Close to a month ago my lady and I wasted two hours of our
after-work down time watching “Kim’s Fairytale Wedding” on E! We marveled at
how she obsessed with the opulence of the event, but whimsically decided not to
take his last name (her brand, her business was far too important to relinquish
in the face of eternal love); it was obvious which details were more important.
All the while, poor Kris sported the same look he wears when Blake Griffin is
taken off…oh shit! He was in love, she was in love, but with whom or what, was
the question? We gave them six months, as the world knows, they crawled over
two.
Folks went on the offensive, calling the marriage a sham,
saying they each did it for the wrong reasons. Kim and Kardashian Inc. (Mom
Kris, sister Khloe) went on the defensive, saying she was really in love and
wanted the marriage to work. Who knows what to believe in these types of things,
who to side with or when to just not to say anything? I reserved comment until
I began to look at it from another angle; I sat down and thought about how the
wedding seems to be far more important than the marriage. Her pimp
mother Kris Jenner said Kim had been planning this wedding since she was 10
years old and in another scene, Kris Humphries, remarked something to the
effect that she could’ve inserted just about anyone in the spot he occupied for
10 weeks. There seems to be some truth to that, Ray J., Reggie Bush, Miles
Austin, some bodyguard dude and who knows who else has stood opposite of her,
being sized up for wedding photos in the last few years, all for that moment
that E! shelled out millions for.
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I also took note to how Kim Kardashian and
Jennifer Lopez are considered to be lovelorn or on this quest for eternal love,
yet ABC seemingly runs specials on single Black women on a monthly basis. I
suppose it’s a crime for women darker than blue to be happily single, enjoying
life? That’s just an aside, but double standards run deep in a land that’s downsizing
Standards & Practices. Back to our regularly scheduled conversation…
I’m planning a wedding that’s drawing near---wait, she’s
planning, I’m just nodding and agreeing--- and there are times when she’s
frustrated with details and I’m frustrated with it all and we just wish we
snuck a few people over to our house and had something intimate and private,
because this one moment in our life
will never outweigh the years that come after we jump the broom. Maybe we’re
just simple people, maybe we just really believe in our love, but this wedding
is something that kinda just happened, we didn’t.
Conversely, people put an extraordinary amount of effort,
time and money into a wedding, but not an ounce of that effort into making
their marriage work. I really don’t get it, are we so concerned with outward
appearance that we’ll rather have folks remember the day or night we were married,
but not reminisce on how in love we still
are six, seven years after that day? I haven’t been much acquainted with
marriage, but I know it takes work, far more work than putting together a
wedding. However, because that work isn’t glamorous and brings forth the ugly
truth, it’s easier to turn your back on your vows…but you’ll always have the
memory of the wedding.
In those two months of marriage, Kim & Kris began living
with sister Kourtney, her boyfriend and son, taping another season of their
reality empire. When did they have time to settle into marriage, away from the
cameras? To fight, get to know each other as a couple, make up, test their
vows? Was there time for any of this, because it seems the tabloids constantly
had them in separate parts of the country and then the world after Kim filed
those papers. Things must have gotten really bad, really quick to resort to
divorce so fast or maybe there was just nothing between a wedding and a
divorce, you know, like love, commitment and all of that other stuff. Talk
about irreconcilable differences!
That’s the difference between you and Kim Kardashian, she’s
made something like $25 million off of this marriage, picked up a 20 carat ring
and had her 15 minutes of fame extended until she finds another sucker
man to love her blindly in the flashing light of the paparazzi. You, you went
into debt for your wedding and have nothing to show for it, but a few pictures
on Facebook and a spouse you can’t stand. Me? Maybe we’ve invested a little too
much money into our wedding, but it pales in comparison to our love for one
another and the work we’ve been putting in on our relationship.
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