The trend in weddings seems to be ignoring your guests. I have had many wedding guests lately tell me that they have gone to a friend's or relative's wedding; the ceremony was wonderful, the bride looks beautiful and the send off in the limousine was glamorous. Then comes the dreaded "wait."
The guests drive to the reception venue (whatever happened to holding the reception in the church basement?) and then wait and wait for the groom and bride to appear so that dinner can be served and the reception underway. If there is a cocktail hour, it is exactly that--a cocktail hour--not two hours, one hour. But the bride and groom are a no show after an hour, so the guests wait. And wait. And wait. After 2 hours, the bride and groom arrive a little more than happy because they decided to bar hop in between the ceremony and the reception. They arrive so buzzed that they ignore their guests, grab some food and then hang around the bridal party all night drinking and laughing.
This may sound a little overblown, but sadly, it is not. It happens more times than not and is really a very sad way to begin your married life together not to mention poor and disrespectful treatment of the guests that YOU invited to your wedding.
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