South Corean Wedding Gift Ideas:

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If attending a traditional, Corean wedding, it's considered lucky to give the couple wooden, Mandarin duck carvings. A pair of dark green, jade, carved mandarin, wedding ducks would also be appreciated. Other ideas are a Corean fruit and flowers gift basket, money in odd numbers, or a gardening gift card (to a local nurseries for another hybrid, tea rose bush, or peony plants). A Horchow gift card would be excellent for custom, monogrammed towels and stationary. Frontgate offers custom, monogrammed, door mats also.

If low on money, IKEA offers large, white, cotton terry robes. Buy two, and get them monogrammed with the bride's choice of initials. Jade bracelets (one for each wrist) are another excellent choice for the bride. For the groom, a dark jade, wine glass set would be appropriate. Jade symbolizes health, spiritual protection, healing and good fortune. Look for a reputable jewelry store dealer, a certificate of authenticity, no tiny cracks under lighted microscope, and a natural, non-synthetic, dark green color, for prosperity.

Remember to please all the elderly wedding guests, by helping them, running to serve them, and showing the utmost respect to them. Never stare directly at others' eyes, or offer your hand to shake any females. Avoid touching or crowding females, if a male. Don't forget not to point any feet soles towards the wedding guests, if barefoot, especially in a Buddhist temple. Help with all the pre- and post- cleaning of the Buddhist temple wedding ceremony.

Don't consume any alcohol, don't smoke cigars, cigarettes, and avoid politics or religion in conversation. Instead, try to discuss flower gardening, fruit tree landscaping (Corean pear trees, for espaliered fences), fine arts, classical music, ballet, and Asian operas. If selecting a wedding guest, as a single, M.B.A. executive, prefer only bringing along a Corean, medical doctor/"fiance." Try to gather as many GLBT-friendly, Corean, medical doctors as possible, for fake dates/long-term engagements, if not actually dating anyone, so that you and all your "suspiciously" single friends can be included into conservative, Corean society.

An antique, Corean trunk/chest, lead-free, filled with Corean bolts of fine silk, for custom kimono robes, curtains, duvet covers and throw pillows for important weddings would be appropriate. Corean beef (an entire cow from a local, reputable rancher, pre-processed, organic, well-sealed, and pre-packaged) is also an appropriate gift. Make sure it'll be delivered refrigerated, on time, for the bridal shower, wedding reception feast and housewarming parties. An organic, flowering, fruit tree orchard farm "annual share/membership," is another excellent gift for important wedding couples.

***Remember to cover up from the collar bone to ankles, in a long, loose-fitting, formal, dark navy blue, silk, mandarin-buttoned, jacketed skirt suit for the wedding, with opaque, non-patterned, hosiery stockings and dyed-to-match, low-heeled, non-pointy, satin heels.***