{"id":2373,"date":"2010-05-05T18:19:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2010-05-09T23:05:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T22:05:28","slug":"what-should-you-give-the-bride-and-groom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"What should you give the bride and groom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, it&#8217;s usual for the bride and groom to prepare a list of domestic items of varying cost that they would like friends &#8211; and especially guests at the wedding &#8211; to purchase for them. This has now become so organised that usually the list is accessible online and often associated with a particular department store or company.<\/p>\n<p>Many cultures find this arrangement very odd and it seems that, even here in Britain, the practice is being questioned [see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/money\/blog\/2010\/may\/04\/short-cuts-weddings-money\">this article<\/a>]. The alternative to gifts is, of course, money and in many cultures the giving of money in various means is the standard arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just returned from a trip to China which ended with my wife and I attending a traditional Chinese wedding where we &#8211; like all the other guests &#8211; gave the bride and groom cash in a special red envelope [account of the wedding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/China2.html#Chengdu\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, it&#8217;s usual for the bride and groom to prepare a list of domestic items of varying cost that they would like friends &#8211; and especially guests at the wedding &#8211; to purchase for them. This has now become so organised that usually the list is accessible online and often associated with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}