Why do we love weddings?

This question should be put to women because they are the ones always obsessed with weddings. I have never seen anything new in a wedding if not flowers, cake, i do and being reminded about the obvious: Love yourselves whether in properity or in tribulation.

What has the 'royal' wedding got to do with Africa? Naught!

For goodness sake, there must be more important issues to discuss on AHYS affecting Africa and its people than tomorrow's suffocating wedding circus.

What is Britain trying to make of this two kids wedding? The British must tell themselves that the days of deception and gaing cheap popularity through undue publicty is over and now everybody is what i works for not what history say. This is just like every other of millions of weddings going on every day and they must stop disturbing people trying to give baseless importance to this particular wedding. The world is now talking democracy and monarchy is no longer fashionable.

Wedding to me is classical signalling u av reached maturity stage as such it is personal to the 2 families involved.developing countries are poor in terms of general parameyers GDP and so on for measurement. Individuals in d society who genuinely work and made real money shd be allowed to invest it, you prefer to call it flount it!.to me either low keyed or moderate i love it

wedding is always special in the lives of the couples and the community. It's the special moment in Africa that await every family.But it's very unfortunately to note that the true meaning and joy of wedding is no more. More people are concentrating on what you own and what you can contribute, instead of LOVE. Too much is spend on wedding that never last and end up in divorce.my father spent less than $25.00, for the wedding that got he 7 children today, and both of them still together and more loving. We need to build our relationship before coming to public for a ceremony.

So proud of William and Happy for both of them. I am sure Diana would have been proud of his boy. Indeed this is telling us that the good Lord takes care of his children and he has since Diana sadly left her two precious boys. I will continuously remember both of them in my prayers for both of them to have a happy life.

The royal wedding was like one we read about in kids story books. Fairytale wedding.
However the concept of the wwdding is very out dated and old fashioned. Most of us know by now, that 2/3 or 66% of weddings end in divorce. This is simply because the concept of 'happily ever after' doesn't really exist. Not even royal marriages are happily ever after. Marriage is a contract. And isn't it ironic that even before weddings, people are signing prenuptial agreements, preparing for divorce.
I do believe in having a single partner, but I don't believe in needeing a contract to commit. Any why a diamond ring? Why not a ring with the bride and grooms birth stones. And the royal wedding, a world public event. Not very nice. William and Kate seem to be a lovely couple and I wish them many happy years together.

"It's the Happy Ever After effect"

As an international wedding photographer I experience many couples weddings first hand each year. They have hopes and dreams and wish to celebrate their joining of common pathways in a memorable way, documenting their decision in front of family and friends. We could all think of alternative and possibly more important uses for the money that is blown in an extravagant statement on their wedding day, but why deny couples who wish to mark this one special day in their lives this way? The memories thus created will sustain them in years to come, as they themselves start to become...the older generation in the family hierarchy.

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