Someone help me understand...

Weddings.

I don't understand weddings.

Sure, the happy(?) couple want to let everyone know that they are taking vows together. I get that.

Since you're all there, let's have a party afterward. I get that.

Starting a life together requires lots of stuff that you maybe never had before, so wedding gifts are a reasonable idea. I get that....

What I don't get though is why we would be invited to come the day after the wedding to watch the bride and groom open 5,000 wedding gifts. I don't get that at all.

A bunch of people have driven up to an hour to sit in a tiny apartment and watch two people who have just got married open countless presents. Frankly, those two people would probably rather be in a state of undress that they have never been allowed in together before (i.e. they'd be naked if it wasn't for all the spectators) .

It's not like the onlookers are going to get anything from it, it's not like they even gave more than one of the presents.

Someone help me understand this.

What's the excitement in watching people open presents?... I just don't get it.

Sharing Our Gifts on the Superblog

Okay people. We know the seven gifts of the Spirit. What are the 15 gifts of FOTTSP? My nominations:
Nick-Geekiness
Beth-Sweetness
Jeff-pastoraliness
Hucklebuck-techiness
Stacey-patience
Candy- readiness
Sherri-transparency (she'll like that )
Katdish-sarcasm
Helen-Hungarianness (it truly is a gift)
Marni-Commentilisciousness
Shark Bait- cleverness (check out S.B's profile. The whole fish analogy works well with moniker)
Peter-singularity (only one post so far)
Mare-amiability
Ryan- Chutzpah (He refers to you know who as Stan. OK, I do too now, but it is his fault.)
Annie-Hungarianness (The more the better, wherever you are.)
Steph-sarcasm (Like Hungarianness, the more the better.)

I know that I repeated Hungarianness and sarcasm, but as I explained, we needed extra doses of both anyway. How about you? What gifts would you assign us?

(I don't know who to blame, er, I mean thank for my not being able to get this out of my head, Steph for her comment elsewhere about sarcasm being a gift of the Spirit, or Katdish, for the whole cat slain in the Spirit thing on the Bad Economy post, or Ironic Catholic for the video. The point is, I absolve myself. That is all you really need to know.)