The Royal Obnoxious Wedding

For the past few weeks it seems that all I have heard about it the Royal Wedding. I go on my facebook and there are multiple statuses with a countdown to when they can finally watch it on tv. I know many of my friends woke up at 3am on Friday morning just to watch it and then they were crabby the next day because they didn't get enough sleep. My whole view on this royal wedding is...thank god it is over!

I am not married, nor am I in a serious relationship...I'm not even sure if I ever want to get married because I have realized how big of a deal it is to have the most fabulous wedding ever. I think that the idea of marriage has become idealized...but most people think of the wedding as being the marriage and they think that if the wedding is spectacular, the marriage will be too.

I just think that the royal wedding has now given tons of hopeful single women the idea that a wedding needs to be grand and that you don't have to be royalty to marry into a royal family (because this is the point that many news stations have focused on).

It's also not just the royal wedding that has ruined the simplicity of a small, intimate wedding, but shows such as Four Weddings on TLC and Bridoplasty. Four Weddings is a show where four women are each having their weddings and they have to go to each others weddings and judge them based on a few different categories. Most of the women are judgemental of the food or the DJ or even the way that the bride's dress looked. And don't even get me started on Bridoplasty...who ever thought of a reality show to have brides compete to get plastic surgery of their choice for their wedding day?? Apparently the men they are about to marry are so dissatisfied with their fiancées body that there is no way they could marry them as they are.

I think that all of this means that there is something seriously wrong with the way that women in society are viewing weddings and marriage and it has become nothing but an unrealisitc dream.