Voices
MARTA
SEGAL BLOCK
HUFFINGTON
08.05.12
The
Wedding
Trend
Myth
A REPORTER RECENTLY contacted
me to ask about the “new wedding
trend” of couples getting married at
home. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan were married at home, so
would others now do so as well?
Over 2,000,000 couples get
married in the U.S. every year.
Thousands of these people will get
married at home. But there have
always been thousands of people
getting married at home. Some of
the current home weddings are
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large, complicated affairs. I have
one friend who had a floor built
over his mother’s swimming pool
so that he could have room to get
married in her backyard. Others
are simple. My own booking company gets requests all the time for
a soloist to play in a living room
for a simple wedding with a small
number of guests.
Marta Segal
Block is the
Editorial
Director of
GigMasters