NO ONE tells you these 5 things about the UK! // Wedding breakfast?! // American Expat in the UK
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I am from Scotland and live in London, and I have never, in my almost 50 years, heard of a wedding breakfast until I watched this video.
That's new to me also.. I've had wedding breakfast the day after the wedding with guests not on the day of lol
I can only imagine the carnage that an American shopping in Lidl or Aldi would create.
@@jules.8443
They also act like they're on an F1 pit crew trying to get you through the till.
Super fast plus tiny space... Oh that would be funny to watch
Aldi, you shove it all back in your trolley and bag it at the shelf thing just next to the checkout, Tis great !
Yip, have you not seen the American reaction to the new Lidl/Aldi supermarkets opening up in the US...............danger, danger Will Robinson, money for a trolley 🤪
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As an experienced UK shopper you'll have realised by now that the trick is to place your shopping onto the belt in the order you're going to want to pack it. Or better still, go to the 'self-scan' till!
Better still, Scan As You Go. bag up your own shopping as you pick it off the shelves. Then simply scan the QR code on the till, it's scans the barcode from the scanner and you pay.
@@4svennie Even better still - home delivery. Most stores now deliver to your house for free and that takes away driving to the store, packing it and unpacking it when you get home.
@@hairyairey The store I work at does Home Shopping, Click N Collect, Scan N Go, self scan and regular tills.
Some stores are also delivering via UberEats.
@@4svennie I prefer to walk to my shops. It is the only exercise I get nowadays.
@@TruckStopLayby I work in Home Shopping, my exercise is walking miles within a building doing other peoples shopping. Only to have to get my own later.
"But the cashier was too British to actually say anything"
Haha, that's the most British thing I've ever heard. We don't do confrontation
Yeah, I had a laugh at that!
most of the cashiers in my Lidl and Aldi are not British
Too American to notice....
ask the French🤣
We don’t do confrontation?!! 😂 Oh really? Which part of Britain do you live in?
I did the opposite when I was in the States; I packed my own groceries. Everyone looked at me like I was some kind of paranoid nut-job.
That's probably because your weren't carrying.
Were the SWAT team called?
Richard Ashton - probably fine if you're white.
It annoys me having someone bagging my shopping. They never do it right.
And what's the idea of brown paper bags with no handles in American stores?
Back in the 70s I once had a job as bagger in a store when I worked for the US Forces in Bavaria. Pay was tips only! But could be suprisingly lucrative, especially if the dollar was high!
They also have packers at the tills in South Africa who bag your shopping for you. They are actually sent on a training course on how to correctly bag shopping. No cleaning stuff or toiletries in same bags as food etc. They do right there and are fast.
@@simonwilliamson7211 If I had confidence in them to do it properly I wouldn't mind. But if someone bags your shopping here it's going in the bag randomly. You get raw meat bagged with cooked. Household items packed with food... And more often that not, a squashed loaf of bread at the bottom of a bag with a box of broken eggs...
Go to Australia, never had a problem.
Wedding breakfast is from when the word was first used meaning break the fast. Weddings were traditionally held after mass and the wedding meal would have been the first meal of the day.
In my country some decades ago it used to be early in the morning. Sometimes even dear sun was not out and about.
Thank goodness someone who realises what the word breakfast means.😄
It also used to be illegal to get married after 12 noon.
Actually the wedding itself should include a mass - it is called a Nuptial Mass. You are supposed to fast before mass, so the meal that took place after the wedding broke that fast. So it is a breakfast as you correctly pointed out.
Here in Australia most checkouts have a kinda metal frame that the cashier will fit the bag you have brought with you into the frame and will fill as they go - replacing the bag as they go.
You can get married anywhere in Scotland, so long as you have the ceremony performed by a licensed registrar or celebrant. England looks to be following suit at some point, but we've not got there just yet :)
Hi, Heads up on Stamps, There are 1st & 2nd class Letter and 1st & 2nd class Large Letter, these are defined by length, width and thickness and weight up to 750grams, then it becomes a parcel.
Correct me if I'm wrong but you can't post to outside the UK using 2nd class.
Also ...not covered are Registered post (signed for, special delivery and insured post)
Asda, when they were 1st taken over by Wallmart started the bagging thing, but it didn't last long, people just were not in to it.
They tried to get the staff in the mornings to listen to and cheer company announcements and sing the company song. You can guess how well that went down in the UK.🤨
@@SvenTviking Let's sing the company song!
@@SvenTviking They tried to do that Germany as well, same result. Wal-mart are no longer in Germany or the UK.
Lmao. In the UK, half the time we don't even have a cashier let alone a bagger of croceries.
A lot of the time it's scan your items yourself, bag them yourself and pay for them.
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial The frequent smaller shops is a function of walking. If you travel to work by tube (or train etc outside London) it is easy to pick a couple of bags a few times a week from a supermarket next to the station for short shelf life items. But people often still use their car to go shopping at the weekend now and then to stockpile bulky items, cans etc.
And we're not lazy like the Americans.🤣
Saves on tipping 🤣
A lot of supermarkets will ask you if you need help bagging, or you can ask for someone to do it. Most of us don't - we don't want some stranger touching our stuff.
Or worse, bagging them *wrong*.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t Yes. Having to tell them to unpack and get it right this time :-)
When they ask if you want help packing when you only have a couple of items....no thanks I think I’ll just about cope!
An army of strangers has already touched your stuff. The farmer / butcher / original manufacturer; the logistics / delivery company / the shelf stackers. If you’re lucky, the stuff hasn’t been stacked in the warehouse out the back of the supermarket for ages with rats running all over it during the night. Never drink directly out of tins, they’re rife with rat urine.
I hate when I'm asked do I need help bagging. I think 'Do I look obviously disabled?' Huge paranoia attack basically.
The whole tax thing in America has always puzzled me, it always sounded like a complicated way of going about it. Now I am hearing that the IRS usually knows how much tax you owe them (other than self employed etc.) and could just send you a bill, but they keep the old system because it keeps accountants and auditors in work.
There’s always a way for the highest paid people in America to make more money off of the lowest paid people.
The biggest clue to pack your own groceries is that there was no one stood there to help you
Number 6: The tax of a product is included on the price tag, i.e. the price you see is the price you pay.
Thank god
I cannot understand why it isn't a thing in North America, including Canada which is a commonwealth country.
That annoyed me so much.
@@nappingracez it's because in America each state has different sales tax. Making the figures up but for example 5% in Louisiana and 10% in New Orleans so if something is $10, in Louisiana it costs you $10.50 and in New Orleans it costs $11.00.
As it is in most of the world! The American way is rather quaint, if also annoying.
When I was in America and someone else was packing my bags in walmart or wherever it was I felt soooooooooooooooo awkward, I was like do I pay them or do I just say thank you and walk away? It made me feel bad just standing there watching them putting all my food in bags. Also I noticed people who work in universal studios tend to smile but also look sad at the same time.
Haha!! I had exactly the same experience, felt exactly the same, very awkward (the shopping thing i mean)
Smiling but looking sad at the same time. Brilliant:)
You just realised that when go to America they are all false like when they say ' HAVE A NICE DAY ' they don't mean it they just say it cus they have to when you buy something!!
@@jamieforrester2857 - Here in the UK I often say (in an American accent) and to a person who has just served me... "Have a nice day... as an American would say !" (it rhymes); followed quickly with (in my own voice), "but I REALLY DO mean it".
TBH - To date, no one has ever really laughed, and I actually believe I'm a total prat !? Maybe I need to reconsider my whole life ???
@@jamieforrester2857 sometimes, when someone says « Have a nice day » I’m tempted to reply « Sorry, I’ve already made alternative arrangements » just to see if they react. So far, I have managed to resist that temptation.
If you are elderly and it's a good supermarket, they should ask you if you need help with packing your grocery. Also if you need help with them to the car. Worked in a supermarket and that was drummed into us. We were told to ask all customers if they needed help packing. Xx
The cashier usually asks me at my local supermarket if I need help bagging. I usually say no to this, as I can do this myself with ease and skill, and how I like it too.
The “Breakfast” is because all weddings under law of 1837 had to be conducted before lunch. So the wedding meal was always breakfast. Though modern law allowed marriages to be conducted anytime. We by tradition still call the meal breakfast.
Someone told me it was because it was your first meal of your married life. Your reason seems more likely!
When I got married 1983 the priest fitted us in at 17:50. But close to the wedding he found out that if we didn't have the vows said by 18:00 the wedding would not be legal. So we could have ended up married in the eyes of the church but not in the eyes of the law.
In. Catholic church before the 1980s you could eat before mass. Mass was said at wedding so no food before wedding
@@grahamsmith9541 I don’t think the legal bods give two hoots about the vows. As long as you have the paper signed in front of witnesses and the registrar, you’re okay. 🤗
@@AlBarzUK As long as the registrar is willing to risk their job.
Bagging your own stuff you soon learn heavy at the bottom and light on the top ... it creates character! ;-)
My first time buying groceries in the USA the cashier asked me Plastic or Paper thinking this meant Card or Cash I replied Paper. Carrying three Paper bags taught me a very important lesson.
In the run up to Christmas first or second class doesn't matter. The volume is so great they just put everything in together.
I'm a 63-year-old from southern England, and I was definitely familiar with the term "wedding breakfast" but I think it's quite an old-fashioned phrase. I don't recalling hearing anyone actually use it in conversation since I was a kid. I remember it occurs in the lyrics of the children's song "Froggy Went A-Courtin" which we had on a Wally Whyton LP.
In the US, the government has all the info it needs and could provide you with a prefilled income tax form for you to sign. It is lobbying by tax accountants that keeps the system complicated and so needing an accountant in the US.
Yeah, all about making money out of us.
I don't know if many people do this, but I have not used a plastic bag for my groceries for many years. I have a banana box (big cardboard box the bananas are kept in at the supermarket) with another large cardboard rectangular shape cut to fit inside the base of the banana box so it's very sturdy with no holes at the bottom and I keep at least one in the car at all times with me to use for groceries.
Also another tip for bagging your groceries is that the things you want to go at the bottom of the box, e.g canned foods or heavy large items, you always put those at the front on the conveyor belt so those will get scanned first and go in the bag/box first and things that are delicate like crisps or eggs that you don't want to get crushed go at the very end of the conveyor belt so they end up on the top of your groceries.
Just about one minutes worth of planning at the beginning saves you 5 minutes of messing about at the end and with no plastic bags, which will probably end up in a landfill site or worse, around some poor dolphins head.
On posting letters in the UK. In the run up to Christmas Royal Mail’s priority is to get the mail delivered so it is not tiered over that period. So the only difference between sending letters at Christmas is if you send them First Class then you pay more. First and Second Class post over Christmas are both processed at the same speed.
If you shop at Aldi or Lidle they are superfast at the checkout. Other supermarkets are often a bit more relaxed in terms of speed and will usually offer to help you bag items as well.
But in Aldi or Lidl you’re not meant to bag at the till, you put your shopping back in the trolley and then once you’ve paid go to the bagging area to sort it out.
You can in practice hold a wedding ceremony anywhere - you'll just need to pop to the local council registary office to have an official wedding later on (or before) - quick 15min job can be with just a witness in attendance.
Try going to Aldi they encourage you to put your shopping back in your trolley and bag it either at the bench provided or at your car.
wendy kelly ha ha yeh I think the cashiers set themselves a challenge on their speed.!!
I always ignore that and just pack
We sometimes have someone bagging for a charitable donation but I’d rather do it myself and give them a donation anyway.
My thoughts entirely. Can't stand someone bagging my stuff. A non issue now in a pandemic (or possibly ever more).
As an American, she should know we have separate classes of mail as well. And we have different stamps.
And there's always a toast at a wedding breakfast 😂
Cool. Because l frigging love Toast. Especially at formal gatherings. Why wouldn't u. Hahaha. Hilarious 🍞🥞🧇🥯🫓🥖
@@theboywithathorninhisside.4179 A toast is having a drink you know...
@@c4715 You know what? I think he does. The Hahaha and the emojis give it away.
About official licensed wedding ceremony venues, this was one reason the duchess of Netflix was caught out, when she said they were married in a garden, that’s isn’t possible in England.
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches Yes I know, but not the garden they mentioned.
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches and even if the licensed venue has a garden, the marriage has to take place inside a building.
Try and buy a book of 1st and 2nd class stamps ( x6 or x12) and keep them in purse/wallet as they never go out of date.
I think the only ones that do are special Christmas ones or ones with a theme on them.
@@Oddballkane There's no time limit on stamps as far as I know. You can use Christmas stamps the following Christmas. There's no use by date.
Yeah, stamps dont expire....the issue with some special issues is if they have a value stated on them rather than saying 1st or 2nd as if the cost of a service changes they normally devalue.
I am still using Xmas stamps from 2015. As a Royal Mail employee we get 50 stamps every Xmas.
Ah you must be a youngster - I still remember when the stamps had a price on them and if they cost of postage went up, you would have have to buy a 1 or 1/2p stamp to make up the difference!
Ha bless you, everywhere in Europe you gave to bag your own shopping.. as you may have experienced by now!
I actually love that photo of the RM behind you, I day a colour splash with bus in red and the rest in mono, I might go back and re-edit, another great vlog, im fascinated between the 2 countries, and you mainly explain it very well from your perspective
There are actually three classes of postage stamp in the UK. Red stamps are first class, blue are second and then there are brown stamps for 'standard' class postage. Brown stamps are not used on letters though as they don't cover the minimum cost of postage. They are most commonly used as additional stamps on things like parcels to increase the price of the postage to cover the cost of the extra weight.
I've never heard of brown stamps. Are you sure you're not just talking about 5p stamps?! They're a sort of brown colour.
In most large grocery stores in the UK, if you are on your own, the cashier will ask you if you need help bagging. I always use the self scan app so I can scan, bag as I go, pay and leave.
This is a great video. It's the little, everyday, things that can drive you nuts!
It's far easier to just put everything straight back in your trolley as it's scanned. Take it to the bagging area, you can then separate and pack your items as needed without holding up the queue. We sometimes have charity groups in a store fundraising, they will ask and help you pack for a small donation. Uk post is more complicated than just first or second class now. Each class also has size or weight limits to determine cost. You may have seen a test board with slots to check which envelope or package size you need pay for. Then you also have Recorded Delivery, Tracked Delivery, Insured Amount post etc, for sending small but valuable items.
Honestly, being slow at a supermarket checkout is up there with queue jumping! lol Bless you.
Bagging in the US... the first time I ever went to a supermarket and picked up the bagged stuff, as I started to walk out with the groceries, the girl bagging my stuff said, "Come back now!" I immediately thought, "What's the problem?" and turned back only to see she was not taking any notice of me. Then I realised it was an _invitation_ to return to that shop some time in the future. Bagging in Germany... the cashier takes absolutely no notice of you whatsoever, says nothing, and literally throw the goods over his/her shoulder for you to bag. Payment is also conducted in complete silence by the cashier.
One supermarket chain in Germany (can't remember which, but it could have been Walmart when they were trying to launch in Germany) tried to introduce staff bagging your stuff for you, and it was a *total* failure. German people really hated it.
Thanks for the video. Very interesting to hear these differences.
Occasionally you will have a bagger in the UK, usually a charity drive, most people feel really uncomfortable, refuse to make eye contact, and bag them, themselves anyway...
but many donate anyway
I'm usually ok with it if it's the Scouts or the Sea Cadets - otherwise, I'm with you!
I did this for the charity Sue Ryder, even if they did it themselves they still put coins in my bucket
"Bag your own groceries" - LOL, but so true. The US taxes both amazed and was new to me (like the car MOT)....
Put the trolley (cart to you guys across the pond) at the end of the checkout, pile the shopping back into the trolley, and pack it away from the checkout.
They will bag your groceries if you ask them but normally you would only ask if you were infirm. I always had to ask the cashier to help open the bags because static can cause them to stick together.
1st and 2nd class are for Britain/UK if you post something to another country you have to weigh it then you will receive the stamp or stamps depending on the postage and you be given an air mail sticker that’s how I use do things when I posted letters to penpals in the 90s and early 2000s.
A really good way to get the checkout person to slow down a bit is... just to ask them to slow down a bit.
I was confused in the States when returning a car to an airport. I was asked whether I wanted a valet service and thought that they were offering to clean the car!
Catholics used to fast from midnight before receiving holy communion. People always got married in the morning and then had a wedding breakfast. Same for first Holy communion breakfast. In 1958 my first holy communion mass was at 7.30am. Then we all.had boiled eggs in the convent afterwards at the firstvholy communion breakfast. Also a nuptial mass was held early in the morning followed by the wedding breakfast. People invent all sorts of explanations but this is the origin of the traditions . You actually were more on point with your understanding than most. Great videos. I enjoy them so much . ❤
I always put my things in order I want them to be scanned and bagged - and watch how the cashier goes through an extra mail to grab something from the furthest point she can reach, thus ruining the whole thing. Self-scanning is even worse if you do a big shop because you cannot take anything off the end and put it into the bag until you have finished shopping. That's because there are sensors that alert the supervisor and lock the system until you have proved you didn't steal anything. There's also the pressure of other shoppers judging me if I am too slow, so in the end, I'll just throw everything in any which way. I do try to put heavy things into my rucksack and frozen things into their own bag, but organising them while the queue is growing and everyone is watching you...
The having to bag your own shopping thing I think is how it goes in most of Europe. People wouldn't really think to mention it probably cause for us it's the most normal thing in the world to do it ourselves.
US grocery chains really want to adopt it because it will allow them to cut payroll by about 30%.
Great video! Has made me miss a few things from uk, especially as it’s US tax season 😫 As a Brit in the US I had the exact opposite revelation at the supermarket. I turned up with my reusable bag and insisted that I was capable of packing it myself, I realised later that I must have come across pretty rude, the poor bloke was just trying to do his job!
We aren't from USA and our family did the same thing. We all stood staring at the groceris. All the groceries were piling up then mum said, "ah yes, now I remember, here you have to pack it yourself"
Did you not notice other people bagging there own shopping?
Re food shopping. Bag everything before you pay. The checkout staff will not wait. So many times I've been the next inline and had to ask them to wait.
I always put my shopping back in the trolley(cart), and then bag it away from the till.
Interesting as ever. With regards to the maniac cashiers, if I use a trolley (cart) I leave it at the end and when the shrapnel of my shopping is lobbed at me, I just drop it straight back in the trolley and bag it when paid for away from the till. This saves on the dagger looks from the Karens waiting to kill you if you take too long.
Aldi and Lidl actively encourage this behaviour. There's always a ledge near the window just past the till (the packing shelf) where you can pack your bags at your own pace.
That’s a good idea.
Can't do that if using a basket.
You can apply for anywhere to be licensed for a wedding, often just as a one-off.
Can’t stand having my bags packed for me. I want to know what I put in each bag. Frozen stuff together in a bag. Chilled raw together in their own bag. Chilled cooked or dairy together in another bag. Fruit in a bag. Veg in a bag. Cleaning stuff on their own. Crisps on their own. Personal care on their own. Crisps on their own. Simples.
So what size of skip do you carry around then?? Lol 😎😎🏴
@@pavitashergill8308 well, if you’re Scottish. You understand what doing the “big shop” is.
@@InsatiableCuriosity-q9s 👍💯🏴🍺🍺🍹
Agree. Don't want my loaf of bread squashed into a giant pita, or soap products in with flour or sugar or anything that will take the flavour, eggs or crisps under the tinned stuff, meat packets next to anything I'm going to eat.
@Sarah Hardy - Supermarket staff are supposed to be trained to pack bags the correct way (basically the way that you said do it). Even my online shopping is delivered sorted the right way (Morrisons and Sainsburys at the moment!).
First and Second class stamps are a bit like getting a taxi or a bus. Getting a taxi is faster and costs more. It takes you to exactly where you want to go, directly. But sometimes you may have to wait for a taxi if they are all busy. Getting a bus is dependent on when it will come. You may get on one straight away, or you may have to wait half an hour. You may need to change bus routes halfway through to get to where you want to go, and you may need to walk a couple of blocks when you get off to get to your destination.
I enjoyed your comment about first and second class post. Yes, we even manage to bring class into the mail system, and I can understand why you were confused. Second class post is not much slower than first class in my opinion, but does one want to send a card or letter to a friend or relative by 'second class'? They might be offended. Going off on a tangent, there are still 'first class' seats on mainline railways (waste of money generally, I think). Before 1965, there used to be 'third class' as well, but no 'second class'. This was because Victorian statute law required railway companies to run minimum third class services at a limited fare, and then companies competed by improving third class services and so a distinct second class fell out of use. Legend has it that, during the war, German spies inserted into the UK sometimes gave themselves away by trying to buy a second class railway ticket.
Usually in the UK at least in my area the cashier will ask if you need help with your bagging along with if you need bags, only time I have ever seen anyone on the end to help with bagging is the scouts or guide groups.
You also need a different more expensive stamp if your envelope is classed as Large ie:, the dimensions or thickness, there is a template they test it with. I buy a book of 2nd class stamps from Tesco and keep them, they never expire even if prices change, I hate queuing for stuff.
Funerals are strange the meeting afterwards is called the wake , bun fight, funeral supper, and probability another 20 difftent names depending on where yiur from
And if you go aldi there is no time to bag up you put in trolley and pack elsewhere
Turns into a game of Tetris then!
I started applying for a job at Aldi a little while ago, then it turned out they don't do that just to p*ss you off, they have set performance figures for every job in the store, and if the cashiers don't shift things fast enough, they can be "disciplined" in some way.
Yeah. And lidl too. Damn that’s ducking crazy. I’ve moved here a couple of years ago and after a while I thought maybe I should try lidl as well. Damn my surprise when I saw it was a lvl 10 Tetris game at the end of the register. We have lidl back home but o don’t remember it to be like this, but maybe I’m to used to Morrison and tesco.
When you feel confident enough, maybe after ten years, you could try packing your shopping in ALDI, free workout everytime, it's the only gym i attended through lockdown.
You can get married anywhere, however that is mostly a ceremonial wedding , you need to register it at a registrar, but some places are licenced so that becomes both
I think that used to be the case for anywhere that was not a C of E church. ie Synagogue, Mosque, Temple, even RC churches at one time.
These days in New York you have to bring your own bags (no more plastic ones provided by the supermarket) and you also have to bag your own groceries. So things are definitely changing!
I didn't know about 'wedding breakfast' until my own wedding. Our venue lady explained it to us !
It's not technically about breakfast being the first meal of the day, but literally about breaking a fast.
@AUA-cam User It's the same thing: "Breaking your fast" after not eating due to getting married.
@AUA-cam User Go on then, explain.
@AUA-cam User but he’s not wrong, regardless of the wedding traditions, the term breakfast means to break your fast so even if your first meal of the day is at 12 it’s still breakfast.
@AUA-cam User u ask my grandmother she's 75 and never heard wedding Breakfast. She's always none it as wedding reception.
I thought it was a “wedding breakfast” because it’s the first meal as a married couple
I've never heard it called a wedding breakfast in my life! It must be specific to certain areas of the UK (although I grew up just outside London).
I'm Australian, and Wedding Breakfast is used here by some people. Others refer to the Reception.
Wedding breakfast is the traditional name for the official wedding meal across the UK.
@@clairey31207 I've honestly never heard the phrase before. It's just a reception to me.
It's a term my mother uses, she came from the East End, I think it's an outdated now.
I had never heard the phrase until I came to Australia. I wonder if it's mainly an Irish (Catholic) thing? The Irish had a much greater cultural influence in, say, the 19th Century in Australia than they had in England and Wales.
I collect a scanner at the shop entrance, scan and pack as I go around the shop.
My 7yr old registered my card to use the handset and showed how to scan. Bless
That is a newly introduced concept, on not widely available. Only my Sainsbury's Savacentre has that option.
But avoid the pit of despair that is the self service checkout!
If I remember correctly ( going back 50+years) was for unsealed mail. Such as birthday cards etc. I believe the 8:16
The higher price covered the more serious stuff.
I think, not sure, ( long time ago)
That the government used the lower cost for certain of their mailings in the brown envelopes.
I hope you have got loading the checkout conveyor belt sorted, it helps enormously with packing your bags. frozen produce all together so you can fill your thermal bag easily. heavy items first for the bottom of the bags and eggs last. Or you could just put your stuff in the trolley and bag up at your car.
I think one shop did for a while but we are British we do it ourselves some shops like Lidl you need or should move to the back or somewhere and do it there!
Some people do have to fill in take retunrs but the end of our tax year is 5th April. But you can do this online.
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The wedding breakfast is usually for the groom and best man to get a fry up and shake off the hangover
Hahahaha, I’m sure no English person used the words, “bag your own groceries.” Whenever anyone tries to pack my shopping I always ask them to let me do it. In fact I always go to the same cashier every Friday, because she knows my quirks!
The wedding breakfast is usually for close family and friends and the wedding party ie bride, groom, best man and brides maids/maid of honour. The reception is in the evening for the rest of the guests to join.
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I'm British and back in the 70s/80s was a 'bagger' in a US Store for the US Forces in Bavaria. I wasn't paid, just got tips from the customer, usually a dollar. It was more lucrative than one would think especially when the dollar/DM Mark exchange was high!
Wedding breakfast and the official venue are not the only differences in US vs UK weddings. In the UK, if the wedding is formal, it will be deemed a "morning affair", (even if it is held in the afternoon). Therefore the groom and his party will wear morning dress, consisting of grey pinstriped trousers, a tail coat, a grey tie or cravat, a waistcoat and, possibly, a grey top hat. In the USA it appears to be more of an evening event with the men wearing black tie and dinner jackets.
I guess I've not been to that many weddings then, because the term "wedding breakfast" was new to me and I'm a native! 😂
Iv never heard of wedding breakfast
@@mariacurtis9247 Good, it's not just me then! If weddings came with a full English I'd be gatecrashing them on a regular basis! 🤣
My British Aunt married an American and they arranged an actual Wedding Breakfast / Brunch the following morning for close family and friends.
I am English and yes, it used to be wedding breakfast years ago. I believe weddings were usually held early in the day and people just kept the name. You know us English like our traditions.
Lived in the UK for 73 years and never heard of a wedding breakfast!
You will notice on the stamp, no name of Country, because we were the first ones to do it, always has monarch's head on it.
Yes, the Penny Black.
And it doesn't have the price on it either. Just 1st or 2nd etc.
Top Supermarket Tip! Leave all the items that have to be weighed e.g. veg, till the end. They are much slower to process and it gives you time to catch up with the cashier. If you have enough of these items, you might even have to wait for them to finish. 1 - 0 for the customer. Yaaaaa!
Weddings, a Church of England, Church of Scotland, Church of Wales and Church of Ireland (in Northern Ireland) are registered for weddings and the clergy who conducts the wedding are licensed. However other denominations may have official arrangements or may need an Registrar to do the legal bit.
Hotels and wedding venues will need a Registrar there to officiate.
Scan and Go = best thing ever. Scan and bag your groceries as you shop, then just pay and leave.
Lived in the UK all my life and I still get that game show adrenaline kick in at the checkout not panic exactly but my heart rate definitely goes up. I even place my shopping on the checkout in a particular order so hopefully the frozen goods come together and the soft things come last etc. But if its a super fast lady/gentleman I still end up in a tizz with everything coming at me at once.
Just found your channel. I'm also American, living in London for 11 years now🙂
Hey Amy!! Awesome! You'll be on the same page with a lot of things I've experienced then! Excited to hear your own insights. Thanks for watching. :)
I've worked for the Royal Mail, 1st class and 2nd class are priorities, in heavy mail periods 1st class are always dealt with first for next day delivery then 2nd class is delivered a few days later, in light mail periods all 1st class are delivered next day and any capacity that 1st class hasn't used up is filled with some 2nd class and delivered next day as well, the remaining 2nd class post is then delivered like normal 2nd class post a few days later.
Posting we don’t have postal collections from our letter box (mail box) like you guys 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍
In the Victorian era (where most modern wedding customs come from), weddings could only be held in the mornings, by law. The celebration afterwards would therefore be held in the late morning, or early afternoon at latest. The name "wedding breakfast" comes from the idea that the couple would be too nervous to eat anything before the ceremony, so it was their first meal of the day.
Kaylen, you're great.
When shopping` we just grab a few bags and then dump everything in the trolly to pack them later. The most annoying thing is when you can not get a bag to seperate or open. You can also buy AIR MAIL stamps and you can ask for Registered Mail .. if you want someone to sign for the mail at the other end od it`s journey.
The tax system for most here in the UK is called PAYE which stands for "Pay As You Earn" and makes it very easy.
If you shop at Aldi, you can't even bag it at the checkout. The rule is, you chuck it back in you trolley then move away from the checkout to bag it somewhere else.
You can ask the cashier to bag things for you.They will do it. Depends if you want to keep certain things separate 'though. it does seem that the cashier is more experienced at bagging groceries.
We don’t say groceries in England we say going to the supermarket to do the shopping. Grocery is a department in a supermarket. You pack your own shopping in Britain only the elderly and disabled receive assistance with bagging their shopping. National Insurance etc is taken out of your wages it will show on your wage slip. You get a p60 at the end of each financial year.
We do say groceries lol.....and you can get your shopping packed, just ask .
Groceries sounds a bit old fashioned in England, reminiscent of shopping at a Grocers.
@@RoyCousins Folks go for messages in Scotland , that's what they call Groceries.
Similar to French then.@@duncancallum
As a brit, who has been to multiple weddings, I had no idea what a wedding breakfast was until it came to looking in to start planning my own wedding and was getting really confused as to why on earth we would have a breakfast at a wedding. However, thinking about it, I would not complain about an actual breakfast, wedding and a fry up sounds pretty decent.
In France, we have also two types of stamp, for usual letters (not special ones) : the green, slower and more ecologic transports, in two working days. The red, faster, in 1 working days. But there's others stamps for foreign countries, that may be you didn't noticed in the US (who write abroad, isn't it ? :-) )... LOL