CrabbyGolightly: A Wedding's Real 'Best Man': The Bride's Dad »

Posted By CrabbyGolightly 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment

ONE OF THE MANY THINGS THAT ACTIVATE my tear-ducts about weddings is the Dad factor. It kills me. It doesn't matter if it's my friend Christa and her ol' man Tim or just some random peeps on TV. I've been to assorted weddings of people I don't know too well, and still the Dad factor gets me err'time. I struggle with this feeling because a part of me finds it inherently anti-feminist. But I am also somewhat of a sucker for tradition, and every fatherly gesture propels me into a blubbery mess of emotion. Until it happened to me, I didn't value the "asking of approval" step. It's pretty bizarre when the bride is an adult and two men discuss her fate, mono y mono. Creepy!

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