2. Customs Wedding & Funeral

3. Quick Facts about Wedding - East V.S. West groom pays for all the costs needed. (East or West???) groom will decide the date and where the ceremony take place. (E or W?) Guests who are invited to the ceremony prepare money. ( E or W?)

4. Wedding Ceremony It is usually held in the church.

5. groom/ Bridegroom Bride Best ManMaid of Honor

6. What a bride need to wear in the wedding? Something Old (Continue her family’s tradition) Something New (Have a new life) Something Borrowed (Friends’ good wishes) Something Blue (Love will last forever)

7. Wedding Vows "XXX, do you take XXX to be your wife/husband? Do you promise to be true to her/him in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love her/him and honor her/him all the days of your life?"

8. Bridal Flower After the ceremony, bride will throw her flower to the sky. Anyone who catches the flower would be the next bride.

9. Wedding Reception It includes toasting the bride and groom, the newlyweds' first dance, and cake cutting.

10. Quick Facts about Funeral - East V.S. West The dead will be buried on a lucky day. (East or West???) The whole ceremony will be finished in one day. (E or W?) Guests who join the funeral prepare money. ( E or W?)

11. Funeral Ceremony It is also usually held in the church.

12. Funeral Ceremony Eulogy ( To praise the dead)

13. Funeral Ceremony Funeral Mass ( 殯葬彌撒 )

14. Funeral Ceremony Carry the coffin Usually males who are close, but not direct relatives (like cousins, nephews or grandchildren) or friends of the dead, will carry the coffin to the limousine or the yard directly.

15. Funeral Ceremony Burial Service

16. Funeral Ceremony Throw the soil

17. Funeral Ceremony Bury the dead

18. Funeral Ceremony Put Flowers