Finnish wedding

We were in Oulu, north Finland, for the wedding and I promised to tell you something more about the way weddings are done in Finland.

Well, it’s easy: nothing happens.

First, in Finland they dont’ kiss. The groom says yes, the bride says yes and nobody is kissing. And even more incredible (from the italian point of view) there’s no one screaming KISS, KISS, KISS. Cause it’s not just the groom kissing the bride, in Italy it’s everybody kissing the bride. You even kiss a bride that you randomly meet on the street, it’s for bringing them good luck (even if the groom sometimes might be not so happy about it).

But let’s understand the kissing thing: finnish are private person and they never kiss in public.
Do you want to know something about the food?
Here a typical finnish menu compared with an italian one.

The red crossed words are Ruoka and Kahvi: they mean Food and Coffee. In italy we have this long list about everything you are going to eat and here in Finland they just tell you that at some point there will be food and later coffee.
And soon you discover that everything, and not just the list, will be practical and concise. So you won’t get the standard amount of food of an italian wedding (a never ending amount of food) but a practical and concise version: a dish with something on it. So be prepared cause at the end of the party you need to go home and cook

Oulu

I’m going to Oulu for the first time this weekend. Oulu is a city in the north Finland (near Sweden) where you can go to study or probably to work and doing some Nokia stuff. We are going cause Johanna’s friend is getting married. Someone told me that finnish wedding are incredibly boring. The kind of parties that are not parties at all: no music, nobody’s dancing, maybe not even talking. Could be fun if someone gets drunk and then does something stupid. But as I told, never been there myself…we will see. And considering that I am also vegetarian and finnish cousine is about meat and fish, probably there won’t be anything to eat. It will be a good occasion to practice finnish language.
Pictures coming next week, we are back on Monday. I need to buy a new belt cause dress’ pants are too large: 10 points for my diet.

About my Tempur

I told you already that I bought this Tempur pillow. And I said also that it was expensive but extremely soft. Then…it seems that after coming home it changed and now it’s not soft anymore. Every time I wake up I feel so tired and my back is hurting. In the manual (cause this pillow has a manual) they say it’s normal…but how can it be normal?
Maybe I have to buy also the 2.000 Euro Tempur mattress?

I just started to write on the blog this morning and I don’t think there will be many readers so I can confess you a sin: yesterday I bought a new pillow and at the same price I could have bought a new sleeping room from IKEA.
But how I could resist? Honestly I didn’t understand much from the box (the text was in finnish) but the NASA certification was enough to convince me. I told my self “ok, it’s expensive but I’m sure I can use it during the honeymoon”
Find out more on Tempur website: www.tempur.com

Finally: the new blog is ready.
I think the title is good, so much better than the one in the italian version (Click here that in italian is clicca qui). It took a while to open this blog and I hope this time will be the last one. But I changed my policy.
Before was first in english then maybe in italian and finnish.
Now is first italian, then english and maybe in finnish too. Cause italian is still the only language I’m fluent in so it is so much better for me to write first in italian and then translate and publish on the other blogs.

Hi everybody

something about this blog. What I want to do here is write a diary about my experience in Finland. Help you discovering this wonderful land in the north of Europe and the noble people living here.

Mostly I will put pictures, videos and if I can, and I promise I will try, some more text. So…are you ready to start the journey?