Honest Weddings?

Weddings.

Weddings.

Weddings.

If I haven’t emphasized enough, ‘weddings’ are all I see happening, albeit several with me right in the middle of them, but that’s not the point.

The point of this post is to voice what I feel weddings are about, what they actually turn out to be and everything in between.

A wedding is an act that conjoins two people into the institution known as marriage. 

This means, you don’t need a wedding to get married.

However, weddings symbolize not just the 10 minutes of actual eternal bond, they comprise of EVERYTHING, right from:

·          The confession

·         The shock

·         The shock

·         The happiness?

·         The happiness

·         The Planning:

o    Meet the future groom/bride

o    Party

o    Engagement

o    Sangeet

o    Bachelorette

o    73859747395 ceremonies

o    Wedding

o    Wedding ish

o    Post wedding party

This is all very lovely and exciting, really, for everyone involved in it because it means meeting beautiful people, dancing, EATING, getting piss drunk, doing things you may or may not regret, and finally coming to terms that your friend is now unofficially married [since you need that piece of paper to make it official. #ThatsWhatItsAllAbout]

 *Shedding tears moment*

However, what I conclude [not all my conclusions of course because I still need my married friends] from a majority of the arranged marriages I see is that [and I am very amused with my findings]:

·         It is possible for souls to connect in a random act of visit for ‘just tea and sweets’

·         Suddenly everyone’s fairy tale story that they’ve never dreamed about once seems to be coming true.

·         Everything becomes Instagram worthy ‘Look at my bae wearing them socks, ISNT HE ADORBALE, NCPOEAIHOSFCNZJOPW’

·         Everything you ever preached about weddings and marriage and finding THAT ONE is inconsistent with the pleasant realities of life you have finally dipped into.  We obviously are living in a parallel universe with unicorns and flying sea horses.

·          Being cheesy is the norm.

To sound less amused, I will say this –

Getting married is a beautiful time.
 It’s a time of being with the one you love [maybe?], and that’s what it should be about.

It should be a moment worth celebrating because this moment is one of the happiest for YOU, and not for someone else. It’s what you believe in.

Weddings shouldn’t be  a one-up sort of thing. 

Be different.

Because rings are too mainstream, and so are clothes for the current civilization.

Go marry in a playground if that’s what you want to do, at-least it’s honest and symbolic.

But then again, who am I to judge? 

  

  We’re in line for it someday, until then, I guess I should be happy and enjoy the season of weddings! [because my opinions don’t matter anyway]