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General Category => Hmong Culture & History => Wedding Rituals & Customs => Topic started by: EmperessGNL on January 24, 2011, 01:49:37 PM

Title: same year weddings
Post by: EmperessGNL on January 24, 2011, 01:49:37 PM
why can't two sisters marry in the same year?
why can't a brother and sister marry in the same year?

but it seems ok for two brothers to marry in the same year?
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: yuknowthat on January 25, 2011, 03:36:24 AM
why can't two sisters marry in the same year?
why can't a brother and sister marry in the same year?

but it seems ok for two brothers to marry in the same year?
two brothers can never marry in the same year..it's to be said in the hmong culture that it bring bad luck to both marriages..
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: GoldFishFighting on February 28, 2011, 06:10:23 PM
I thought its because the parents can't afford the price.
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: MilesDaddy on February 28, 2011, 06:27:37 PM
Sell a sister to pay for the brothers bride...? That just sounds so bad..
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: Reporter on February 28, 2011, 06:52:19 PM
two brothers can never marry in the same year..it's to be said in the hmong culture that it bring bad luck to both marriages..

Ditto.
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: Reporter on February 28, 2011, 06:52:54 PM
Sell a sister to pay for the brothers bride...? That just sounds so bad..
Sell a sister to pay for the brothers bride...? That just sounds so bad..

It's not the price that's the issue. It's the bad-luck problem.
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: Reporter on February 28, 2011, 06:53:30 PM
why can't two sisters marry in the same year?
why can't a brother and sister marry in the same year?


but it seems ok for two brothers to marry in the same year?

Same reason two brothers can never marry in the same year.
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: Cyn on March 24, 2011, 10:56:39 PM
Supposedly, there is only so much "luck" to be passed around in one year. If two marriages/wedding occur in the same family in one year, these two couples will be fighting for the same luck and ultimately one or even both will be doomed.
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: saki saki on April 03, 2012, 03:04:32 PM
You ppl are some what correct N incorrect..
Reason why 2 brother/sister can't marry @ the same year...cuz OGs don't wanna see both having a failing marriage.. Tat's why one has to do it one yr. Apart..so if one is failing, then is not.. Plus it brings shame onto the families.i know of a family tat did same year wedding N noting happened.. But it depands on ur karrma..
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: yajkuza on April 24, 2012, 12:59:17 PM
You ppl are some what correct N incorrect..
Reason why 2 brother/sister can't marry @ the same year...cuz OGs don't wanna see both having a failing marriage.. Tat's why one has to do it one yr. Apart..so if one is failing, then is not.. Plus it brings shame onto the families.i know of a family tat did same year wedding N noting happened.. But it depands on ur karrma..

In other words...Bad Luck.

Any of the OG ever tell you guys/gals about the Moon Phases, Seasons, and the dates on when to get marry/wedding?  I was told that the start of a new moon being the best time to marry, since it is starting and not ending.  How about the seasons?  Spring is best since it's brings new life...nature stuff.  Fall and Winter being the coming to an "end"...or "death."  Summer...I forgot what they told me about summer, but all I know is that it's damn hot during the summer to do a wedding in a pack house.  As for the dates, it's better to get marry on a date with "even" numbers...some thing about one becoming two.
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: saki saki on April 24, 2012, 05:54:35 PM
Never heard of tat b-4. Moon phase N summer, wimter etc. But best yr to get marry would be around May. Not too hot N u know it won't ne cold. Lol
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: Amara on April 24, 2012, 06:50:27 PM
I can't say how much I believe in all of this no-double weddings in the family taboo but two of my step-sisters got married in the same year about a month apart. One of the step-sisters' son was born with cryptorchidism . And her in-laws blamed it on the double marriage.
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: saki saki on April 25, 2012, 09:40:43 AM
I can't say how much I believe in all of this no-double weddings in the family taboo but two of my step-sisters got married in the same year about a month apart. One of the step-sisters' son was born with cryptorchidism . And her in-laws blamed it on the double marriage.
wat is tat? Sum kind of genitic thingy if you don't mind me asking
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: Amara on April 25, 2012, 01:58:04 PM
wat is tat? Sum kind of genitic thingy if you don't mind me asking

It's when the testes fail to descend into the scrotum.
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: SummerBerry on May 02, 2012, 03:38:27 PM
I don't believed any of these Hmong beliefs, myths, superstitions, etc.  If you want to live with it and drill on all these stuff then you can otherwise I will just live my life normal and not let it bother me or go along with it. 

The chicken diet or 1 month thing.  I never follow it or believe it and nothing is wrong.  I told my husband that probably back in Laos.......bec ause of poverty and not enough foods to go around then maybe chicken is the cheapest poultry they can get their hand on and raise so it was just a way of whatever...... .... Honestly, I do get lecture by my own mom and maybe even my mil if they were in my home and seeing that I don't eat chicken at all.  Good thing, I'm free to eat whatever I want because my husband is not one to believe or go along with every little thing that one should do or not do............ ..
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: Believe_N_Me on May 29, 2012, 08:50:24 PM
I know that many white brides don't want to share their wedding year with a sibling because one might steal the other's thunder. Plus, it's a lot of planning and then family members have to be in two weddings, yadda yadda yadda. It's hard to coordinate that many people for a bridal party.
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: Believe_N_Me on May 29, 2012, 09:15:56 PM
Sell a sister to pay for the brothers bride...? That just sounds so bad..

Your wife probably experiences self-loathing.

It's this kind of nonsense from a non-Hmong that would have me drop kicking my husband's arse, IF he were a non-Hmong. If I were married to a non-Hmong, I'd have the decency not to make such racist and stereotypical remarks about his ethnic group. But then again, it's because I LOVE my husband (who is non-Hmong, IF I were married to a non-Hmong). But seeing that I'm probably like you and would dish out such snarky comments, that's why I'm NOT married to a non-Hmong.

Just because your wife is Hmong and your kid is half Hmong or whatever, doesn't mean YOU get to make such comments about Hmong people.
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: saki saki on May 30, 2012, 03:02:01 PM
Nice cum back...not try'n to diss anyone here, but it's hard to understand wen ur not a hmng point of view..


Miles...let me guess, ur wife...you prob..got her for free?  Or did you guys do the ameekas or the hmng wedding?
I can understand cuz i no a very close hmng lady tat married a meeka, long story short..he didn't wanna paid for the wife..and say tat ur culture is BS...and tat the hmng family should do the wedding for him...not him do the wedding....jus t like how ameeka does it..
Honestly i don't care how ppl do it,,just the fact tat each one has to honnor their culture....
Just cuz we live in the USA doesn't mean tat we are ameek ize..
I hope you understand tat....and don't be diss'n my hmng sister (mean'n ur wife)...
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: Believe_N_Me on June 01, 2012, 12:10:56 AM
Nice cum back...not try'n to diss anyone here, but it's hard to understand wen ur not a hmng point of view..


Miles...let me guess, ur wife...you prob..got her for free?  Or did you guys do the ameekas or the hmng wedding?
I can understand cuz i no a very close hmng lady tat married a meeka, long story short..he didn't wanna paid for the wife..and say tat ur culture is BS...and tat the hmng family should do the wedding for him...not him do the wedding....jus t like how ameeka does it..
Honestly i don't care how ppl do it,,just the fact tat each one has to honnor their culture....
Just cuz we live in the USA doesn't mean tat we are ameek ize..
I hope you understand tat....and don't be diss'n my hmng sister (mean'n ur wife)...


I honestly don't understand how Miles's wife can put up with his snarky comments about Hmong people. Either she's one of those twinkies who forgot to look in the mirror or maybe she's too happy in bed to care. Either way, I would find it offensive after awhile.
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: Moospej on June 13, 2012, 10:35:29 AM
Whitewashed
Title: Re: same year weddings
Post by: saki saki on June 13, 2012, 01:38:42 PM
I honestly don't understand how Miles's wife can put up with his snarky comments about Hmong people. Either she's one of those twinkies who forgot to look in the mirror or maybe she's too happy in bed to care. Either way, I would find it offensive after awhile.
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Yellow outside
Very whyte inside. Lol