Red is the best color to wear to a Chinese wedding, red is good luck/good fortune! We brought the gifts to the reception hall, I am not sure what was proper, but in the case of the Chinese wedding I attended, the church was a little bitty place (Harvard's Swedenborgian chapel) and I knew the restaurant would be a bigger spot.

My experience with a Chinese wedding, though, was not quite typical. My poor friend, Jade, the bride, got stuck in traffic for 45 minutes on the way to her own wedding, and was so angry her sister had quite the task keeping her from getting out of the limo and walking Boston's Southeast Expressway (which is scary even when you're safely enclosed in an automobile, traffic is just NUTS) in her wedding gown. Then when we got to the reception, her father had changed the seating arrangements on her - he took everyone with a non-Chinese last name, and stuck us all at one table, farthest from the head table. Jade was so upset that she threatened to reseat everyone until we all told to not worry, WE weren't upset, and so she should just relax, and try to enjoy the day. If looks could kill, her dad would have been an itty bitty pile of ashes on the floor, but we finally convinced her!