The seaside wedding ceremony in Hawaii which was yesterday interrupted when a crashing wave broke over the happy couple — God’s take on outdoor weddings — could be replicated all over England and Wales if the proposals from the Law Commission are finally implemented. Weddings in beaches, fields, ditches, family living rooms, you name it, practically anywhere will potentially be a venue for a wedding. And cruise ships. Obviously.
My own view is that the fancier the ceremony, the more outré the setting, the shorter the duration of the actual union. The change also makes it more that bit more likely that the guests will have to travel to godforsaken places to see their friends and relations getting married on a rock off Land’s End or a field next to Hadrian’s Wall. Weddings are already mind-blowingly expensive — this will make some more so.It’s weird, isn’t it, that just as marriage rates are at historically low levels, the weddings get bigger and fatter?
