http://kevinwatt.org/articles/2005/07/16/whats-broken-about-weddings-or-brides-calm-the-fuck-down en-us 40 <p> Who is a wedding for? The bride and groom, or the family? </p><p> The system as we have it is very broken. Having a wedding is a nightmare of a full year of planning, stressing, shelling out money, designing invitations, announcements, websites, photographers, programs, games, and let&#8217;s not even mention registering. </p><p> Wedding showers are pretty fun &#8211; someone else plans them, you show up, there&#8217;s food, wild people, decorations, and games. It&#8217;s entertaining, and low stress, and properly delegated. </p><p> The problem is, the more you change the less you&#8217;ll really be getting &#8216;married&#8217; &#8211; it will be something else. Tradition is evil and stupid like that. I&#8217;m still fleshing out my ideas on this, but </p><p> <strong> A focus on the ceremony. The bride and groom find tuxes and a dress and a priest and a place and vows and show up! <br /></strong> Combine the rehearsal dinner and the reception. <br /><strong> Someone else plans the reception (just like a shower). Family houses that are big are preferred. A potluck is perfectly delegated, and better than most catering. <br /></strong> Games for the reception, so it&#8217;s not just people that have never met sitting around. Two people, however glowing, can only be so entertaining. </p> Sat, 16 Jul 2005 12:35:59 -0500 urn:uuid:8547be3cd0b6c0344a71a7a9b64686a0 kevin http://kevinwatt.org/articles/2005/07/16/whats-broken-about-weddings-or-brides-calm-the-fuck-down <p>hmm&#8230; I dunno&#8230; some of those ideas are really far out there&#8230; especially the one about actually focusing on the ceremony&#8230; man&#8230; that&#8217;s just crazy&#8230; <strong>rolls eyes</strong> ... sigh&#8230; &#8216;Games for the reception, so it&#8217;s not just people that have never met sitting around. Two people, however glowing, can only be so entertaining.&#8217; &#8211; that is actually a very good idea. Let everyone forget about the wedding and start playing games and meeting new people. Then, single people would meet other single people and more weddings would be created. (not incest though&#8230;) because then, wedding services would make millions.</p> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:11:03 -0500 urn:uuid: http://kevinwatt.org/articles/2005/07/16/whats-broken-about-weddings-or-brides-calm-the-fuck-down#comment-81