Quote From: profmaryannI wouldn't quite go so far as to make the blanket statement that they're "silly." We as a society tend to mark the major milestones of our lives with some sort of celebration, whether it's the birth/baptism of a child, a graduation, or the official beginning of a life together as a couple.
However, somewhere along the line the expectations morphed from getting the family and a relatively few CLOSE friends (not every hanger-on you've known since Day One) together for a modest, yet usually "classy" party to affairs rivaling Presidential inaugurations costing, as you so aptly phrased it, the GNP of Ecuador. The pictures that are painted in our culture today, between the soap operas, the gossip mag reports of the latest celeb nuptial, and the omnipresent bridal mags, create expectations that are almost certain NOT to be met to the letter. And, as you said, it starts things off on a disappointing note.
I like the thought of a blowout vacation somewhere around our 10th anniversary. =)
Prof
weddings aren't silly. it is the people who enter into the marriage that are silly. when they enter into a marriage they should be aware of who they are going to be living with. what kind of person is this.
if my husband had shown up drunk for the wedding, their wouldn't have been one. I don't care if the pope is sitting in the audience. to have no respect for the feelings of his future wife. Well, let's just say that dad should have left him where he laid. and then go tell the bride and let her chose to have him swerving on stage or leave him in the yard. which, i would have left him in the yard. he knew what he was doing. he didn't care how it looked. and its not the wedding planning and all the glitter that makes us march down the isle. we go down the isle to show that we are together, for better or worse, sickness and in health, till death us part. not show up drunk and pay for it for the next fifty years.
marriage is hard enough without both parties putting in it together. but to begin your marriage incapable of standing up because you are sloshed to the gills is reprehensible.