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<<Phone ringing"Hello?" I'm, uh, planning a wedding for next spring." "a quick quote for a venue for a family gathering" "between 120 and 130 guests." "for 125 people" "we're aiming for April 16th" "the 16th" "That's going to be a $15,000 food and beverage minimum" "The food and beverage minimum is $17,000." This 2000 dollar difference is what's known as the "wedding mark-up" where some venders charge a higher price for weddings than for other similar parties so why are weddings so expensive?
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The wedding website "The Knot"surveyed thousands of its members and found that the average cost of their weddings was thirty-one thousand dollars last year that's not including honeymoon wedding dresses average at thirteen hundred dollars and catering comes in its $68 dollars per person. And those numbers are a lot higher if you live in places like New York Chicago DC or San Francisco the wedding industry is kinda weird and it's an industry that I have quite a bit of experience in my way Isabel and I run a wedding videography business in Washington DC and here's my take on my way to so expensive There's this economic concept called asymmetric information. With most things you buy you have a pretty good gauge in what you're getting for what you pay for.
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you pretty sure that an 8 dollar avocado is way too much because you've bought avocados before. Familiarity with a market produces balanced information between buyers and sellers and so they can settle on a fair price This is like economics 101.
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but most people shopping for wedding stuff and very little if any experience with what they're buying.
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cake, dress, napkins, catering, venues, flowers.
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This is something you just don't buy very often so you have a very good gauge on what should be paying.
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This is made a lot harder by the fact that we wedding vendors have a hard time posting our prices. You usually have to reach out and inquire to get any sort of pricing information.
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Imagine if you had asked for pricing for every item in the grocery store. Shopping would be a lot harder. When I first was starting my business I read on a blogs about marketing to prospective clients.
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And overwhelming message that I kept reading is "steer away from talking about price" Blogger: "we've put together a free report that shows you how to answer "price question" with those email leads in a way that steers them away from price quickly so you can get them on the phone or to a meeting where you can book them!" And then there's Pinterest. Planning: "Pinterest can be really useful I think using it as a starting point" It's an amazing tool for wedding inspiration or if you have an experience wedding planner by your side, but usually doesn't help with the price question.
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"...and you see all these like amazing dresses and you can click on it to like get more information.
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you're going to get a lot more pictures , but you're not gonna find any pricing information. And of course there's always the option to "repin" it if you'd liked. If you are like a normal person with a budget like you're setting yourself up to be let down. Another thing that makes wedding so expensive is the once in a lifetime mentality.
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The classic line for brides shopping for a wedding dress is: Designer: "It's the dress of your life , and if there's ever one picture will have of you, it's the one in your wedding dress wedding dress." That's wedding dress designer and artist talking on Planet Money. I'm as guilty as anyone at this: Here's were very first ads. it's all about that once in a lifetime feel.
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It's just really hard not to splurge when you put so much weight into one day.
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So, it's easy to look at this and think there's no doubt that wedding vendors are ripping off their clients.
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But there's another side to the story that i think is important to mention.
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Planner: "Corporate flowers for example all there's probably going to be direction but maybe there's a little bit more flexibility where as a bride had dreamt up a certain flowers and she in want to talk to the florist multiple times about the bouquet and the ribbon treatment and the fact that her grandmother's broaches gonna be on that Bouquet.
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It's a lot of time and energy spent on those flowers and that's gonna be reflected in the price." The upshot of this is that the emotional weight of weddings usually means more work for vendors, and thus higher prices. And the most demanding clients are the ones that set the prices for everyone. So the best thing you can do to avoid being swindled is to demand the price range before hearing a sales pitch.
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we vendors might hate it but it's the fair thing to do.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Why are weddings so damn expensive?”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: wedding, price, dress, dollar, vendors. Questo video contiene 18 frasi e 820 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:30. Chi parla va veloce, circa 182 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| vendor sostantivo | /ˈvɛn.dɚ/ | venditore, venditrice |
| avocado sostantivo | /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/ | avocado, pera alligatore |
| bouquet sostantivo | /buːˈkeɪ/ | mazzo |
| catering sostantivo | /ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/ | ristorazione |
| beverage sostantivo | /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | bevanda |
| steer verbo | /stɪɹ/ | sterzare, guidare |
| gauge sostantivo | /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ | calibro, unità di misura |
| bride sostantivo | /bɹaɪd/ | fidanzata, sposa |
| asymmetric aggettivo | /ˌeɪ.səˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ | asimetrico |
| florist sostantivo | /ˈflɒɹɪst/ | fioraio, fioraia |
| napkin sostantivo | /ˈnæpˌkɪn/ | tovagliolo, salvietta |
| overwhelm verbo | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | sommergere |
| swindle verbo | /ˈswɪndəl/ | truffare, bidonare |
| videography sostantivo | videografia | |
| honeymoon sostantivo | /ˈhʌn.iˌmuːn/ | luna di miele |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| let down verbo | deludere, scontentare |
| put together verbo | assemblare, montare |
| reach out verbo | protendersi |
| rip off verbo | spiumare |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato | if there's ever one picture will have |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | is made · be let · be reflected |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | you've bought · we've put |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 17 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, gonna, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, asymmetric /ˌeɪ.səˈmɛt.ɹɪk/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: beverage /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, gauge /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, bride /bɹaɪd/, asymmetric /ˌeɪ.səˈmɛt.ɹɪk/, broach /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: planner /ˈplænɚ/, napkin /ˈnæpˌkɪn/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come vendor, avocado, bouquet.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.