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Speaker 1: Armstrong party at four.

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Speaker 2: Your table is ready party of four. That's an interesting

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way to count a group of people, don't you think. Well,

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if you like parties, you're gonna love the party of

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wedding vocabulary I've got set up for you today. Let's

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dive in.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast Episode eight twenty four.

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Let's get Married in English. Hello and welcome. Thanks for

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joining me for another episode of the Happy English Podcast.

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I'm your English teacher Michael, and I'm so glad you

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could join me today. Spring is a lovely time for

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a wedding, right, and weddings, which are usually pretty formal events,

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have a pretty unique and interesting set of vocabulary. And

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that's what we're going to look at today. Let's say

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you hear a friend is going to a wedding. In

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most cases, a wedding has two parts. The first part

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is called the wedding ceremony. That's where the bride and

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groom stand together and make lots of promises to each

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other while an official person like a priest, for example,

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leads the ceremony. Then when they are done making all

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of those promises, the leader says, okay, you are now married.

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You may kiss the bride. This is the end of

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the wedding ceremony. Next, after the wedding ceremony, it's time

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to celebrate the marriage with a big formal party. In English,

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this party is called the wedding reception. The word reception

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has a few meanings, but for this lesson, reception means

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a formal party. Like when one world leader travels to

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visit another world leader, they have a formal party and

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that party is called a reception. So let's get back

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to the wedding. There's a wedding ceremony and a wedding

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reception altogether in English when you attend both, and in

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American culture, most people are invited to both the ceremony

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and the reception. So you can talk about it just

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using the word wedding. I'm going to go to a

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wedding on Sunday. I'm going to a wedding means I'm

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going to attend the wedding ceremony and then the wedding reception.

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You know what, Jenny had her wedding at a resort

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on the beach. Again, in daily conversation, the word wedding

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means both the wedding ceremony and the reception. By the way,

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in the old days, we use marriage to mean wedding ceremony.

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I was invited to the marriage of John. But these

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days marriage is used just to mean the relationship between

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two married people. By the way, we don't use the

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term wedding party to describe the wedding reception. Oh, Bud, Michael,

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it's a party, isn't it. Yes, But remember, wedding reception

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is a formal party. So you have the wedding ceremony

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and then the wedding reception. Reception comes from receive and

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the guests receive the new married couple At the reception,

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which is generally a four hour event. The first hour

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is the cocktail hour. Cocktails in small dishes are passed around.

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Then the bride and groom come to the room and

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the dinner starts.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: But what about party? The word party has two meanings

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in English. The first meaning of party is a fun

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celebration like a birthday party, a graduation party or a

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retirement party. The second meaning of party is a group

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of people in a formal situation. Let's imagine Jenny makes

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a reservation for a dinner at a restaurant for her

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in three friends. When they arrive at the restaurant, Jenny

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tells the host her name, and then the host asks

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Jenny to wait a moment so she can check that

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Jenny's table is ready. Then, when the table is ready,

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the host will say something like this, Jenny, party of four,

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and then Jenny and her three friends can sit down

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and eat.

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Speaker 1: I'm strong, party at four. Your table is ready.

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Speaker 2: If Jenny and her friends go to the same restaurant

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but they don't have a reservation, they may need to

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wait for a table. The host will ask Jenny how

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many in your party, and then Jenny says four. The

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host says, okay, why don't you guys wait at the bar.

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When the table is ready, the host will say something

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like this, Jenny, party of four to let them know

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their table is ready.

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Speaker 1: I'm strong, party of four.

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Speaker 2: So party in this case means a group of people,

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not an event to celebrate something. So what does this

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have to do with weddings? The term wedding party in

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English is used to refer to the bride and groom

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and the two people like witnesses, who stand next to

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the bride and groom during the wedding ceremony. There are

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often four people in the wedding party. Two women the

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bride and usually her sister or best friend called the

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maid of honor, and two men the groom and his

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brother or best friend called the best man. Sometimes there

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are additional men and women standing there, and if so,

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then the women are called bride's maids and the men

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are called ushers. All right, let's recap. All of those

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people are the wedding party, and a wedding includes the

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wedding ceremony and the wedding reception. Remember, the wedding party

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is the group of people including the bride, groom, best man,

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and made of honor. Okay, you may kiss the bride.

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Thanks for hanging out with me today. Keep in mind,

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