Variation on a theme: The sponsored wedding

by Ilona Peltz, Posted Oct 20th 2007 1:02PM

We've talked about theme weddings and surprise wedding, traditional and non-traditional. Here's a new spin on the wedding idea that will have anyone's head spinning (anyone with any manners and/or class, that is):

The Sponsored Wedding.

Yes, indeedy. Your wedding as advertising venue. Flowers, food, and festivity, all provided for free, in exchange for ads in your wedding program!

Or how about the cyber-beggars, the people who ask you, the total stranger, to contribute to their wedding (or honeymoon) -- again, in exchange for advertising, this time on their website.

When I got married, fresh out of university, we didn't approach our parents for money. My mother, long a widow and with two younger children, was not a potential source of revenue. His parents did help, but in practical ways -- my MIL helped me sew my dress, for example. We had a lovely wedding, with about 200 people in attendance, and (imagine this!) kept to within our very modest budget.

Has it never occurred to these people that the world does not owe them a $20,000 wedding? Nor that they can have a beautiful, memorable, love-filled event on a tenth of that, and take pride in doing it themselves? Or that, if they MUST have a tens-of-thousands extravaganza, they could wait, save up, and do it themselves?

Apparently not. Which is really very sad.

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