israeli weddings
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Today I have to attend a wedding.
Weddings in Israel are a big deal and I mostly hate to go.
Don't get me wrong- I love to go to weddings of close friends or family members.
But weddings in Israel are usually huge. Today the son of my boss is getting married so of course my boss invited quite a lot of people from work. Basically I will only attend because of her. It would be rude not to go- and she is nice.
Don't get me wrong- I love to go to weddings of close friends or family members.
But weddings in Israel are usually huge. Today the son of my boss is getting married so of course my boss invited quite a lot of people from work. Basically I will only attend because of her. It would be rude not to go- and she is nice.
My husband and I got married in Switzerland (since I am not Jewish we could not get married in Israel- but that's another story.). Back in Israel we invited our best friends and the very close family for a dinner-party.
It was hard to keep my mother in law from inviting all their neighbours and
cousins and sons and daughters of cousins and their friends...
It's just crazy!
It's just crazy!
And the thing is- you usually bring money as a present. Now what annoys me- I have to attend, I need to somehow spend a bit time there with people I mostly don't know, I don't know either the groom or bride and I even need to pay. And with this money I could have bought sandals for the
girls for summer. Or a nice dress for myself for the wedding of my sister in September or food for a week...
I won't give as much money as others will. It simply does not feel fair towards my family. To be careful with spending money in our everyday life and then to pay for nothing a big ammount....
Maybe I am greedy? I don't know.
I just don't feel like attending weddings like this...
I won't give as much money as others will. It simply does not feel fair towards my family. To be careful with spending money in our everyday life and then to pay for nothing a big ammount....
Maybe I am greedy? I don't know.
I just don't feel like attending weddings like this...
Comments
Alles Liebe & einen schönen Tag!
Eri
And by the way: The wedding was terrible. But at least the young couple seemd to have fun.
Gut, habt ihr in der Schweiz geheiratet! Tja, manche Dinge und Gesetze muss man manchmal eben nicht verstehen, oder? ;-)
LG Rahel