Before the parents meet, determine the time and place, the topics to discuss after the meeting, and prepare gifts. When meeting, both parties should DRESS appropriately, without loss of etiquette, and the couple should introduce their family members to each other briefly.
1. Set a time to meet
Parents of both parties should meet at a time when the couple and both parents are free. If the two families are in different cities, they can choose whether to invite the man or the woman according to local customs, and the inviter should accommodate the time of the invitee as much as possible.
2. Decide where to meet
The meeting of both parents is generally to talk about marriage issues, so the choice of location should not be too casual and noisy. The meeting place should be arranged in an elegant and quiet environment.
The couple can choose a Chinese restaurant with more solemn decoration, a western restaurant with a bourgeois atmosphere, a quiet cafe and the husband's home according to their parents' habits.
3. Decide on a general topic to discuss
Whether it is a new person or a parent, the face of the future may become a family, the heart must still be a little nervous. In order to prevent awkward, cold situations when parents meet, both parties can draw up some topics to discuss.
Such as determining the right day to get married; The specific etiquette of welcoming a bride; The man's dowry and the woman's dowry; Requirements for wedding and wedding venues; If you have not yet bought a house, choose what area to buy a new house according to your parents' opinions. Try to communicate some ambiguous things clearly, do not lose etiquette on the day of the wedding.
4. Prepare gifts
Whether you meet at the hotel or at home, the gift must be prepared, which is related to the parents of both sides of the future daughter-in-law or son-in-law of a basic impression. You can send according to the preferences of the other parents, you can choose more traditional tobacco, wine and ham; More petty bourgeois quality tea, coffee; More intimate sweater, scarf; More decent bracelets, necklaces and other jewelry.
5. Dress appropriately
Parents of both sides meet generally more formal, therefore, in addition to the couple should be dressed appropriately when meeting, both parents should also be dressed appropriately. Too casual dress will leave a bad impression on each other, is not conducive to the future of the two families to get along.
6. Personnel introduction
When parents meet, their children introduce each other. The introduction time should not be too long, the content should be concise, so as not to have a sense of favoritism.
7. Be polite
When the parents of both sides meet, they can first greet the future in-laws, and the host extends his hand to welcome them. Couples should sit gracefully, maintain a dignified posture, do not lower their heads when talking to their parents, look at each other, express what they want to say generously, and be natural and sincere.