Say yes to the dress.

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Many decades ago, when I got married, my mother who sewed like the angels made me a beautiful short wedding dress. I would have wanted a long one, but we could only pay for a luncheon and my mother said that if the ceremony was not so elegant, it would have to be with a short dress. And so it was. Still, the fabric was macrame and I looked beautiful in my happy 18 year old beauty. Now, over 50 years later, I look at this TV show where american brides spend sometimes over US 10.000 on a dress they will wear for one occation. WOW! Some of the brides are not even brides. Many of them will renew their marriage vows and will include children of different ages. Other brides, as it is now common, will get married with a long, expensive, white dress and the children of the couple will throw flowers on their way to the altar. The dress and the sentence in those cases "you may now kiss the bride" sound confusing to me. I then feel a very old lady and wonder if I will be the last generation who learned poems by heart and wrote with a pen. I want to wash my head (not only hair) and say yes to this new world I don´t quite understand. If we had had the money of those dresses when I got married, we would have put up our entire love nest, washing machine included.