People are doing it under the Golden Arches, underwater, in the nude and in Nazi uniforms.
They get hitched in all manner of ways and the water-cooler conversations this week have been dominated by nuptials of all sorts.
There’s the couple renewing their vows at McDonalds. Would you like a Happily Ever After meal with that?
Glenn McGrath married Sara Leonardi behind a veil of secrecy, not long after the McGrath Foundation clumsily asked its members if they thought the whirlwind relationship was “disrespectful” .
Then, of course, there’s the ongoing brouhaha over gay marriage, and the brewing excitement about the upcoming Royal wedding.
It’s all enough to make you want to elope.
I once went to a wedding where there were two ceremonies – a (lengthy) Roman Catholic service followed by an Anglican one several kilometres away.
The reception hall was split in half – her Italian relatives down one side and his Anglo mob down the other. And there were two MCs. Yep – one speaking in Italian, the other in English.
Weddings can be fantastic fun or catastrophic madness.
They are a hotbed of emotion.
Some people embrace the traditions and the marketing of weddings with gusto – behemoth dresses, towering cakes, acres of petals.
Others strive for something more individual, something … unique.
What’s the weirdest or the worst (or the best) wedding you’ve ever been to?
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