Hopefully by now, you know what a dohl is. If not thats ok! A dohl is a Korean tradional celebration of a baby’s 1st birthday and a very important milestone in Korean culture for the baby and parents. The celebration consists of sharing good food and wishing the baby a long and prosperous life with close friends and family.

THE BABY:

MICAH

THE VENUE:

MGRILL, KOREATOWN

For Micah’s dohl, his parents decided on to go for an overall more traditonal.

From the traditonal hanboks for both Micah and his parents to the head table, background asthetics, we created a look that follows more of the traditional Korean roots using silver and wood themes. The overall design was based on elements of Micah’s hanbok, which was also worn by his older brother for his dohl as well!

And for a tradtional dohl, of course we need to have a doljabi, which is a fortune telling custom. Doljabi is done by placing our birthday boy Micah in front of various object and is encouraged to pick up a single item. By tradition, its believed that whatever he chooses will foretell the baby’s future. Each item represents a different future!