Wedding Picture

Okay, so y'all know how in the South, we like to put every little accomplishment in the newspaper, right? So of course when you get in engaged you put in your picture and then when you get married you put in your bridal portrait with the entire run-down of your wedding from the names of your great-grandparents to the little old church ladies who decorated your reception hall, to the disgruntled younger cousin who passed out programs. It's W-A-Y too much information, but seein as no one in the South has ever met a stranger, why on earth wouldn't you want to share the most trivial details of an event to which they were not invited...surely everyone wants to know!

Anyhoo, in the past a good Southern girl would never allow the groom to tarnish her wedding picture, I mean he's really just there so we get to wear a big old princess dress and throw ourselves a party. His name can be mentioned if he is of a family of some repute, but otherwise is entirely superfluous. Lately though, we Southern gals have been getting all sentimental, or maybe it's that the grooms have finally grown tired of being relegated to the third line of type-face. Regardless, nowadays you find as many wedding pictures with grooms as without.

I think it's nice to have the couple together in the paper, but only if the picture is done well. For example, this would not be what you'd wanna do....



I mean, seriously? You gonna make this man marry you and carry your fat ass out on the beach and then put a picture of his chin in the newspaper? If he's really that bad lookin' honey, I feel sorry for your children. Now I don't know these two folks from Adam's dog, but I can tell you this marriage ain't startin off on the right foot. Whoever told you this was a cute picture (I'm guessing the bride's mother)was not being kind. Don't y'all just love lookin at folks you don't know in the paper? Makes it so much easy to talk trash without gettin caught!