Betrothed!: December 2007 Archives

I haven't watched all of the cable programs devoted to rubbing the public's nose in the fact that not everybody can afford a quarter-of-a-million-dollar wedding. At least, I hope I haven't. I have enjoyed/endured several on various channels devoted to different-yet-the-same demographics (women's lifestyle, other women's lifestyle), however, and at first glance, they seem to be covering The Big Day from admirably disparate perspectives.

There's the one about weddings you'll never have, but may envy from your position among the huddled masses.

Theres the one about weddings of people just like you, provided you've managed to make something of yourself.

There's the one about how the weeks leading up to a wedding apparently turn the woman to be married into a Japanese freakshow allegory for nuclear-age vigilance.

There's the one that seems to imply, more often than not, that Canadians can't budget properly.