Just when I thought last month was a busy wedding month, I’ve found myself being involved in 4 weddings in one way or another in a nine-day span starting from yesterday.
I guess wedding season is still alive and well.
Last night I attended the beautiful wedding of a very good pal of mine, whom I’ve known since first day of uni.
I’ve mentioned this before…it’s always a joy to attend weddings, especially of those whom I share a close friendship with.
Another pal of mine at my table yesterday was (jokingly) lamenting the fact that weddings tend to be a drag, but I thought differently.
I thought last night’s wedding went beautifully, and I’m extremely happy for the new couple.
The modern wedding is very interesting, and gives you plenty of food for thought.
Interesting, because couples nowadays tend to want to put on a good show (for want of a better phrase), and will come up with creative and delightful ways to make their special day all the more memorable.
So it’s nice to see what ideas people come up with nowadays, be it at their church wedding or at the dinner.
One new feature that I’ve observed recently is that photos being taken by the photog at the wedding dinner can instantly be uploaded and flashed up on the projector screen.
So one moment the photog is taking a picture of your entire table, and the next moment you see your table’s photo up on the projector screen.
How cool.
I don’t know how it’s done, but it’s cool.
Weddings also make you think.
Especially for those who are yet to be married, or are about to get married in a few months time…you can see the wheels in their heads start turning.
They’ll be like “Hmm, that’s a good idea, maybe I could incorporate some of that into my own wedding as well.”
It’s a time for note-taking and planing-ahead, for those who are yet to be married.
You see what kind of stuff you want to do, and what kind of stuff you definitely do not want to do.
So in a way weddings will always evolve and move forward, because couples slowly fine-tune and add enhancements to the event as time goes on.
Which also explains why weddings have now become big-time and big-budget affairs, which cause a lot of stress to those involved in the planning.
But at the end of the day, when you strip all the fluff away, it’s still about the union of man and wife.
And the weddings that are most cognizant of this fact are the weddings that I enjoy best.
