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Saturday 9: Wedding Bell Blues

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Wedding Bell Blues

1. If you have been or are married, tell us about your wedding. If you are not, tell us how would you want it to be.
~ spent half a day squatting and bowing low on the floor in front of 9 chanting monks, getting my hands drenched with scented water from a conch, and well... it was a Buddhist wedding - didn't understand 98%
of the sounds I heard but in fairness to the ex-MIL who ran the show, it was beautifully exotic! A treasure to keep.

2. What age would you encourage your children to get married?
~ when they are physically, emotionally, socially and financially ready

3. Who got married at the last wedding that you attended?
~ a feisty colleague

4. Do you enjoy weddings and receptions?
~ very much, especially that reception (feisty colleague's) where ladies who ran to the front for the bouquet-throwing were very much married, and the people cheering them on were none other than their husbands and kids

5. Have you cried at a wedding?
~ usually too busy absorbing beautiful vibes to cry

6. Would you prefer a lavish event or an intimate ceremony?
~ intimate is wonderful

7. Have you ever been in some one’s wedding party? If yes, do tell.
~ many times; as a flower girl (about 5 then), a bride's maid, a maid-of-honor, piano accompanist, tiresome but always fun

8. Does a wedding make you happy and sentimental or grouchy and skeptical?
~ very alive, most of the time smiling ear to ear

9. Why do you think our divorce rate is so high?
~ (in this part of Asia) aside from the lack of work exerted into a marriage, there are issues that warrant divorce. Times have changed, so have lifestyles. With the reason for my own divorce, and many others with the same reason, I didn't mind becoming a statistic. There is solace to draw though from the success of my parents' til-death-do-us-part marriage.

Comments

Brandi. said…
Hmm, a Buddhist wedding sound interesting...
Lisa G said…
Your wedding sounded beautiful...Have a happy Saturday :)
annies home said…
would love to have been a guest to your wedding it sounds great
Anya said…
Hazel
You make me smile
your answers are funny :)
Your wedding sounds fascinating! Happy Saturday...

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