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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've got a no kids family wedding coming up.  Sadly, my kids would be really excited to go -- they love weddings.  (They are teen/tween.)  I hate weddings because I think all the lovey-dovey "we're the most special people in the world and we are marrying our soul mates" crap is so laughable.  I've been married way too long.  I mean, I'm happy for them and all, but some decades ago weddings became like these over-the-top celebration of the bride/groom with toast after toast full of platitudes and inside jokes and professions that these two people are the most special people ever to find each other on the face of the earth.  And then half the time you don't even get decent cake because people decided that was too traditional and so they're going to do something "unique" like popsicles or something.  
Don't worry -- DCUM, I'm spewing my cynicism here, so I can be all smiles for the bride and groom, who really are a very sweet couple.  And I'm going to just leave my kids in a hotel room by themselves with the wifi password and hope for the best.[/quote]

I like your diversion because it gives me the opportunity to make the observation I love making about weddings - the one about how statistics bear out that the larger and more expensive the wedding, the higher the correlation with divorce.

Spending tens of thousands on a fairytale wedding day is fine I guess, but lots of couples experience a lot of dysfunction in the lead up to the event and often that dysfunction pours over to other family members. This dysfunction is so common it is glorified in reality TV by our culture! Too many people- women especially - obsessed with the ‘princess for a day’ aspect of weddings today and not so focused on the pragmatism of lasting marriage.

My parents got married in my grandmother’s living room. Married 47 years until my mother’s death. I’ve seen so many big production weddings result in marriages that didn’t last 10. Not sure it’s worth that kind of investment - whether or not kids attend.[/quote]

Oh please, [/quote]

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