A quinceañera is the celebration of a girl of Hispanic heritage becoming a young woman on her 15th birthday. It involves family, friends, music and a lot of great food. Join Josh and Chuck in this classic episode as they don their favorite pink dresses and go over this wonderful tradition. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is a quinceañera?
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All right, Charles. So we are going to start the day. It's a frantic day. It's a hectic day. From everything I understand, from what I've read, this is an actually like a cool day for a girl, but also very stressful, right?
It's like a... It's like a wedding or a prom or anything where there's a lot of pressure on this one, you know, six-hour experience.
But think about this. With a wedding, you've got your SO to plan the wedding with. With prom, you've got a handful of other girls to plan everything. you know, what you're doing with prom, and plus prom's already being planned for you by your school or whatever.
This is like your day, and part of your responsibility is the quinceañera, which, by the way, quinceañera literally translates to the girl who is 15. So this is technically your fiesta de quinceañera or something like that. Right. Part of your responsibility as quinceañera is to show that you can take part in this planning.
On the one hand, it's to allow it to reflect your personality and your taste, so you're the one who needs to choose all this stuff. But it also shows that you can be a grown-up, too, and undertake months of planning leading up to this thing and basically pull it off. Correct. All right. Okay. So the whole thing starts with a trip to church, right? Which is not what you're going to find. Right.
Which is not what you're going to find a normal American, like, say, Sweet 16 party.
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Chapter 4: What role does the church play in a quinceañera?
Yeah, and I saw plenty of videos of quinceañeras where, like, there were three girls, four. Yeah, there's some women. Yeah, but I think under strict tradition of the quinceañera, you would have 14 girls and 15 dudes. You got 14 damas, 15 chamberlains, and then one... I got it.
And then one shambolane day on air, which I totally messed up, but it's basically the escort of honor who is the quinceañera's date.
That's right. And again, I'm sure that there's some leeway. The quinceañera cops aren't going to come by because you don't have enough friends helping you. They have larger fish to fry on quinceañera day.
Right. Although whoever is helping you plan this would probably love it if you had 14 guys and 14 girls because they all have to be outfitted. Oh, yeah. In exactly what you want them to wear because it's your party.
That's right. And I don't think we mentioned, but the dress is a very big part of the celebration. Traditionally, it's either pink or white, very satiny. I mean, it looks kind of like a prom dress, a big frilly floor-length gown.
But that also is eight feet wide. Yeah, exactly. At the waist, like out. It's extraordinary. It's like a princess dress. Yeah. Like I want a quinceañera. Oh, we can throw you one, buddy. Okay. You want to do that? Sure. You want to get all pretty for the camera? I definitely would. You'll find a nice dress.
All right. So the first stop, though, like you said, is the church. And this is where a lot of the ceremony takes place. They receive a blessing from a priest. The young woman commits herself to protecting her virginity and her spiritual devotion. And then they leave a bouquet of flowers near the Virgin Mary statue.
And then traditionally, they would give away a porcelain doll, one of their childhood dolls, or, again, tradition varies these days. It might be a teddy bear or something else that just meant something to the girl. One thing I saw was a quinceanera Barbie. Oh, yeah?
Mm-hmm.
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