Back in the day
weddings consisted of mainly of a celebration of friends and family; who helped
the bride and groom. Family and friends helped the brides and grooms by sewing
outfits, preparing the food for the reception, and helping by setting up the
location of the event. Typically, a lot of brides chose to wear something that
they had in their closet; mainly it was not white and worn again after they
took their vows. The purpose of a
wedding has changed drastically; now it is all about a showcase for their
guests. The concepts of a marriage use to be about a communal celebration that
was for the creation of a new household; now it seems like everyone is trying
to have an elaborate event that people can talk about for generations to come.
The wedding industry has seemed to take over as a consumer rites business. It
no longer celebrates a family coming together as one; it is now a business that
proves to create a large amount of revenue off of its consumers. Spending
$16,000 on a 2010 wedding reception is likely to be around average, Wedding
Expo producer Brad Buckles said. And that is just the reception. (Kris Sherman
The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. “Brides-to-be in search of economical elegance.
“McClatchy-Tribune Buinsess News. 03
Jan.2010) People need to get back into old school celebrations and be more wise
about their spending when it comes to having a wedding. It does not have to be
so costly when it comes to having a wedding especially when there are
alternatives to getting what they need at a fraction of the cost.
Spending
$16,000 on just a reception is not a good way to start out a marriage during
tough economic times like today. The
wedding industry has vastly shaped our way of thinking about a typical wedding.
It promoted the commercialization of new traditions such as wedding rings,
bridal salons, and gift registries. The industry have even introduced bridal
shows in which it costs money to attend for chances of winning prizes that they
could use towards the weddings of brides and grooms.
The media and the public can be obsessed with celebrity lifestyles, marriages, and divorces. Many big extravegant marriages are likely to lead to divorce. Take Kim Kardashians 72 day marriage, the estimated cost of her wedding was to exceed 10 million dollars. 138,888 dollars per day was the estimated cost of this marriage. This is the very reason why I want to help people money. With the divorce rate being so high its a shame some of these so called celebritity/artists spend all these millions of dollars on a wedding only to end up divorcing months or years later. To me that was a waste of money especially when there are starving and homeless people in the world who could've benefited with some sort of donation.
The Miami Dolphins wide receiver married
Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada in an evening ceremony on the Caribbean
island of St. Martin on Wednesday July 4,2012, and no detail went undocumented and I am sure no costs were spared.
It's been one heck of a week for Chad 'Ochocinco' Johnson
-- and it's not going to get better any time soon, -- as RadarOnline.com has
exclusively learned that despite the NFL star's desperation to win back his estranged wife, she will not be
returning for a second round.
Radar online previously reported that Chad Johnson's personal issues started last
weekend after he was arrested and booked on charges of domestic violence.Within 24-hours the Dancing with the Stars
alum was dropped by his football team, The Miami Dolphins, then had his reality show, Ev &
Ocho canceled by VH1, then had his alleged mistress spill details of an illicit affair that she claims went on up until
weeks before his marriage and finally, had his wife of 41 days, Evelyn
Lozada files for divorce. Wow what a heak of a week for Chad Johnson. 41 DAYS OF MARRIAGE GUYS WAKE UP!!!
This is the point I am making. Why spend all this money for just a show for the world to see if you are not truly in love with someone and desperately want to spend the rest of your life with that person. It just doesn't make sense.
The lavish formal wedding emerged as a cultural
ideal by the 1950s in part because it embodied Cold
War liberal values-the post
war belief that democracy and capitalism were intertwined and that
communism,
which threatened both, needed to be countered with government spending and
force, if
necessary.
The cost of a wedding often times stem from the
traditional ways of the wedding; wedding
ceremonies, the dress, the ring, the
wedding cake, and the wedding veil all have significant parts of
rites of passage. Nearly all of the customs we observe today are
merely echoes of the past. Everything
from the veil, rice, flowers, and old
shoes, to the bridesmaids and processionals, at one time, bore a
very specific
and vitally significant meaning. Today, although the original substance is
often lost, we
incorporate old world customs into our weddings because they are
traditional and ritualistic.
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