WEDDINGS/MARRIAGES/DIVORCES

Question 1

before the wedding

Answer 1

: propose/proposal, a hen party, the fiancée, the fiancé, a stag party, a computer dating agency

Question 2

the day od the wedding

Answer 2

a wedding, a registry office, a church, the aisle, vicar, the bride, the bridegroom, the best man, old tin cans, the bridesmaids, the ring, in-laws, the reception, the organist, the choir, a bouquet, the weeding march, a spouse, the wedding guests, the bride’s father, a train

Question 3

after the wedding

Answer 3

the honeymoon

Question 4

to go out with someone

Answer 4

: to have a romantic relationship with someone

Question 5

to be married

Answer 5

to get a legal paper of conformation that you are married

Question 6

• to be infatuated with

Answer 6

possessed with an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone, head over heels in love, infatuation or smitten with somebody-zaljubljen

Question 7

to fall in love

Answer 7

to like someone, have butterflies, love at first sight

Question 8

to cohabit

Answer 8

live together and have a sexual relationship without being married

Question 9

to shack up with somebody

Answer 9

to sleep or live together as unmarried sexual partners

Question 10

to get a divorce

Answer 10

to end one’s marriage; to legally split-up with one’s wife or husband

Question 11

to split up

Answer 11

an ending of a relationship or partnership; a separation.

Question 12

an arranged marriage

Answer 12

a marriage planned and agreed by the families or guardians of the couple concerned.

Question 13

a shotgun wedding

Answer 13

a marriage planned and agreed by the families or guardians of the couple concerned.

Question 14

a marriage for love

Answer 14

A love marriage is a marriage of two individuals based upon mutual love, affection, commitment and attraction.

Question 15

a marriage of convinience

Answer 15

a marriage that is arranged for practical, financial, or political reasons

Question 16

be married to/with

Answer 16

a marriage that is arranged for practical, financial, or political reasons.
She married to someone … or She married with someone … We use to, not with, after get married + direct object and be married + direct object: She got married to someone she met at college. She’s married to someone she met at college.

Question 17

simpatija

Answer 17

to have a crush

Question 18

marriage is an outdated concept

Answer 18

mnenje

Question 19

where can you get married

Answer 19

get married either in a church or registry office (a local government building  civil wedding).

Question 20

places to get married

Answer 20

in a house a park a hotel or a wedding Chapel as well as in the church.

Question 21

traditional wedding

Answer 21

church
white dress

Question 22

woman who gets married

Answer 22

long white dress
vail
bouquet of flowers

Question 23

superstitions for the bride

Answer 23

. She also wears something old, something new, something blue, and something borrowed to bring her luck

Question 24

the groom or

Answer 24

bridegroom
He wears a suit, or sometimes a tuxedo in the US, or a morning suit in UK (also a Penguin suit which is a long-tailed jacket, and a top hat).

Question 25

female friends of the bride plus priča

Answer 25

bridesmaids
maid of honour or the chief bridesmaid

Question 26

priča moškemu

Answer 26

the best man

Question 27

bad luck

Answer 27

if the groom sees the bride before the ceremony (morning)

Question 28

where the bridegroom waits

Answer 28

The bridegroom arrives first at the church and waits at the altar (the front part of the church) with the best man.

Question 29

what is the best man responsible for

Answer 29

for bringing the ring, jokes about losing it

Question 30

how the bride comes to the church

Answer 30

The bride arrives at the church in the car with her father. The car is often an expensive one that has been hired for the day and decorated with ribbons and flowers.

Question 31

what if someone gets scared of getting married expression

Answer 31

to have second thoughts
to get cold feet

Question 32

the father gives the bride away

Answer 32

(walk to the front of the church with her and formally give permission for her to marry).

Question 33

the aisle

Answer 33

the central passage of the church between the rows

Question 34

to be at the alter with the priest

Answer 34

begging of the wedding service

Question 35

what the priest does before starting the ceremony

Answer 35

He or she greets everyone and then asks if there is anyone present who knows of any legal reason why the couple should not get married (speak now or forever hold your peace).

Question 36

what the bride and the groom exchange

Answer 36

the traditional vows

Question 37

after vows

Answer 37

gold rings
they sign the register (a book that is the official record of their marriage)

Question 38

after the ceremony

Answer 38

confetti (small pieces of coloured paper) or rice
wedding photographs

Question 39

venue

Answer 39

the reception takes place there

Question 40

during the meal

Answer 40

the bride and groom cut the cake together
they feed eachother or mess eachother faces with the cake

Question 41

speeches by

Answer 41

bride’s father
groom
the best man

Question 42

befor ethe reception ends

Answer 42

they usually drive away to another hotel to spend their wedding night, before beginning their honeymoon (holiday taken by people who have just got married  newlyweds).

Question 43

the bouquet

Answer 43

Before she leaves, the bride throws her bouquet to her friends. According to custom, the one who catches it will be the next one to get married.

Question 44

a traditional weeding

Answer 44

• A traditional wedding in Britain is called a white wedding
   The groom shouldn’t see the bride before the ceremony (superstition, bad luck)
   reading of the banns (week before the weeding, oznanila)
   the bride walks down the aisle with her father to the altar to the groom with his best man
   wedding march (the song)
   Bride: wedding dress, a vail, a train, she unveils her face
   the minister leads the ceremony (pastor, vicar)
   they exchange the vows and rings, they kiss
   they throw rice, confetti, rose petals at the newlyweds
   Reception  eat, dance, get drunk, to give speeches

Question 45

proposal

Answer 45

 Reception  eat, dance, get drunk, to give speeches
* Proposal, to get engaged, engagement rings, to pop the question

Question 46

matičar

Answer 46

registrar

Question 47

guests

Answer 47

• To attend the wedding, to be invited to a wedding

Question 48

to secretely get married

Answer 48

to stay elope