The Traditional Wedding Die traditionelle Hochzeit O casamento tradicional Geleneksel Düğün

Rachel: I had a friend who got married. It was a very large wedding, but it was very traditional. She had thirteen bridesmaids and thirteen ushers and then a maid of honor , a best man and a ring bearer and a flower girl. She had thirteen bridesmaids and thirteen ushers and then a maid of honor , a best man and a ring bearer and a flower girl. So there were quite a few of us that had to walk down the aisle . Wendi: This is like an absolute, kind of parade procession. Rachel: Yeah. It was quite a long playing of "Here comes the bride". Wendi: Yeah. Rachel: So, but yeah we all had the traditional one dress picked up by the bride and the ushers all wore the traditional one, well they rented the same suits with the same tie and vest underneath, and yeah, "Here comes the bride", a little service about God and then the wedding vows which they decided to speak and make up their own wedding vows, so it got a little emotional, and yeah, that was pretty much the wedding. The thing for a traditional wedding in the United States, it costs a lot of money to be a bridesmaid or an usher and that’s something that maybe in other countries is not the case because the bridesmaid and the ushers all have to pick out the same outfit and get their hair done and their make-up and the shoes and their usually in charge of paying for the bridal shower and the bachelor, the bachelorette party. Wendi: Yeah, and then there’s like your gift to the bride and stuff like that as well and yeah, it’s a lot of responsibility I’m sure. Have you ever been asked to be a bridesmaid and turned it down or anything? Wurden Sie schon einmal gefragt, ob Sie Brautjungfer sein wollen, und haben abgelehnt oder so? Rachel: I’ve never turned it down, but the first time I was asked as an adult I didn’t really realize, I was like, "why are you asking me that? Rachel: Ich habe nie abgelehnt, aber als ich das erste Mal als Erwachsene gefragt wurde, war mir nicht wirklich klar, dass ich dachte: "Warum fragst du mich das? Of course I would be your bridesmaid. Natürlich würde ich deine Brautjungfer sein. And then as it started getting closer to the wedding, all of the responsibility started coming out, then I started to understand a little bit. Und dann, als die Hochzeit immer näher rückte, wurde mir die ganze Verantwortung bewusst, und ich begann, ein wenig zu verstehen. Wendi: Right, yeah. Rachel: Especially, because the maid of honor was particularly not responsible, so a lot of the bridesmaids had to organize many of the things the maid of honor would normally organize. Rachel: Vor allem, weil die Trauzeugin nicht zuständig war, so dass viele der Brautjungfern viele der Dinge organisieren mussten, die normalerweise die Trauzeugin organisieren würde. Wendi: Yeah, that’s wild.