"Spending a year’s salary on the wedding."
"The garter thing. Creepy, misogynistic, and hella embarrassing in front of family."
"The size of the wedding party! It’s nice to include the special people in your life to participate in the ceremony, but I’ve only heard about how chaotic bridesmaids and groomsmen can be."
" The fact that you can bring along a date — sometimes a first date, or someone the family hasn’t met yet? "
"The wedding being ‘the bride’s day’ or a day that must be perfect!"
"Bridesmaids paying for their own dresses. In the UK, it is customary for the bride to pay."
"I find it weird that there’s the option of serving food like you’re in a restaurant. I mean, non-buffet weddings."
"When people bring actual gifts like blenders and dishes instead of an envelope with cash."
"That there are absolutely no pre-wedding ceremonies. (No, the rehearsal dinner doesn’t count!) So many cultures have ceremonies that involve blessings and preparations made by each family with the couple, so the whole mood sets in a week before the actual day."
"The weirdest thing for me is that in movies, newlyweds often leave the party early to start into their honeymoon. … Not only do you miss YOUR party that you paid a lot of money for, but you also miss the opportunity to spend more time with loved ones who [want to] share special moments with you."
"Having a cash bar is tacky."
"The importance of color-matching the bridesmaids’ dresses. Why does anyone care?"
"That thing where they shmoosh cake into each other’s faces! Never understood it."
"When the bridal party and groomsmen get introduced into the dining hall, and they do a little comedy sketch."
"The bride being walked down the aisle by a male family member. That’s annoying but strangely becoming popular among younger brides in my country."
"The whole cocktail hour always baffles me — they have sooooo much food, then go and eat dinner. Is that real? Do you eat so much and then go eat?"
"It seems so — for lack of a better word — plain? I’ve never been to an American wedding, but from what I’ve seen, everything is very prim and neat and so much monochrome and white."
"The rehearsal dinner seems unnecessary when you’ve already got a full wedding day planned. Just seems like another dinner you have to pay for."
"Americans seem to have engagement parties, wedding showers, bachelor and bachelorette parties, and rehearsal dinners before the actual wedding. … That’s a lot of parties to celebrate the same event."
"The first dance. Particularly if it’s choreographed."
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Bless.
They don't actually think about what they're saying anymore. They just award each other points on TikTok for being offended, like video game dailies for feminists, liberals and progressives.
You seem to think this stops when the wedding is over.