How to serve tea at a wedding?

Serving tea to both parents is indispensable and is also one of the key scenes of the photography session. Serving tea is a custom that has been passed down from ancient times to the present. Also express your gratitude and respect to your parents. Both parents want to serve tea.

1. When is tea served

Parents of the bride: When the groom goes to pick up the bride. After going through many hurdles, I finally received the bride. Then you can go to the hall and serve tea to the bride’s parents. When serving tea, the bride hands the tea cup to the groom, and then the groom offers tea, and finally gives a red envelope haha.

The groom’s parents: After going to the bridal chamber, they served tea to the groom’s parents. The groom hands the tea cup to the bride, and the bride hands it to her parents to serve tea. Of course there are also red envelopes.

In addition, you need to buy a special wedding cup to serve tea.

2. The posture of serving tea at a wedding

1. Generally, the groom first presents the first cup of tea, and then offers tea to his father-in-law and then changes his words; then he presents the tea to his mother-in-law and changes his words; and then the bride offers Tea.

2. When serving tea, the newlyweds should hold the cup with both hands, with the upper body in a bow shape, and extend the tea cup forward with both hands to a distance of 40 cm from the parents' chests, so that the parents can receive the tea cup with both hands without moving their bodies.

3. After the parents drink tea, the couple takes the teacup with both hands and hands it to the etiquette personnel. At this time, parents often give gifts in return to the newlyweds, who should accept them with both hands to express their gratitude.

3. Precautions for serving tea at weddings

When entertaining guests with folk tea, you should pay attention to the sayings of "tea is full of tea" and "seven teas and eight wines", which means that you should not overdo it when pouring tea. Full, preferably seven points full. Do not hold tea with one hand, put your fingers on the rim of the teacup, or dip it into the tea. These actions are impolite.

4. Sequence of serving tea at wedding

1. After the master of ceremonies invites the couple to serve tea of ??thanksgiving to their elders (change their words), the groom takes the bride and offers tea of ??thanksgiving to her father-in-law and mother-in-law (first, father-in-law, stepmother-in-law).

2. The groom takes the bride to his father and mother and says: ‘Dad, mom, my son has married his wife into his family’ and other words that suit him. The bride pours the tea (or the concierge pours a cup of tea in advance) and brings it to her father-in-law (mother-in-law) with both hands. The bride bows and serves the tea and says: Dad (Mom), you have tea.

3. The father-in-law (mother-in-law) agreed to give the tea cup to the daughter-in-law after drinking tea. After the daughter-in-law put the tea cup away, she turned to face the father-in-law (mother-in-law). The father-in-law and mother-in-law gave the prepared large red envelope to her. The daughter-in-law, after receiving the red envelope from her father (mother), said: Thank you, father (mother), and handed the red envelope to the bridesmaid beside her to keep it. Daughter-in-law can hug her mother-in-law.

4. When a daughter-in-law brings her son-in-law to meet her father-in-law and mother-in-law, the etiquette is the same. The editor specially reminds the groom that his voice must be loud, clear and crisp when changing his words.