Ethics

A Cool Wedding Dance

By Ed Brayton

Okay, an admission up front: I've never liked weddings. I've never been married and, at this point in my life, have no intention of getting married (which is not the same thing as being opposed to it). The problem is that most weddings are irretrievably boring. And those that aren't often involve something I find absurd, like people who get married while skydiving because they like to skydive, or in Star Trek costumes because they're colossal dorks.

But I saw this youtube video and found it quite charming for some reason. I think it's because these people are clearly having fun while getting married, which is a good thing - if for no other reason than because it's probably the last fun they'll ever actually have. Or maybe it's just my nature as a softy trying to escape the veneer of my nature as a cynical prick.

And don't even get me started on wedding receptions and the dignity-destroying horror of audience participation dances.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 01, 2009 (boomark / email).