Your wedding is an IPO where everyone’s lying
On weddings, capital markets, and the fictions that make both of them real
When I get married, no one will ever know about it. I’m so serious, I’ve planned this all out. The way I imagine this will happen is that if I do marry, I’ll do the legal paperwork stuff, not announce it, and then maybe a year into the thing, I’ll send out invites for a nice dinner party and insist that the people I really, really want there show up. Then I’ll just announce it in the middle of the thing.
My future first husband has no idea about this plan simply because I haven’t run it past him and that’s because I am not sure where he is at the moment. More pressingly than what my future first husband thinks, I have a flight to Canada in a few hours, so we’ll deal with this when it comes.
Besides, I already met the love of my life (myself, tbh) and I’m not sure it’s socially acceptable to throw a wedding for my love for myself, though to be fair, the entire global financial system, just like a wedding, is also a fiction.
