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12. Where would you go on your honeymoon?
13. Choose the things you would wear to your wedding.
Bride: Groom:
a) white dress a) tuxedo
b) veil (long or short) b) white suit
c) bouquet (to carry) c) flower in buttonhole
d) gloves d) hat
e) white shoes e) vest
Exercise 2.2. Read the text “Wedding Customs” quickly for general ideas.
Read the text quickly. Match the paragraphs to the topics on this list.
1. the bride' s bouquet
2. the bride's dress
3. how men found wives in the past
4. the history of the wedding cake
5. the wedding ring
6. the best time for weddings
7. the wedding ceremony
Text 2. Wedding Customs
A. Picture a wedding in North America. You will probably think of a bride
wearing a white dress and veil, walking down the aisle, accompanied by her
father. The groom is dressed in a suit, and accompanied by his best man. During
the ceremony, the groom puts a ring on the bride's finger, or perhaps they
exchange rings as a judge or religious leader pronounces them husband and
wife.
B. Did you ever wonder where these traditions come from? Many wedding
traditions are very old and come from different lands. For example, the tradition
of having a best man comes from northern Europe in about 200 AD. At this
time, a person who wanted to get married usually chose someone from the same
village, but sometimes there were not enough women for all the men. Since men
did not have the opportunity to meet women as they do to-day, the only way to
find a wife was to capture one. When a man set out to seize a bride, he and a
friend would go to the next village and snatch any wo-man they could find
walking alone. The two men had to be strong to carry the woman away.
Obviously, the "best man" was needed for the job. Perhaps this is where we get
the tradition of carrying a bride over the threshold of her new home on the
wedding night. We also get the saying "to sweep a woman off her feet" from
this custom.
C. Today a bride in North America usually wears white. Around the sixteenth
century, white became the symbol of purity and innocence. The veil was first
introduced by the ancient Greeks and Romans, who wanted to protect the bride
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