I am writing the pink weddings post...

And I can't really plead writer's block... it's more like writer's confusion. Yes, the pretty pretty pink wedding is just freaking awful, but it's so deep. It's so... involved. Should I simply mock the random choices of the pink crap that people festoon their festivities with? Or should I delve into how it's all significant of the real problems of weddings and Why Girls Are Really Dumb Sometimes. Because having everything perfect and pink and totally of your dreams? Yeah, has nothing to do with the actual marriage. It has to do with someone being selfish and turning it into a party about them as an individual.

It's tough. I go back and forth on what I'm really supposed to write about, or what I really want to write about. Mocking pictures is too easy, though.

Instead I'll tell you a story that I was reminded of yesterday.

I , uh, know of a wedding where the bride and groom staged their going away shots with their guests, even though it wasn't the end of the party, but because the photographer had only been paid through half of the party.

Really.

Aren't they going to look at their going away shots and remember that they were just going back to the damn party? Aren't all of the guests thinking it's really stupid? Really stupid? Like why do they have to be pulled into this crap kind of stupid?

Comments

[alyndabear]

It must be that important for them to show strangers their going away shots - but honestly? How many strangers do you break out ALL of your wedding shots to?

(Unless you're a freak like I am, who will most likely post every picture imaginable to her blog IF I should ever get married because I am a nerd, okay I'm done now.)

Now, on with the pink post. And then children at weddings, please.

[janet]

my sister was in an atrocious (sp?) pink wedding. I should send you photos.

[Olivia]

I don't understand why wedding photogs require such a derth of pics. At a wedding I attended recently, the photographers took the standard pics before the wedding, but then continued to shoot set up shots for about 2 hrs after the reception started. I don't think any candid shots were taken.

Fortunately, they were relaxed about the meal and guests were able to eat while this was going on, but by the time the pics were done and it was time to cut the cake, some guests had already left.

[Heather B.]

Mock them. Especially the girls who do the whole "blush and bashful" thing a la Steel Magnolias. I've yet to attend a Pepto Bismol wedding - as i like to call them - but if I ever do, I'm going to ask what kind of medication the bride was on to think that all pink, all the time would be an excellent choice.