Marry
(Baonghean.vn) - At the end of the year, find something fun to talk about, and perhaps in the 10th lunar month, there is nothing more bustling and happier than getting married! Getting married is fun, of course, but getting married also has a lot of stories.
Taking on the responsibility of the older sister, she was just sent as an envoy to urge her niece to get married. Before she could say anything, she heard her lamenting, “I wish my salary would increase as fast as the wedding gift money.” I give up!
At the end of the year, find something fun to discuss, and perhaps in the 10th lunar month, there is nothing more bustling and happier than getting married! Getting married is fun of course, but getting married also has many stories. In life, sometimes "Receiving another wedding invitation/I feel more lonely/Another full moon night/I feel like I am waning" (poem by Tran Hoa Binh). Let me just talk a little bit about this never-ending topic.
Have you ever spent 30 minutes trying to figure out where a beautiful wedding invitation lying on your desk came from, who it was from, and have you ever been helpless when asking why someone invited you? Well, congratulations if it only took you 30 minutes for that difficult and mysterious task, because someone in my office once spent 15 days on a wedding invitation that reeked of “detective” like that. Exactly 15 days, to find the origin of the “savage” wedding invitation, and perhaps it is not an exaggeration to say that it took a lifetime to come up with an explanation. Really, until now, that is, 2 years have passed, my colleague still does not understand why that family invited her. No relatives, no friends, no debts, and no enemies. Could it be that they invited her because they had nothing to do with them? And then at the bottom of that fragrant industrial invitation card, there was a cool sentence that “your presence is an honor for our family”. They had hit the most sensitive spot of kindness, after all, my colleague had added to her community service record by bringing honor to others. An honor that was certainly worth no less than 300 thousand VND.
Everyone knows about getting married, everyone likes it, everyone wants to say their blessings, but being so "carefree" as to stuff a stack of "blatant" invitations for the secretary to fill in according to the office's timesheet is truly "speechless". The envelope for daring to get married is not in the stable basket, it is like a horse that has escaped from the stable, freely crossing all barriers of denominations to challenge the poverty of the guests - diners. From 100 (thousand) to 200, then 300 and now "hell, it's 500".
Wedding (also known as wedding ceremony) is a cultural custom in marriage to widely announce the acceptance before the witness of family, society or religion about the marriage of a couple. Wedding is understood as a ritual, and is often combined with a celebration to become a wedding or wedding ceremony. Today, wedding is in the main season, so there will be countless stories that we can completely attach the symbol of half crying, half laughing.
Marriage is a major event in life, so of course it is given full attention by those involved. The first task of the couple before officially “joining the same team” is to take photos and go to… fortune telling! If you take photos, you have to act, if you act, you have to be beautiful, if you are beautiful, you have to be expensive. To have a wedding photo album that is enough to stun the online community, of course the bride and groom have to work hard for a whole week. With the spirit of “marriage can die but wedding photos will last forever”, the cost of taking photos is only a few tons of rice. Then comes shopping, if the family is “well-off”, this is the stage of preparation for a fierce competition in terms of money. It is no longer a thermos or a pair of embroidered pillows like in the 20th century. Not to shame the era of four point zero, not long ago, the world was able to witness and "online market" a wedding where the slim bride entered the wedding hall weighing 45 kilos, but by the end of the party, the beauty's "load" had increased to 51 kilos because she had to wear an additional 6 kilos of gold. Women sighed with envy, the public was puzzled, and the nouveau riche kept exclaiming about the "class" of playfulness that had just been established. There was also a wedding where the wife's family gave the newlyweds at the wedding hall a red envelope, a car key, and pure gold, of course, ready to break all records. The wedding became a clumsy performance of those who had more money than words. Not only that, in addition to gold, red envelopes, and luxury cars, "other people's" weddings also had to invite famous singers to sing. The hotter the singer, the further the wedding's reputation. Then the honeymoons in Australia, Canada, America... were continuously "packed".
In order to avoid being fooled by “other people’s children” using money so easily, young men and women have also created all kinds of things to make the wedding ceremony truly “impressive”. There was a wedding where the groom’s and bride’s families also came up to exchange necklaces and rings, also laden with congratulations, but only those involved knew that it was fake gold, given to film and take photos to “show off”. The more grand the more the debt repayment journey is prolonged. The disease of snobbery has taken root and distorted the whole wedding. Then there is “necessity is the mother of invention”, weddings where the bride is brought by ox cart, by tractor, by tractor… Not to be outdone, on the other side of the world (excluding weird weddings like getting married to a ceiling fan), Western civilization also has many other unique weddings such as making pets become groomsmen, exchanging rings in the air, under the sea, etc.
While talking about weddings, I must also talk a little more about the “problem” of MCs. In addition to being forced to sit at the same table with complete strangers, listening to the MC at a wedding, especially a hometown wedding, is truly horrifying. Listen to the MC greeting both families: “Dear families, first of all, let me respectfully greet everyone. Greetings from Hanoi, greetings to Tuyen Quang, greetings from Ha Giang, greetings to Yen Bai, greetings from the Thai people, greetings to the Kinh people, greetings from Vinh city, greetings to Hue city, greetings to the taxi driver, greetings to the TV seller, greetings to the porridge seller.” Or when introducing the bride, “In the past, I lived in Nha Trang/ My family was separated, so I went to Laos” (Excerpt from the clip “MC at a hometown wedding” on Youtube). It’s so ridiculous and chaotic, yet every few times I go back to my hometown to attend a wedding, I always encounter a mixed torture of sounds like this. Honestly, I didn’t have the patience to listen to everything they said. It's offensive, but it still exists, it's still applauded, and of course it doesn't seem to be of interest to any cultural institution.
Then there is the matter of running for weddings. Weddings usually choose a good day, and good days are only provided very little online, so there are many weddings on the same day, even at the same time. Some people “eat” up to 4 weddings in one afternoon, and each one is “the honor of our family”!
Marriage is the result of love, but unfortunately it is not always like that. Now there are both spectacular "traps" and "time bombs" that are defused, which the elders often jokingly say after the wedding is "spending counterfeit money". The story goes that on the wedding night, a girl suddenly burst into laughter in bed. The laughter surpassed all the control of the victim. Before one laughter stopped, another one piled up. It was not until almost morning when she calmed down that her husband asked her why she was laughing, and the girl smiled sincerely: You are so funny, until now I still don't understand why I married you!
Fortunately, there are real weddings, but there are also fake weddings, and there are also "runaway" weddings. The most common are "runaway" weddings, then "runaway" weddings! However, the most dramatic is still the "runaway" wedding. The story of a father in power urging his son "If you don't get married this November, when I retire next year, you'll have to eat bran" is certainly not a fabrication!
This weekend, I was just rambling about a few things. As a government employee, I suddenly remembered what my nephew said: "I wish my salary would increase as fast as the wedding gifts." Oh yeah!