What Really Matters in a Wedding
The preponderance of wedding shows on television may be leading an entire generation into believing that a wedding is nothing more than a stage production in which the bride, as star, gets away with outrageous behavior and ridiculous demands and still ends up looking beautiful. These shows, along with all the wedding books, planners, and magazines, focus on how a wedding looks more than what a wedding is. The result is that the final dollar amount spent is the scorecard for whether the wedding was a success or a failure.
People who buy into this notion are missing out on the truly beautiful moments associated with a wedding. The charm of an antique preowned wedding dress or a wedding veil that has been handed down through several generations of a family is discarded in favor of the latest designer styles. Weeks of dance lessons and professional choreography prevent the romance of the father of the bride stumbling through the emotion of dancing with his daughter.
Only by putting aside all the ideas of the “perfect wedding” can couples create something that is real and that honors their own notions of marriage, commitment, family, and romance. Those are the actual factors that matter in a wedding, not place cards and centerpieces and releasing doves.