I'm currently planning (sort of) my wedding with my fiancé. Seriously with all the crap that everyone tells me I need to consider and arrange, it's enough to make a girl want to run away. I just do not comprehend the whole "Princess for a Day" it's "all about the bride" mentality of wedding planning.
When did weddings cease to be about two people making a commitment to spend their lives together and take the good with the bad, and become a three ring circus about spending a fortune on wedding dress, and inviting a gazillion people that they barely know simply to show them how happy they are and what a fortune they can spend on showing off about it?
Don't get me wrong, I love a beautiful wedding as much as the next person, and thoroughly enjoy attending them. I just don't want one myself. Nor do I want to have to plan it. What is so wrong about wanting a simple family ceremony with my soul mate, our children, and a couple of close friends to witness it. Why is that considered less valid than an extravagent, stressful wedding? Why can't a registry office wedding be special?
And what is with the comparisons and competition at "out-wedding" the next person. Really, I am happy that you had the wedding of your dreams, and that it was everything you ever wanted, but why is my dream wedding unworthy simply because I have a different opinion on what's important on the day?
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