How to get engaged in the States and Finland

Tags: Everything — Author: Phil @ 10:29 pm

The differences in culture and tradition are vast…

	United States	Finland
At what age to get engaged?	After college	As a teenager
How long to stay engaged?	6-12 months	Forever
What to get for the engagement?	A diamond ring	Nothing
Where to get engaged?	Restaurant, romantic location, or baseball stadium	In your bedroom
How to propose?	Get down on one knee…in front of all your friends and family	Discuss, debate
Females propose to males?	Wtf?	Yes, sadly
Why get engaged?	Pregnant!	Cause you’re drunk, or you’ve been living together for 15+ years
How to tell others about your engagement?	Pompous announcement to the world	Quietly wait until others, even your own parents, see a ring on your finger
Cost of the diamond?	3 months salary	Whatever is cheapest
The rings?	Diamond ring at engagement, wedding bands for marriage	Engagement bands a few days after proposal, diamond ring at marriage
Ask the father?	Yes	Who?
Where to get gifts?	Engagement Party	Future brides go door-to-door with a pillowcase to receive gifts

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Ji

Make me laugh to tears!! hahaha~
Mere

Who wrote that? That’s not all true, is it? I mean most to the stuff on the US side is, but I have no clue about Finns.
Anonymous

Mere, well, as a Finn I didn’t really see anything worth objecting to in the Finnish side of the table.
Mere

I certainly would have like to go door to door to get presents! I didn’t have an engagement party and since I elopped, we didn’t get presents. Oh well! I did get some money at my bridal shower/bachalorette party.
Anni

I suppose everything else is true on the Finnish side, but never heard of brides collecting presents with a pillow-case.
lea vartiala

yes thats them,they are quite good thieves and they get by on stealing from the old,sick and dying.they cant get children ,because markku cant get hard kulli,and leena has diseased,dry and smelly vittu,also vittu is now tooold and her back is far too bent.
Peter

1.) Are there existing legitimate consquences after you are oficially engaged, maybe over a lawyer ? For example financial implications when people have costs due to the engagement.

2.) Does have one of the engaged participant a legal right to marry the engaged partner ?

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