why would you get married?

[KillerGremlin]

I want to share why I would get married.

I consider marriage a step forward in a relationship...but not a step like "having sex" or "moving in together." In my opinion, marriage is a great way of proving your commitment, and celebrating your love. The whole ring thing pisses me off every time I see a fucking Zales or Jared's commercial, as if the only way she will love you is if you spend several thousand on a rock that was in a volcano's ass for several thousand years. I feel like, if done right, a marriage can be a great part of the human experience. I would like my marriage to be outside, and it is going to be a big party. I want a simple service (basically, not 2 hours long like the last Catholic wedding went to), and then I want a party. I want dancing, I want good food, I want booze...I want it in a nice warm environment (outside), and I want to party into the night. I want to use my wedding as a chance to reflect on the past time spent with my significant other, I want it to be a way to show all my friends and family how much I love this person, and I want to use the wedding as a way of saying, "lots of good things are to come in the future."

I'm not getting married because of pressures of a long relationship...or for money....or because society deems it necessary to start a family. I know several people who have parents who never married. It happens, and for some people it just works.

As an ex-catholic who considers himself agnostic/against-organized-religion, I do think true love/marriage can have a spiritual side. But last Catholic wedding I went to was a joke...it was just so hypocritical. The sinning vs. Catholic tradition; hypocrisy extreme. Actually, pretty normal stuff for Catholics.

Anyway thank you for the responses so far, marriage is a crazy topic of discussion.