese families) wanted to have the traditional Chinese wedding where you invite everyone. At first they relented, but then they realized what the positive implications of having a Chinese wedding were.

In Chinese weddings (and apparently most Asian weddings in general), people don't give wedding gifts (like juicers, toasters, etc.), but give the couple money. So even though a 600-person wedding is expensive, inviting 600 people who each give you money, not only covers the wedding, but pays for the honeymoon and then some! Think about it, 600 people giving approximately $100 each...? That's $60,000! Sounds like a wise financial decision to me!

It kind of makes us wish we had a similar tradition. If only Rashida were Asian...

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