1) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘weddings’? 2) Are weddings important? 3) What kind of weddings do you think are best? 4) Do you wish you could go to more weddings? 5) Why do many people not like weddings? 6) Do you think it’s easy or difficult to plan your own wedding? 7) What’s the best and worst wedding you’ve ever been to? 8) What are the best and worst things about weddings? 9) Do you think weddings in other countries are better than those in your country? 10) Do you think your wedding is the happiest day of your life? 11) Do you like weddings? 12) What kind of wedding would you like (have liked)? 13) Which celebrity wedding would you really like to go to? 14) What do you think of royal weddings? 15) What do people getting married in your culture promise each other in a wedding? 16) In your country, do people have to invite people they don’t like to their wedding? 17) What is the best part of a wedding: the ceremony, the vows, or the reception? 18) Do you think that one day, weddings will become a thing of the past? 19) What do you think of alternative weddings such as underwater weddings or weddings on the wing of a flying airplane? 20) What three adjectives would you use to describe weddings? 21) What is your attitude toward marriage? 22) Do you think it is important to get married before moving in with your boyfriend\girlfriend? 23) Will you feel comfortable living together without the official registration? What about having a baby? 24) Do you think parents should be married or it is not important? 25) What positive or negative changes take place in the life of a couple after marriage? 26) What is the best age for a man or woman to get married? 27) Can you tell me about the wedding traditions in your country? 28) What do you know about wedding agencies? 29) What services do they provide? 30) Would you address to a wedding agency for help or would you organize everything yourself? 31) How much does it cost to organize a wedding ceremony? 32) What are the main expense items? 33) What is your attitude toward a church wedding ceremony? 34) Do you think it is necessary? 35) Describe the wedding you've been to or heard about. 36) Who got married? What was the program of the day? 37) What were your impressions of that wedding? 38) What is your attitude toward wedding ceremonies? 39) What is better, to have a traditional wedding with guests invited, wedding dress and the banquet or to have just an official registration without any guests? 40) What are the pros and cons of organizing a wedding with guests, wedding dress and so on? 41) What gifts do guests usually give to the bride and groom? 42) What do you think is the best gift? 43) Have you heard of some unusual gifts given to a couple? 44) Describe a typical stag party\bridal shower 45) What presents are usually given to the bride on a bridal shower? 46) What is prenup? 47) What is usually stated there? What is your attitude to signing a prenup? 48) Do you think it is necessary? 49) What is your attitude to same sex weddings? 50) In what countries are they legalized? 51) What is the divorce rate in your country? 52) What are traditional grounds for divorce? 53) When was the last time you attended a wedding? Who was getting married? 54) How often do you attend weddings? More than once a year? Less than once a year? 55) How do you feel about attending weddings? Are they boring, interesting, a waste of time? 56) When you’ve been invited to a wedding, do you go out and buy a suit/dress and/or a pair of shoes for the occasion? Why do some people feel that they have to do this? 57) After the wedding ceremony itself, in some countries there are wedding feasts or banquets. What happens after the wedding in your country? 58) What was the largest wedding you ever attended? Why was it a large wedding? 59) Have most of the weddings you’ve attended been formal or informal affairs? What different things happen in the two ceremonies? 60) At most of the weddings you’ve attended, have there been more family or more friends present? Which do you prefer? 61) Have you attended more church weddings or civil weddings? Which is more popular in your country? Why? 62) Is it typical in your country to organise hen partiesBrE (bachelorette partiesAmE) or stag nightsBrE (bachelor partiesAmE)? Have you ever been to one? Have you ever organised one? What usually happens during such parties? 63) Do you know of any cases of a shotgun wedding, that is, a wedding that is hurried or enforced, often because the bride is pregnant? 64) Is it customary in your country to give a gift if you are invited to a wedding? What about money? 65) Would you like to have a big formal wedding or a small friendly one? Why? 66) Do you enjoy going to weddings? 67) When was the last time you went to a wedding? Whose wedding was it? What did you do? 68) What's the best part of a wedding ceremony? 69) Don't you think that wedding day is just a day like every other days? 70) What are the common steps of a wedding ceremony in your country? 71) What unusual wedding ceremonies have you heard of (under water,…)? Would you like to have one? 72) How weddings have changed from past to the present? How will they be different in future? 73) What makes a happy marriage? 74) How does the idea of getting married make you feel? Excited? Scared? Happy? Nervous? 75) What do your parents tell you about getting married? 76) Some people say that marriage is outdated (too old-fashioned and not needed), do you agree or disagree? 77) Describe your perfect spouse. 78) What do you think married life will be like? 79) When do you plan on getting married? 80) What do you want your wedding to be like? 81) What are some wedding traditions in your country? 82) What do you think of arranged marriages? 83) Is there a secret to a happy marriage? What is it? 84) What would you say makes a good husband? 85) What would you say makes a good wife? 86) How long should a couple date before getting married? 87) What is the best age at which to get married? 88) How much of an age difference is possible between a married couple? 89) Many couples choose never to get married. Do you think this is a good idea? 90) Why has the divorce rate increased in many countries in recent years? 91) Is it better to have children before or after getting married? 92) Is the main purpose of marriage to have children? 93) Should unhappy couples stay together for the sake of the children? 94) Do men or women benefit more from marriage? 95) Should marriage be for life? 96) Does getting married mean less freedom? 97) Is it possible for a married couple to live separately? 98) What do you think of prenuptial agreements? Would you enter into one? 99) Do you think couples spend too much money on their wedding ceremonies? 100) Why do celebrity marriages nearly always fail?

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