Career:Wedding planner
【明報專訊】It might be too early for students to think about tying the knot, but have you ever witnessed a lavish wedding party or banquet, and wondered how to organize such a fancy event?
What to do in a wedding?
A wedding planner is a professional event planner who designs, organizes and manages a wedding. They are responsible for a series of events related to the marriage, such as choosing the appropriate venue for the banquet, hiring wedding photographers, making wedding invitations and planning seat arrangements. Some of them help with the speeches, the wedding rings or even the couples' decision on the destination of the honeymoon.
How to be a wedding planner?
CAN you imagine how many things you need to prepare for a wedding? A wedding planner needs to be extremely organized and detail-minded to make sure he/she does not miss out any important details in the wedding. Everybody wants their wedding to be perfect, and sometimes they may get nervous. A wedding planner should also make sure that the bride and the bridegroom are not stressed out.
■English highway﹕Tie the knot
It means getting married.
e.g. Macy and Tommy tied the knot last year, but they could not throw a large wedding party owing to the pandemic situation.
■Watch this:Kids try wedding food from around the world!
Have you ever tried fruit cake from the United Kingdom or banh xu xe(夫妻餅) from Vietnam? Do you know that in some traditions, people taste vinegar, lemon, cayenne pepper, and honey to represent the sour, bitter, hot and sweet in a relationship? There are wedding traditions around the world, let's take a look at how the kids reacted to the wedding food from around the world!
youtu.be/RB3qUTagl7o
■Glossary
witness (v) 見證
banquet (n) 宴會
appropriate (adj) 合適的
destination (n) 目的地
[Smarties' Power English 第315期]