Cultural Comparison: Romanian Wedding vs American Wedding Traditions

This report provides a comparative analysis of Romanian and American wedding cultures. It begins by outlining key aspects of Romanian wedding traditions, including the ceremonial parade of guests, the significance of the best man, the midnight bridal dance, and the presentation of wedding gifts. The report highlights the tradition of the bride's headdress, the symbolic act of sharing a cup of wine, and other rituals. Subsequently, the report explores American wedding culture, focusing on the bride's white dress, the organization of the wedding party, and the tradition of carrying a bouquet. The conclusion synthesizes these cultural differences, emphasizing the importance of understanding cultural communication and the diverse ways people from different backgrounds interact. The provided references support the report's analysis and provide additional context for understanding the cultural practices discussed.

HOW CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
MEANING AND HOW WE UNDERSTAND
CULTURAL MESSAGE.

Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• ROMANIAN WEDDING CULTURE
• AMERICAN WEDDING CULTURE
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES

Introduction
The culture is related to the particular society and ideas,
customs & art. This term encompasses the social behaviour,
institutions and norms which are found in customs,
capabilities and individual habit. The culture is acquired by
the human through learning process of enculturation and
socialization in diversity of culture across societies. The
presentation is based on Romanian wedding culture and
comparing with other cultural aspects.

Romanian wedding culture
In the Romanian wedding culture there is tradition of
involving parade of guests in tradition costume before the
wedding. The best man carry decorated pole, involving
midnight bridal dance , presentation of weeding gifts. In the
wedding Russian brides have traditionally worn headdress of
pearls and flowers. The hair of bride is braided and covered
with crown of flowers & ribbons. On the head of bride and
groom metal crown is place and their hands are tied together
with ribbon while they share wine from same cup. In the
culture of Romanian wedding it is customary for bride and
groom to drink three times from the same cup of wine which
symbolizing their willingness to sample the same cup of
experience (Ellison, S., 2019).

AMERICAN WEDDING CULTURE
The America is larger diverse country and there
traditions are based on culture, lifestyle, preferences.
The cultural aspect of American weeding involves
wearing of white dress or gown by the brides during
ceremony or reception. This tradition mainly comes
from across the pond in England. There is organise of
wedding party as many couples are in wedding from
bridesmaids and groomsmen side. The carry of
bouquet of flower is age-old tradition which shows the
emotions of bride during the weeding.

CONCLUSION
From the above it is being concluded that culture refers to complex
collection of knowledge, language, rituals, lifestyles and attitudes
which offers common identity to particular group of people at specific
point of time. The culture involves the communication and
understanding of message in which people from different backgrounds
have interaction with each other.

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