Weddings...

So I asked my friends on Facebook to help me find something to write about in my blog since I've been hit with a severe writer's BLOCK and the first two comments I got screamed "Weddings!"


So although my experience is bare minimum when it comes to weddings... I figured I can use my experience as a wedding attendee, bride's maid and sometimes maid of honor to take up the challenge and find something to write :)


So... Weddings! What's that all about? Technically; it's the ceremony that brings two loved ones together officially in front of the whole world! But is that the way the bride and groom see it! I doubt it!


The bride and groom, and particularly the bride I gotta say... usually have this vision of how their one special night would be. It's their vision and their vision only!


Personally I've attended several weddings... and sometimes I don't like the flowers, or the decorations, or the wedding dress... Sometimes I don't even like the bride or the groom! Sometimes I wish my friend ended up with a better person! Sometimes I get pissed off that such a beautiful couple would have such a miserable song for their first dance...


BUT then I look at them and find them happy! And there it is... the wedding isn't really about making the attendees happy... it's about the bride and groom and what would make them happy... if a crappy first dance has a special memory for them so be it... if she's comfortable with the worst designer dress so be it... if they can't afford the best and most sophisticated reception... who cares! What matters is that two people who love each other are getting married and are looking forward to a brilliant life together!


I'm going to be a maid of honor in an up coming wedding (inshalla as we say in Egypt) and my mission is to make my best friend, the soon to be bride, the happiest... my job is to make her wedding turn out the way she wants it to be... I might not love the color she picked for my dress but I'll wear it... I might not look the way I planned in her wedding; but her wedding will turn out the wants it to! AND I'm desperate for her to have a traditional wedding (katb ketab) in a mosque but she doesn't want it... But that's the point.. it's her wedding, the way she wants it...


So... that's how I see weddings... regardless of what they look like, how they're decorated, how they dress up and where they do it... if it makes them happy... it's a good wedding :)