My Wedding Experience

As we plan and budget our upcoming wedding (April 14, 2012), I am
astounded anew every day by the routine gouging and blatant
artificiality of the "wedding industry." Feels like this:

"Now, of *course* you aren't planning to brush your teeth with Colgate
on your wedding day, are you? You're going to want bridal tooth
polish, branded with your photo and the date."

(boggled look from me)

"I mean, there *are* ways to cut corners if you're on a budget. If you
don't want your Big Day to be special or memorable, you could just use
regular toothpaste, but that's just silly -- and the bridal tooth
polish is only $375.00.

Now, then, we haven't talked about the air you and your guests are
going to breathe on your Special Day. You *are* planning to have
Nuptial Air piped in, right?"

Arrrrgh. It's all such a scam, and feels *so* narcissistic and
artificial to me. (Patience married young and against her will in
someone's backyard, no reception, no hullaballoo, so she never got to
have that "big wedding" that I did the first time around. Thus, she
really desires to have that "special day." Otherwise, I'd just have a
quick lakeside ceremony at the public park with a handful of our
nearest and dearest, then go out to the Dubliner for drinks
afterward.)

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