Marriage - Is it outdated?

I honestly think marriage is what you make it. If you are not religious but what to show that level of commitment to one person then you don't have to get married in a church. Research weddings and find out what you need to make the ceremony legal, the rest is then upto you. This is my personal plans (obviously my other halfs as well as we have discussed this so much): We are having a registrar conduct the ceremony but with no mention of god as neither of us are religious in that way. Then we will have our own vows to read and put in a couple of very old traditions from our cultural pasts. Then onto the reception, which is going to be a sit down ...  Read the complete review

Marriage - Is it outdated? I think that this is a good question. In previous times, people tended not to be intimate until marriage, didn't cohabit or have children out of wedlock nearly as often as we do today. Marriage was seen as the union in front of God that then led onto all of those things, a shared home, life and family. Today, there is not the same stigma about doing these things without being married. Divorce rates are higher (apparently as many as 1 in 3 marriages end in divorce) and having parents and even grandparents who are seperated in quite normal. The general view is that it is better to have parents who are happy apart, than ...  Read the complete review

When I was little, at primary school, and the other kids used to be playing weddings in the wendy house, to be fair I could usually be found hiding elsewhere or being the pianist if I really had to get involved. While the rest of the girls tore each others hair out to don the adultsized, damp smelling, stained wedding gown, I ran as far as possible in the opposite direction. I hated it! I then got a little older and started designing hand made cards, which soon led to hand made wedding stationary, which soon led to appearances at wedding fairs, AND then... I ended up caught up in the whole wedding industry buzz, buying extortionately priced magazines and ...  Read the complete review

I personally don't believe in marriage anymore. I used to though, and I was one of those girls that wanted the big wedding with all my friends and family there to be part of it. In the past few years though, I've started to wonder, is it really necessary? Although a wedding is the ultimate way to tell someone you love them, I think of this like Valentine's Day. I don't believe that a day should have been invented to tell someone you love them. If you love someone, tell them often and don't feel forced into it. I feel that weddings now are all about how expensive and lavish they are instead of what really matters. Do you really need to spend thousands of pounds ...  Read the complete review

Society makes it tough, but it's worthwhile and the way to go.