"Pinning" Your Way To The Big Day

Recently, I attended the wedding of a friend. At each table was a small burlap-looking bag with coffee in it, and a label written: "The Perfect Blend" and the couple's name and their wedding date, similar to this:

 

 

 

It was a cute and different idea, and I commented to one of the other guests as such. "Oh, she got the idea off Pinterest", she informed me. At this point, I was pretty unfamilar with Pinterest and what it was all about. Come to find out that the bride had used Pinterest for a number of wedding items, including the way she wore her hair and the flower arrangements.

 

 

When I got home, I did a google search on using Pinterest to plan a wedding, and sure enough, blog enteries and webpages popped up, most giving advice on how to use Pinterest to plan weddings, and even giving first hand accounts of how Pinterest made their wedding day special. Pinterest itself had thousands of wedding ideas on invitiations, locations, favors, dresses, favors and themes.

 

 

 

But what I found even more interesting was how many women are using Pinterest to plan their wedding before they were even engaged.And it is mostly women. According to MSNBC, 80% of Pinterest users are women. Exploring Pinterest, I found a whole world of women planning their weddings, with bulletin boards entitled, "Someday My Prince Will Come" or "I Want To Get Married".

 



This particular user entitled her wedding board "Marry Me".

 

So why is it that so many women are using Pinterest to plan their weddings, real or imagined? Is it because our society has become "wedding obsessed"? It certainly seems that way. Anytime you turn on your TV, there are shows like "Say Yes To The Dress", "Bridezillas", and "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding", (a personal favorite).

 

 

Have we gone wedding crazy? Many women start dreaming about their wedding day from the time they are little girls, and some even start "wedding books" , where they clip pictures from magazines to save for "the big day". Pinterest gives women another way to do that, except now something that was once done in private is now very public.

 

 

 

 So what do you think? Is Pinterest just giving a new way to fantasize and plan for a perfect wedding, or is the whole thing just...weird?