Re:Diamonds aren’t special and neither is love
by rsynnott on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:05AM
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> The idea needs to be suggested when people are very young that different symbolic expressions of marriage are fine
I suspect this has already happened to some extent; diamonds are on the list of things that the dastardly millennials are no longer buying enough of, along with golf, and, weirdly, raisins.
I’m an early millennial (35) and my peer group’s weddings have been definitely a lot less traditional and more varied than my parents’ generation. I suspect a big part of this is that people get married when they’re fully-formed adults these days (average age of first marriage here in Ireland is now 35) and are more likely to do what they want to do vs what is stereotypically expected.
I suspect this has already happened to some extent; diamonds are on the list of things that the dastardly millennials are no longer buying enough of, along with golf, and, weirdly, raisins.
I’m an early millennial (35) and my peer group’s weddings have been definitely a lot less traditional and more varied than my parents’ generation. I suspect a big part of this is that people get married when they’re fully-formed adults these days (average age of first marriage here in Ireland is now 35) and are more likely to do what they want to do vs what is stereotypically expected.