As soon as women unite, men are unlucky!

In the next few days, Hong Tao did not have a day of leisure, every day by this group of women army to go to the largest shopping mall in Buffalo, wandering in various specialty stores, this shopping mall is called FashionOutlets, which translates to "pop outlets", sounds familiar, right? It seems that there is also a hypermarket with this name in Beijing, but it is not a chain store, so it doesn't matter.

The vast majority of the clothes and shoes sold in this outlet in Buffalo are local American brands, covering a very large area, and the interior decoration is also quite high-end, the best thing is the price, according to Pan and Katie, the two rotten girls who are very clear about the popular market, the price of most of the goods here is more than 3% cheaper than the famous Woodbury Outlets Woodbury hypermarket in New York, which is worth having.

But Hong Tao was not without gains, he found a delicious delicacy, which is said to be a Buffalo specialty, called Buffalo Spicy Chicken Wings. This thing is a bit like our domestic spicy wing tips, that is, the fried chicken wing tips are paired with different sauces, the taste is a little sour, with a spicy taste, it is a little strange when you first eat it, and it is still relatively good after eating a few bites.

Spicy chicken wings not only taste good, the price is also quite fair, a bucket of spicy chicken wings 50, only sold for 27 US dollars, almost enough for Hong Tao to eat this kind of meal for 2 people, if you add some French fries, cola black tea, onion burritos or something, can be shared by 4 people, it is really delicious and not expensive.

And while eating this spicy chicken wing, you can also do something else. There was a computer-like thing on the table in these chicken wing shops, and at first Hong Tao thought it was a machine for ordering meals, but he turned out to be a turtle again, and Erin told him that it was a special device for placing bets, on which you could bet on the Buffalo ice hockey team and the football team, watching TV, eating, and waiting to count or lose money.

In addition to visiting the shops, there is also a place where both men and women who want to get married must go. That's the Cottage of Love. Speaking of freshness, this kind of love hut is much more attractive to Hong Tao than any hypermarket, mainly because he has never seen this kind of service organization in China.

Love's cottage is actually an ordinary two-story building, with a blue roof, blue fence, white walls, and the floor tiles on the grass outside are heart-shaped, and there are Chinese and English love words on it. There is also a stone sculpture outside the house, on a rock stands two birds nestling with each other, and the words are carved on the rock: LoveBloomsHere!

Love spreads here!

The cottage is a bit like a complex of a domestic wedding company and a marriage registry, where couples come to the church to make an appointment and pick up everything they need for their wedding. The staff here will be very patient and patient to answer all your questions. As long as it's related to the wedding, it's all free! Hong Tao, who has a good service attitude, is a little embarrassed.

To say that this American marriage is not much better than the Chinese, the cost of the wedding is not a lot, for example, if you go to the church to get married, you have to spend about $500 on the venue, and then rent a wide room or a venue with a good view, the rent is about $2,000, just have a venue is not enough, get a scale of 180 people. The cost of the buffet is about $4,000.

In addition, it costs $2,000 for a photoshoot, $1,500 for a band, $1,200 for flowers and cakes, about $5,000 for a wedding ring, and more than $1,000 for a mid-range wedding dress, plus a mess of trivial things, almost $20,000.

Of course. This is just the cost of ordinary people marrying their daughters, and families with poor conditions can also save some when they have a wedding, such as not providing a buffet, only providing a small snack cake or something. No one will say anything, and Americans basically don't have any requirements in terms of food, and they can't eat well.

Someone said. Didn't you buy all your wedding rings? Why do you still buy it! In fact, Hong Tao didn't understand this truth before, it turned out that the one he bought was for the woman, and the woman had to buy another one for him, with the other party's initials and wedding date written on the inside, and gave each other at the wedding ceremony.

And there is also a custom in the Americans, that is, the bride's wedding dress must be newly bought, but the white veil worn on the head must be used by the mother back then, because they are superstitious about a new, an old, a blue, and a borrowed, which means that the bride must have a newly bought, an old thing, a borrowed thing, and a pure blue thing.

These four things can be mixed and matched at will, and there is no mandatory rule, but they are generally put together, because Westerners believe in the moral of these four things. A new means of course, to enter a new life; The old meaning is not to forget the nurturing grace of your father; The meaning of borrowing is to think about saving at all times; As for the blue, blue has many meanings in Europe and the United States, one of which is loyalty, which also symbolizes the loyalty of both parties to marriage.

The money is usually paid by the bride's family, but Sina is not so easy, he first has to buy the bride a diamond ring, which is an important object for the bride to show her girlfriends and friends. Then he has to bear all the expenses of the honeymoon, the rich die and travel all over the world, and those who don't have money have to find a beautiful place in the country to take the bride to live a sweet day for a few days.

However, compared with those young men and women in China, the bride and groom in the United States, especially the grooms, are still much happier, at least the young people here do not regard houses, cars and tickets as essential minimum expenses when they get married, and it is common to rent a house everywhere after marriage.

The happiest are their parents, who have been busy for most of their lives and have finally brought up their children, and they no longer have to save money to buy a house for their adult sons, let alone worry about marrying a daughter-in-law, put all their life savings into it, and finally have to end up with no one to rely on!

In addition to arranging the wedding, Hong Tao and Erin also went to the city hall in Buffalo to register their marriage. Originally, Hong Tao thought that it would be too troublesome to marry a girl from American imperialism, but he prepared all the materials he could prepare, and even asked someone to take his file out of the neighborhood office, and brought it to the United States together, and went to a qualified law firm for translation and justice, and even the domestic trustee brought the American lawyer's fees, which cost more than 3,000 yuan in total.

But the things that Hong Tao prepared were basically useless except for the Chinese ID card, and the chubby black aunt in the city hall didn't ask for any proof at all, just let him and Erin fill out a three-page form and find two witnesses to sign it.

Anything else Hong Tao is not easy to find, willing to give him as a witness N around, even if Boss Liu, Fat Boss, Wang Jian, Gao Miao these Chinese can not be a witness, old Gaier, Pavi, Harrison, Pan, Leicher, Zhou Xiaoli, these people with Canadian, European, Japanese passports can also be regarded as qualified witnesses, as long as their passports are registered.

After the most Hong Tao also found that there is a more humanized service here, when Hong Tao and Irene took about half an hour to complete the registration procedures, it came to the payment process, the entire registration process cost a total of 23 US dollars, then the kind black aunt suddenly asked Hong Tao and Irene if they wanted to buy a few more marriage registration certificates, Hong Tao let her ask confused, after some exchanges to figure it out, in addition to Hong Tao and Erin The marriage registration certificate here, in addition to Hong Tao and Erin, you can also buy an additional one, 5 US dollars a copy, Buy as many books as you want!

In order to confirm this authenticity, Hong Tao had the idea of being cheap and not taking advantage of the bastard, so he paid another $20 and bought two more sets. According to the habitual thinking of our Chinese, it is certainly right to use it when you are busy, and this certificate is not useless, if you want to travel abroad, handle some real estate procedures or something, you may need to show it, if you can have a few more copies in your hand, you don't have to worry about losing it and having to spend time and effort to go to the relevant departments to reissue, buddy has more in your hands!

The date of the wedding was set in a very, very spoofed date, November 11th! When Hong Tao first heard about this day, she thought that Sam was deliberately disgusting herself, but she inquired, and every foreigner in the room denied that there was such a so-called Singles' Day in their country.

Only then did Hong Tao realize that this time China was ahead of the world again, not only did it come up with a Singles' Day, but even the International Children's Day and May Day were not very international, and there were not many countries that really celebrated these two festivals, and the people of Britain, Germany and other countries basically regarded May Day as a day of strikes and demonstrations, while the United States did not have a Children's Day at all, but there was a Labor Day, but it was on September 1 every year.

Since Erin doesn't care about this Singles' Day, Hong Tao, a pure atheist, doesn't care even more, the wedding can be held on any day, and the date of November 11 is easy to remember, so as not to forget the wedding anniversary in a few years and have to complain about his wife, in his previous life, Hong Tao was criticized by his wife for these broken dates, such as what is the wedding anniversary, his wife's birthday, the anniversary of the official relationship, etc., Hong Tao sometimes even forgets his birthday, and he must not remember so many different dates.

In fact, before officially getting married, according to American custom, the bride and groom each have to hold a party to break away from the singles. The bride and groom each find their same-sex friends, and then find a venue to have a party to celebrate their imminent transition from single to married. Because according to the habit of Americans, once married, whether it is a man or a woman, everything must be focused on this small family, and it is difficult to have time to fool around with those lonely friends. (To be continued......)

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