Why is it?
Why is it that weddings are so complicated to plan and things so likely to go wrong even with the best laid plans? I guess I will never really know. It's for certain that all the wedding stuff adds up to quite a bit of money. It's as if, when you begin to shop, all the price stickers are marked upward so you are forced to pay more.
I actually have seen stores where the wedding items were high priced, but identical items in other parts of the store were lower in price. Go figure. Truthfully, who cares if an item came from the aisle marked "Weddings" if it works with the game plan you have for your wedding?
In my opinion, a wedding is beautiful not because someone went into debt to pay for everything - the flowers, the dresses, the trinkets. It's beautiful when two people who are in love vow before God and man to commit their lives to one another until death parts them. After all, the wedding isn't the marriage. The marriage is what they have to work on daily for the rest of their lives. The wedding is just the public ceremony that makes their union legal and moral.
I actually have seen stores where the wedding items were high priced, but identical items in other parts of the store were lower in price. Go figure. Truthfully, who cares if an item came from the aisle marked "Weddings" if it works with the game plan you have for your wedding?
In my opinion, a wedding is beautiful not because someone went into debt to pay for everything - the flowers, the dresses, the trinkets. It's beautiful when two people who are in love vow before God and man to commit their lives to one another until death parts them. After all, the wedding isn't the marriage. The marriage is what they have to work on daily for the rest of their lives. The wedding is just the public ceremony that makes their union legal and moral.
Labels: Opinion
posted by Ann crum @ 3:29 AM
1 Comments:
At 11/06/2006 2:51 AM,
Anonymous said…
Just yesterday I reread Beverly Cleary's teen novel Sister of the Bride, which is told from the point of view of the 18yo bride's 15yo sister. I'm guessing you've probably read the book yourself at some point in time but with Elizabeth's wedding planning in full swing you'd probably get a real kick from it now.
(I also loved the book's picture of '60's Berkeley! Nostalgia from my youth. Never went to school there—my parents would have had a nervous breakdown if I'd even suggested it—but I think I was there in spirit!)
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