Monday, September 15, 2003
Bachelorette Party
I think the whole concept of a "last hurrah" before you get married is a little silly.
Point: the bachelorette party I attended this weekend was made up of three married women, three engaged women (one being the actual bachelorette) and two singles.
So if the marrieds are out of town on a weekend, partying their asses off, and the engageds are there, too, without any serious repercussions, then how is this a "last hurrah?"
Obviously, the answer is that it isn't. It's just an excuse to take girls' night out to another city, get a hotel room, and act like morons in funny t-shirts and tiaras. And there's nothing wrong with that...I just wish people wouldn't react to the whole phenomena as if it were the end of something.
I also wish that people, upon seeing the bachelorette party, would not recommend divorce lawyers, or suggest that there's still time to "change her mind."
Admittedly, the prospect of marriage is a little daunting--even to those of us on the wedding track--but don't you think it's tacky when a divorce lawyer hands a bride his card the night before the wedding? (This actually happened at my friend's rehearsal dinner. Jackass.)
Point: the bachelorette party I attended this weekend was made up of three married women, three engaged women (one being the actual bachelorette) and two singles.
So if the marrieds are out of town on a weekend, partying their asses off, and the engageds are there, too, without any serious repercussions, then how is this a "last hurrah?"
Obviously, the answer is that it isn't. It's just an excuse to take girls' night out to another city, get a hotel room, and act like morons in funny t-shirts and tiaras. And there's nothing wrong with that...I just wish people wouldn't react to the whole phenomena as if it were the end of something.
I also wish that people, upon seeing the bachelorette party, would not recommend divorce lawyers, or suggest that there's still time to "change her mind."
Admittedly, the prospect of marriage is a little daunting--even to those of us on the wedding track--but don't you think it's tacky when a divorce lawyer hands a bride his card the night before the wedding? (This actually happened at my friend's rehearsal dinner. Jackass.)
