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International sociological research based on demographic data has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic significantly shaped the way of getting married. According to this research, varying from minimal to dramatic, there was a decrease in marriage rates worldwide. The marriage rate in Hungary showed a different picture. The number of weddings increased by 3%. It can also be seen that the number of marriages per month during the pandemic tended to decrease in periods of severe restrictions and lockdowns and to increase in periods of temporary loosening. While the period of restrictions was character- ized by civil ceremonies and micro-weddings, the period of loosening the restric- tions saw a mixture of large and tiny weddings, with or without civil marriages. So, people did not postpone or proceed with their weddings but tried to stick to their original plans despite, or rather besides, the changed circumstances;or, abandoning certain expectations and inventing new ones, they rescheduled their wedding. Based on my digital anthropological research, this paper raises questions: why did some people get married during the lockdown periods, or why did others postpone their weddings until after the restrictions were loosened? In the following, I aim to explore the modified wedding practices adapted to newer circumstances and analyze the ways of selecting and constituting the wedding "tradition" ("bricolage of traditions").
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COVID-19-related restrictions had an enormous impact on weddings in 2020. For three months, weddings were effectively prohibited, and requirements for social distancing, hand-sanitising and face coverings existed throughout England and Wales for the rest of the year. In August 2020, we conducted a survey of couples who were planning to marry between March and December 2020. This article focuses on how many respondents had postponed their wedding, and what they said about their reasons for doing so. We analyse their responses according to the significance attached to three alternative meanings of a wedding: an event for family and friends, a traditional ceremony that has to be conducted in a particular way, and the individualistic 'perfect day'. We found that many couples attach considerable importance to who attends their weddings and that some traditions are very important to them, but few responses supported the notion that weddings are principally extravagant displays.
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The study aims to examine the impact of COVID-19 on the wedding industry. The nation-wide lockdown has negatively impacted majority of the sectors in the economy, However, the labour-intensive services sector was hit severely, and the wedding industry is one of them. The fear of spreading COVID-19 along with the government restrictions on the number of guests in wedding ceremonies have been the major factors. This led to a severe slowdown in the wedding industry. On an average, 1,000 people gather in urban and 800 people at a rural wedding. Guest restriction to 50 led to a decline value of the business by more than 90%, which ultimately created unemployment issues for the labour working in this sector. In the conclusion, the study suggested some future implications and directions for the wedding industry. © 2022 Institute for Human Development.
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Tying the Knot: The Formation of Marriage 1836–2020 Rebecca Probert Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021, xii + 283 pp (hardback £85), ISBN: 978-1-316-51828-1 Readers of this Journal will already be familiar with Professor Rebecca Probert's recent work, from her paper at the Ecclesiastical Law Society's ‘Solemnization of matrimony: past, present and future’ day conference in 2021 and her subsequent article, ‘Getting married: the origins of the current law and its problems’.3 Probert is the leading scholar on the history of marriage and family law and her previous significant works include Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century and The Changing Legislation of Cohabitation.4 She is also a specialist consultant to the Law Commission on their current Weddings Project. [...]it considers the evidence as to how couples actually married in this period. [...]it assesses to what extent the law has facilitated couples getting married in accordance with their own beliefs.
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Distance Education When I received my master's degree from Iowa State University, most of my classes were via distance learning. Students and Society Traditions Our students are missing out on special traditions that signify and celebrate their accomplishments and the focus on their growing independence and maturity. Free webinars, virtual meetings, health updates, school updates, e-mails, news releases, and expert opinions. What was coming into my head usually was from reliable sources-the president, the governor, the CDC, the FDA, the USDA, major medical experts, or professional organizations.
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Despite representing a recent world trend, wedding tourism felt a growth of 75% the past few years, which shows this market, specifically, the destination weddings niche, is proving to have an optimistic development and becoming a relevant topic in events tourism. The research objective analyses how the destination weddings have contributed for the development of events tourism in Portugal by examining what tactics are being utilised towards an international positioning. A quantitative method was used to achieve the objectives, being that two distinct surveys were elaborated, to foreign couples and another to vendors that take part in the industry. The data triangulation method was adopted with the goal of obtaining robust results by gathering a broader source of data. The results show that the destination weddings market contributes positively to the expansion of the events tourism in Portugal. Couples tend to choose Portugal for their climate, impressive sites and sense of intimacy, but the country needs to improve the transaction payments and present a wider range of advertisement. Regarding Covid-19, it had a negative influence mainly because most foreign couples decided to postpone or cancel the wedding. Copyright © 2022 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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The present study explored the online wedding invitation genre in Pakistan during the covid-19 pandemic. It analyzed the role of socio-cultural religious norms and beliefs in presenting such type of genre with linguistics and non-linguistics features. For this purpose, 120 online wedding cards were collected from Facebook from March, 27 to June 13, 2020. Theoretical and methodological traditions of Bhatia (1993), Miller (1984), and Swales (1990) were used to analyze the data. Grammar of visual design has been used by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) for non-linguistics features. It has been revealed by the genre analysis that there were eight moves e.g. opening, name of parents of bride and groom, a program for wedding, stay home, stay safe, looking forward, and names of the guests. It has been shown by the online wedding invitation cards that people of Pakistan follow the social, cultural, and religious norms when inviting people to their weddings. This study found the social and linguistics implications and enhanced the understanding of online wedding invitation practices during a state of a public health emergency. A comparison of different wedding practices can be done with Muslim society and some other countries like Jordanian wedding practices, Christian, Chinese, and Indian as well which can be used for future recommendations.
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Based on my digital anthropological research (nethnography, online surveys, and in-depth interviews) this paper will examine the individual decision-making processes and choices related to getting married during times of COVID-19 in Hungary. The paper raises questions about the extent to which these choices and decisions were individual and reflexive, and how they were influenced or restricted by legal structures and contexts. Using classical and contemporary social theories about decision-making (structuralist and reflexive approaches), on the one hand I aim to explore the structural and contextual circumstances of making decisions about whether to go ahead with, hold-off, modify, postpone, or cancel wedding plans. On the other hand, I study the individual 'decision horizons' as well. Through examining discourses surrounding weddings as well as through case studies, I look at how social actors identify and perceive their options and how they perceive and interpret the related structural constraints, contexts, and rules. The results emphasize that despite - or rather in the face of - changing circumstances, many couples sought new opportunities and new means of adapting, but in the meantime they recognized and interpreted the structural constraints that could potentially influence their weddings, maneuvered between them, or just overcame or circumvented them, and at other times sought to create new structures through their individual and community practices.