Reverb10 day 4: Wonder

"How did you cultivate a sense of wonder in your life this year?"

Warning: flippancy

The main thing I have been wondering about this year is the things that popular culture and the media tell you are essential for a wedding. Things I have learned recently:

• A £1,500 dress is 'budget'.
• If I can't afford a 3-course meal I can 'save' by serving afternoon tea at £42 per head.
• £1,000 is a perfectly reasonable price for a cake.

I would say 'thanks heavens for wedding blogs', except that they're sometimes just as bad, albeit in different ways:

• Catering your own wedding while working full-time is easy. If you don't do it, you're a lazy cow who doesn't care about her guests
• Handcrafted favours/napkins/pashminas/table centrepieces/tables/venues/grooms are EASY to make and EVERYBODY should have them. If you don't, you're RUBBISH.
• If you spend more than 5p on your wedding, you're basically a worthless human being.

Hmm, what's all this? Could it be yet another opportunity for women to judge each other?

Sigh.