I’m only 18 yrs old, but everytime I thought about my wedding I never thought of doing any of the Vietnamese traditions. After watching your video I definitely am reconsidering it!!
You definitely should. Too many younger generations are forgetting their own culture and heritage. They’re so sucked in into being Americanized to fit in the American way.
Heyyy as an Chinese-American teen girl, I always complain about not seeing many of us wearing qipaos/cheongsams so I really appreciate this video ! It's great to see us connecting with our culture
In Singapore, “door games” is called “gate crashing” and the groom with his groomsmen have to play games that usually require them to eat weirdly mixed food, dance, etc and they have to give angbaos with cash to pass each stage in order to meet the bride.
As a Chinese adoptee, I learn so much from you all; you’re like the older sisters I never had. Thank you so much!! Y’all are beautiful and those dresses are all stunning. 😍
i felt so part of the group when i pointed to the SAME first choice dress as janet and mel 🥰but i also had a feeling that helen would chose the more traditional one!
I remember loving my red dress and changed into it throughout the banquet, my family and friends who were not Asian, were fawning over it. It's such a nice touch to honor our culture
I am Chinese Canadian and in my 20s and have been cheongsams/ qipaos for the last 10 years. Some of my favorites are like the psychedelic vintage ones that I find when online vintage piece hunting. I have a curvier body because I'm half french, so now I am trying to learn how to make them myself as having the perfect fit is key. But I would highly recommend that anyone can start collecting them! Some of my favorite pieces were $40 CAD that I got from etsy and just had to make some minor adjustments. I wear them casually with leather jackets and also for special occasions! GIRLS ITS TIME TO START COLLECTING.
Great time !!! This is wharmt we need. And idea that will help us decide the different styles of Chinese Qipao or cheongsam as it very beautiful The culture and heritage is what we must preserved . Though I am a Muslim but influenced and appreciate Chinese culture same with us in our family ,as seemingly this will be helpful in choosing styles . Good that you made it to view this .....thanks ...watching from Davao City , Mindanao ,Philippines
Love this!!! Thank you for creating and sharing traditional chinese culture content for the world! It's so nice to see items typically in brick & mortar into the internet sphere. And to showcase our beautiful culture without fetishizing it.
I want to preserve my culture and have a traditional tea ceremony when I get married too. Thank you for making and sharing this content! Will definitely use it for learning and inspiration :)
I’ve been telling my grandparents that i want to get married in a qipao along with the traditional customs ever since i knew what marriage is . Either that or i aint getting married . ❤️
The qipao are all soooo beautiful!!! Wish I had known about East Meets Dress when I got married a few years ago! (Also thought this was so funny bc my wedding gown was backless, but my qipao was more traditional with a mandarin collar and had a mermaid shape.) Loved this video!
Love that you shared this process! My mom wore a cheongsam during the reception of her American wedding and I’ve always wanted to follow in her footsteps! 💕
All the dresses were lovely. Thank you for sharing your unboxing and dress-up. I've checked out the site for the wedding dress too, because I've always remembered there's another traditional wedding dress besides the qipao line: the qun kua (most of my friends wore these). Anyway, I actually like the more traditional choice Helen has chosen. The ones Mel and Janet had decided are were definitely gorgeous but the traditional one is just as gorgeous.
My fav episode yet!!! I know this was an ad too but ahh the energy of your girls is amazing. Loved how supportive and awesome Janet and Mel were and Helen looked stunning. Thanks for bringing us along the processs, can’t wait for more
Thank you for posting this video! I'm in the process of looking for a dress and have had my eye on East Meets Dress for a while but was never sure about the process. I'm so glad you tried on the dresses and I got to see what some more of them were like on people (looking at pictures is different imo). Thanks again!
the content i didn't know i needed!! i actually was going to wear my mom's old qipao to my high school prom last year, but prom was cancelled.... :'( maybe i'll wear that qipao to my potential future wedding?
Absolutely loved this video!! I'm adopted and didn't grow up with my Chinese culture but would love to have my own Chinese wedding and learning bits and pieces from you ladies about the culture is so valuable to me. Thank you for sharing. ❤️❤️❤️
Love this video! Thanks for showcasing this beautiful aspect of Chinese culture. I loved my tea ceremony, it really was a very intimate affair with the elders wishing good blessings and words of wisdom
I wish I knew about this company when I got married in 2014...because all the Chinese dresses were blah where I live (would've had to go to another city for better choices, no time for that) so I just for went getting one. I semi regret it now 😭
The hardest part of finding a suitable qipao is making sure I don’t look like I work at a dim-sum restaurant… plus, I don’t have the neck length and body shape that work well with qipao. And it’s expensive to tailor-make a qipao. When I got married, I didn’t wear the qipao/ cheongsam for the tea ceremony. I rented a qunkua/ kwa instead, which is more popular with the Cantonese (mum is Cantonese). The kwa has a very forgiving silhouette - good for me 😅 There was heavy embroidery of gold and silver thread on red fabric, and with the gold jewelry, I felt like an empress 😂 It’s interesting how different Chinese dialect groups choose their attire for the tea ceremony!
These dresses looked great on Helen! So glad that she is able to share the Chinese culture of tea ceremonies with others. I recently had my Chinese tea ceremony too and it was very special to have the two families join together like the girls mention :) Just my 2 cents for those who are looking into buying qipaos through East Meets Dress. Unfortunately, I didn't have the most positive experience with them. They charge at least $75 to try on only 3 dresses, so Helen was lucky to get sent so many dresses. Their sample dresses to try on were also not diverse in sizes and fits more of the petite/small sizes. I ultimately chose not to buy from them due to the high price and fit ): I'm more of a size 6-8, tall, and curvy so I wished their sample sizes were more open to other sizes.
Y'all are so beautiful! Wow, great skin, gorgeous smiles! Also, love the qipaos. We also wear a traditional dress when getting married and parting from your parent's house but it's very different. Indigenous ppl from Southeast Asia.
Red Marilyn! I prefer deeper reds like that. Love the cut from neck & shoulder, very traditional. But the silhouette from waist down with that slit makes it modern. The minimal but perfectly placed embroidery is just enough as an accent to the dress. It's the best one!
I'm Italian with some southwest Asian, Nigerian, and Greek heritage, and now I wish to have a tea ceremony for my wedding 😍😍🥺🥺 Your culture is SO beautiful! I just love every aspect of Asian culture. It is so beautiful and so pristine. Looking at the culture I grew up in (american), everything seems so boring after seeing such beautiful qipao!!!!
Thanks for sharing! I was bummed when I found out a very popular qipao/wedding dress/tailor shop in SGV closed a couple of years ago. I have not started planning my wedding yet, but this is another lovely option to consider! :)
Gorgeous QUEEN❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️ ALSO STAN THE 3RD DRESS! this literally makes me feel like a mom watching my own daughter getting married lols Now I know where to order my wedding dress 😌
Thank you so much for this video & the dress site. I just got engaged at the beginning of the year & as an ABC I want to observe a tea ceremony & traditional dress also. So helpful!
Thank you for the video! Like other followers, I am an Asian Adoptee looking to connect with my birth culture and love to learn from you three :) I am currently wedding dress shopping and love the inspiration.
The red dress she picked (phoebe) is the one I picked, too. But after seeing her in all 6 dresses - I actually think the red marilyn is the best dress for her figure. I like the back on that and the drape of the fabric. The other dresses, in comparison, seem ill-fitting or cheesy/over-the-top for some reason. The deep red of the marilyn also looks a bit more sophisticated, grown up, and sexy without being overtly so.
All the dress are beautiful. The phoebe one looks gorgeous on you! I love Mel’dress withe the pocket. Where did you get that dress? I want to get that for my daughter. Thank you.
So pretty, everything looks gorgeous!!! This may sound weird, but I'm always drawn to Asian cultures and their aesthetics eventho I'm 100 % european... maybe I was asian in one of my previous lifes... that is the only explanation I have...
Which qipao did you like the best for Helen? 😍🧧
The first dress was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
the first and the third one 💕
Number 3! 💕
The third is my favorite but I also love the red accessory pin with the qipao
Third one (Phoebe) FTW 🙌🏼
No idea why I’m watching this, or how I got here haha. I’m a 24 year old Canadian Polish guy. Extremely cool to learn about your culture 💯
Perfect contender! RUclips algorithm. Lol
@@stoneyjosephine you can if you want as long as you credit the culture, anyone who stops you is an a hole
@@ethanma3916 so true
She is pretty, everything looks nice on her.
I’m only 18 yrs old, but everytime I thought about my wedding I never thought of doing any of the Vietnamese traditions. After watching your video I definitely am reconsidering it!!
You definitely should. Too many younger generations are forgetting their own culture and heritage. They’re so sucked in into being Americanized to fit in the American way.
Should definitely try it. I'm getting married this year and I"ve placed an order for a wedding ao dai. :)
Oh, please do. The Vietnamese clothing are so beautiful too.
Heyyy as an Chinese-American teen girl, I always complain about not seeing many of us wearing qipaos/cheongsams so I really appreciate this video ! It's great to see us connecting with our culture
@ODELIA . (00000015129) It's traditional wedding dress.
In Singapore, “door games” is called “gate crashing” and the groom with his groomsmen have to play games that usually require them to eat weirdly mixed food, dance, etc and they have to give angbaos with cash to pass each stage in order to meet the bride.
As a Chinese adoptee, I learn so much from you all; you’re like the older sisters I never had. Thank you so much!! Y’all are beautiful and those dresses are all stunning. 😍
Phil is one lucky man!!!!! Helen is gorgeous in all the dresses omg!!
i felt so part of the group when i pointed to the SAME first choice dress as janet and mel 🥰but i also had a feeling that helen would chose the more traditional one!
OMG why is NO ONE talking about the pockets on Mel's dress?!
Red Marilyn is my fave on you! ♥️
Yahh me too! She looks the best in that one IMO. That red is so spot on. Also maybe because I prefer something simple and elegant
The Red Marilyn dress was simple but gorgeous, and looked so good on her.
I remember loving my red dress and changed into it throughout the banquet, my family and friends who were not Asian, were fawning over it. It's such a nice touch to honor our culture
I am Chinese Canadian and in my 20s and have been cheongsams/ qipaos for the last 10 years. Some of my favorites are like the psychedelic vintage ones that I find when online vintage piece hunting. I have a curvier body because I'm half french, so now I am trying to learn how to make them myself as having the perfect fit is key. But I would highly recommend that anyone can start collecting them! Some of my favorite pieces were $40 CAD that I got from etsy and just had to make some minor adjustments. I wear them casually with leather jackets and also for special occasions! GIRLS ITS TIME TO START COLLECTING.
Great time !!! This is wharmt we need. And idea that will help us decide the different styles of Chinese Qipao or cheongsam as it very beautiful
The culture and heritage is what we must preserved . Though I am a Muslim but influenced and appreciate Chinese culture same with us in our family ,as seemingly this will be helpful in choosing styles . Good that you made it to view this .....thanks ...watching from Davao City , Mindanao ,Philippines
Love this!!! Thank you for creating and sharing traditional chinese culture content for the world! It's so nice to see items typically in brick & mortar into the internet sphere. And to showcase our beautiful culture without fetishizing it.
I want to preserve my culture and have a traditional tea ceremony when I get married too. Thank you for making and sharing this content! Will definitely use it for learning and inspiration :)
she honestly looks so nice in all of them🥰🤩
I’ve been telling my grandparents that i want to get married in a qipao along with the traditional customs ever since i knew what marriage is . Either that or i aint getting married . ❤️
I loveeee how you’re all soo happy and genuinely excited. This is definitely the bond i would love to maintain with my own best gal friends ❤️
"Red is a lucky color, right?"
"Only if you're an envelope!" :D
Love this content!! And can't wait to see Phil and Helen in the matching red outfits hahah
The qipao are all soooo beautiful!!! Wish I had known about East Meets Dress when I got married a few years ago! (Also thought this was so funny bc my wedding gown was backless, but my qipao was more traditional with a mandarin collar and had a mermaid shape.) Loved this video!
Love that you shared this process! My mom wore a cheongsam during the reception of her American wedding and I’ve always wanted to follow in her footsteps! 💕
I LOVE the Constance 😍😍 Helen looks so beautiful in all of them!
This is amazing! I've always dreamed about wearing a red dress for my wedding as well :)
All the dresses were lovely. Thank you for sharing your unboxing and dress-up. I've checked out the site for the wedding dress too, because I've always remembered there's another traditional wedding dress besides the qipao line: the qun kua (most of my friends wore these).
Anyway, I actually like the more traditional choice Helen has chosen. The ones Mel and Janet had decided are were definitely gorgeous but the traditional one is just as gorgeous.
My fav episode yet!!! I know this was an ad too but ahh the energy of your girls is amazing. Loved how supportive and awesome Janet and Mel were and Helen looked stunning. Thanks for bringing us along the processs, can’t wait for more
Thank you for posting this video! I'm in the process of looking for a dress and have had my eye on East Meets Dress for a while but was never sure about the process. I'm so glad you tried on the dresses and I got to see what some more of them were like on people (looking at pictures is different imo). Thanks again!
my goodness you got the perfect figure Helen. you look stunning in those dresses
the content i didn't know i needed!!
i actually was going to wear my mom's old qipao to my high school prom last year, but prom was cancelled.... :'(
maybe i'll wear that qipao to my potential future wedding?
Or for any special occasion! I saw old photos of my great aunt wearing her qipaos to parties
bruh im so happy ppl are coming back to old traditions and appreciating their and others cultures it is so heartwarming
Absolutely loved this video!! I'm adopted and didn't grow up with my Chinese culture but would love to have my own Chinese wedding and learning bits and pieces from you ladies about the culture is so valuable to me. Thank you for sharing. ❤️❤️❤️
Helen looks so beautiful 😍
I chose what Helen selected!!
Why am I digging Helen’s style so much.... right now lol ❤️ even the outfit she had on is adorable!
Love this video! Thanks for showcasing this beautiful aspect of Chinese culture. I loved my tea ceremony, it really was a very intimate affair with the elders wishing good blessings and words of wisdom
Love this content! Getting to see the decision making process for the wedding 😍
The dresses were beautiful! Love this content! It’s nice learning about the cultural side of weddings too
Helen's "awwwwww" to her friends is my kind of encouragement
I always felt like dress shopping and fitting is so much fun
I wish I knew about this company when I got married in 2014...because all the Chinese dresses were blah where I live (would've had to go to another city for better choices, no time for that) so I just for went getting one. I semi regret it now 😭
The hardest part of finding a suitable qipao is making sure I don’t look like I work at a dim-sum restaurant… plus, I don’t have the neck length and body shape that work well with qipao. And it’s expensive to tailor-make a qipao. When I got married, I didn’t wear the qipao/ cheongsam for the tea ceremony. I rented a qunkua/ kwa instead, which is more popular with the Cantonese (mum is Cantonese). The kwa has a very forgiving silhouette - good for me 😅 There was heavy embroidery of gold and silver thread on red fabric, and with the gold jewelry, I felt like an empress 😂 It’s interesting how different Chinese dialect groups choose their attire for the tea ceremony!
These dresses looked great on Helen! So glad that she is able to share the Chinese culture of tea ceremonies with others. I recently had my Chinese tea ceremony too and it was very special to have the two families join together like the girls mention :)
Just my 2 cents for those who are looking into buying qipaos through East Meets Dress.
Unfortunately, I didn't have the most positive experience with them. They charge at least $75 to try on only 3 dresses, so Helen was lucky to get sent so many dresses. Their sample dresses to try on were also not diverse in sizes and fits more of the petite/small sizes. I ultimately chose not to buy from them due to the high price and fit ): I'm more of a size 6-8, tall, and curvy so I wished their sample sizes were more open to other sizes.
Dress #1 was my fav. The black suit was my fav for Phil. I'd prob wear that just going out somewhere too.
I love how Mel is wearing a jade bracelet :)
Y'all are so beautiful! Wow, great skin, gorgeous smiles! Also, love the qipaos. We also wear a traditional dress when getting married and parting from your parent's house but it's very different. Indigenous ppl from Southeast Asia.
Phil with the Black one, is ready to dance Nct 127 KICK IT
Red Marilyn! I prefer deeper reds like that. Love the cut from neck & shoulder, very traditional. But the silhouette from waist down with that slit makes it modern. The minimal but perfectly placed embroidery is just enough as an accent to the dress. It's the best one!
So beautiful. Thank you for sharing this with us
I'm Chinese adopted and I would love to wear a red dress at my wedding. These dresses were gorgeous!!
Omg that halter dress is stunning!! ❤️❤️ super flattering on Helen. Hugs all the right places! Design is gorgeous!
She looks so beautiful in every dress!!🥰
IM GONNA CRY ALL SO BEAUTIFUL
Woman from Asia, you look so pretty in Qipao, you should wear it more often, this go well on you❤
These look so much comfortable then the traditional western wedding dress!
(much more prettier to me too)
They are all absolutely stunningggg!!!
I'm Italian with some southwest Asian, Nigerian, and Greek heritage, and now I wish to have a tea ceremony for my wedding 😍😍🥺🥺 Your culture is SO beautiful! I just love every aspect of Asian culture. It is so beautiful and so pristine. Looking at the culture I grew up in (american), everything seems so boring after seeing such beautiful qipao!!!!
I loveeee this!! Thank you Helen and ABG for sharing such a special and intimate dress session with us! ❤️ happy lunar new year ABG
I would watch you try on dresses all day girl you are so beautiful and all the dresses are so lovely omggggg
All Sisters performance is outstanding and magnificent and all Sisters have excellent talent and I like and admire it well done ok
Thanks for sharing! I was bummed when I found out a very popular qipao/wedding dress/tailor shop in SGV closed a couple of years ago. I have not started planning my wedding yet, but this is another lovely option to consider! :)
We call it gate crashing games in Msia. It will be fun to see the groom's men try pass the various tests :D
Stunning! Helen looks absolutely ravishing!
Everting is so beautiful and delicate and intricate! Thank u for sharing
The dresses are pretty! Thanks for sharing. I never knew anything about this ceremony. As they say, the more you know.
i loved the halter top dress. and the hair accessories 😩
Please make a video on how you girls get ready for filming!!! YOUR HAIRS ALWAYS LOOK SO GORGEOUS
You ladies are beautiful and I think all the dresses are lovely and very flattering.
they look so gorgeous on you! I want to get married just to wear one now
This was such a fun video to watch, you killed it in every dress Helen!!! I love the red qipaos and the intricate designs on them 😊
Dress one is my fav on Helen! I l also love the one she picked too with the hair piece. Super gorg.
Helen you look good in alllll of them. Please use one of the hair accessories - they’re so pretty!
Gorgeous QUEEN❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️ ALSO STAN THE 3RD DRESS!
this literally makes me feel like a mom watching my own daughter getting married lols
Now I know where to order my wedding dress 😌
The first dress was a stunner!!! I am so in love 😍 You look gorgeous!
Thank you so much for this video & the dress site. I just got engaged at the beginning of the year & as an ABC I want to observe a tea ceremony & traditional dress also. So helpful!
Helennn you look so gorgeous in all of them!
I can’t wait to find my Cheongsam (my boyfriend is Cantonese). I really want to use it to connect more with my boyfriend’s mom and grandma.
The Mindy is amazing!!!!!
Helen is soooooo beautiful 😍😍😍😍
I like the channel dress more than the traditional one but the traditional one is nice too. Classy.
Need this in the UK omggg! Love all the dresses they're beauttt
We ship to the UK as well! :)
Omg you look stunning! Definitely like the first and second dress. Also I really love that Red Marilyn. Such a beautiful red.
Thank you for the video! Like other followers, I am an Asian Adoptee looking to connect with my birth culture and love to learn from you three :) I am currently wedding dress shopping and love the inspiration.
The red dress she picked (phoebe) is the one I picked, too. But after seeing her in all 6 dresses - I actually think the red marilyn is the best dress for her figure. I like the back on that and the drape of the fabric. The other dresses, in comparison, seem ill-fitting or cheesy/over-the-top for some reason. The deep red of the marilyn also looks a bit more sophisticated, grown up, and sexy without being overtly so.
Damn where was this when I was getting married?! It was so difficult to find one. This is awesome!
All the dress are beautiful. The phoebe one looks gorgeous on you! I love Mel’dress withe the pocket. Where did you get that dress? I want to get that for my daughter. Thank you.
The dress with the pockets is our Rachel dress - you can find it at www.eastmeetsdress.com :)
I would definitely go for the 3rd one traditional embroidery 🙌😍
By far my favorite video so far! You all looked so gorgeous! Dress #1 has my vote 😍
omg helen looked absolutely stunning :') thanks for sharing your journey with us!
Amazing women, personality, beauty and style.
So pretty, everything looks gorgeous!!!
This may sound weird, but I'm always drawn to Asian cultures and their aesthetics eventho I'm 100 % european... maybe I was asian in one of my previous lifes... that is the only explanation I have...
You look so pretty!!! Congrats!!!
Helen, you look STUNNING in these!
This is perfect, I've been struggling to find one for my wedding too!
All of these dresses look sooo good on Helen!! I like the Red Marilyn best though 😍
The constance dress was my favorite
Omg the Chanel dress is amazing ❤️❤️
Wow they are all so beautiful. I would love to try one on.
I like the mindy one omg soo pretty
All of them are beautiful on you!!