Wedding Forums Inject An Unhealthy Dose of Crazy
A few months have passed since the festive online proposal and I have had plenty of time to look into weddings – previously, all I knew was that you had to wear a big white dress, say, “I do” and get drunk in preparation for some dirty wedding night sex. It turns out that there’s actually a billion more things to it – BUT – only if you want there to be.
Online forums are the worst offenders, especially women-oriented ones. Whereas before, we planned a small wedding with a big piss-up afterwards, those message boards of evil had me convinced that we had to hire a photo booth, a chocolate fountain and other pointless things that our non-finicky friends wouldn’t really appreciate anyway. We had to find a photographer for a grand because our college student/photographer friends just wouldn’t do. We had to buy embossed invitations with ribbon, glitter and an individual carrier pigeon. I had to have a designer wedding dress, either from a sample sale or a last season one.
Then I had a few glasses of wine, slapped myself round the face and told myself to chill out because really, who cares about all that crap? Me and my boyfriend aren’t paupers but what is the point of spending £20k (the average price of a wedding, apparently) on what is basically a big party when you will still need money for the MARRIAGE ahead of you? You know, that thing that you say your vows for?
By now, you’re probably thinking that I’m a total man, but I’m really not. I want to wear a gorgeous dress, I want to have a beautifully decorated reception and I’ll probably cry when I say my vows (probably because I’ll mess them up) but you can do all that without blowing a fortune on things. Believe me, some of the “designer” wedding dresses I’ve seen have looked horrendous and some “budget” ones for £250 have looked beautiful.
Therefore, it’s best to steer clear of online forums, where bridezillas will gang up on you like harpies and tell you that YOU MUSTN’T SCRIMP AND SAVE ON YOUR BIG DAY! If you wanted a registry office ceremony and a couple of pints down the pub, they will convince you that you want a marquee and a hog roast. Trust me, it’s best to steer clear of those places, before your eyes glow green and your head starts rotating 360 degrees.
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Spending a fortune for a single day event of a wedding is really very not practical. Sometimes wedding forums help you find a cheap bargain but at times you also read about some women’s grand weddings and make you want to do the same.
What’s important in a wedding is the sincere purpose of you and your partner binding together in a wedding commitment, not how many wads of cash you have spent on some fancy wedding stuffs.
Fair one, but I do feel you’re being unfair on the ‘women-oriented’ sites. Surely the purpose of them is to advertise ideas for weddings. We can’t really complain that they’re doing their job can we?? Not one magazine I’ve seen suggests the wedding has to have the huge dress, the expensive booze, the most grand venue etc. They’re just ideas that other brides have used. They also publish articles advising us how to keep our wedding cheap, to-the-point and exactly what we want. You can’t rubbish those websites and magazines for simply suggesting some people might like the idea of a chocolate fountain.
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