Topical

Well for five minutes I’ve actually been topical.  Following my blog entry Marriage Guidance about happy relationships, Channel Five ran a small article on their tea time news about the same thing!

It was only a short segment and referred back to attitudes from the 50’s like "men, don’t nag your wives".  They did talk to one or two couples but I didn’t really pick up on any good tips from it.

However I did find the Liz Jones article I was referring to.  It was actually in first magazine, 9 - 15 June 2007 and the article was called "The bigger the wedding . . the rockier the relationship".  Unfortunately I couldn’t find any on-line references to the article so here are some snippets from the Liz Jones article.

"According to a new survey by wedding planners TK Weddings, more than 59 per cent of couples wanted guests to think their ceremony was the best wedding they had ever been to.  Only one in four wanted guests to see how in love they were. . ."

". . . And my experience is that the more elaborate the wedding (the Beckhams, Liz Hurley, Liza Minnelli and David Gest), the more the couple are trying to prove."

"My theory about elaborate weddings is that the whole exercise is displacement activity.  What counts is not how fancy the flower arrangement on each table is, but how long the couple stay together."

Staggeringly Liz quotes that the average wedding now costs £60 a minute . .!

The article is lovingly finished off with a testimony about her own parents who married during a three-day furlough from active service in Italy. 

Liz says " She (her mom) wore a cotton frock from Horrocks and drew a line up the back of her legs for want of a pair of stockings; he was dapper in his captain’s uniform.  They were together for nearly 60 years, and never spent a night apart . ."  How wonderful.

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