I agree with all this. For someone so careful with my money, spending $10,000 or whatever on a wedding would make me faint. In fact @nprofile1q... and I had our wedding secretly in the back yard of the celebrant, with our friends Craig & Julia as witnesses. Avoided all the palaver. :)
What do you think? Have weddings vecome too extravagant?
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"I feel wary of the spectacle that weddings have become. I don’t think it was always like this. Talk to older people and you’ll hear stories of a family dinner and then a dance in the local pub. These days – even for non-celebrities – they are often big, flashy affairs, perhaps in exotic destinations, sometimes over several days. I hear so much about arguments when people don’t get invited, even though we all know space is usually limited. I wonder why people feel it has to be like this. I wonder, too, if the opulence makes the whole thing even more emotionally charged."
What makes a good wedding these days? I say flirting and chaos, but not three days in a French castle - Rachel Connolly https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/good-wedding-flirting-chaos-spectacle#comment-175289324
#wedding #weddings
What do you think? Have weddings vecome too extravagant?
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"I feel wary of the spectacle that weddings have become. I don’t think it was always like this. Talk to older people and you’ll hear stories of a family dinner and then a dance in the local pub. These days – even for non-celebrities – they are often big, flashy affairs, perhaps in exotic destinations, sometimes over several days. I hear so much about arguments when people don’t get invited, even though we all know space is usually limited. I wonder why people feel it has to be like this. I wonder, too, if the opulence makes the whole thing even more emotionally charged."
What makes a good wedding these days? I say flirting and chaos, but not three days in a French castle - Rachel Connolly https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/good-wedding-flirting-chaos-spectacle#comment-175289324
#wedding #weddings
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