Some couples hire preserved buses for their wedding transport instead of the traditional car.

In most of East Asia today, the Gregorian calendar is used for day-to-day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for marking traditional East Asian holidays such as the Chinese New Year, the Duan Wu festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in astrology, such as choosing the most auspicious date for a wedding or the opening of a building.

Using their knowledge of audience participation, MC charisma, and " crowd-pleasing " repertory selection, the wedding music industry became almost all DJ while combining the class and elegance of the traditional band presentation.

It is traditional for the head of the household to wear a kittel at the Passover seder in some communities, and some grooms wear one under the wedding canopy.

The wedding was a traditional Klingon ceremony which included a series of trials on Jadzia's part in order to gain the approval of Martok's wife to join the House of Martok ( DS9: " You are Cordially Invited ...").

A number of cultures have adopted the traditional Western custom of the white wedding, in which a bride wears a white wedding dress and veil.

A traditional Jewish wedding usually follows this format:

At traditional Chinese weddings, the Tea Ceremony is the equivalent of an exchange of vows at a Western wedding ceremony.

A white wedding is a term for a traditional formal or semi-formal Western wedding.

A white wedding is a traditional formal or semi-formal wedding originating in Europe.

The traditional white wedding wasn't defined only by the color of the dress.

A bride in a contemporary version of the traditional long white wedding dress with train, tiara and white veil.

Entertaining guests after a wedding ceremony is traditional in most societies, and can last anywhere from half an hour to many hours or even days.

Very often, the bride will change into a traditional Chinese red wedding dress ( 鳳褂, or qípáo ) at that time, if she has been wearing a different style of clothing before.

In the last few decades, black tie has been increasingly seen in the United States at formal day wedding in place of the traditional Morning dress.

Charlie and Jean are married by Mr. Lundie, and they perform a traditional wedding dance to celebrate.

Later, during the Russian Orthodox traditional wedding toast to Steven and Angela, which is believed to be good luck for a couple who drink from conjoined goblets without spilling a drop, a drop of blood-red wine unknowingly spills on her wedding gown, foreshadowing the coming events.

Lauper had threatened to dress like a lighted Christmas tree, but settled on a traditional white wedding dress.

File: TraditionalChineseWeddingDress. jpg | Qing dynasty-style traditional southeastern Chinese wedding dress ( still used in modern day weddings.

A traditional red Uchikake kimono with cranes

Professional sumo wrestlers are often seen in the kimono because they are required to wear traditional Japanese dress whenever appearing in public.

As the kimono has another name,, the earliest kimonos were heavily influenced by traditional Han Chinese clothing, known today as, through Japanese embassies to China which resulted in extensive Chinese culture adoptions by Japan, as early as the 5th century AD.

Boys of age five could wear hakama for the first time, while girls of age seven replaced the simple cords they used to tie their kimono with the traditional obi.

An example of a Japanese clothing is the kimono ; the kimono is a traditional garment.

The Japanese word kimono means " something one wears " and they are the traditional garments of Japan.

Obi is a decorative sash that is worn by Japanese men and women, although it can be worn with many different traditional outfits, it is most commonly worn with the kimono.

Happi is another type of traditional clothing, but it is not famous worldwide like the kimono.

Tabi are also essential with traditional clothing — kimono and other wafuku as well as being worn by samurai in the feudal era.

The festival is based on a traditional Japanese form of entertainment where revelers paint a face on their torsos and stomachs and pretend it is a head. A kimono is then wrapped around the waist and the person's real head is hidden by a large cloth hat.

Tōgane is home to the Kurenai-kai School of Japanese embroidery, which produces handmade obi and kimono in the traditional Japanese style.

The next book, Kimonos is about traditional Japanese clothing and the history of the kimono.

At Japanese weddings, brides will often wear three or more dresses throughout the ceremony and subsequent celebrations with a traditional kimono, white and colour dress combination being popular.

Men sometimes also wear traditional dress ( e. g. dark kimono with hakama ), but nowadays many men wear formal Western clothes such as a suit and tie more often than the traditional hakama.

They are worn with traditional Japanese clothing such as kimono or yukata, but ( in Japan ) also with Western clothing during the summer months.

The traditional attire of a miko would be a pair of red hakama ( long, divided trousers ) or a long, red, slightly pleated skirt tied with a bow, a white haori ( kimono jacket ), and some white or red hair ribbons.

On those occasions in which the corpse is clothed in a traditional kimono, the kimono is crossed right over left.

Nakamise-Dori, the street leading from the Thunder Gate to the temple itself, is lined with small shops selling souvenirs ranging from fans, ukiyo-e ( woodblock prints ), kimono and other robes, Buddhist scrolls, traditional sweets, to Godzilla toys, t-shirts, and cell-phone straps.

The week before the festival all of the shops on the Bon Odori street open up and display traditional patchwork kimono, hats and masks.

Although Fuji wore a traditional Japanese kimono while managing Yokozuna, he is best known for wearing a tuxedo and bowler hat – akin to the James Bond series character Oddjob – incorporating paint around his eyes during his duration as manager of Demolition.

On this day, the girl will be dressed in a traditional kimono, and will be taken to a temple by her family for a blessing ceremony.

Indeed, it seems that only in today's Southern fiction does Tobacco Road, with all the traditional trimmings of sowbelly and cornbread and mint juleps, continue to live -- but only as a weary, overexploited phantom.

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

Does it attack other traditional American institutions with unsupportable and wild charges??

Mrs. Pastern undertook the work of going from house to house with the thoughtless resignation of an honest and traditional laborer.

that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages, two births, one divorce ), Christmas and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years.

The Associations sponsor many traditional campus events and provide students with opportunities to form new friendships, to broaden their interests, and to engage in worthwhile service projects.

Are you looking ahead to the exploding market of millions of American boys and girls, who will grow up to enjoy a traditional American way of life -- ranging the fields with a fine American gun and uniformly excellent ammunition??

Further research in the meaning of crises as experienced by the consumers of traditional social casework services -- including attempts to develop a typology of family structures, crisis problems, reaction mechanisms, and differential treatment approaches -- and the establishment of new experimental programs are imperative social needs which should command the best efforts of caseworkers in collaboration with community planners.

Increased experimentation with multipurpose agencies, especially those that combine afresh the traditional functions of family and child welfare services, holds rich promise for the future.

The paper has a certain value as a comparatively easy introduction to this approach, particularly since it treats a fairly simple and straightforward phenomenon where it is possible to compare it with a more traditional ( though not structural ) statement.

The AWOC has been able to employ the traditional weapons of labor -- the strike and the picket line -- with considerable success, particularly in the area of wages.

A traditional Lao explanation is that the moon was being swallowed by a toad, and the remedy was to make all possible noise, ideally with firearms.

On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.

Instead of linking the nine numbers of this diagram with the traditional Nine Provinces, as was usually done, this equated the odd, Yang numbers with mountains ( firm and resistant, hence Yang ) and the even numbers with rivers ( sinuous and yielding, hence Yin ) ; ;

Several of the replies to Mr. Toynbee, without conscious resort to the traditional terminology with regard to the permission of evil, succeed in restoring the actual context in which present moral and political decisions must be made, by distinguishing between choosing a great evil and choosing in danger of this evil.

Most realtors and real estate brokers talk of themselves as `` professional people '' with the cultural and moral values held by the traditional professions.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

The first is the traditional " direct " appeal in which the appellant files an appeal with the next higher court of review.

Farming had been a traditional occupation for centuries, although is becoming less dominant in the 20th century with the advent of tourism.

The Alpanschluss (" coming down from the alps ") is celebrated by decorating the cows with garlands and enormous cowbells while the farmers dress in traditional costumes.

The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, " to open ," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to " open ," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις ( anoixis ) ( opening ) for spring.

The most common criticism of HH Price's afterlife hypothesis has come from the religious community as his suggestions are not consistent with traditional Christian teaching, nor the teachings of any other monotheistic religion.