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Krisz 🥰
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Krisz 🥰
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The simplest way to be grateful. Please look around today and say thank you for everyone and everything why you can be grateful for.
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Krisz 🥰
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Krisz 🥰
Hello Everyone and welcome back!
I know, I know, I am always late with the posts and I am so sorry, but I am a very busy woman (I must live my life, so I can deliver new stories, once I put my ass down and finally write them). But now I am back and as I promised, I will let you know how it was at the Italian wedding.
Before I start, I would like to dedicate this post to the couple, my dear friends and say Thank you that I can be there and you shared your happiness with me, but most importantly Thank you for being such amazing friends and part of my family. I love you to the Moon and back guys!❤
So let’s get the party started!
In Italy they will skip the coming and going part between the 2 houses, but the groom’s family and friends are gathered in his house and the bride’s side of the guest in her family house.
By the way, in Italy the groom cannot see the bride until the church doors open… trust me, I am one of the “cold hearted woman” and I do not get cry so easily, but when the doors was open and I saw my best friend as real Princess (btw she is always like a Princess and she never believe me)… well though Krisztina started to cry. It was worth everything to see her and her husband’s happiness on that day.
As I mentioned in my previous post in Italy the couple can do the government and the church wedding in the church, so both are placed in a very nice church in Udine. The guest arrived and everyone was waiting outside until the very last moment (when the bride arrived) in front of the church. Once the bride’s car arrived (and before obviously she came out of it), everyone just went inside the church and had their seat. (My friends created a kind of booklet with the ceremony, so we could follow the ceremony. If you know Italian, but that does not matter.) Previously I told you, I understand a bit of Italian and the ceremony was really nice and the priest was such a cool and funny guy. After the ceremony ended, it was rice, bubbles, flowers, and everything you can imagine. (This is similar in Hungary too.) Everyone had a chance to take pictures with the couple or of them.
When the ceremony/ceremonies over the real party has started. As I said in my previous post, both countries’ weddings continue in the same way… “GO TO EAT!”🤣Well in Italy we have been in a really nice castle on the top of a hill… trust me (now you can be jealous, all of you) the view was absolutely breathtaking. I attached some pictures for you guys, but these are nothing compared to being there… If you don’t feel that finally you are alive in that place…well you will never feel it anywhere else. The hills, the nature, the whole milieu…It was such an experience.
Back to the wedding, both countries love the welcome drinks part, but in Hungary we prefer the alcoholic, especially spirits… okay, okay, I am not trying to market better, Pálinka. 😀In Italy they are more sophisticated, so different kinds of wines, lemonade (most amazing I have ever tasted in my life- sorry Mum), and water with ice, so you can cool down a bit in the 40 degrees. (It took place on the front garden of the castle and trust me the view was absolutely “disgusting”) The couple arrived with in a very nice old timer car and that’s another different point, because they just stopped and let everyone take pictures of them or with them, while in Hungary you do it only after the wedding ceremony.
And finally we are on the food part! I know, I started to get hungry too. But in the traditional Hungarian wedding everyone sits around the tables and starts the dinner, in Italy first you have a huge buffett…I don’t even try to write you down all the food was served there and I don’t think that everyone ever described a word how delicious it was!!!!! (This kind of “dinner” started to take place in Hungarian weddings too, but as I said this kind of thing really depends on the couple.) But seriously guys… you have no idea how much food is there!!!!! (Funniest thing that my best friend- THE WIFE- asked me how the food was and was it enough?????? Are you kidding me??? Have you seriously asked that question????😮🙄🤣) You know, what… I think the pictures will say everything… and that was only the buffet. The couple was the first to eat and when they had picked up their preferences, the rest of us started to have “something”.
After everyone finished with the buffet the couple took pictures with everyone on the top of the hill, behind a very nice view. They made sure they have pictures with all the family and friends and also some just the two of them.
When you think you are full with all the best Italian stuff and had a walk around the place, made your picture with the couple, discovered the gardens, with flower swings, gates, (yes, you read it correctly, a Flower Swing!) swimming pool, woods and everything else you can not even imagine, someone just says that the dinner is about to start…WTF???? Really?? I have just eaten a whole pig with every kind of cheese, vegetable, sausages, the most amazing bread I have ever tasted and I was much more rolled down the hill than walking, now we just “start the dinner”!!! Don’t laugh guys, it was so serious. 😅Not just a bit of food… nooooo… 5 course menu…5!!!
Well, I have attached the picture of the menu, so you can have a look at it…don’t even bother myself to write it down…no.
During the dinner, between the courses the couple walked around, played the shoe game, which I think I have mentioned in the Hungarian wedding, because that is similar and you were allowed to take pictures of yourself which ended up in a photo album as a memory for the couple.
At this point I would like to say how lovely, nice, kind and friendly the Italian nation is. My friends created an “English table”, so me and my best friend sat at the table where everyone spoke English too and they were lovely. I have not felt for a moment that I have not belonged there. Even though it was clear that some of them have known each other for a long time, they welcomed us as they have known us for so long. It was another amazing experience to meet with those lovely people.
Once we “survived” (no, not finished, survived) the dinner, guess what was waiting for us outside in the garden????? I know you can get this.😅 YES, more food!!!!!!!!🤣 Fruits, cakes, every kind of sweets and…and…a CHOCOLATE FONDUE… I think that was the point where I just put my hands up and said: “I will die by eating, but at least in the most beautiful place I have ever been!” By the way, that was the “rest time” before the party started and 3 people brought out the Wedding Cake!!!!!🤣 I love Italian people, I do! They know how to enjoy life (or at least how to eat without dying) and I think the rest of the World should learn from them this mentality!
It was a lovely cake cutting ceremony with fireworks and Ed Sheran’s Perfect song… yes, I cried there too…and what?!😅 Pictures say it better than me, how lovely it was.
After that started the dance. Of course the couple opened it and after their dance, everyone started to enjoy the night. The bar was open, the people were happy and all went absolutely perfect. Italian weddings do not continue until the morning and I was really happy about it, because it was a long day before (that’s another story), but in the meantime I wish I could be there forever…in that place, with those people and just feel the happiness that was there… to see and feel the pure love, gratitude, joy and all the positive energy in the World.
Before we left my friends surprised us with the “Thank you gift”, which was a bottle of the local wine which was made for that castle specifically and a bit of local sweets, but the surprise wasn’t those things… I knew from the beginning that they are lovely people and I will do anything to keep them as friends forever…but they have even thought about our families and sent them gifts too.
Well it was one of the most amazing weddings I have ever been to and not only because of the fact that it was in one of the most beautiful places, not because it was in Italy, which is one of my favorite places on Earth…nooo… because I saw my friend’s happiness. I love you guys so much and I wish you all the best. I wish all your dreams will come true and be as happy as you have been on that day for the rest of your life.💞
XOXO,
Krisz💞
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And that noble soul still protect me from the Heaven! 🥰
Krisz
Traditional Hungarian wedding
Hello,hello
As I mentioned a long time ago, I want to make a site where I will see the differences between nations, cultures, traditions, foods and so many other things based on my discovery. I am so excited about these “projects”, because I really love to talk to people. As you know I live in London, which is a beautiful cultural mass, so I am in the best place to do it.☺️ I hope you will enjoy reading these, just as much as I enjoyed writing them.
I am so lucky that one of my best friends is Italian and her (now) husband too. So when they invited me to attend their wedding, I felt so excited and so honored. Especially because they are one of the best couples I have ever met. Their love story and how they live their life is so inspiring.
So what’s the difference between an Italian and a Hungarian wedding? Well I have no idea where I start the list.😅 (Here I want to make a note that I love weddings and doesn’t matter where they take place, I just generally love them, so both nation’s weddings are incredibly and of course these are just general differences,due to a wedding is always based on the couple’s style.)
Let’s start with my nation’s, The “Traditional ” Hungarian wedding. The wedding starts with the groom going to the bridge’s house with all the invited people and asking the bride from her father. Live band escorts him to the house and the bride’s family offers small cakes or pastries with some drinks (of course alcohol) to the people who came to the house to see the “ceremony”. Some couples hire a ceremony master, some use the maid of honors, it really depends on the couple. (This is an old tradition, nowadays this part often will be skipped.) After that the whole crew must go to the groom’s house and ask the groom from his mother. (Again cakes, drinks, music, fun and some couples skip this part too.)
Once they have both been asked out from their parents, everyone goes to the church or the local council, it is absolutely up to the couple which will be the first place or nowdays the church wedding is not really a part of the weddings, due to not that much place in the World accepting the marriage which was only blessed by the church and not by the government. But if the couple decides to go to have both, they usually go to the church first. And that part is similiral in Italy, only they can do both the government and the church wedding in the church. Okay at this point I would like to make a note that I do not speak Italian, but I can understand a lot, so based on my “piccolo” Italian, the ceremony is quite the same, unless in Italy some guests say speeches about the couple, while in Hungary we are not allowed to do that. Shoulders must be covered in both countries in the church and that’s okay. (Another quick note that it was a christian catholic wedding- and I am christian too.)
After the ceremony in Hungary there is some rice, flowers, bubbles and whatever you want. Also there is the part where the guest is allowed to make “official” pictures with the couple, due to after the ceremony the couple usually goes to their chosen “photography place” where the official wedding pictures will be made. These pictures will be sent to the guests who were there, family members, to take as memories and the couple usually ask for an album for themselves as well.
While the couple is busy being photographed…Both countries’ weddings continue in the same way… “GO TO EAT!”🤣And trust me if I say both nation are really obsessed with the food part. The entire World knows that Italians are so into food and fashion… well Hungarian too. So you end up at the party place. It can be anywhere… restaurants, bars, cafes, fields, tents, castles, etc… anywhere where the couple like to have their wedding. This really depends on the couple, the number of attendees, the food, the type of the party or the theme of the wedding.
Once you arrive at the party place the first thing is…yes, you are right, drinks. 😅 It could be spirit, champagne, wine,etc. The most important thing is that you have to have your welcome drink.
The Continuation of the day is a bit different in each wedding, because in places you just sit down and be ready for the dinner or some couple choose to do their first dance before the meal is served or starts with some wedding games. The tradition is that the people have some cakes, talk a bit, drink a bit and once the couple arrives the dinner starts. Usually there is a siting plan, due to next to your name will be the wedding favours gift. The traditional Hungarian wedding menu includes chicken soup, which is always the start served with the vegetable and the chicken itself. Then comes the fried,baked and cooked meats/ vegetables (mostly pork, chicken and/or beef; fried mushrooms, cheese, cauliflower, etc.) with mashed potatoes, chips, rice, fresh salads, sauces, pickled onions and girkin, etc. The end comes the cakes … lots of different kinds of cakes. The menu is massive, but it is necessary otherwise you cannot drink… which is a very important part of the wedding. During the dinner, between two courses we do wedding games (it is kind of similar in Italy and the games too). The groom should take the bride’s garter with his teeth…or the quiz game where they have each other’s shoes and have to pull up the right shoe to answer the questions…the story telling game, where they involve the guests too. The ceremony master starts to tell a fairytale and each person has their own character. When you hear your character in the story you have to stand up…if you miss it or you stand up at the wrong time …well, you must drink.
After the dinner the couple danced their first dance (same in Italy) and the party officially started. The traditional music is the traditional Hungarian gypsy music from a band, but it can be a DJ too who plays the popular ’80 and ’90 songs.
A bit later the couple cut the wedding cake and the party continued with dance and drink, drink and dance until midnight… midnight they start to serve the traditional Hungarian stuffed cabbage, which is actually meatballs with cabbage…one of my favourite part of the weddings.😅 And in the meantime the couple goes and change their dresses from white to red, the symbol of that the bride is now officially a wife and a groom became a husband. Once this happens it will start the New wife dance… So traditionally the wife has to dance with all the male guests and the new husband dances with the female guest. Before the guests start their own dance with the couple they have to “pay” for this dance (the couple’s parents have a huge pot and the guests put their wedding gift- usually an envelope with money- into the pot). When everyone finished with them and paid for their dance it started another funny game. The New wife has a broom and the new husband has a dustpan. The guest throws the coins into the floor and they have to collect it all in a bucket, but the guest always continues to throw the bucket to the floor. Once all the coins are in it, the party counts until dawn. Usually the Hungarian weddings finish somewhere between 4am and 6am.
Every Hungarian has a little bit of Spitfire in them, especially if it is about a wedding 😅
Huh, I didn’t realize until I finished with how long this post is, so I will let you know about the Italian wedding in my next post which will be published very soon, I promise, so please check my Instagram, Facebook or just like the blog below the post so you will not miss anything.😘
Love all of you and I hope, I will have you all here tomorrow to see the Italians.😘
XOXO,
Krisz
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