When I first meet with a couple, I
always like to know how they met. Last
week I met with a couple and the groom told
me that his fiancee passed his “first-date
test” when she didn’t answer her cell during dinner. So, he asked her out on a second date and rest was history. Love it!
I
thought of this couple when I came across the following NYTimes article. It’s causing something of a stir in the world
of weddings. . .what do you think?!
The ‘I Dos,’
Unplugged
By BRUCE FEILER
NYT 6/9/13
The attendant was stationed at the front door of my friend
Michael’s wedding. “The ceremony is in the chapel,” she said to the arriving
guests. “The ragtime band will be playing in the courtyard. The
mini-cheeseburgers and lobster rolls will be served under the tent.
“Now, would you please hand over your cellphone?”
Attendees were taken aback. Four hours without my PDA? All
evening with no Twitter feed? What happens if the baby sitter calls? The
attendant smiled and said, “Perhaps you recall the announcement in the
invitation?”
Michael, for the record, is not a celebrity, like the former
National Basketball Association star Michael Jordan, who recently banned guests
from bringing their cellphones and cameras to his wedding to Yvette Prieto in
Palm Beach, Fla. And Michael won’t be selling his wedding photos to People
magazine as Kim Kardashian did when she and Kris Humphries were hitched, in
another ceremony at which guests were told to leave their iPhones behind.
But he did want guests to be present during his ceremony,
which he and his fiancé had made explicit in advance. “A wedding is about
having people paying witness,” Michael later told me. “How can they do that if they
don’t even hear your vows because they’re too busy taking pictures?”
The hottest topic in wedding circles this year seems to be
whether to request, remind or even require that guests go cold turkey on
technology during the event.
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