So much WTF

Re: So much WTF

• MNNEBride member

  

  July 2014

  It is a gorgeous cemetery.  BUT it's still a cemetery.

  

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• kmmssg mod

  

  July 2014

  And....it was a PPD!

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• mrsconn23 member

  

  July 2014

  There's a funeral home home here (community life center, *smh*) that does weddings. It's a nice cemetery, but really...who wants to think about the fact that their reception venue also hosts dead bodies (and there are probably some in the basement as you're partying away). 

  
  

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• VarunaTT member

  

  July 2014

  IDK, this doesn't really bother me.  Cemeteries are such a waste of space and it seems an interesting way to honor the dead.

  
  

  Her hat is fascinating and sent me looking for traditional weddings of that country.  Found some really pretty pictures.

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• dharmabunny member

  

  July 2014

  I'm going to chalk this up to differing cultural neuroses pertaining to death rituals and how the concept of death and afterlife is rationalized out.
  
  Not every culture believes the dead are entities to be avoided or creepy. Plenty do, avoid the body, avoid even the mention, they are gone anything else is associating with rotting meat. Others, it's not much different than having a family reunion, only with spirit entities and not physical bodies. Dia de Los Muertos is a pretty strong example of this. Or the spirit is gone, but the body is still maintained. Obsessively maintained.
  
  Gotta say, death rituals and metaphysical concepts specific to cultures are some of the most intensely fascinating reflections on cultural assumptions of the living, plus just overall hygiene practices.
  

  

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• hmonkey member

  

  July 2014

  i want to touch that hat so bad.

  

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• AuntFlo member

  

  July 2014

  I don't even mind the cemetery thing. But her dress, her hat, his mail order bride... too much.

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• VarunaTT member

  

  July 2014

  Well, her dress and hat are the traditional dressings of a bride from her country.  I see why she would to wear that.   And they were grad students together, so it's not a "mail order bride" situation.

  
  

  
  

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• tawillers member

  

  July 2014

  If you just pretend his aunt Helena was his wedding coordinator, this allllll makes sense.

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• JasperandOpal member

  

  July 2014

  tawillers said:

  If you just pretend his aunt Helena was his wedding coordinator, this allllll makes sense.

  Thats what I thought too!

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• goldchocobo.defunct635829490514903826 member

  

  July 2014

  Awww, who says romance is dead *rimshot*.

  
  

  But really, what is up with that hat?

  

  
  

  
  

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• mrsmorales2be mod

  

  July 2014

  What the....I mean...just...what?

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• larrygaga member

  

  July 2014

  The Schrutes have their own traditions. We usually marry standing in our own graves. Makes the funerals very romantic. But the weddings are a bleak affair.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• larrygaga member

  

  July 2014

  Also, I wish our culture was cool enough to have tradtional giant hats. I always wanted to go to tibet.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• GBCK member

  

  July 2014

  I do wish we reclaimed cemetaries more.  Less "never speak of the dead", more "death is a part of life and we celebrate people we miss".
  And we do need better hats.  ones like you see stoners wearing at concerts, except, not by stoners and not at concerts.
  

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