How to plan a Vietnamese-American wedding

It seems odd that what motivated me to write about weddings was actually a funeral. More specifically, the passing of my mother, an amazingly kind and loving Vietnamese woman. Grief operates in strange ways… Maybe this is one way I fill the emptiness inside, to reach out to those who share my native culture. To say that some things should not go to the dogs, that I can contribute, that I shouldn’t stand idle while time plays out its sad tune. Five months before my mother passed, I got married to a wonderful non-Vietnamese man. The experience of planning a mixed-race, bicultural wedding was interesting, and I think it should be documented. These days, more and more young Vietnamese people are marrying interracially. When it comes to plan the wedding, they are in a bind. Having grown up mostly in America, they have only surface-level knowledge of Vietnamese marriage customs. Parents don’t provide great explanations (ahem, generation gap!). The internet has some info (e.g. Wikipedia), but it’s general and not detailed enough to actually coordinate a wedding. <a href="https://medium.com/@qttran246/how-to-have-a-bicultural-vietnamese-wedding-77af5377c06">Website</a>