First I read about the couple who won a competition for a £13,000 wedding to be paid for and arranged by the Lincolnshire Echo and then the couple who won a competition in the US called 'Today throws a Martha Stewart Wedding Contest.' Their original personal, home made $5,000 wedding was cast aside for a half million dollar lavish television wedding live on The Today Show.
Everything was chosen for them by the public -there was no personal input apart from the minister from the brides home town was chosen to marry them. They had a wedding that was remote from who they were as people, which was held outdoors at The Rockerfeller Centre with the traffic zooming by in the background. (Good job they were mic'd up)
The fact is that the majority of these competition weddings are bad karma for want of a better expression. The marriages seem to never quite get of the ground. The radio comp weddings, breakfast TV ones -all of them commercial traps that exploit people searching for what they perceive to be a dream wedding. The biggest winners in these charades are the broadcasting companies that profit greatly form the publicity.
That couples $5,000 wedding would have been gorgeous-all about them, full of love and intimacy and relevant to who they are. Instead they have ended up with a public, commercial extravaganza that they may well have difficulty coming to terms with. Watch the video clip-no sooner have they been pronounced husband and wife then tele people are in their faces for an interview. I feel that they have been robbed of a day of personal, private significance. Course, they may feel quite, quite different.
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