For some people though, a wedding is not just a “party” just like a marriage is not just a “piece of paper”. People who consistently call weddings “parties” make my eye twitch. A wedding is just a “party” in the way that having a baby is just shoving a neonate out of your cooze.  

I know you weren’t asking me, but I’m going to chime in here, because I also always dreamed of having a big, fancy wedding (and didn’t grow up rich). I don’t know how it started, but I was OBSESSED with weddings as a very young kid. Like I would beg my mom for wedding magazines instead of sugar cereal at the grocery…

We never had a serious sit-down about it, but we’d joke about all the unrealistic expectations on “Say Yes to the Dress,” and money wasn’t something we *didn’t* talk about in our general lives, so it bled into that. I was also very familiar with how low-budget my parent’s wedding was. Mom was very open about how her…

I generally had an inkling that I wanted to get married and have kids, but I had no interest in weddings/playing at weddings/imagining my own wedding, beyond oohing and aahing at pretty dresses in magazines and/or windows when the opportunity arose.

I feel sometimes that people have written and staged a play and then hurriedly cast the co-starring role. My husband was a victim of this in his previous marriage, although he doesn’t see it.  I heard my 22 year old step daughter saying the other day she wants to be married by 25 and first child by 30 and I thought,…

Because I never envisioned myself having a Desi wedding as an option while growing up as a white suburban girl. My Pakistani in-laws threw an amazingly extravagant, multi-day affair, but having a “lame ass white people” wedding was important to both me and my very westernized husband. It was a crazy and exhausting…

Because her husband is American and his traditions matter too?

There are some cultures that do large elaborate weddings with multiple ceremonies e.g. Indians, Pakistanis, Nigerians. But the this has been a corporate sponsored publicity extravaganza. Their PR teams stay ready with synchronized photos and sentiments. This is a routine Hollywood production magnified by tradition. 

It sounds like it was important to Nick.

That must have been it. Princess Di was everything to me. I wish I still had my paper dolls set. I was also pretty aspirational as a kid. I thought “world traveler” was a legitimate career goal, and I would have a house in Paris. 

I’m not sure if the average American gets how huge a global star she is! There at 1 billion + people around the world - that’s 1/7th of the world population - who would recognize her face, her voice, her lips at first glance. SHE is marrying a C lister. Also, the choreographed extravaganza is normal for Indian…

-She cured malaria in Southern India with that veil

I’m not sure that she has THOSE two in mind in particular, but I don’t know much about her. I’ve watched enough Say Yes to the Dress to realize that many, many people try to emulate fairytale princesses when they get married, but they don’t necessarily have Kate and Meghan on their minds. Just princess.

That’s what I was thinking. Ouch.

Obviously not to this scale and cost but every Indian wedding I’ve been to has been pretty massive.

Jebus, that train is longer than the long end of my house. The train could probably serve as a fumigation tent for my house. Hey, it’s their money and they can do whatever they want with it, but it seems unbelievably tacky.

Did he just do a fake tear wipe? 

Who is all this for?!??!?! Are there really people who are like, dying to watch this spectacle on People TV? Also I cannot IMAGINE how awkward that mile long wander down the aisle was. Probably took 10 minutes for her to get down there, and she’s gotta ham it up the whole way down, lookin all wistful and shit.

I do, and I still think she has a really unfortunate face. All of the Trumps do (except kind of Ivanka, because she bought herself a new chin/nose).

I’m gonna be real; regardless of this situation, you can do better than NDT as your personal hero.