Auspicious: Bridal bed set up

Even bed set up has an auspicious date and time and rules to follow.

This doesn't mean to do wood crafting on the bed. The representative of this act is actually to lay over a new set of bed sheet. 

If you're on a budget, you don't even need to buy a new bed per say. Just new bed sheet will do to signifies a new beginning with your significant other and to prepare the room for well, to put it bluntly, baby making!

Let's start with basic:
Bed sheet:
Though not necessary needed to have dragon and pheonix design on it, you can. More importantly is the colour of the bed sheet. Colours to avoid are the mourning colours. (black, blue, white, grey, dark or gloomy colours). Red is perfect as I suppose Chinese weddings are all associated with red which signifies prosperity and happiness.

Person to set up:
Good fortune woman. (Whose husband and children are all alive and has grandchildren) may install the bed.

Bed set up:
To prepare for the set up, the bed is moved slightly out of its designated position. During the auspicious hour to set up, the bed is then moved to its designated position to symbolize the set up completion. Then lay on the new bed sheet.

After that, the good fortune woman will lay on a plate of items which symbolizes good fortune on the bed. Items may include:
- Even number of tangerines,
- Dried longan
- Dried red dates
- Lotus seed
- Cypress Leaf
- Pak Hup
- Red Packet

After that, she will light up the a pair of bed side lamp which symbolizes adding  son to the family. The light should not be turned off until the wedding night.

Taboo:
Once the bed is set, except for children who are thought to bless the couple with fertility, in the usual case, a boy and is not against the couple's zodiac, no other adult should sit or rest on the bridal bed before the wedding.

The bride too, should not lie down on the bed. Otherwise it is believed that this will give her a bad health. 

If the groom must sleep on the bed before the wedding, he must be accompanied by a young boy because it is considered unlucky to leave the other side of the bed empty which may signifies to curse the other half death.

Anyone with chinese zodiac against the couples' should not enter the bridal room.