Okay, so here’s the thing. I’m not a wedding person. I didn’t dream of white dresses and veils when I was a kid. I didn’t plan the ceremony and reception down to the last detail. I don’t really like romance novels (I just don’t buy them most of the time) and, quite frankly, I’m starting to think marriage is a bit of an out-moded idea, at least in the traditional sense. I guess I’m just too cynical and jaded and don’t have that romantic gene. So this isn’t really a prompt I have much to say about. My wedding was not a big deal. I wore a second-hand dress I got for like 30 bucks and we did it on vacation with only two friends there to be witnesses. The vacation part was amazing, and I guess the wedding part was nice, but I didn’t really enjoy it – I mostly felt self-conscious and awkward. Didn’t help I was recovering from a nasty bout of food poisoning! So I guess if I were to try and plan a more traditional wedding, I wouldn’t really have a lot of ideas. Maybe calla lilies? They’re nice, I suppose. I guess I’d want to have a few people there, but honestly I’d just as soon make it a casual, spur of the moment thing and not have to dress up. And I guess if I could choose a place for it, I’d choose Italy because I’ve never been and it looks nice (at least there’d be good food)!
Mostly I think it’s good to have special days to remember in a relationship for when the chips are inevitably down, and it’s great to have a family celebration if that’s what you want. But I think the marriage matters way more than the wedding, and with how much they cost these days, it’s probably better to have a more casual affair and put that cash into either a proper vacation or, you know, buying a house! But that’s just me.
What about you guys? Do any of you have more of a wedding interest than I do? What kind of thing would you want? Anyone else out there who just isn’t all that fussed about weddings like me? Am I the only one?
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