| He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not One writer’s reflection on the media’s happliy ever after By: Lauren Ballard Weddings have been everywhere. All over the covers of magazine and on television. Everyone seems to be getting married. However, the media has not been done a good job of showing us the pure love of these marriages. It has become a compitition of who can have the biggest wedding and who can spend the most money. Reality shows like "Say Yes to the Dress" and "Bridezillas" seem to gloss over the real meaning of a wedding and marriage. It portrays that every girl should be a total "bridezilla". According to the urban dictionary, a bridezilla is “formed from blending of the words bride and Godzilla. Used to describe a woman whose behavior becomes outrageously bad in the course of planning for her wedding”. These women must have the biggest and best location and spend thousands of dollars on a dress that they will only wear once. What happen to a small gathering of your closest friends and family, a simple dress that makes you look gorgeous, and the ceremony joining of two people in love? The media seems to have lost that concept. Let's take this Kim Kardashian "Fairytale wedding" that aired on October 9th, 2011. Viewers tuned in to see this "glamorous" wedding, that some were even saying was going to top the "Royal Wedding"; competition at its finest. It is sad that such a celebration and intimiate ceremony can be exploited by the press. For Kim Kardashian's wedding, some felt that by her wedding being televised, it took away from the genuine love of the two, Humphries and Kardashian, while others didn't care and were super excited to watch the premiere of the wedding on E!. Some felt that it was an "amazing wedding so why not make it public?" E! Online have quoted Humphries, "I'm committed to this marriage and everything this covenant represents,' he said. 'I love my wife and am devesatated to learn she filed for divorce. I am willing to do whatever it takes to make it work'". Since when do we see husbands to be the one left in the dust and trying to make a marriage work? It is so good to see men viewing marriage as something so real and something worth fighting for. This is 2011, almost 2012, and apparently, marriage and weddings have a new meaning; glitz and glamour. Media sure does have a way of turning things around and giving it a whole new meaning. Sarah Chaisson Warner |
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