It's All Showbiz
I remember reading about a society wedding which was a cross between a Hollywood production and a Roman Orgy. The guests were flown in on private planes, with a private plane strip designed just for such an occasion. They began to arrive several weeks before the wedding itself, so they could enjoy the various pre-wedding parties https://markmeets.com , very much in the way conference organizes entertain their attendees with trips and amusements in between the business sessions. The wedding itself took place in the gently sloping grounds of a mansion sitting on the banks of a river with its own dock. The groom arrived on one boat. The bride on another, each boat disappearing as soon as they delivered their cargo. Stationed in the water, on some sort of hidden platform, was a whole orchestra, the music floating towards the bank were the guests chattered, while plied with champagne and nightingale tongues or whatever. Reading about all the excesses, on one hand there might be a...