weddings

My current obsession is weddings. Not like I'm looking forward to getting married, absolutely not. What I like about Weddings is the melancholy of creating a kind of fairy tale about you. I always think it's a bit sad to see people getting married. Dressed up like kings and queens for a day, only to go back to a normal and daily struggle the next. I especially think it's sad to see old wedding pictures of serious young people, terrified of what comes next. Perhaps "sad" isn't the right word, but there really is a melancholy about weddings that fascinates me. When I read Art history, we had a course in photography in which we discussed photography as being used for rituals. The wedding picture is definitely a ritual. It's like a proof of the marriage and everyone has them. I could google wedding pictures for days, I love them! They tell so much about the people in them