Wedding Wonders

I found this to be an entertaining refresher article on the inner workings of a wedding during this summer season.  Surprisingly, it looks like I only have one wedding to attend this summer and it’s for one of Vero’s friend.  Finally the onslaught of my friends getting married has ended.  Or, has taken a break seeing that next year I know of a few couples already getting married.

Read the article here.

Here’s some comments on the article:

– “If you’re invited to the wedding, you’re obligated to give a gift even if you’re not going.” I guess I have always done that anyhow, but I didn’t know it was a rule.  Interesting.  So does the gift lower in price point seeing that you are not attending?
– Whether or not you go, RSVP. Send the little note back in the mail, and do it right away, Ms. Elliott suggests. “Before it gets buried underneath all the other mail.” Seriously folks, I have been horrible in the past for not RSVPing.  Learn a lesson from me and get to that RSVP ASAP.
– Gift cards typically reflect a little more consideration, but cash is popular with couples who are paying for their own wedding – an average of at least $30,000 these days. While once it was considered tacky, more couples are now hoping for cash to offset those costs. “Generally people just say, ‘Look, we want cash. How do we tell people?’” Ms. Elliott says. I still am very against this principle.  As far as I recall, I thought part of the gift of a wedding is to help the couple start their new life together.  It isn’t my problem if they’ve already established a life together and they want to spend $30,000 on a wedding.  Am I old and cranky?  Perhaps.  Perhaps I’m also thinking it’s time for a wedding revolution and that people start thinking ‘outside the box’ instead of getting pigeonholed into paying stupid amounts of money because as soon as someone hears the word ‘wedding’, they jack up the price on the poor couple.  I bet if you disguised your rental of the room at the golf course as an actual golf tournament, it would probably be cheaper.  I digress.  What was my point?  Oh yes, money equals little creativity.  Get with it and buy them something cool.  But let me go back to my other point and say I think it’s horrible that if a couple wants one of those classic typical weddings, the cake alone will cost $29,500.  Stop the capitalizing on the unfortunate!

– “Most weddings are open-bar,” Ms. Elliott says. “And open-bar does not mean keg party.”  Oh man, someone should have told us that at Dwayne and Wendy’s wedding.