{"id":218,"date":"2009-01-10T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog2\/2009\/01\/10\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T19:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T11:04:43","slug":"218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/218\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_clhJIpbSUjo\/SWgtDi6txyI\/AAAAAAAAAlw\/RXOCGTBCdfk\/s1600-h\/Nicophotography-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"336\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289527301282580258\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_clhJIpbSUjo\/SWgtDi6txyI\/AAAAAAAAAlw\/RXOCGTBCdfk\/s640\/Nicophotography-blog.jpg\" style=\"display: block; height: 168px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\">In a traditional Taiwanese wedding there are many different rituals, some are always done, like the throwing of the fan here on that picture, and others vary. I have shot many Taiwanese weddings over the years but still there have never seen two identical weddings following the same exact ceremony. There&#8217;s always something new, or different, makes things more interesting for me!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\">To go back to the fan tradition, as the bride leaves the house she would carry two fans (sometimes only one), they represent the good habits and the bad habits.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As the car starts to leave the bride&#8217;s house, she would then throw away the fan, as a way to show she&#8217;s leaving the bad habits behind.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Recently at a wedding the brother of the groom asked me if I knew the meaning of that tradition, I told him I did, and I also told him that my wife must have thrown away the wrong fan&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Have a nice day!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nico<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a traditional Taiwanese wedding there are many different rituals, some are always done, like the throwing of the fan here on that picture, and others vary. I have shot many Taiwanese weddings over the years but still there have never seen two identical weddings following the same exact ceremony. There&#8217;s always something new, or...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pp_embeds":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-way-i-see-it-","tag-the-way-i-see-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}