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Chapter Two Western Marriage Custom and Folklore
= 1 \* ROMAN I Western Marriage custom and folklore
Courting and Proposal
1.1.1 Asking permission from the girl’s father
1.1.2 Proposal to the girl
1.2 Engagement
1.2.1 Rites of engagement
1.2.2 Ring on which finger?
1.3 Pre-Wedding
1.3.1 Make known of the wedding ceremony to the parish
1.3.2 Pre-wedding seclusion (Why the Groom Can’t See the Bride?)
1.3.3 Wedding Attendants
1.3.4 Wedding Dress
1.4 Wedding
1.4.1 Place for wedding
1.4.2 Wedding March
1.4.3 Giving the Bride Away（交付新娘）(p73)
1.4.4 Wedding vows
1.5 Wedding Dinner
1.5.1 Wedding cake
1.5.2 Flowers and Bouquet 婚礼鲜花/花束
1.5.3 Newlyweds leave for honeymoon
1.6 Honeymoon
= 2 \* ROMAN II Expression for wedding anniversaries
= 3 \* ROMAN III Questions for thinking
In western countries, which month is a popular month for wedding? Why?
Can you tell the origin of the “wedding attendants”?
Why did the word “honeymoon” become to refer to “the journey that the couple takes after their wedding”?
Do you know anything about “carrying the bride over the threshold”? Try to find it out.
= 1 \* ROMAN I Western Marriage custom and folklore
Courting and Proposal
1.1.1 Asking permission from the girl’s father
Marriage all begins with engagement. Traditionally, a young man asks the father of his sweetheart for permission to marry her.
1.1.2 Proposal
If the father agrees, the man later proposes to her. Often he tries to surprise her by popping the question in a romantic way.
In modern America, many things have lost their formalities such as the marriage proposal. The man getting down on one knee and asking the woman, “Susan, will you marry me?” is not a common sight now. But this practice, being a tradition, is still living as a romantic episode in people’s mind.
Background stories: The Marriage Proposal (p66)
Engagement
1.2.1 Rites of engagement
When the couple just decides together that the time is right to get married， the man usually gives his f
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