英美文化——婚礼.docVIP

Wedding in England and America According to the Catholic rules, parishioners must give advance notices three times before the wedding. It is said that the notices of marriage can avoid improper marriage. If one of the bride and bridegroom is married or the bride and bridegroom may be in the blood tie, insiders have to report the information after they read the notices. As a result of this effective approach, it has been passed down for more than 1000 years. Wedding invitations have to been sent before the marriage. In past time the invitations were sent by the brides side, but now, with time pass by, the invitations are sent by both the bride and the bridegroom. The guests who are invited to the wedding ceremony will usually come with wedding gifts, so invited too many guests may be said of having an avarice of money. In Scotland, at the beginning of the wedding ceremony, on entering the door, the bride should throw a large piece of cake into the air. If she throws higher, it means that the more successful the marriage will be. If she is not throwing high, the bridegroom and his family will be unhappy, because it indicates that their marriage will break up. The wedding is held in the church, in the general there are two wedding marches played in the wedding. When the bride is going towards the altar, Wedding Chorus” is being played, it comes from Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin which was written in1848. When the bride and bridegroom are getting out of the church, Wedding Overture” is being played, it comes from Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Nights Dream (written in 1826). American wedding can be summarized as new, something old, something borrowed and blue . new refers to the brides white wedding gown must be new, it is the symbol of purity and virginity, it is also a sign of the beginning of the bride’s new life. Something old refers to the white brides head yarn must be her mother’s old one, that means never forget the nurturance of her parents. Someth