Just got to watch the Pillow Talk for the episode, so I'll start with the venue. It's weird that it was inside a Casino location, normally we'd go for restaurants, ballrooms or generally locations that can hold such parties and events. Yep, the furniture looks outdated when compared to the weddings I see happening in America or other countries, but if you want modern stuff you'll also need a more modern rather exclusive venue. To be honest, I've seen furniture similar to that in most Romanian weddings and it wasn't much of a problem. In Romanian weddings you don't get to sit around for hours until 5 am, you mainly only take breaks from dancing when they bring the food over. Clearly nobody will remember the color of your tablecloth or the flower arrangement on the table by the end of the night.

Now onto the food. Believe it or not, rabbit steak is actually consistent and rather big, my grandma makes it for Easter or special occasions (it's pretty difficult to find rabbit, unless you know a hunter, or a legit source, plus it's rather expensive). The "maize" thingy is polenta, or as we call it mamaliga, it's basically made of corn maize, boiled, you can add egg, cheese or cream on it and it's a side dish most of the time to the meat. It sucked that they had no food available for tasting, but to be honest, seeing how Lib reacted to only the pictures, she wasn't going to like the food regardless.

Also seriously? Burgers and fries for a wedding? The people there would legit call you weird and poor, fast food here is like 1$ for the smallest menu ever at McDonald's, and a large size one is 5$ or less. Weddings here are always full of food you normally eat on Christmas or Easter, lots of different meat, fish, garnishes etc. I'm sure your family will at least be willing to try a boiled or baked potato with some fish file for once in their life, Libby. I don't like Andrei but his McDonald's joke was well placed to be honest.

As for the baptism, I'm not that religious so I'm not familiar with the meanings exactly, I just know that she didn't really convert to orthodoxism just through that. It's more of a way of being recognized by God or something. What I'm curious about is the wedding ceremony itself though. Normally it can take up to 2-3 hours for the religious ceremony to end and most of the times you can't really sit down (I only attended them as a kid when going to weddings, I know that mostly the elderly got to sit down, or young children; in recent weddings me and my family tend to avoid the church ceremony). Unless Andrei slips the priests some extra money to make the ceremony shorter, then I'm afraid Libby's parents and sisters will have to stand around for 2 hours, having no idea what the priests are saying or singing about. "They will skip over the Church", doubt it. Given that they went as far as baptizing, I think Andrei's family are highly religious (as all old Romanian/Moldavian people), so of course they'll want a church ceremony. Most people here look at you weirdly if you don't go through the ceremony.

So that's my takeaway from this episode. Still eagerly waiting for the actual wedding and Libby's disgusted family.