Weird wedding trend ahoy! Twitter exploded yesterday when noted journalist Bianca Bosker posted a pic of a letter she received from the W Hotels. Well, it was less of a letter and more like a personalized advertisement for a new offer: social media wedding concierges.
Seriously. For just $3,000, you can have a personal assistant:
- Live tweet your wedding
- Create a "unique" hashtag and tell your social media illiterate guests to use it
- Run a "wedding blog"
- Create "dream wedding" Pinterest boards to share with friends
- "Recap" all social media after the wedding itself.
I don't know about you, but upon reading this I realized I have quite a few friends who owe me $3,000 (Cough. TinaandSteven. Cough). If only I knew what a hot commodity my lightening-quick thumbs were! Honestly though, isn't this a bit much? Along with extreme proposal videos, we're seeing a definite shift in priorities. This obsessive need to share everything instantly distracts from the real point of the event—a couple has just committed to spend forever with each other, people!
While social media has turned some of us all into attention-hoe prima donnas (but again, perhaps these folks were always like this and social media just gives them an outlet) there has also been a sharp rise in surprise weddings, which is just about the the opposite. But also could be in reaction to a social media-soaked world. A couple that opts for this improvisational knot-tieing is looking for privacy—and hilarious expressions from guests—so they eliminate as much limelight as possible. Even pretty party people that could throw a killer soiree with the whole damn world watching—like Gisele Bundchen—have decided that intimacy and a killer party among their closest friends is just fine thankyouverymuch.
And as for Bosker? She thought the new social media wedding concierge service was ridiculous. So she . . . used social media to denounce it. Oh well.
Image: Wouldn't this look nice on Instagram? Courtesy of JW Marriott Guanacaste Costa Rica, Flickr
