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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
I've made it very clear that, do what you want with the ceremony, but at the wedding reception, there will be Xboxes with Guitar Hero, and there will be karaoke. Take it or leave it.
Here's another wedding thing that makes no sense. A man will probably have a good number of occasions in his life where he can wear a tuxedo. A woman wears her wedding dress once. Yet which gets bought and which gets rented?
Madness.
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It seems that way until you consider that the default would be to buy both, so it's actually kind of a deal to
not have to buy the outfit that doesn't require a ton of adjustment to fit a specific person's body. Getting fitted for a tux is a snap - if the pants don't fit, they have another pair in back. Wedding dresses require a lot more involved tweaking, so it's pretty understandable why they're generally not rented.
Besides, the most likely instance of me wearing a tux again? Standing up for someone else's wedding - which means I wouldn't be able to wear the tux I wore for my wedding, anyway. What's the point of owning a tux when, assuming you don't regularly attend high society functions, a lifetime's worth of rentals is probably cheaper, and you have more options?
I'd be too embarassed to be at this nerd wedding to have a good time. Seriously, you have to be pretty committed to extended adolescence to make this part of the ceremony - save it for the reception, at least. I was at a wedding a few years ago, and the officiant went into an extended monologue about the Lord of the Rings mid-ceremony - that was off-putting enough.