I need to vent. Whatever happened to the days when you went to your kids wedding and that was that. Nope, now we have to do 20 million things with much gnashing of teeth and swearing. Make it stop. I just want to go to my son’s wedding like my parent’s went to mine. Care free.
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Why are there 20 million things to do including gnashing of teeth and swearing to go to a wedding?
#1992 haha when we did our daughter’s wedding 8 years ago we raised the Hogs and chickens we fed the guests. We hired a local meat market to cater the reception with the smoked chicken parts and pulled pork and some side dishes. Wine and a keg of beer.
I think overall we had close to a hundred guests. Less than 4k expenses with Dress, tux rental, pictures, hall rental, dj for reception, flowers n such.
Rehearsal the day before, light dinner then wedding next day. Not much fuss in today’s world.
Of course she wasn’t raised as a princess and we weren’t helicopter parents.
My daughter is getting married. It brings to mind when the wedding was less important than the marriage. We do so many things that are fluff. I wish the trend would be to go back to those times. I do enjoy a good wedding but I would enjoy cake and punch with family and loved ones equally. Thankfully, my daughter and fiance have invested in the life after the ceremony but still, the wedding is kind of getting a mind of its own even though they are relatively conservative. It is kind of a racket.
“Whatever happened to the days when you went to your kids wedding and that was that. Nope, now we have to do 20 million things with much gnashing of teeth and swearing.”
My wife and I eloped. We did not want the fuss of a wedding and all of the headaches.
One of my wife’s sisters is still mad that she was not invited to our wedding. Yes, she’s a liberal from Minnesota...