"I know weddings ≠ marriage, but the whole thing seems to be a collection of behaviors which have no meaning now other than 'everybody else does it,' and that just doesn't bode well for the institution as a whole for me."
I agree, it's like you can see people going through a set of incredibly stressful, hideously expensive, endless unhappy-making rituals that they "have to do," because...uh, that part never is very clear to me, but by God, they have to do them. For some reason. I also find it significant that of the nearly dozen weddings I've attended or contributed shower gifts to over past five years, only one of the couples is still together.
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Date: 2007-01-17 04:49 pm (UTC)I agree, it's like you can see people going through a set of incredibly stressful, hideously expensive, endless unhappy-making rituals that they "have to do," because...uh, that part never is very clear to me, but by God, they have to do them. For some reason. I also find it significant that of the nearly dozen weddings I've attended or contributed shower gifts to over past five years, only one of the couples is still together.