I was reading an article about weddings

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In fact, I was reading this article: We have to remember, I missed my parent's wedding for a bunch of years, they hadn't made me yet. I want to say I think all of these 'traditions' should be dropped. The first one is not seeing each other before the wedding. Good grief! A lot of them have lived with each other, some have even had kids! I don't know about some weddings I have been to, but I have only been kind of interactive with a wedding since 1980 when my brother married, for the first time. The second is marrying in white. You do know, or maybe you don't know... but it has only been around since Queen Victoria married Prince Albert. White as a sign of purity. I really doubt most of these people are 'pure.' I am not going to say anything negative about anyone wearing it, I'm just saying... The third was wearing the veil. That one is much older than the two previous ones. It dates back to the early times so that neither party sees the other. A reason a woman's dad led her down the aisle, was because the veil was so thick she couldn't see her prospective spouse anymore than he could see her. Some people forget that. I mean, if you are a 14 year old girl and the marriage is arranged with an old widower, what would you say? Yes things like that happened. The forth one I never heard of. I guess I just was invited to the wrong kinds of weddings. They were "roast" speeches, like you would see at a retiring comedic actor. I have seen things like that back in the day on TV. The fifth one was throwing the bouquet. I know it was thrown at my brother's first wedding. I stood at the back of the 'single women' and I luckily wasn't anywhere close to it. The next time was much less attended and all these old ladies pushed me to the front. It looked like it was coming toward me and I side stepped and this cute little girl got it. Ya know, I think that wedding might've been first. My roommate was the Maid of Honor. The church was too small for more than one attendant each. But I was super tired... The sixth is Receiving queues... I know I was at one pretty recently, but you know the Catholic Church, they will hang onto traditions even if they didn't start it. The seventh has been a pet peeve of mine. Well, I don't like dresses, but this always seemed to me to be an ugly dress competition. My roommate wore the dress again as a Halloween costume, I just tried to construct wings. She put Christmas lights in it, but this was way before easy LEDs so she was stuck close to the wall for a bit, then I unplugged her. This was late 70s I guess. The dress wasn't exactly ugly, but it was a whole lot of wasted fabric. (There was a whole lot of my roommate...) The eighth one is full sit-down dinners... I hadn't been to a wedding with a full sit down dinner was served until the Catholic wedding. I'm not saying there wasn't food. My niece's had a kind of food line - not quite to a buffet style. My niece worked at a restaurant and it was a wedding gift for her. The one my roommate was part of, well, we then went over to a Mexican food place. If any of my old friends see this, well about the only thing I could eat was the guacamole, if they left out most of the pepper. I do not remember about what was done for my brother's first wedding. I have worked pretty hard on forgetting about his first wife. His second one... well they got a quick ceremony at his place in the fall and the big one after tax season. I actually talked my guy friend to come with that time. My sister was there, they had an open mike and the restaurant of his choice - yeah, Mexican food... The top of the cake was next... that was ninth. I think I only knew of one couple who did that,I don't know if they even remembered. Tenth was rice throwing... I remember all the 'don't throw rice, it kills birds things' about birds stuff. Okay, I get it, but I also don't... have you seen the inside of a bird's bill? The eleventh is dollar dances...? I guess I saw that at my niece's wedding... But... her wedding was a kind of... well, there had been some possible issues on her mother's side. But it was worked out. I didn't dollar dance, while my back wasn't what it is today, but I was having a low spoons day. And finally Matching family seating sides. I remember that from my brother's wedding. The wedding was in Houston, we live in Austin. The groom's side was us, Mom, Dad, me, Mom's brother and his wife. Also, our great Aunt down from New Jersey. A former co-worker of Dad, his wife who is a good friend of Mom's and their son and his wife... I don't remember if they have kids, but maybe not. When the "Bride's side" was full, a guest protested sitting on the "Groom's side." I guess they sat, but there was a big gap between the few of us and them. I do know that the parents of the bride were both doctors. I did sit on the Groom's side at the wedding I attended many years later, but the dinner later, the only time I ever attended a sit down dinner, was kind of free range. I really never wanted to get married, but when I did it was for mutual protection. Really more for her than me, since I was older. 7 years older, but older. I wore black, black jeans that had faded some and a black shirt that said "Contents Under Pressure." Come the end of August it would be 10 years. So, have you seen any of these wedding traditions? Did you do any of these at your wedding? Have you been to any weddings that follow these traditions?