A hypothesis about Who pays the wedding bill
Today I bought some beef and a radish. It took me over 1 hour to boil them , but they were well worth it. The pieces of beef and a radish boiled with ginger, green onion and red pepper are really tasty. Their soup is a little spicy but really fresh. This dish and rice made a good meal !
Talking about the Bibinbap, it is a rice dish mixed with some vegetable and an egg in a hot stone bowl, isn’t it? I have seen it when we ate sushi. Now I really want to try it.
I like taking bath at a hot spring. In the previous community I lived there is a very deep well which draws hot water out of deep under earth. This water is rich of sulfur. It good for taking a bath but can not be drunk. I absolutely love this community just because of the hot spring. Are there the same hot spring communities in your country?
There is a wedding shop next to our English school. Once we talk about who pays the wedding bill. Traditionally, the bride’s parents pay the bill in the UK, do they? It is just opposite of Chinese tradition. In china, groom’s parents always pay the bills. In china the ratio of men against women is about 106~109:100. So there is an old saying---there are some men who can not find wives but no women who can not find husbands. In the UK, woman’s number is always more than man’s after the industrial revolution. So on the whole, who is difficult to get married, whose father pays the wedding bills. Does that make some sense? Or it is different in other countries?
I am a little sleepy…
Bye for now,
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Today I bought some beef and a radish. It took me over 1 hour to boil them , but they were well worth it. The pieces of beef and a radish boiled with ginger, green onion and red pepper are really tasty. Their soup is a little spicy but really fresh. This dish and rice made a good meal !
Talking about the Bibinbap, it is a rice dish mixed with some vegetable and an egg in a hot stone bowl, isn’t it? I have seen it when we ate sushi. Now I really want to try it.
I like taking bath at a hot spring. In the previous community I lived there is a very deep well which draws hot water out of deep under earth. This water is rich of sulfur. It good for taking a bath but can not be drunk. I absolutely love this community just because of the hot spring. Are there the same hot spring communities in your country?
There is a wedding shop next to our English school. Once we talk about who pays the wedding bill. Traditionally, the bride’s parents pay the bill in the UK, don’t they? It is just opposite of Chinese tradition. In China, the groom’s parents always pay the bills. In china the ratio of men against women is about 106~109:100. So there is an old saying---there are some men who can not find wives but no women who can not find husbands. In the UK, woman’s number is always more than man’s after the industrial revolution. So on the whole, who is difficult to get married, whose father pays the wedding bills. Does that make some sense? Or it is different in other countries?
I am a little sleepy…
Bye for now,
Jenny
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hi,Jenny do they? i didn't know that the bride's parent pay the wedding bill. my husband was very generous because he paid our wedding bill twice.i now understand why he is always grumbling that he used to be rich but now he has no money and has no father-in law.{ha ha ha...} like your country groom's parents pay the wedding bill in korea. sleep tight and have a sweet dream!!!
It is the first time I enter in this part of Learning English. My writing is not very good but I try to do my best. With same practice I hopesome day I could answer the questions of this excercise.
Hello Jenny. Thanks for your wonderful blog. I have a little question about the phrasal verbs with draw In my dictionary "to draw sth out" has this meaning: "to make sth last longer than usual or necessary" For example: She drew the interview out to over an hour. May be I'm wrong but when you were talking about the hot springs you wanted to say that they "draws hot water [off] of deep under earth". In my dictionary "draw sth off" means "to remove some liquid from a larger supply". What di you think. About weddings, in my country traditionally is the bride's parents who pays the wedding bill, but is the groom's family who pays the honey moon travel. Not very easy for both, isn't it?. Bye
Please try bibinbap next time. I like it with lots of chilli sauce...lovely!
Hi Jenny, your question is very interesting. I am married and therefore I have my personal experience with wedding bill. In our case, the agreement was very clear, my parents paid fifty percent and my wife’s parents paid the rest. Our agreement is not the rule. It is only one possibility from several. It always depends on circumstances. The most important is whose parents are richer and who from them is willing to pay the wedding bill. In my opinion, the wedding bill is not so important problem of happy marriage. More important problem is the dowry. Now, after twenty-one years of marriage I understand why bride’s parents provide the dowry. It is only partial compensation of groom’s future disbursement. I have been hearing from my wife the same sentence for twenty-one year. The most repeated sentence is I need new dresses. One day I pay for new two-pieces suit, next day I pay for new blouse, after that my wife needs the handbag that better fits to the two-pieces suit and finally I have to buy new shoes because the colour all of those she has do not fit the colour of handbag. Of course, next week this song starts again. My experience is that majority of all husbands have precisely the same problem. Of course, I love my wife and therefore I pay for all her caprices. When I was single I was rich but today I am poor as church mouse. Bye
Hello to everybody. This is my first time to write in this blog. I Think that nowadys, young couple pays by themselves their wedding. At least so did my husband and myself. Our parents can't afford to pay it, because we are four brothers and sisters who get married the same year. Bye for now.
Hi Jenny, it's interesting to read about wedding tradition in China - maybe you can write more about that. I married four weeks ago. My husband and me paid the bills together but both of our parents made very generous presents, so we could afford a wonderful wedding with our families and some friends.
Hi Jenny, well I think Algerian young men can commiserate with their Chinese counterparts...They too, have to spent a little money,because a dowry is usually given to the bride;But please, don't ask me why!..
THIS TOPIC IS SO INTERSTING！
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