Title: Intimate Moment
General Information about Item:
- Customary Lore, Intimate Moment
- Language: Vietnamese
- Country of Origin: Vietnam
- Informant: Alexis Le
- DDate of Event: September 1, 2017
Informant Data:
- Alexis was born June 22, 2000 in Naperville, Illinois. She is a senior at Metea Valley High School. Alexis and her sister were raised Catholic, but her family is not strict when it comes to upholding Catholic traditions. She is Vietnamese. Alexis’s mother is from Saigon and her father is from Hanoi. The majority of Alexis’ immediate family now lives in the United States.
Contextual Data:
- Cultural Context: This is a Vietnamese wedding tradition that represents the bride’s mother’s blessing of the marriage and the giving away of her daughter.
- Social Context: Before the wedding ceremony begins, the bride’s mother has an intimate moment with all her present daughters. During this moment, the bride’s mother presents the bride with a diamond necklace that she wears as she walks down the aisle.
Item:
- The folklore collected here is the Vietnamese wedding tradition of the bride’s mother having an intimate moment with her daughters and giving the bride a diamond necklace before the wedding ceremony begins. I interviewed Alexis over the phone and took notes on what she told me about the folklore. These data are not direct quotes from Alexis but are rewritten from my notes to create organized content.
Collector’s Name: Claire Burner
Tags/Keywords:
- Intimate Moment
- Vietnamese lore
- Customary lore