Aughhhh, weddings!

The most awaited, anticipated, magical day in a woman's life: HER WEDDING DAY! That amazing, commercialized, complicated, pressure-filled day! Every detail can be hand selected, personalized, and perfected by the bride! Every detail "must" be selected, personalized, and perfected by the bride!!!! Eeeek! I feel for any woman currently undertaking the colossal feat of planning a wedding! Preparation for marriage is stressful enough, then add to that the responsibility of planning the ceremony, reception, cake, food, dress, wedding party, wedding party's attire, invitations, flowers, decorations, guests, travel, rings, etc. :-P It's a wonder nervous breakdowns aren't more commonplace! Needless to say, I enjoy the occasional simple wedding.

All that said, I actually adore weddings. Like a lot of other woman, I've been "planning" my own wedding since I was a little girl. Imagining how perfect and beautiful it will be. Which friends will be my bridesmaids, etc. And as an amature wedding coordinator, I vicariously enjoy several weddings a year! Okay, it's not for completely selfish reasons that I'm a coordinator. I just enjoy helping others organize and plan (thus hopefully relieving some of the pressure) their big day. I just find it annoying that weddings have become (or always have been) so commercialized! Wedding retailers thrive off the multitudes of new, mostly first-time, starry eyed brides! It's criminal! All the worry and stress brought on by these (or attempted avoidance of) scams, fabrications, and agreement terms that a Harvard graduate couldn't even make out, rob these poor ladies of their joy. The most important day in her life becomes the biggest undertaking of her life.

Urgh. I suppose I should end my venting and go back to measuring for aisle runners and searching for boutinear ideas. Ah well. I am very grateful that so many girls have so much fun planning and personalizing their weddings and usually things go very smoothly. For as much stress as weddings incur, they are most often worth all the effort and are a very joyous occasion. My blog will just have to carry the weight of my frustrations so I can move on to more important things.

(So, are you sorry you actually read through that post?)