"Why must these things be so expensive?" It's absurd and repulsive. It's like we took only a single generation to forget how it was done for 3000 years across

"Why must these things be so expensive?" It's absurd and repulsive. It's like we took only a single generation to forget how it was done for 3000 years across most cultures. Yes, the elite always had big weddings, but most people didn't. My grandparents and their peers: you go to the Church with family and friends, and then there's a reception at the cottage (considerably more people come by to say hi) where the ladies have sandwiches made. Uncles and aunts play music, people dance a little bit and then go home. It's another negative aspect of cultural secularization that people don't even realize is happening because they have no context. One day, after weddings have been corporatized, it's possible future generations think that getting married a 'The Starbucks (of weddings)' is normal as well! Some of them will invent words like 'holistic' and 'organic' to buck the trend, when they don't even realize is what they mean to say is: "old timey, tradition wedding". Which just doesn't sound very cool or progressive ...