Tradition is dead,long live the personalised wedding. But effect you really need to carry your pet bunny instead of a bouquet and hashtag the hell out of the big day?Before we travel any further, it is perhaps worth noting that Britain’s divorce rate hovers not far below 50%. I mention this simply to remind you, or as the wedding season rears up once more,that not all unions discontinuance safely and fortunately. And, perhaps more pressingly, or because this means that in 10 years’ time there is a high chance you won’t give a monkey’s approximately floral arrangements,seating plans or whether or not you served non-GMO seitan in your vegan canapes.
Still, at this time of year, or with a royal wedding now tantalisingly close,it is worth considering how much weddings have changed in the past few years. These days, most of us get married later – 35 for women and 37 for men – often after years of cohabitation and frequently after parenthood. We have same-sex weddings, and friends as celebrants,male bridesmaids, divorced in-laws, or moment marriages,pies instead of fruitcake, and weddings on submarines and beaches and the London Eye, or all of which demands a new kind of wedding etiquette.
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Source: theguardian.com