Sat, Nov 21 2009
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Mike Pound: Rock, Paper, Scissors not a wedding game I don’t gush at weddings, but I will admit that my attitude toward them has changed — at least since I became a dad. When I was a kid, I thought weddings were sort of silly. When I got older, I thought they were sort of scary. After I got married, I thought they were sort of sad. Ha! That’s a veteran married guy joke.
But after Emma was born, I starting looking at weddings a little differently. See, I discovered that the parents of the bride are sort of obligated to pick up the tab for most of the wedding expenses. I don’t think that’s fair. I also discovered that there are a lot of wedding expenses. How many? Well, I could tell you, but I would have to charge you a wedding-expense-list fee. I don’t know exactly what the total cost for a wedding has gone to lately, but I’ve heard rumors. All I can say is that if you and your spouse are thinking about having a child, and if that child turns out to be a girl, and if you haven’t already started saving for her wedding, it’s too late. I also have been told that there is a direct correlation between the cost of your daughter’s wedding and the number of female gushes it generates. I’m not a nosy person, so I didn’t ask anyone what they thought the wedding on Saturday cost. But I sure did hear a lot of gushing, so I’m guessing the cost was slightly more than the gross national product of Guam. But I also saw the look on the bride’s face. And I saw the look on the bride’s parents’ faces. I figured the bride’s parents weren’t thinking much about what the wedding cost. I figured the parents were, instead, thinking about how happy their daughter looked. I figured they were thinking about how beautiful she was. I figured they were thinking about how quickly their little girl had gone from baby shoes to high heels. From dress-up clothes to a wedding gown. And from saying boys are “gross” to saying “I do.” I think that’s why I started playing Rock, Paper, Scissors with Emma during the wedding. I guess I wanted to make sure that she’s still a little girl. I guess I wanted to make sure that I could hang onto her a little longer. But I know that someday, my wife and I will be arguing over the cost of a wedding gown and flowers and music and a hundred other things. And I know that all that arguing will go out the window when we start thinking about how happy Emma will look — as happy, I hope, as the bride looked in the wedding Saturday. If she does, I might even gush. 
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