Emotions can run high for all involved throughout the wedding planning stages, right through the ceremony and reception. That not news, but more and more lately we hear about brides who are pressured in all sorts of ways from friends and family on the "political implications" of their wedding.
Here is a post from the popular lefty blog Jezebel, about how conservatives supposedly don't even want heterosexual feminists to get married. Included in it is a cached post from right-wing blog NRO that "mysteriously disappeared" shortly after being uploaded, which attacks feminist blogger Jessica Valenti for getting married because she is a feminist activist.
Right now marriage laws are changing all over the country to be either more or less inclusive, as you and your guests are fully aware. Jezebel is known to over-react and over-simplify things, and NRO is known to be judgemental and nasty, so we're just using this as an imperfect example. But it begs the questions: Should politics affect your wedding planning decisions at all? Do your guests have the right to discuss them with you? Is anyone owed an explanation?
Has politics become part of your wedding?
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