You get together with friends and family to celebrate the love you have for your partner. Is there anything better than that?

And yes I love brides in wedding dresses, wedding dresses are one of the few items of clothing that look better on…

See, wedding mad I am!

I do get liking weddings – I am totally in favour of wearing fabulous frocks, eating good food, getting presents and having a party with friends. It's the institution of marriage itself that I have doubts about.

I've often said I should throw a party…

Is there anything that isn't better with cupcakes?

An autopsy? Or maybe not, as long as you managed the crumbs properly...

Frankly, I have no idea what flavours we had — I ate one of the chocolate ones and that was it. I didn't touch any of the catered food…

Cupcakes.

Is there anything that isn't better with cupcakes?

Cupcakes.

Reply: You're welcome, Mr Pound! — DH

OMG. Kyle. Please tell me they still exist in the parental home somewhere, and that you are able to sell them to me.

Danielle, I'm happy to sell you my pet rock .. and I think I've still got my 'Hang in there, baby' kitten poster too.

As for the…

"love means never having to say you're sorry"

I think my parents went through the entire 1970s with bedsheets that had a couple holding hands and silly slogans like this.

It later transpired that the music was actually 'Where Do I Begin?' — the theme to the 1970 film 'Love Story'.

Ick – a turgid movie adaption of a terrible novel based on a stupid premise. I mean, seriously "love means never having to say you're sorry"??!! Only someone who…

Far and away the best wedding I've been to.

I knew getting the Scottish in-laws to pay for the piss was a good move. It took us weeks to drink all that.

My wedding was a blast. I'm told this by the few reliable witnesses sober enough to remember.

I have to admit that I don't remember much but I have a hazy memory of holding you up (and your dress together) so you could open your presents. Far and away the…

your funerals however seem not to involve immediate family?

Most of mine have, or friends I deeply love.

Gimme a wedding anyday-

and a third of their joint salary on the wedding

But if the couple pay for it, how will the bride's family ever express correctly their appreciation for the groom taking their otherwise unproductive daughter off their hands? Now that's tradition.

I particularly liked Carol Stewart's wedding in a cave. It's thrilling to imagine the possibility of an earthquake during the ceremony and the wedding guests trapped underground — and then eventually...…

It's a mystery.

Eh, not really. The desire to flaunt wealth, or the appearance thereof, has won out. It's a social standing thing.

That, and the wedding industry (with able support from De Beers) has done a bang-up job of convincing women that a big white wedding is exactly what…

It's a mystery.

I just go all Jane Austen for the night whilst retaining my critical faculties

I just have to ask: what does this mean? Ringlets and an Empire line frock? No, no, can't be... a dazzling impersonation of Colin Firth?

But that was 30-odd years ago: for 3rd marriage (that has…

I was reminded today of the final scene of Six Feet Under (thanks, JA), and thought of my own father's funeral and that mixture…

i never knew anyone else who actually made money out of their wedding.

Not that uncommon in other cultures, one of my best friends in fact made a scandalous, deposit-for-a-house-worthy amount.

Before we moved here my mother surprised me very much by suggesting Justine and I get married, until it…

Oddly, this is what my mother thought I wanted in a wedding. And little girls, to strew the rose petals in my path as I walked down the aisle.

I don't even think that my mother thinks I want that. It just seems to be a convenient excuse to protest…

So we got married in a garden with about 80 friends,…

hand-fasting

Is that when you don't have to use your hand anymore?
;-)

Same here, but working out anniversaries can be tricky. At least weddings mark a line in the sand.

Our civil universary is the same date as our previously-celebrated coughmumble anniversary. Karl swears I made this the first of the month so that he wouldn't get advance warning before turning over…

Same here, but working out anniversaries can be tricky.

Not for us, in fact we'd rather celebrate togetherness than beingmarriedness anyhow. We did do a civil union at some point, but in filling out a form recently we discovered that we couldn't even remember the year in which it had…

and when I do they tend to be odd

I have just now received a message from one of my writing partners telling me she's off to a hand-fasting, and if she's not back by the end of the week she's probably still lost in a forest in Hereford somewhere.…

I don't mind weddings, as long as it's not my own.
Tom Waits

if you subtract the latter you're…

Wedding #1 Registry office, UK. Bride wore a nice semi transparent blue thing so that lingerie clearly visible. Registrar struggled to keep eyes on the paperwork. 2 strangers as witnesses off the street [lasted 10 years].

Wedding #2 Piss up at a vineyard.…

I don't know what she thinks I want in a wedding, but meringue-shaped dresses and a tonne of roses are most definitely not involved. Seriously. Ew.

Oddly, this is what my mother thought I wanted in a wedding. And little girls, to strew the rose petals in my path as…

People often revert to their former selves…

And then with Jennifer I suddenly did, and I just somehow wanted to formally declare: "I think you're the one for me, and by the way, I'll be sticking around you until I'm dead."

Yes. This. 'You! You're my person!'

Of course, it helps if the other person has the…

This sort of nonsense would never happen under a Facsist Dictatorship

The thing I hate the most about those dictatorships is the horrible screeching noise you hear when you pick up the phone.

We wanted to get married but not have the wedding.

I realise I'm the one at fault here, but I find it really hard to divorce (ah ah) the two concepts, the being married and the getting married. If being married means to be committed to another, and the wedding…

I would've felt pretty miserable if I couldn't have married Jennifer

That's not a crap answer at all. My partner and I have gone the creepy stalker route. I'm not against marriage in others, just very curious . . . oh, and I really wish they wouldn't invite me to…

Idiot Savant wrote:

Actually, all it legally requires is... saying "I call on the people present here to witness that I, A B, take you, C D, to be my legal wife (or husband)" or words to similar…

I didn't wear a dress,

sounds interesting.Tell us more Jackie:)
A couple of friends had met in a pub in Auckland so did the whole thing at the pub. From the marriage in the garden bar to the reception and it was great to hear the likes of Chris Knox…

Most of the weddings have been non-religious (except for one catholic marathon – which I exited early due to a nasty tummy-bug from the night before) or presided over by a groovy-vicar-type (you know... "give thanks in whatever way you…

The drawback, however, is that a mutual detestation of weddings does not make the nuptial process very easy.

I would have thought the opposite. Surely you could have simply opted not to get married?

And even a Registry Office wedding requires vows and a ceremony.

Actually, all it legally requires is doing the paperwork, declaring that you don't know of any impediments, and saying "I call on the people present here to witness that I, A B, take you, C D, to be my…

She has booked the smallest registry office possible. It holds just 8 people, max. It's the happy couple, their parents and their witnesses, and that's it.

So technically, we're not going to the wedding at all. We're just going for…