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> I'd be interested in a ceremony celebrating a commitment to cohabitation and partnership that sheds the baggage of a wedding and marriage. Especially if it d
by paulryanrogers 3y ago
> I'd be interested in a ceremony celebrating a commitment to cohabitation and partnership that sheds the baggage of a wedding and marriage.
Especially if it didn't involve renting a venue, 25% mark ups, hurt feelings from non-invited folks, decades of expectation building, and an industrial complex focused on money extraction.
- bckr 3y agoPrecisely
- ux-app 3y agoehh, it's a choice to buy into any of that bullshit. we eloped $3,000km away to the tropics to get married. it was more of a holiday with a wedding day thrown in. we loosely, no expectations, invited a few friends and family and were pleasantly surprised to find 30 people met us there. The whole thing, holiday and all cost us around $10k and was a total blast. I found the traditional wedding day routine to be super claustrophobic and rigid.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoThe industry says weddings are "all about the bride", and IME the marketing seems almost exclusively targeting women and their anxiety. So it may be challenging to find a partner similarly minded.