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Article: Wedding bling can be a bad thing
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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- October 3, 2006
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Got a fancy, gold-embossed wedding invitation in the mail the
other day. The script was so beautiful that the document appeared as
if it had been rendered by the calligraphy pen of Benedictine monks
in the ninth century.
Nevertheless, it's in the garbage now.
It's not that I don't care for the couple who sent the expensive
parchment paper scroll. I just have a problem watching friends throw
away that kind of money.
Call me old-fashioned, but I can remember when weddings were
chintzy little affairs staged in the linoleum-lined cellars of VFW
halls and musty old Moose lodges.
Somebody's aunt whipped up some haluski and a few foil trays of
fried chicken, while your cousin -- who swore he could ...