Birthday is celebrated in all countries, and everywhere have their own traditions. If you want to congratulate an Englishman on the holiday, then you need to know some of the features of the celebration of this date in the UK.
Instructions
Step 1
Friends usually decorate the room in advance with a large number of colorful balloons if the celebration takes place at home. Therefore, stock up on balloons or contact an agency that decorates the premises.
Step 2
You need to know that if you are invited to a birthday celebration, then you need to bring with you the alcohol that you prefer. By the way, if you don't finish drinking it, you can take it with you.
Step 3
You should not wait for the usual feast. Most likely there will be a buffet and you can also bring your own treat and eat it yourself. This is not due to stinginess, but to the allergy that guests may have to some dish, as well as to the fact that on this day the birthday person should not bother with a lot of preparation. The main thing in an English birthday is not food, but a meeting of friends who have come to congratulate. If the party will be in a restaurant or cafe, then you need to prepare for the fact that everyone will pay for themselves.
Step 4
Coming to your English birthday, present a beautifully designed gift to the birthday boy, as well as a greeting card with warm words and wishes. It is not customary to open gifts right away, most likely, they will first be put in a certain place, and will be deployed only later, when everyone is gathered or even after the guests leave.
Step 5
A world-famous song with the words Happy birthday to you! all the guests sing to the hero of the occasion as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake. And I must say that a cake or cake with candles is a mandatory attribute, however, it may look like a personal small cupcake with one candle, but more often it is a large cake with as many candles as the birthday man is.
Step 6
If it is customary for us to pull our ears, congratulating them on their birthday, then in England there is a tradition to toss up as many times as a person is old.
Step 7
On birthdays, it is not customary to give friends too expensive gifts so as not to put a person in an uncomfortable position. It is quite possible that the birthday person will announce his list himself, and each guest will decide on a gift. Instead of bouquets, it is quite appropriate to give a flower in a pot - the British love fresh flowers.
