Wedding

A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of wedding vows by the couple, presentation of a gift (offering, ring(s), symbolic item, flowers, money), and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure. Special wedding garments are often worn, and the ceremony is sometimes followed by a wedding reception. Music, poetry, prayers or readings from religious texts or literature are also commonly incorporated into the ceremony.

Common elements across cultures

A number of cultures have adopted the traditional Western custom of the white wedding, in which a bride wears a white wedding dress and veil. This tradition was popularized through the wedding of Queen Victoria. Some say Victoria's choice of a white gown may have simply been a sign of extravagance, but may have also been influenced by the values she held which emphasized sexual purity. Within the modern 'white wedding' tradition, a white dress and veil are unusual choices for a woman's second or subsequent wedding.

Wedding (TV series)

Wedding (Hangul: 웨딩; RR: We-ding) is an 18-episode South Korean television drama that aired on KBS2 in 2005. The series explores the relationship of a newly wed couple, showing how two people, who met and married through an arranged matchmaking, slowly develop a relationship and learn what it means to be married. Some of the issues explored include what is the most important thing in a marriage, trust and honesty between a couple, how past relationships affect present, and the role of family in a relationship. Unlike other dramas written by Oh Soo-yeon, which focused on people falling in love by fate or destiny, this one is about two people with very different personalities, values, and backgrounds, and seeing how they learn to love one another despite all of their differences.

Plot

Berlin-Wedding station

Berlin-Wedding is a station in the district of Berlin with the same name and serves the S-Bahn lines S41 and S42 and the U-Bahn line U6.

S-Bahn station

Wedding S-Bahn station first opened on 1 May 1872. It is part of the Berlin Ringbahn, a circular line traversing many of the central districts of the city. The service, however, was disrupted in 1961 by the building of the Berlin Wall and Wedding S-Bahn station went out of use in 1980 after passenger numbers on the route fell to unsustainable levels.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, many disused S-Bahn routes were gradually reinstated. The section of line between the stations Westhafen and Gesundbrunnen, with Wedding as the only intermediate station, was the last of these to be reopened. This occurred on 16 June 2002, a date which was nicknamed Wedding-Day, a pun based on the clash of meanings of the word 'wedding' in English and German.

U-Bahn station

Wedding U-Bahn station first opened on 8 March 1923 along with the rest of the newly built line between the stations Stettiner Bahnhof (now Naturkundemuseum) and Seestraße. It was opened bearing the name Bahnhof Wedding (Wedding station), reflecting the fact that there existed interchange with the adjoining station served by long-distance trains. It was given its current name in 1972 as the station no longer existed, and has greatly increased in significance since 2002 when the interchange with the S-Bahn was reinstated.

Trade

Trade involves the transfer of the ownership of goods or services from one person or entity to another in exchange for other goods or services or for money. Possible synonyms of "trade" include "commerce" and "financial transaction". A network that allows trade is called a market.

The original form of trade, barter, saw the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services. Barter is trading things without the use of money. Later one side of the barter started to involve precious metals, which gained symbolic as well as practical importance. Modern traders generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or earning. The invention of money (and later credit, paper money and non-physical money) greatly simplified and promoted trade. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade between more than two traders is called multilateral trade.

Trade exists due to the specialization and division of labor, in which most people concentrate on a small aspect of production, trading for other products. Trade exists between regions because different regions may have a comparative advantage (perceived or real) in the production of some trade-able commodity, or because different regions' size may encourage mass production. As such, trade at market prices between locations can benefit both locations.

Trade (gallery)

Trade is an artist run initiative based in Nottingham, UK that has been running since 2008. Trade is curated by the artist Bruce Asbestos and Trade exhibits a range of artworks from performance to sculpture and artists video. The Trade gallery website also has podcast interviews with artists.

Gallery

Trade was listed as one of "the world's best secret art galleries" in 2011 by Alexander Farquharson of Nottingham Contemporary.

Trade shares gallery space at One Thoresby Street, Nottingham.

Exhibitions

Trade has exhibited the artwork of many artists including;

Stuart Sherman, Wasteland Twinning, Jaap Blonk, The Bongoleeros, Vile Plumage, W>A>S>P>S,Paula Roush (with Stewart Home),Phillip Henderson,David Sherry, Robin Deacon, Pyramidd.biz, Mermaid and Monster, Jackie Berridge, Tim Hattrick, Zachary Formwalt, Hannah Conroy, Katy Woods, Eastside Projects, Kelly Large,Beacon, Olivia Plender and Patrick Staff, Bubblebyte, Yelena Popova,Grandad Hill, Ewoud Van Rijn, Iva Kontic,Olaf Breuning, David Blandy and DVVID, M-E-X-I-C-O, Alex Stevenson, Robert Ashley, Reactor, Karin Kihlberg and Reuben Henry, Elisa Pône, Katie Davies,Richard Paul, David SherryMark McGowan (performance artist), Joseph Beuys, Rotterdam VHS Festival, Mark Essen, Ben Woodeson,Oliver Sutherland, Jemma Egan, Tomas Chaffe, Abigail Reynolds, Sarah Doyle, Phillip Henderson, Endless Supply, Artur Zmijewski

Trade (financial instrument)

In finance, a trade is an exchange of a security (stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, derivatives or any valuable financial instrument) for "cash", typically a short-dated promise to pay in the currency of the country where the 'exchange' is located. The price at which a financial instrument is traded, is determined by the supply and demand for that financial instrument.

See also

References