Unique couple 'pouring rice to get married'

Normally, in weddings, the ritual of cutting the cake or pouring the wine tower is very popular. However, nowadays, young couples have created many other unique and novel rituals in their own weddings. These rituals are not only meaningful and economical but also imbued with traditional cultural values.

Recently, social networks shared a clip of the bride and groom pouring rice together instead of the usual rituals. On stage, the couple performed a special ritual of "contributing rice to cook rice together", both of them poured rice and water into the rice cooker, showing harmony, sharing, and building a family together. The image of the rice cooker symbolizes married life, to have a delicious meal requires the cooperation, love and responsibility of both people.

With its unique idea, this video received a lot of support from the online community. One account commented: "I really support this ritual, it's very practical. After marriage, cooking and housework are the shared tasks of both people."

"Young people today have many creative, fun, interesting, cute but very meaningful ideas," another account expressed.

The couple performed a ritual together with the meaning of contributing rice to cook rice together (Photo cut from clip)

Previously, at the end of 2024, netizens also shared a similar video recording the bride and groom bringing a rice cooker and rice onto the stage, performing a unique rice cooking act on their big day at a restaurant in Tay Ho (Hanoi).

According to the bride, the entire cooking ritual was performed naturally, without any rehearsal: "We did it with the meaning of both of us taking care of our small home. Before getting married, we often ate out, but from now on we will cook together to have full meals. This is also a milestone marking us coming home together, loving and sharing with each other."

A couple in Hanoi performed a rice cooking ceremony right on the wedding stage.

At the wedding of businessman Hai Long and hot girl Salim which took place on March 19 in Hanoi, the "pouring rice for marriage" ceremony was also performed solemnly and received support from many people. Accordingly, the bride and groom each held a jar of rice and together slowly poured it into the jar placed in the middle. The two streams of rice grains mixed together to create an intertwined and close bond, symbolizing two strangers who found each other and decided to be together for life.

The wedding rice pouring ceremony of the famous couple on social media Hai Long - Salim.

It can be seen that the wedding rice pouring ceremony is one of the meaningful traditional customs in Vietnamese culture. Rice symbolizes abundance, prosperity and abundance - the most important factor in traditional agricultural life. When the bride and groom pour rice together, it is a wish for a full and prosperous married life, without material shortages. This is also a symbol of solidarity and nurturing happiness as a couple.

Countless unique rituals on the big day

In addition to the rice pouring ritual, many young people today also create many other creative rituals such as pouring sand paintings, planting trees together, drawing pictures... or even eating hot pot together.

In early February 2025, at their wedding, bride Thu Linh and groom Manh Dat (Tien Lu, Hung Yen) performed the sand painting pouring ritual together. Groom Manh Dat shared: "After researching, I found that sand is a symbol of life, meaning eternal existence. With the sand painting pouring ritual, I wish for a happy, fulfilling marriage, where the two people are in harmony to stick together for life."

Bride Thu Linh and groom Manh Dat (Photo: Ngoc Nga)

In October 2022, at MC Lieu Ha Trinh's wedding, the cake cutting ceremony was replaced by tree planting. Through this action, the female MC expressed her wish for the marriage to be increasingly nurtured and flourished every day. It was truly a special and surprising alternative. Moreover, it also created a breakthrough for the bride and groom's wedding.

Many people agree with this, because planting trees at a wedding is better for the environment than using a cake that is mostly made of styrofoam, or a wine tower full of chemicals.

Another unique ritual performed at the wedding of groom Nguyen Duy Tung (born 1994, in Hanoi) in November 2024 caused a stir on social networks: Groom Tung dipped hot pot and invited the bride to enjoy it right on stage.

Sharing about the idea of ​​this ceremony, the groom revealed that he and his nephew came up with it. However, he did not apply it mechanically but based it on his work and love story to create this "one-of-a-kind" ceremony.

Because Mr. Tung's family runs a hot pot restaurant and his wife is a regular customer. When she comes to eat hot pot at his restaurant, his girlfriend often gives her honest feedback and the two start to contact and text each other from then on. They also participate in local group activities so they have the opportunity to meet and gradually develop feelings and decide to get married. From those special memories, Mr. Tung is determined to bring hot pot to the stage, creating a surprise for the bride.

Minh Trang

Source: https://baophapluat.vn/doc-dao-cap-doi-rot-gao-hop-hon-post543547.html