I think blaming the wedding industry is way too easy. I use the term WIC because I need to keep posts short, and because I think every couple getting married in any even slightly non-traditional way knows what I mean on a gut level when I say Wedding Industry. But I think the reason that the Wedding Industry is successful is because it taps in to things that many of us like: expensive shoes, fancy jewelry, pretty dresses, fantastic stationary, feeling like the star of the show for a day, or—say—castles. Its easy to mock, but in the end for many of us, there is a part of us that wants these things (at least a little bit). If I was totally un-enamored of all things wedding, Id be a boring wedding writer. If we had just run off to the courthouse when David proposed, I never would have needed to write this blog. But in the minutes after the proposal when I was sitting on a bench in a daze, David asked me, Are you ready to plan a wedding? and I whispered, Yesssssss. I just didnt know how hard it was going to be to plan it on our own terms.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:30:00 +0000
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