I agree with your outlook UE. I deem marriage to be an unnessary extravagance, but I also view it to be the climactic point in a relationship too, similar to that of the event of a 21st birthday, because lets face it, we dont want to celebrate birthdays after 21, right? Anyway, I said to my girl many times that I dont need a piece of paper to say I love you for it to be true, but I'm sure she wants a wedding mostly for the fact that our families will be brought together in celebration of our commitment to each other, or something like that. I went to a wedding about a month ago, and I never knew this before but they actually sign contracts in front of everyone and I just thought to myself "how fkn un-romantic is that". I will NOT be signing any form of contract in front of my family or friends like im making some sort of freakin deal to the government that ill love her forever and ever blah blah. **** that. Its all so stupid. But hey, if its apart of the process, then so be it.