The strange phenomenon of rural banquet: it costs more to ask for a one-stop table, why not ask the villagers for free help?
Moreover, I am relatively free at home. After lunch, we can get together for dinner, and our relatives and friends don't have to rush home.
But now many banquets in rural areas are contracted by comrades in charge, and they are no longer prepared by themselves.
Two days ago, a colleague went back to his hometown to attend a banquet. He felt a lot when he went back to the banquet this time.
On the wedding day, his cousin invited him to the wedding. He felt that relatives should be busy helping each other, so he wanted to take the initiative to help his cousin, because there must be a lot of chores to help on the wedding day.
Unexpectedly, his cousin said that he invited a professional team to take charge of the whole banquet.
His brother had planned to have more than a dozen tables, but later he had too many relatives and friends and added five more tables.
They discussed with the person in charge at that time and finally took it at the price of a table in 500 yuan. This 500 yuan doesn't include food and drink, so it's extra.
After careful calculation, if you want to open 20 tables, you will have to spend at least 1 10,000 yuan in labor costs. These people have earned 10 thousand just by providing some tables and chairs.
But my friend thinks this money is relatively deficient, because it is related to people who grew up in the countryside. In the past, people in rural areas were always treated by their own families, including dishes and tables.
Such a sum of money can be saved completely, and the cost of your own operation is estimated to be controlled within 5000 yuan.
Moreover, in the countryside, if someone was a big guy, they would help, so it was easy for many people to exert their efforts.
And the key point is that neighbors have a very good relationship and will not accept money. This will save thousands of dollars for each banquet.
This money is still a big expense for rural people.
Then why do rural people now prefer to spend a lot of money to hire professionals to contract rather than ask relatives for help?
First, people become lazy.
The main reason is that young people are getting lazy now.
As we all know, there are many dishes to be prepared before the banquet, as well as drinks and tableware.
Greet relatives and neighbors before each banquet and ask them to come and prepare early.
Moreover, it is impossible for ordinary rural families to have so many tables and chairs at home, and they need to borrow tables from relatives and friends, probably because young people now remember so many processes.
These need to be handled by yourself, and it is more troublesome to think about it.
So they may be more willing to pay someone to host, so they just need to participate in the whole process, do nothing and be happy.
In the past, most rural children stayed at home to help their parents with farm work because of poor conditions, so it was very hard for them from an early age.
Nowadays, most young people have grown up under the care of their parents and have never done any hard work since childhood. Nowadays, young people have no ability to cater to it.
Second, the number of people has decreased.
Secondly, because most rural people flock to cities now, those who stay in the countryside are some old people and children, and some young rural people will go to cities to make money.
With the decrease of rural population, there is no happy event at home, and no suitable person can be found for help at the moment.
It takes a lot of manpower and physical strength just to prepare the dining table chair, and few people do it, which is very tiring and time-consuming.
Third, the human touch has disappeared
In the past, the neighborhood relationship was very harmonious, and everyone had a hard time, so everyone would share anything good, but now most people have good living conditions.
Many people are busy with their work and life, and their feelings for each other are slowly fading.
Neighbors and friends may have little contact in the past. If there is any difficulty, they may not find anyone, and some neighbors are unwilling to take the initiative to help.
Now that the human feelings in the countryside are gradually fading, this kind of thing should also be returned.
If you go to help her family hold a banquet today, then if you come to the banquet, your family won't help.
There will be bad blood between you, and your relationship will get very bad.
And many people don't want to face this embarrassing scene, so they don't want to take the initiative to find someone to help, preferring to spend money to solve this matter.
Summary:
I think people who intend to get married must prepare enough funds, so they are ready to go bankrupt. Instead of working hard, they might as well prepare some money for professionals to handle.