Over Priced Marriage

         Weddings are supposed to be an intimate celebration of the marriage of two people but it seems like TV channels like TLC and movies like Bridesmaids, Bride Wars, Wedding Crashers ect. Have turned them into almost a competitive sport. We watch movies that show people competing for the best wedding that will top all of their friends and impress everyone. Weddings have turned into a way to show off how much money your willing to spend and how much time you put into planning your magical day. This is all because of shows like 4 Weddings in which brides compete to win honeymoons and judge each others weddings on things like food, venue and dress. Isn’t this making your special day a little to commercialized? With all this attention around the wedding industry, it has grown substantially. Retailers are taking advantage of the fact that weddings have so much emotional meaning they can charge whatever they want for the dress that brings tears to your eyes. Other than the competition aspect of the wedding, they are being marketed as the most important day of our lives. I agree that it is a huge event and a very major milestone but the way they have been built up is a bit ridiculous. Not everyone can have a wedding like those shown on TLC’s 4 Weddings and we aren’t all willing to pay $5 000 for a dress. So have we done the same thing to weddings as we have done to Christmas and over commercialized them?