Your wedding day is meant to be the best day of your life. The day where you show the world that you are committed to this person forever and that until death do you part you will be by each other’s side. For women it is the chance to wear a princess style dress and feel a little superior over your single friends (you may deny it but you know there is an element of gloating to it), and blokes you get to show off the most beautiful woman in the room and get blind drunk without any repercussions as most of the people there will be drunk.
However, the politics of weddings goes applies to everything, from the bridesmaid dresses to the cake. I recently was introduced to the world of weddings, a close friend is getting married and so it seems are all the people she knows. I just thought you planned your dream wedding and hoped people turned up and didn’t get too drunk. I thought the most stressful thing was making sure you didn’t put on or lose too much weight between dress fittings, or hope none of your bridesmaids gets pregnant.
One evening the discussion got on to the amount of weddings over the up and coming months and the decision took an interesting turn. I found out that if weddings are weeks apart you have to make sure that any hymns you have are a different order or completely different from the two weddings before, especially if the weddings have the same guests. Menus, first songs, and bridesmaid dresses cannot be the same style, or colour. It’s just a logistical nightmare, no wonder many women turn into Bridezilla and many men reconsider the person they are marrying.
I knew how difficult it must be to organise a wedding, however, I just didn’t realise you had to plan and arrange everyone else’s weddings. It seems you can’t have your own perfect wedding you have to make sure you don’t plan someone else’s. Especially if the weddings are close together and have the same people attending, who wants their wedding compared as if it is on Livings ‘Four Weddings’ programme? Who knew organising a wedding had as many politics as a general election, I knew there was the code that none of the guests should wear white (unless there is a theme) and no one, absolutely no one should try and up stage the bride in any way shape or form.
My idealistic nature says that when I get married I just want me and my fiancée, our family and some close friends, nothing big and showy for the ceremony and maybe a big party for everyone after. On the other hand the 5 year old wannabe Princess wants the lot; let’s just hope no one else I know is getting married at the same time as me because you never know there could be a Bride Wars 2 in the making.
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