To their credit everyone, including the couple, looked embarrassed. The couple stood there looking pained. The ceremony lacked any dignity or gravitas.

I think this says something about men and about marriage - both are big jokes. It also says women are so fucking weak and insignificant society needs to take every opportunity to prop up their fragile egos.

EDIT, to everyone who implies that religious misandrism is isolated, here is another from a current post, and I could easily find and post many more examples of churches denigrating men as a joke:

http://i.imgur.com/jxOuK.jpg

EDIT: It was a civil ceremony, not in a church, but the Reverend was Presbyterian.