Posted on 09/01/2011 8:28:17 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
Why is it the women most desiring a huge fancy white wedding are the ones least deserving of it?
I'm not surprised at all.
A marriage that begins with a public attempt to aggressively humiliate your spouse sure doesn't evoke confidence.
I'm with ya.
I think that what most bugs me about this new vulgar "tradition" is the sadistic quality to it.
Why in the world would I ever want to humilitate my wife -- the love of my life -- in such an aggressive and cruel way?
I truly have a visceral hatred for this tradition. And I'm very chagrined at all the young people that "sheep-like" follow it.
It's ugly and I hate ugly.
Wait -- is this a Rosie O'Donnell thread...? Ha ha!
You didn’t let any dust gather on ya, fer sure....:D
Why is it that a a society, we place more emphasis on the wedding than we do on the marriage?
Ding, ding we have a winner. My sister has had three grand weddings only to get a divorce a few years later.
My total wedding cost was less than her dress for the second wedding. We have been married 31 years.
THAT’s adorable...and sounds like something my hubby would have done, if we wouldn’t have gone for utterly no frills JotP.
It does have a certain amusement value, and the pictures are funny, but we did just move to the “purple-haired chick punches bear” thread.
I recently attended a religious marriage for a couple who had been legally married for more than ten years. It was very touching and appropriate. He wore a suit, she had a pretty dress suitable to a stoutish lady in her 30s, and they each had their mother standing beside them.
She still raves about our “fairytale” wedding, culminating in an outdoor event on a vast manicured lawn with the Adarondack High Peaks in the background with 100 friends & family having travelled to attend. That was 8 years ago, another 80 to go.
my first marriage was a small church wedding with less than 20 guests, a brunch, then off to the honeymoon. lasted 13 years, the last ten were progressively nasty.
proposed to number 2 at DQ (had teh manager make up the sign), got hitched atop Mt Washington (NH) on Ride to teh Sky day, they gave us a nice cake, etc.. my eternal gratitude to the local HOG chapter.
never had bad words, nor the least sign of a problem. she died last June and I shall walays thank God for lettign me have her for as long as I did.
it ain’t the wedding, it’s the marriage.
love the tag line!
We don’t believe premarital sex is moral.
So we had a very, very short engagement.
:-D
It’ll be 19 years this month.
May you and your hub have many more happy years together.
“So we had a very, very short engagement.”
Yup.
Twenty minutes has to be a record.
:D
Yours was twenty minutes? Ours was around 7 hours. Iron self control we had.
No...I was joking about *yours*.
[don’t ask about mine]....LOL
Why did Hillary climb Everest?
to escape sniper fire...oh wait, you mean the hillary she was named after...oh wait...um...
Call me skeptical. I’ve been married over 20 years, and we smashed the cake into each other’s faces.
I doubt that it's possible to calculate, as you can't seperate the cost of the wedding from the wealth of the parties involved. The wealthy have always divorced at a higher rate for a simple reason: They can afford it. It's a lot easier to walk away from a marriage with the conscience cleansing knowledge that everyone is well provided for.
Come on, we were engaged at least seven whole hours!
We spent our honeymoon (one day) hanging around on the edge of Lake Tahoe. Then we went back to my apt. in a nameless icky town south of SF.
No money spent other than the 100 bucks for the marriage and gas money there and back. I don’t even think we ate anything that day.
I hope yours was as happy minus the sunburn.
85% is not 100%.Your’s was able to make it through starting out with a disrespectful gesture other marriages are not.
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