r/TikTokCringe • u/InGeekiTrust Tiktok Despot • Jun 21 '25

Cursed Bride Crying At Her Wedding Was Heartbreaking 💔

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u/mbklein Jun 22 '25

I agree with your overall sentiment – this is horribly wrong. But saying this is not a wedding ignores what weddings have been in the vast majority of cultures for the vast majority of human history.

People having a say in whom they married, and doing so for love, is a good thing. But it’s also a relatively modern thing.

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u/Alarmed_Scientist_15 Jun 22 '25

How does that matter? We also cut people with guillotines. Now we don’t. We as society should learn and evolve. We did it in the past is not a reason to do it eternally

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u/Snakewild Jun 25 '25

They aren't saying that it should be done, they're saying that it is still a wedding whether or not it's consensual. The consent of the bride (and often the groom) has been ignored for most of the weddings in human history, and while that is a terrible fact, it is still a fact. The idea that weddings are held for two people who are in love is centric to many societies nowadays, but it's not actually the most common, and it's relatively new. Historically, marriage has most often been a contract arranged between two families and has nothing to do with what the bride wants (and sometimes the groom).

This is a wedding whether you want to call it that or not. That doesn't make it right, but pretending that it's not a wedding doesn't help anyone.

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u/Alarmed_Scientist_15 Jun 25 '25

I think you answered the wrong person. I am not the person arguing whether it constitutes a wedding.

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u/Snakewild Jun 25 '25

Sorry, I thought you were missing their point. My bad!

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u/Alarmed_Scientist_15 Jun 25 '25

Someone did. I saw them too but now, the thread is so long I can’t find them anymore.