The Late Bride

Title: The Late Bride

General Information about Item:

  • Family Lore, Late Bride
  • Language: Vietnamese
  • Country of Origin: Vietnam
  • Informant: Alexis Le
  • Date 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:

  • Social Context: The women helped the bride get ready on her wedding day. This included Alexis, her aunts, cousins, mother, and grandmother. It is a wedding tradition within Alexis’ family for the bride and the rest of the women to show up to the wedding venue extremely late. That day they showed up one and a half hours late.

Item:

  • The folklore collected here is Alexis’ family’s tradition of the bride and women showing up to the wedding venue extremely late. This started when Alexis’ great-great-great grandmother showed up to her wedding four hours late due to flooding. Since then, it’s become a joke in their family for the bride to be intentionally late. 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:

  • The Late Bride
  • Family lore

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