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This past week we’ve heard all about the extravagant nuptials of Mr and Mrs Bezos. And how many girls who now decry the nonsense would themselves indulge in excess and folly if they got the chance? Quite a few I imagine. The bee in my bonnet this twilight hour is how the acquiring of a spouse has become far more important than the marriage that the wedding starts. So much money spent on a couple of hours that could be much better used over the course of a long marriage. Girls in particular are easy prey to the wedding monetisers who insist that unless an inordinate amount of cash is spent the wedding will be a flop and the marriage won’t last. Doesn’t every little girl want a fairytale wedding even if daddy can’t afford it? I know a few daddies who got into serious debt to give their little princesses what they dream about. A touch of reality would not go amiss when talking about marriage. And it’s all a trade off. She wants her big day, the groom wants his big night. The bride wants to get into her nice frock, the groom wants to get her out of it. The busybody monetisers have an iron grip on all this. What we need is to return to antiquity. When Isaac married Rebekah the Old Testament record states that “Isaac led her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her.” Now wasn’t that easy? By the way, his mother Sara was dead by this time so she wasn’t in the tent during the “taking” of Rebekah. That would have been a bit awkward.