Weddings Are Inherently Classist, But That’s Not Breaking News In Any Way

Call a spade a spade (or a duck a duck) and let’s roll onward.

I was about to write something on “weddings being a sham,” but that’s not true. I think weddings often do exactly what they’re supposed to do: they reinforce someone’s class (or the class their parents believe them to be) under the guise and cover of “We’d do anything for our kids.” It’s basically a romanticized version of college admissions, honestly. “Timmy got into Yale” and “What’s another $45,000 for Brooke?” are essentially the same sentence.

I have some problems with the general wedding ideology, though, notably:

1. They got so expensive that something like 44% of couples begin marriage in debt because they cover a portion or the entirety of the thing.
2. It’s kinda dumb that everyone says it’s supposed to be the greatest day of your life, both when looking at divorce rates but also when considering that statement means that everything after that day, including potentially the birth and raising of children, will be less than this one three- or four-hour moment.
3. It is the de facto showcase event for our idea that romantic love will save you and the nuclear family shall always prevail, both of which have increasingly…