By my reckoning, we are in the Year of Our Lord 2012. Most people I know who are in relationships move in together and, essentially, become common law couples once their relationship seems solid enough to do so. Or, alternately, as a way to reduce rent payments, which is also a very acceptable reason. (Fucken landlords.)
Given that we are in the age of co-habitation, I cannot understand why the tradition of large, expensive weddings still persists. If a couple has been living together for years, why force friends and family to celebrate the fact that they now want to... what? Have a different status on their income tax forms? Sign some courthouse documents? Try to get out of the rut they are in by taking 'the next step', until the rut sets back in? Satisfy their families?
I wonder if there might be another reason. Let us see. Invite enough people to get 100 guests. (You know those secondary and tertiary potential guest lists that every one has to make sure that you get the correct number of guests. Not the guests you want, but the guests you need...[Yes, very tenuous Batman reference...] ) Assume that 74 percent are couples, and 26 percent are single. So 74 x 0.5 + 26 people bring gifts. (And why do couples get away with giving one gift? Cheap fucks.) So in total, our happy couple are getting 63 gifts. Let us assume an average value of, say, $75, which brings us to $4725.
Nice little winfall, doncha think? (Again, especially since you set up your household several years ago...)
And for those of you who say it really is not about the winfall, then why are you registered?
Well?
Yeah, figured you would not have an answer...
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