In Britain arrangements for inviting and entertaining guests at a wedding are usually the responsibility of the bride's family．In most cases it is mainly friends and relations of both families who are invited but when bride's father is a businessman of some kind, the  wedding reception may provide a useful occasion for establishing social connections with clients or customers and other people whose goodwill may be of advantage to him．it is, however, the bride's mother who has the job of sending out the formal printed invitation cards．

In the case of a church wedding, the vicar of each parish(教区) in which the bride and bridegroom live is normally informed about a month in advance of the ceremony so that an announcement of the coming wedding can be made in church on each of three Sundays before it takes place．Anyone who may know of an existing marriage of either partner is ordered to give information, though this means of avoiding bigamy must have been more effective in the days when people attend the religious service and the bride usually wears the traditional long white dress and veil, while her bridesmaids, who are children, wear long dresses in attractive colors．This may also happen in the case of a civil wedding in a register office but is probably less usual．

The reception which follows may be held in a restaurant, a local hall or, when there are few guests, in the bride’s own home．Refreshments are provided, a special iced wedding-cake is cut(usually to the accompaniment of speeches)and distributed to the guests, toasts are drunk and dancing may follow．At some point in the celebrations, the bride goes off to change into everyday clothes and then leaves the party with her husband to go on their honeymoon, the journey they will make together, often in romantic surrounding abroad．

It is the bride's parents who normally have to________．

A．make all the arrangements for the wedding  

B．provide hospitality for the people attending

C．decide who shall be invited                     

D．pay all expenses involved

What possible difference is suggested between a church and a civil wedding?

    A．Civil weddings are less commonly followed by a reception．

    B．It is less usual for guests to attend the civil wedding formalities．

    C．Guests at civil weddings are less formally dressed．

    D．There could be less attention paid at the latter to convention and picturesque effect．

The reception normally takes place in the bride’s home if________．

       A．this is a large one．                

       B．there is enough room to entertain the people invited．

       C．the parents cannot afford to hire a hall． 

       D．there is to be no party afterwards．

The couple leave for their honeymoon________．

    A．after the church or register office ceremony

    B．immediately after the cake has been cut and the speeches made

C．at the end of the reception               

D．as soon as the bride is ready

Getting married can be one of the happiest moments in a person’s life. Throughout the world, weddings are very important events. Let’s look at some interesting wedding customs from different countries.

         For African Americans, it is tradition for the married couple to jump over a broom covered with flowers. This represents the beginning of family life. It is interesting to note that African slaves who were brought to the USA started this tradition. African American couples were not allowed to have a legal marriage, so instead they had a ceremony where the bride and groom jumped over a broom “into marriage”.

         Making jokes about the bride and groom is a wedding tradition in both France and Germany. In France, this includes making loud noises with pots; in Germany, wedding guests break dishes. Weddings in Germany often last for three days. On Thursday, there is a simple ceremony at a government office noting the official marriage of the couple. Then the couple will have a dinner with family and close friends. On Friday, there is a party. This is when guests break dishes to represent the start of a new life. Then on Sunday, there is a ceremony in a church.

         In Greece and Italy, people eat special kinds of sweets at the wedding. Both Greece and Italy also have their own special wedding dances, which all of the guests enjoy.

         In Russia, couples tie a doll to their wedding car if they want to have a daughter, or a toy bear if they want to have a son.

         In England, it is tradition for the little girls to throw flowers on the ground on the way to the wedding ceremony. The bride and groom walk on these flowers. This represents the hope that the couples will follow the path that leads to a happy life.

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Weddings are so important in China that couples are willing to fork out about 20 times their monthly income on getting hitched and everything that comes with it.

China's newly-weds in cities spend 126,600 Yuan (16,600 U.S. dollars) on average in 2006 when getting hitched, Thursday's Chongqing Youth Daily reported, citing a recent survey by the Ministry of Commerce.

An analysis of 60,000 couples living in cities showed that about 64 percent of the spending went on house decoration, furniture and household appliances and the rest was spent on the wedding, such as the ceremony, photography, wedding dresses and feast.

The survey said the wedding expenditure was only a small share of the overall marriage cost as most Chinese young couples in the cities tended to buy an apartment and a car before tying the knot.

The survey said that about 81.6 percent of the newly-weds admitted that they had got economic support from parents as their monthly income on average was only about 6,240 yuan.

The survey also showed that about 88.4 percent of the newly-weds chose having wedding photography as a priority and 78.74 chose hosting a wedding banquet.

In contrast, young couples in the countryside spent about 40,000 yuan on average on marriage-related issues, less than one third of their city peers, according to the report.

About 8.49 million couples got married in China in 2006.

Title: China’s     51    spend too much

Getting married can be one of the happiest moments in a person’s life. ___1____ the world, weddings are very important events. Let’s look at some interesting wedding customs from different countries.

　 For African Americans, it is ___2____ for the married couple to jump over a broom __3__ with flowers. This __4___ the beginning of family life. It is interesting to note that African slaves who were brought to the USA started this tradition. African-American couples were not ___5___ have a ___6__ marriage, so instead they had a ceremony where the bride and ___7__ jumped over a broom ‘into marriage’. Today, some African-American weddings still ___8___ the old tradition of ‘jumping the broom’.