I think that you will find wedding rehearsals are not common for the majority of Americans. It is a good way to waste television time.

Too many Americans have no concept of what marriage is. For some women it is the wedding, which is instilled within them from the time they can walk and talk. For men it is different. A man gets married and then on the first Monday of the week he goes to a sports bar with his buddies to watch Monday night football, and then poker of Friday. He forgets his wife so he can enjoy his premarital days.

The emphasis’s put upon some weddings in this country can be horrific. Who will run the affair? The mom or the bride? Who will attend? Where will they sit? The list goes on. Little thought is given to the marriage – it is all about the wedding.

My wife and I had a very simple church wedding when I was in the Air Force. On December 30th we will celebrate our 41st Wedding Anniversary. I would not change one moment of our marriage.

There was a western movie and television star named Roy Rogers, who was asked on December 31, 1993, what made for a successful marriage. Roy Rogers said, “Marriage is 80% give and 20% take”! When you are married to someone who thinks that “It is all about me”, or “50-50” you will have a problem.

Trying to learn about the customs of people in other countries from watching television programs is not always the best way to understand others. Just be sure that you purchase the products being advertised as that is what television is all about. The content of television is often of little or no value. That is why they call it “the cultural void”! :)


>Just about one of the weirdest things I can't get my head round about the USA is the concept of wedding rehearsal dinners. It keeps cropping up on TV shows and films ("Killer Instinct", "Friends" just 2 exs that spring to mind). Now let me get this straight: Not only do the bride and groom need to rehearse the wedding ceremony - natural and sensible and practised over here - but all the wedding guests get together a day or 2 before the event and rehearse the actual wedding meal, food, speeches and all? So everyone's already heard the best man's amusing anecdotes, the groom's praise of his new wife, the father's musings on his daughter's youth, etc.? And the expanse of it!
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