{"id":5958,"date":"2022-08-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espacestudio.ca\/the-two-wedding-wedding-isnt-just-for-celebs-its-becoming-the-norm\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:00:00","slug":"the-two-wedding-wedding-isnt-just-for-celebs-its-becoming-the-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espacestudio.ca\/en\/the-two-wedding-wedding-isnt-just-for-celebs-its-becoming-the-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"The two-wedding wedding isn’t just for celebs \u2013 it\u2019s becoming the norm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are pros and cons. In the pros column, it\u2019s double the celebration, which, in certain cases, means double the joy. Lils and Woody have been together for eight years and they\u2019re a couple that everyone truly believes in, so both their wedding ceremonies overflowed with happiness. (I don\u2019t mean to be a Cynical Sally, but there are some weddings you go to and think, \u201cThese two are only doing it because they feel like they should.\u201d Come on, that\u2019s true, isn\u2019t it?) Having two weddings also gives family and friends who go to both the chance to catch up properly, instead of having a five-second chat about the weather and how lovely the bride looks.<\/p>\n

As for the cons, well, there is more expense obviously, when some weddings are already the sort of affair that would make Marie Antoinette blush. For the guests, two weddings will mean two outfits and probably two hangovers. It means two rounds of speeches, too \u2013 which might be a good\u00a0or\u00a0bad thing depending on who is giving them.<\/p>\n

It also encourages the trend for weddings to become more of a carnival. For years, they have been getting bigger, becoming more extravagant and more of a spectacle. Social media has a lot to\u00a0answer for here, encouraging people to throw increasingly outlandish ceremonies to outdo the one that everyone went to last weekend. Some weddings now have their own websites, their own hashtags, and everyone scrabbles to upload a picture of the couple emerging from church, confetti in their mouths, to prove that they were there. Perhaps throwing two weddings is the natural progression, because if you do it twice, then everyone gets to show off about it twice online, too.<\/p>\n

My mother often tuts and sighs and says she remembers the days when a wedding reception meant a glass of champagne and a piece of cake before everyone went home. No four-hour canap\u00e9 marathon, no choreographed dancing, no photo booth and certainly no doughnut wall. (This is quite literally, a wall made from doughnuts from which guests can help themselves, mostly designed for Instagram purposes. Ask Hubert and Persephone if they are having one and they will be doubly impressed.)<\/p>\n

At a time when we\u2019re collectively less religious than ever, how ironic that weddings need to be such a statement.<\/p>\n

Although not all of them. I\u2019m unsure if the same can be said for J-Lo\u2019s knees-up in America, but there was a beautiful simplicity to the ceremony in the barn last weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As I sat on a bench listening to one of the guests read out Leonard Cohen\u2019s Dance Me To The End of Love (\u201cDance me to the children who are asking to be born\/ Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn\u201d), I forgot the storm clouds elsewhere in the world and remembered that whether someone has one wedding, or two weddings, or nine weddings, there is magic in the moment that two people face one another and say those vows. As Nancy Mitford wrote in The Pursuit of Love: \u201cLife is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, that\u2019s me done for this year; my wedding season is over and I can hang up my pillbox hat. Until next summer, at least. \u201cWe\u2019re thinking the first or second weekend in June,\u201d one friend said recently. Or both, perhaps, given the way weddings are going.<\/p>\n\n

Read last week’s column: The British are losing the knack of queueing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There are pros and cons. In the pros column, it\u2019s double the celebration, which, in certain cases, means double the joy. Lils and Woody have been together for eight years and they\u2019re a couple that everyone truly believes in, so both their wedding ceremonies overflowed with happiness. 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