Every single thing at a wedding is always about the bride and nobody else. It is entitlement dialed up to the most extreme levels. No other persons opinion or life matters, they're all pawns in attendance to view the ceremony of the entitled queen. The bride makes the bridesmaid buy all of these stupid shitty dresses that they'll only wear once, because it has to be HER WAY. Everybody who attends has to waste their time and life fucking commuting to this atrocity so they can see her walk down the aisle. There were easily over 100 people in attendance of this event. This was today (a Friday), which is a work day, and the ceremony began at around 5:30 - 6:00 pm, so everybody that was there had to call in to work and skip out on work so they could drive out to the middle of nowhere to come to this gathering because of this arbitrary cultural ritual. No, your life and earning money and doing what you want isn't important, you have to be there to see MEEEEEEEE and validate me and my life choices! I'm doing what other people are doing, doesn't that make me a respectable member of the community now?

It's also always about how much money is sunk into this crap in an attempt to display perceived affluence, which ends up causing other women to want to compete with each other as to who has the best wedding. I have a female cousin, and not wanting to be outdone by anybody, her wedding reception cost 50k$. Let that fucking sink in, not including the cost of the ring etc. 50k$. At 150$ per hour session, that's sex with over 300 escorts. If you flew to Thailand, you could fuck over 1000 girls for that money. 50k$ is a 20% down payment on an investment property, or TWO investment properties even. 50k$ is more than some people will ever have in their life.

I sincerely mean the following; I can't understand why anyone would even actually WANT to hold a wedding and reception in the first place. I mean, I understand that some people really are unable to step out of their own sphere of cultural influence, but really, come on. What do you even gain from performing such a function? Social status? You gain nothing of value.

A common answer that I hear in response to this question is that "You'll be reimbursed with wedding gifts!", but the wedding gifts that you would receive would never cover or exceed the cost of the wedding in total, also it's kind of entitled to expect people to gift you something because you've performed some arbitrary meaningless social ritual.

Why would anyone want to undertake the logistics of handling hundreds of different people in such a manner? Not only that, but every single wedding is IMPOSSIBLY boring. You can't talk about anything interesting because someone might get offended. You can't do anything interesting because you're sitting there surrounded by simps. Instead of finishing a book I was reading, instead of having sex with my girlfriend tonight, instead of getting to eat my own delicious home cooked food, instead of being able to enrich my own life, I spent the entire day being a pawn in someone's game. I sat around at a fucking table for hours putting on a polite social mask, ate a mediocre dish of fucking plain pasta & marinara, salad and diced potatoes and I listened to old people talking about their medical issues while the fucking Cha Cha Slide and Hips Don't Lie was being played on a dance floor.

Fuck wedding receptions. If I died and rather than going to heaven or hell, I went to limbo instead; being in limbo would be me being stuck in attendance at a wedding reception. You're not quite dead, but you're not quite alive either.