Drive Through Weddings (July 1st commonsense-uk) Still on the subject of the USA (see Friday’s blog) I recently heard about the “famous” Las Vegas drive thru’ weddings. Evidently the happy couple can choose their preferred financial package, climb in the car, say those magic words and, bingo, they are man and wife! Presumably they actually get out of the car at some point before or during the ceremony but I’m not too sure. There are companies who specialise in this sort of thing and one of them offers packages starting as low as $89 (approx £60) depending on whether you use your own car, a private limousine or even “Elvis’s Pink Cadillac”! For the cheap deal you can drive your car through the “fabulous drive thru wedding chapel tunnel” with the added bonus of a “Long stem rose for the bride”! If you really want to push the boat out, the service will be conducted by an Elvis impersonator who will sing three wedding hymns! It almost makes you want to get married just for the fun of it! This is America at its most wacky and eccentric and, personally, I love it! No doubt the more serious minded and religious amongst us will take a different view and obviously, if marriage is to be treated as a serious commitment (and what else can it be?) they are right. It is undoubtedly frivolous and probably not quite the way that holy matrimony was first conceived but life is short and who’s to say that drive thru’ marriages are any less successful or enduring than their more conventional counterparts? One point worth remembering, at least as far as English law is concerned, a marriage can be declared void on the grounds that one or both of the parties are insane at the time the ceremony took place. Participants in a Las Vegas “drive thru wedding chapel tunnel” marriage would probably meet that criteria perfectly!
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 23:08:17 +0000
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