{"id":58674,"date":"2025-12-30T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=58674"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:04:11","slug":"qotd-modern-weddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/12\/30\/qotd-modern-weddings\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Modern weddings"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>As a Christian I deeply respect the institution of marriage, but I absolutely despise all of the useless superstitions and cultural baggage it has become freighted with. It is the lifelong union of two persons, before God and a few witnesses. Yet many have turned a simple, joyous one-day ceremony into a gruelling year-long campaign with hundreds of man-hours of planning, a long schedule of ludicrous precursors (showers, stags, rehearsals, and so on), meticulous attention to protocol, and tens of thousands of dollars. Most ridiculous of all, even the non-religious &mdash; who may never darken a church door except for nuptials and their own funeral &mdash; usually feel it necessary to get married in a house of worship. Why? Who cares what your folks or old Aunt Bertha expects, they aren&#8217;t the ones getting married. It&#8217;s your call. Be honest with yourself, if you can&#8217;t be bothered to show up at church most Sundays, what is the point of getting married there? Just go see a justice of the peace. It&#8217;s no worse and nobody with any brains will say you&#8217;re not <em>really<\/em> married. God would probably appreciate the honesty rather than the halfhearted observance of convention.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Taylor, <a href=\"http:\/\/taylor.textamerica.com\/details\/?r=3196605\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Long Day&#8217;s Journey into Matrimony&#8221;, <em>Taylor &amp; Company<\/em><\/a>, 2005-09-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Christian I deeply respect the institution of marriage, but I absolutely despise all of the useless superstitions and cultural baggage it has become freighted with. It is the lifelong union of two persons, before God and a few witnesses. 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