Talk:Wedding/Archive 2

message: I think this article needs to have more information about weddings around the world. I can provide some information about Indian Hindu weddings. Can anyone guide where that should be added? Aneesha 19:22, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  International wedding traditions 

message: Should different types of weddings be in separate pages?
For example a page about chinese weddings, a page about Jewish weddings, and so on...
I think there is too much variation to try make some generalised single page covering everything. What do you think?
*That makes plenty of sense.  However, this generalized page is a good start until enough material gathers within a subcategory to break it off as its own article.Ep9206 22:37, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate Pages 

message: "Wedding ceremonies may contain any number of different elements" is a poor excuse for something. Anything can contain any number of different elements. Can someone put the excused phrasing instead?
*It's not a bad start.  However, the article needs more citations though to avoid being its current hodgepodge of POV.Ep9206 22:38, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad phrasing 

message: * Against, because it would be better merged with the page for Anniversary instead. DFH 19:06, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Given four votes against, zero in support, and a month of silence, I am removing the merge tag from the wedding anniversary page. --Masamage 00:17, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge [[Wedding anniversary]] into this page? 

message: I notice that there seems to little or no mention of the role that may be performed by a member of the clergy in a wedding.  For example, the list of participants omits a member of the clergy who might (depending on the religion/culture in which the wedding is taking place) be actually performing the wedding.  This page shouldn't be made more Christian/western centric, but failure to even mention that a member of the clergy might play an active role in the ceremony seems a serious omission. Comments? Rickterp 15:42, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Role of Clergy? 

message: In the clothing section Batik and Kebaya is noted as traditional for Javanese.  With the way it's written and linked it seems ambiguous to me.  Is it a batik dyed kebaya, or is there a garment known as a batik and kebaya?  Thanks --Siobhan Hansa 20:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Batik and Kebaya 

message: We had a wedding to enter our civil union.  I have changed the opening of the article to reflect that weddings are not the sole domain of marriage. Enzedbrit 20:19, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Civil Union 

message: That's messed up. We have pictures of every wedding around the world EXCEPT IN THE UNITED STATES? Colonel Marksman 20:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the people of Connecticut would be surprised to find they aren't part of the United States.   -- Siobhan Hansa 21:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: We've had some off things going in here and I'm not sure about the usefulness of the section from an encyclopedic persective as we current;y have it.  I just reverted someone trying to compare "typical" Indian wedding costs (what was considered typical was unspecified) with average American wedding costs - (an average which is itself suspect coming from the wedding industry and providing few details on methodology).  While it would be great to compare wedding costs across cultures and countries, I don't think we do our audience any favors when we fail to be rigorous and thoughtful about the information or the how to present it well.   I haven't seen any sources provided that would really let us talk about costs in an encyclopedic fashion rather than a magazine-ish we-don't-really-care-if-it's-not-that-accurate, but-don't-these-figures-make-your-eyes-open-wide sort of way.  Does anyone know of less suspect research into wedding costs?  Academic, economic research maybe? Perhaps we could stick to things we can be more certain of - government published figures on the sector for instance.  -- SiobhanHansa 19:39, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expenses section