The wedding day

It's not like I'm mad at people lol for their dress etc it's annoyance that the celebration has become so commercial. Like other holidays how we celebrate it is an expenditure of a lot of cash and much of it has little to do with the couple at all but like a show of keeping up with what others do.

 

Tradition is a part of any culture. I do find the wedding industry disgusting, if you look at a wedding planning magazine they usually have a part on how to plan weddings at various levels of cost, the one I looked at the lowest one of five classes was $50,000, the top of the 5 was $2 million. I would never spend anywhere near their bottom rung amount on a wedding. Then there are these bridal shows, almost without fail the bride sees something ridiculously expensive they 'must have' and calls parents and grand parents to gouge them for more money. To me the idea that a celebration of your deep, trusting and lasting connection with another person will be somehow enhanced by an extremely expensive dress is like thinking that going to a beautiful place in nature will be multiplied in it's splendor by wearing solid gold shoes, but then that example falls apart because many people would probably think that wearing solid gold shoes would enhance an experience.

 

not everyone that is getting married does things like that. In fact, I haven't been to a church wedding outside my mother's second wedding. I'm planning my wedding now. It's cheap, focused on us saying our own written vows, eating some food raised and bbq'd right there on the farm (which is where we're having our ceremony and recep.) and dancing with friends.

I'm wearing white. Hubby's wearing a white vest. Everyone is wearing black and red, like the minimal decorations I'm setting up. I have a red belt. I'm gonna stand out and look like a badass.

I really hear what you mean about people following blindly into traditions that mean nothing to them and spend lots of money on bunches of flowers that die, decorations that get thrown away, and extravagant parties that last a few hours. I laughed my ass off at the wedding books and magazines my friend bought me. There's no way I'm giving a shit about most of what I'm told to give a shit about. I just want to get hitched and party with my fam and friends.

 

I felt the same way

 

Hey-Applespark--haven't seen you in a while. Glad you're back.

 

Thanks you may be the only one

 

The details of the stuff that went into the Kim Kardashian wedding made me rather ill. Talk about Vanity in the extreme

Nothing says love like a $15,000 wedding cake that looks like a giant dildo

 

Many people just need to follow what they feel to be society standards regardless of wether it really makes sense or not. It's the need to be accepted by others.