Stop Watching Bridal Shows! (or, it doesn't have to be a Downer Experience)

We are having a wedding in my family.  And it will have no resemblance to the shows we've seen clips of in class.  Hopefully, the lovely bride-to-be will never have an expression like this one:



This young lady looks to be getting a major migraine.  I've often noticed the tendency of human beings to act like lemmings; if one jumps off a bridge, just about every other one will follow.  That is the only way to explain the insanity, the incredible intensity, of the whole bridal experience nowadays.

Once again, thanks to this class for showing how the media manipulates the masses.  My children don't really watch television.   However, they have both been in enough weddings to know they don't want any part of the "traditional" fixings -- only the love, honor, and cherish part.  So, when they decided to get married -- my older son and his beautiful girlfriend -- they decided they would have a quiet ceremony in a lovely art gallery in D.C., which is where they live.  Laura went shopping one Sunday with her best girlfriend and found a gorgeous, affordable dress that she immediately fell in love with.  No angst there.  She e-mailed me the picture and I gave it my hearty approval.  After the ceremony, family and a few friends will have dinner at a favorite D.C. restaurant.

If it is all a little quieter than my husband and I would like, we can always offer to give them a party in our backyard.  Tents, flowers, something tasteful.  But that will be their call, too.  No Bridezillas here, and no Monster mother-in-laws either.  Thank God!