. When I say showing I am refering to the tradition that before the weeding people can go to the brides house to see what things(dowry) she is going to take with her when she leaves her home. Another difference that they had is that they were living together before they got married which is something that is not usually done. One of the things that was similar to other weddings is the scene where the grooms relatives are walking him to church on the day of the wedding and that he cannot see the bride before the wedding ceremony. The way that they operate in the house is really different from the way that households used to operate before, and that is that women were doing all the things that are needed in the household, no matter how heavy the task is, and men were working outside the house, earning money which basically was the only income entering the family. Moreover what I mean is that they are operating under a specific plan. The hours of their workplaces differ so sometimes there are slight changes in the schedule but usually they do not occur. Basically they are operating in a gender division of labor, which means that the various tasks are divided among them concerning the fact that he is a man and she is a woman, and what they like more doing(as they informed me). Tasos is usually doing the tasks that require more strength or that he is better at. These tasks are for example things like hanging the curtains, vacuum the house, moping, cleaning the fireplace, and all the work that is demanded in the yard of the house. On the contrary what Efi is doing are tasks that are characterized more as womanish. This line of tasks that Efi is doing involves things like cooking, washing and ironing the clothes. The only thing that they decided from the beginning to do together is the washing of the dog, because as they told me it is something that requires definitely two persons, for the specific dog. In addition to all this, the...
