Don't believe the dozens of wedding magazines out there with serene, smiling brides in frothy fairytale confections! These days it's nearly impossible trying to get the career-minded Miss Independents to even pick a wedding date, much less choose a dress. Somehow gushing raves over lacy veils and spring bouquets has become a thing of the past! Well, at least for the girls I know!
Paul : Planned anything for the wedding yet?
Bride : Plan? I figure I'll just book a table the month before and just get a dress.
Paul : Just book anywhere with an off-the-rack dress?
Bride : Well, maybe white.
Paul : Might as well get a white tee!
Bride : That might work.
Paul : You aren't in the least bit excited?
Bride : Nah, my mom's the one who's excited. I just want to get it over with.
The anti-bride couldn't have been more blasé about the upcoming event.
Instead you have the era of the spartan ceremony. The simpler the better; just a wham-bam-thanks-you're-married bit at the city hall with the taxi driver in attendance. And whoever happens to be free that morning to be a witness.
Hell, you don't even have to get a white dress.
Bride : OMG Somebody get me away from this crazy wedding planner!
Not the first time I've wailed over such a bride of course. Perhaps it's because they have always taken it for granted that wedding is a heterosexual right for them, hence there isn't very much of a deal to be made of it. After all, if drunken teen starlets can get married and divorced in mere seconds - why make it worth the while?
A fact that always puts me in a little snit. Seriously. What happened to wishing and hoping, and thinking and praying?
Watch Sex and the City 2 where it opens in style with a big, blowsy gay wedding. Sure it might be a little gay-over-the-top ( earning nervous titters from the mostly straight audience ) with the swans, the singing chorus and even Liza Minnelli! But you know why they went to all that trouble? Because the day is special. And for gay men, it's doubly special since it's something they probably never thought would ever happen in their lifetimes.
Which is why it just pisses me off when folks try to pass it off as something less than ordinary.
Cherish the fucking event. It's not just any other day dammit.
If not, you might as well let me have the wedding day.
5 comments:
I know your wedding day won't be simple. Get JL as your "tai kam che".
I expects swans too at your wedding day!
kekeke~
Because the day is special. And for gay men, it's doubly special since it's something they probably never thought would ever happen in their lifetimes.
So right. :)
yeah. so true. it's doubly special for gays.
if i ever had one, i will make sure that it's special.
Will definitely book him for the day, william :)
But cyid, swans can bite! Or am I talking about geese?
And I love weddings, cel!
Guess you'll have swans as well, lucifer :)
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