Five hundred and thirty-seven chapters American wedding
When women unite, men are in trouble!
In the next few days, Hong Tao never had a day off. Every day, he was taken by this group of women to go to the largest shopping mall in Buffalo and wander in various specialty stores. This shopping mall is called Fashion Outlets, which translates to "Fashion Outlets".
"Les", does it sound familiar? There seems to be a hypermarket with this name in Beijing, but it's not a chain store, so it doesn't matter.
Most of the products sold in this outlet in Buffalo are local American brands of clothing and footwear. It covers a very large area and the interior decoration is quite high-end. The best thing about it is the price. According to two fashion designers, Pan and Katie.
The market is very popular, and the fujoshi said that the prices of most of the products here are more than 30% cheaper than the famous Woodbury Outlets in New York, so it is worth buying.
But Hong Tao was not without gains. He found a very delicious delicacy, which is said to be a specialty of Buffalo, called Buffalo Spicy Chicken Wings. This thing is a bit like our domestic spicy wing tips, which are fried chicken wing tips.
Served with different sauces, the taste is a bit sour and spicy, which is a bit strange when you first eat it, but after a few bites it becomes quite good.
The spicy chicken wings not only taste good, but the price is also quite reasonable. A bucket of 50 spicy chicken wings only costs 27 US dollars, which is almost enough for two people with Hong Tao's appetite. If you add some French fries, cola black tea, onion burritos, etc.
, it can be shared by 4 people, it is really delicious and not expensive.
And when eating this kind of spicy chicken wings, you can also do other things. There is a computer-like thing on the table in these chicken wing restaurants. At first, Hong Tao thought it was a machine for ordering food, but he ended up...
Irene told him that this is a special device for betting. On it, you can bet on the Buffalo ice hockey team and football team, while watching TV, eating, and waiting to count or lose money.
In addition to shopping in stores, there is another place that men and women who want to get married must go. That is the love hut. Speaking of freshness, this kind of love hut is much more attractive to Hong Tao than any hypermarket.
The main reason is that he has never seen such a service organization in China.
Love's hut is actually an ordinary two-story building with a blue roof, blue fence, and white walls. The floor tiles on the grass outside are all heart-shaped, and there are actually the word "love" in Chinese and English on them. Outside the house
There is also a stone sculpture of two birds cuddling together on a rock. There is a sentence carved on the rock: love bloomshere!
Love spreads here!
This cabin is a bit like a combination of a domestic wedding company and a marriage registration office. Couples come here to make appointments for the church, and can also choose all the services needed for the wedding. The staff here will be very patient and answer everything for you.
Question. As long as it’s related to the wedding, it’s free! Hong Tao, who has such a good service attitude, is a little embarrassed.
To say that Americans get married is no better than Chinese people, the cost of wedding is not much at all. For example, if you go to a church to get married, you have to spend about 500 US dollars in venue fees, and then rent a spacious room.
Or for a venue with a good view, the rent will cost about 2,000 US dollars. The venue alone is not enough, but it can accommodate 180 people. The cost of the buffet will cost about 4,000 US dollars.
In addition, photography costs 2,000 US dollars, the band costs 1,500, flowers and cakes cost 1,200, wedding rings cost about 5,000, a mid-range wedding dress costs more than 1,000 US dollars, plus some other trivial things, it costs almost 20,000 US dollars.
Of course. This is just the cost for ordinary people to marry their daughters. Families with poor conditions can also save some when holding a wedding. For example, they do not provide a buffet, but only provide snacks and cakes. No one will say anything, Americans are
There are basically no requirements for food, and they can't eat anything good.
Someone said, haven’t you bought all the wedding rings? Why did you buy them? In fact, Hong Tao didn’t understand this before. It turned out that the one he bought was for the woman, and the woman wanted to buy another one for him. On the inside
Write each other's initials and wedding date, and give them to each other at the wedding ceremony.
Moreover, Americans also have a custom that the bride’s wedding dress must be newly purchased, but the white gauze worn on her head must be the one used by her mother, because they have a superstitious belief that one is new, one is old, one is blue, and the other is blue.
Borrowing means that the bride must have one newly bought thing, one old thing, one borrowed thing and one pure blue thing.
These four things can be combined arbitrarily, and there is no mandatory rule, but they are usually put together because Westerners believe in the meaning of these four things. Of course, one new means entering a new life; one old means not to forget your parents.
The grace of upbringing; the meaning of "borrowing" is to think about saving at all times; as for the blue color, blue has many meanings in Europe and the United States, one of which is loyalty, which also symbolizes that both parties must be loyal to the marriage.
The above money is usually paid by the bride's family, but Sina is not that easy. He first has to buy a diamond ring for the bride, which is an important item for the bride to show off to her girlfriends and friends. Then he has to take care of the honeymoon.
For all the expenses, those who have money can travel around the world, and those who don’t have money have to find a beautiful place in China to spend a few sweet days with the bride.
However, compared with those young men and women in China, American brides and grooms, especially grooms, are still much happier. At least young people here do not regard houses, cars and money as the essential minimum consumption when they get married.
Renting a house is very common.
The happiest thing is their parents. After working hard for most of their lives, the old couple finally raised their children. They no longer have to save money to buy a house for their adult sons, let alone worry about marrying a wife.
If you put all your life savings into it, you will eventually end up homeless!
In addition to arranging the wedding, Hong Tao and Irene also went to the Buffalo City Hall to register their marriage. Originally, Hong Tao thought it would be too troublesome to marry a girl from the American imperialists, so he prepared all the materials he could.
Even my own files were taken out from the sub-district office by someone and brought to the United States. They were translated and faired by a qualified law firm. The domestic trustee even paid for the American lawyer’s fees.
, a total of more than 3,000 yuan was spent.
But the things Hong Tao prepared were basically useless except for the Chinese ID card. The fat black aunt in the city hall didn't ask for any supporting documents at all. She only asked him and Eileen to fill out a three-page application form.
Just fill in the form and find two witnesses to sign it.
It's hard to find anything else for Hong Tao. There are many people around who are willing to serve as witnesses for him. Even if Chinese people like Boss Liu, Fat Boss, Wang Jian, and Gao Miao cannot be witnesses, there are Lao Gail, Pawei, Harrison, and Pan.
, Lei Che, Zhou Xiaoli and other people holding Canadian, European, and Japanese passports can also be regarded as qualified witnesses, as long as their passports are registered.
Finally, Hong Tao also discovered that there is a more user-friendly service here. After Hong Tao and Irene spent about half an hour completing the registration procedure, it was time to pay. The entire registration procedure cost a total of 23 US dollars. At this time,
A kind black aunt suddenly
Ran asked Hong Tao and Irene if they wanted to buy more marriage registration certificates. Hong Tao was confused by the question. After some exchanges, she figured out that besides Hong Tao and Irene each having one copy of the marriage registration certificate, they could also
For additional purchases, you can buy as many copies as you want for $5 each!
In order to prove the authenticity of this, Hong Tao spent another 20 US dollars and bought two more sets with the idea of taking advantage of him and not taking advantage of him. According to our Chinese habitual thinking, it is definitely right to use it when it is idle and when it is busy.
, besides, this certificate is not useless. If you want to travel abroad, go through some real estate procedures, etc., you may need to show it. If you can keep a few more copies in your hand, you don’t have to worry about having to waste time and effort to go to the relevant department to get a replacement if you lose it.
, my brother has plenty of them!
The wedding date was set on a very, very funny date, November 11th! When Hong Tao first heard about this date, she thought Sam was deliberately disgusting her, but after asking around, everyone present found out
Foreigners deny that there is this so-called Singles' Day in their country.
Only then did Hong Tao realize that this time China was ahead of the world again. Not only did it create a Singles' Day, but even the June 1st International Children's Day and the May 1st International Labor Day were not very international. Really celebrating these two festivals
There are not many countries. People in Britain, Germany and other countries basically regard May Day as a day for strikes and demonstrations. However, the United States does not have Children's Day at all. It does have Labor Day, but it is on September 1st every year.
Since Eileen doesn't care about Singles' Day, Hong Tao, a pure atheist, doesn't care even more. The wedding can be held on any day, and November 11 is easy to remember, so as not to suffer from forgetting the wedding anniversary in a few years.
His wife complained that in his previous life, Hong Tao was often criticized by his wife for these broken dates, such as wedding anniversaries, wife’s birthdays, official anniversaries of love, etc. Hong Tao sometimes even forgets his own birthday.
, I certainly can’t remember so many different dates.
In fact, before the official marriage, according to American custom, the groom and the bride each have to hold a bachelor party. The groom and the bride each find their own same-sex friends, and then find a venue to hold a party to celebrate that they are about to enter the single state.
married status,
By the way, I also grabbed the little tail of single life and went crazy for the last time. Because according to American habits, once married, both the man and the woman have to focus on the small family, and it is difficult to have time to spend time with those solitary friends.
They are fooling around. (To be continued...)
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