“The Groom With a View,” a funny male blogger who writes about weddings, recently posted about wedding traditions that guys hate. If you’ve been following my blog you know that I have posted a bit about the origins of wedding traditions and I recently wrote an article about ways to modernize out-of-date traditions. Naturally I was very excited to read The Groom’s opinion on dull traditions.
Two that he mentioned were the first dance and the cake cutting. I agree to a certain extent about the first dance, it’s boring for guests to just sit there and watch the couple awkwardly slow dance while gazing into each other’s eyes. Additional points are subtracted if the couple selects a horrible song like Olivia Newton John’s “I Honestly Love You” (seriously, haven’t they seen The Wedding Planner?)
I have mixed feelings about cake cutting. How can you not cut your own wedding cake?! Also I have no problem with watching while the couple cuts their cake. It doesn’t even take very long. However I hate it when couples smear wedding cake all over each other’s faces. It’s not cute and no one enjoys seeing it.
I was a little surprised to hear that the Groom doesn’t like sitting through normal cake-cutting though. His argument is that it stops the flow of the party. Ultimately though, the couple is footing the bill for a fun party, I think you can sit through their photo-op with their pricey cake that you are about to enjoy!
What do you think? Which traditions bore you? Do you plan on cutting your wedding cake and having a first dance?
Guys are happy to eat your delicious wedding cake, but apparently they get bored watching you cut it!
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