When my fiancé and I began planning our wedding in 2016, we agreed that we didn’t much like the traditional approach: the stiff white gown, the dozens of white roses, the vanilla tiered cake. We wanted a party that reflected our personalities—who wouldn’t? We didn’t immediately realize that we, and other couples like us, had already been parodied in the Onion (“Horrible Couple Really Wants Wedding to Reflect Their Personalities”). Perhaps inadvisably, we soldiered on with our plan.
