Ah, the wonderful world of weddings. We’re going to Ty and Heather’s big day this Saturday. I don’t expect anything different from the usual white, the flowers, the overwhelmed families, the perma-smiles, the eating, the drinking, the toasting and the crying.
You just know someone is going to give advice to the happy couple in a speech. Someone else is going to get drunk. And someone else’s someone is going to give an embarrassing memory of either bride or groom.
Couples all over the world must have a collective memory of their wedding days. How different do they get? Not really. People go to great lengths to plan and individualize the event, but although the venue, menu, dress and speeches may vary, the schedule of events hardly change.
No one eats before the ceremony. No one kisses the bride while dancing down the aisle. Tradition is tradition is tradition.
So who planned humankind’s very first wedding? THAT must have been quite a headache. How did they know what to do? And in what order? It seems that everyone now is following the original playbook of “How to Plan a Wedding”.
I hope to be surprised this weekend. Frankly, I don’t know how the 100 T-shirts we printed of this design is going to go down.
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