Yesterday and today Stefan and I got a lots of presents with full of affection from our family , relatives and friends.
Now I want to write about similarity and difference between Switzerland and Japan of wedding presents.
Normally in Japan when people are invited to a wedding party they bring money and put the money in the special envelope which is called “goshu-gi bukuro” and there is a kind of rules how much you have to bring.
But in Switzerland normally the bride couple make a wish list and visiters check it and then the visiters decide to what they have to give but if the bride couple doesn’t make a wish list and have plenty of things, the visiters give money. And what made me surprise was here it seems to be no specific envelope. Like a ” goshu-gi bukuro”
So some people put the money on the card with tape!! And my sister in law gave me a bunch of tulipes and some of them looks tulipes but they aren’t ! They are fake tulipes which are made by note. And another cute one is a big ballon and in side there are some note with a couple ducks toy!
Every country has some own tipical ways to celebrate a wedding.
P.S I had many chances to talk about wedding party to many people around the world. And as far as I know only Japanese wedding party a bride couple change their clothes during the wedding party. For example White dress- colored dress- “kimono” ( Japanese traditional clothes)
And also compare to a lots of wedding party around the world, the time of wedding party in Japan is the shortest in many countries. Japanese wedding party is about 2hours!!