Wedding Day Madness

The old traditions of 'something old something new' and 'something borrowed' came from the old times when nobody had money for some huge celebration.

All the friends and neighbors pitched in to help and loaned things for the wedding.

Today, I see insanity. People spending $20,000 just for a simple wedding. That's crazy. Especially when you see so many marriages biting the dust.

It's not like the investment is some sort of insurance so why do we do it?Think about it. Can you imagine what you will think when a year later, you have some weird financial disaster? Would you then be remorseful about the money spent on a wedding?

A wedding is a contract between two people. Imagine if we start celebrating a house sale, in the same manner. What a riot.

What ever happened to wearing grandmother's wedding dress, in honor of grandmother? What happened to warm friendship on such a day? What happened to embracing family and just absorbing the meaning of the day?

Would somebody please tell me what an ice sculpture has to do with marriage? Why do we pretend to be celebrating a new union by getting drunk?

It's the wedding day that provides both families the first real opportunity to come together, both sides helping out and feeling like a part of this event. That's not what we do, though.

The family paying for the wedding, rules the roost and lets it show that they are the boss. There you go. Perfect way to start off a new venture.

What has happened to our young girls, that they dream of every last possible expensive thing, in order to feel like it's a real wedding? What will be their memories?

Will the bride spend years reminiscing over the cake? The champagne fountain? Will she remember the flowers?

I don't think so. I think she will remember the fight between herself and the bridesmaids over their dresses. Now there is warm memories.

Can somebody tell me what happened to the tradition of throwing rice, at the wedding? Who's bright idea was it to change to bird seed? That too, just amazes me how environmentalists changed ages of tradition. How did they get into the picture? Oh, well, that to the side, back to my perplexing thoughts.

Is there any possible way to return to the real reasons for the party? I don't know but I do know, it's not helping matters in the least to spend a car for a wedding celebration.