Here comes the bride....

We went to another wedding on Friday. It was fun. Let’s talk about wedding season if we can for just a moment. Everything people do these days are non-traditional, so why is the wedding still so traditional? You know, having babies first or moving in together. So why are weddings still followed by the usual norms that they have followed for generations?

The music – ya know the “wedding music”. The songs you only hear at weddings. Locomotion, the Electric Slide, the Twist, or the ever famous, Funky Coldmadeena….
Songs from the last 6 decades to keep everyone from 13 year old Susie to 99 year old Grandma entertained. I don’t understand how we listened to that stuff when it first came out let alone why we are keeping them alive today.

The “women’s” bathroom – a place for the little sister to sneak drinks and get sick far away from her parents. A place for young bridesmaids to cry and wish they had found 'the one'. A place for single women to yearn for that hot drunk guy at the wedding who just made eyes at her. To me, a place to go pee. I think I washed my hands the most that day. I would go in there to do some quick business and everyone was taking showers after they went. I didn’t want to look odd by doing the rinse, then heading back to the party. Is there a need for that much hand washing even if you really didn’t touch anything? Pat dry, then flush with your foot. No contact in the stall….

The tradition – the ceremony, the appetizers, the dinner, the dances, the cake, the drunkenness, the “watch Uncle Jim dance with the shade on his head”, the foofey dresses, the tuxes, the big thing you put the cards in in the corner, the big cake, and of course the other 50 million deserts.

They are fun though, I guess that is why we still do them the same way!!!