Shadowing Practice: Why are weddings so damn expensive? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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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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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Why are weddings so damn expensive?”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: wedding, price, dress, dollar, vendors. Deze video bevat 18 zinnen en 820 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:30. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 182 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 84% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| vendor zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈvɛn.dɚ/ | leverancier |
| avocado zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/ | avocado |
| bouquet zelfstandig naamwoord | /buːˈkeɪ/ | boeket, ruiker |
| planner zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈplænɚ/ | planner |
| catering zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/ | catering |
| beverage zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | drankje, drank |
| steer werkwoord | /stɪɹ/ | besturen |
| gauge zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ | meter |
| bride zelfstandig naamwoord | /bɹaɪd/ | bruid |
| asymmetric bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌeɪ.səˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ | asymmetrisch |
| broach werkwoord | /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/ | doorboren, aantappen (van een vat) |
| florist zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈflɒɹɪst/ | bloemist, bloemenverkoper |
| napkin zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈnæpˌkɪn/ | servet |
| overwhelm werkwoord | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | overweldigen, overmannen |
| swindle werkwoord | /ˈswɪndəl/ | oplichten, zwendelen |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| let down werkwoord | teleurstellen |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg | if there's ever one picture will have |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is made · be let · be reflected |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | you've bought · we've put |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 17 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, gonna, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, asymmetric /ˌeɪ.səˈmɛt.ɹɪk/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: beverage /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, gauge /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, bride /bɹaɪd/, splurge /splɝd͡ʒ/, prospective /pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: planner /ˈplænɚ/, napkin /ˈnæpˌkɪn/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gauge /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, grocery /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als vendor, avocado, bouquet.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.