I've been to a few civil weddings and yeah, it does seem very much "we took a CofE wedding and took out the GodTM", very odd.
I'm also not sure why people do it - but there are a range of benefits that the state hands out, not so much "less tax" these days but things like what happens if you end up in hospital, or if you die intestate, or parental responsibility for the father (or non-gestational mother; I guess that if neither parent is going to gestate the child you have to jump through hoops) with less hoop jumping and so on.
But people often claim things about how they can't feel committed without a wedding, which seems bizarely tied to the God thing (which is fine for people who believe in God, but not so much for people who claim loudly to not believe in God).
Or maybe they just want a stupidly expensive dress...
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Date: 2008-06-23 10:02 am (UTC)I'm also not sure why people do it - but there are a range of benefits that the state hands out, not so much "less tax" these days but things like what happens if you end up in hospital, or if you die intestate, or parental responsibility for the father (or non-gestational mother; I guess that if neither parent is going to gestate the child you have to jump through hoops) with less hoop jumping and so on.
But people often claim things about how they can't feel committed without a wedding, which seems bizarely tied to the God thing (which is fine for people who believe in God, but not so much for people who claim loudly to not believe in God).
Or maybe they just want a stupidly expensive dress...