-Wedding fever-

I am to be the bridesmaid for a friend's wedding in July. The bride-to-be and I had a prep session over a coffee yesterday. The number of things you need to think about is incredible yet I managed to write everything down on a tiny scrap of paper that was in my handbag (realising that writing it all on the back of my hand was impossible) so I could think about things properly once I got home. BTB went off to John Lewis fill her wedding list up with high-tech kitchen gear and I sat on the tube on the way back home thinking about it all.

Why do people get married? According to the Catholic church, it's just the way we are wired - they claim that promiscuity has never been encouraged even in primitive human societies. As someone who has some vague theories of politics in her head from the ancient times of A levels, the idea that most societies needed a secure environment for the perpetuation of the species and a system of rules to handle the granting of property rights, and thus created the institution of marriage sounds a little bit more plausible. But I don't think that's why BTB is planning to get married.

Could it be, could it just be that people marry for love?