In the United States, as in many other Western countries, the wedding - it's a business. In America, the future newlyweds hardly engaged in preparations for the wedding celebration alone. All pre-wedding chores take on the staff of special wedding agencies.
However, it all begins in all countries equally. Young man doing his girlfriend proposal, followed by an engagement, which is accepted to give a diamond ring. Only after that the couple officially becomes the bride and groom. Between Brides & Weddings usually takes from six months to two years.
During this time, and there is preparation for the wedding. Future newlyweds bought the hall, where there will be a banquet, agree with the priest or presbyter, agree on the place and time of their honeymoon, and begin to look for a apartment to live together.
During the six months before the wedding, the bride and groom begin to send out invitations to a celebration. Invitations to the United States are very different from Russian. First, they usually come up with the design for yourself, young, and secondly, it is not just a postcard with the time and place, but rather a package of messages. This specifies the time and place of the celebration, the possibility of renting the hotel, as well as a list of desired gifts. In addition, the envelope invested an additional envelope and card, which must be returned to the specified time, whether invited guest at the wedding or not.
A month before the celebration bride and groom stag and hen party, respectively. Describe these holidays is meaningless, since all of them are always carried out in different ways, and the traditional Hollywood film stripper does not necessarily come out of the cake, it may not be on the boyish fun. Bridesmaids arrive at a bachelorette party with gifts. This is a long tradition that originated more from the first settlers.
Typical for American weddings and rehearsal celebration, which takes place on the eve of the ceremony. In rehearsals usually take part bridesmaids and groomsmen several pairs, the parents of the newlyweds and their godparents. After the rehearsal, everyone involved in it traditionally go to a restaurant for dinner.
Itself a wedding ceremony takes very solemn and beautiful and not much different from Hollywood movies. Groom standing at the altar waiting for the bride who is on the red carpet on the arm of her father, and the little girl carpets the road in front of the bride with rose petals. During the time of the wedding the couple give each other an oath of love and fidelity, wear rings to each other and the Holy Father declares them husband and wife, after which they leave the church. After the ceremony, the couple and immediate family or go for a walk or to the banquet.
When you enter the beautifully decorated hall, which will host the celebration, put the card with the names of guests and number of the table, so that everyone knows where his place. Here it is worth a special table for gifts.
Food at the reception are not so many tables are usually served with cheese, olives and a variety of other snacks to wine or beer, usually served as a salad and one hot dish. And of course the traditional tiered cake that is cut newlyweds. Of course, not without dancing. And in the end of the evening, the groom removes the garter from the bride's feet and throws it to their unmarried friends, the bride, in turn, throws his girlfriend will be followed by the couple go on their honeymoon.
By the way, very few people know, but the wedding in the United States - is not only a ceremony in the church. There is also, as in Russia, there is a civil ceremony. It is usually held a few days before the wedding. The bride and groom come to the prefecture, where the marriage is registered and the certificate itself send them by mail.
Of course, this is only an example scenario of a wedding celebration. Everything depends on the imagination of the young. For example, in Las Vegas wedding ceremony may hold and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. Of course, in this case, the wedding will not be as lush and grand, but still remembered for a lifetime.