Basically, the only tacky/ tasteless thing I saw was the bridal party smoking like chimneys. And let's face it, there are plenty of people with wealth, class (whatever that it) and taste (likewise) who smoke.
I went to a very expensive wedding where the bride was a 20-40 a day smoker yet her parents still didn't know. She came out of the ceremony (Catholic, well over an hour) gasping and "disappeared". We (work colleagues) all knew where she was! Had her parents known, no doubt she would have have plenty of wedding pictures puffing away.
I accept it's another cultural thing. Perhaps we're more cautious about calling fake here because it would reflect badly on the caller. See we do have an inverse snobbery. So that it's okay for someone to mock me as posh or stuckup simply because of my voice or vocab (without troubling to find out my background) but it would be very wrong for me to mock someone as common on the same evidence. On a par with calling someone a mong or a spaz.
So to me the wedding was all about celebrating how the couple celebrated - living how they lived. If I have been taken in, I claim furriner's immunity :p
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