Nice day for a white wedding
May. 3rd, 2009 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynI'm proofing a book that is for brides. It's kind of cute, but over and over, I keep thinking of how foreign this all is to me. I ask people this from time to time, usually after watching a chick flick, because I just don't get it: Why does everyone assume that all girls grow up dreaming of their wedding day? It's just assumed (and mentioned throughout this book), and it's also assumed that we all grew up dreaming of our ideal wedding gown.
Now, admittedly, I don't get weddings -- and I've written here before when talking about the funeral ceremony sort of thing we had for my sister, that ceremonies in general are a complete mystery and waste of time to me. I mean, I go to them and I know how to behave, but I don't really understand them in my heart; it's totally an intellectual premise to me that people need ceremonies in their lives. I don't, but... I'm odd. Still. The wedding thing freaks me out.
And I'm curious. How many of you did this? It's not a very scientific survey, to be sure, since let's face it, most fannish types are outside the social norms as a general rule. Feel free to spread the poll around, if you want, just because I'm seriously curious.
[Poll #1394430]
Also, I have two DW invite codes to whomever would want one, though I don't think there's anyone left on my flist who doesn't have one already!
Now, admittedly, I don't get weddings -- and I've written here before when talking about the funeral ceremony sort of thing we had for my sister, that ceremonies in general are a complete mystery and waste of time to me. I mean, I go to them and I know how to behave, but I don't really understand them in my heart; it's totally an intellectual premise to me that people need ceremonies in their lives. I don't, but... I'm odd. Still. The wedding thing freaks me out.
And I'm curious. How many of you did this? It's not a very scientific survey, to be sure, since let's face it, most fannish types are outside the social norms as a general rule. Feel free to spread the poll around, if you want, just because I'm seriously curious.
[Poll #1394430]
Also, I have two DW invite codes to whomever would want one, though I don't think there's anyone left on my flist who doesn't have one already!
