Royal Wedding

It seems like everything causes controversy today.... including weddings - and especially royal ones. The chief issues I've heard expressed with the Royal Wedding of William and Kate this past week included the expense of the day, its extravogent nature, and improper timing in the face of tragedies around the world. But is there ever a time when people do not make these complaints? Somethings I think people just like to complain for the sake of bringing attention to themselves.

Was the wedding expensive? Of course. It qualified as a national holiday. However, Americans have no right to say that the royal couple should have given money to this cause or that in order to draw attention to it if they do not do so themselves. Let's be honest, we are the #1 most wasteful country in the world and are really good at ignoring the needs of our brothers and sisters. Why do we only bring up the plights of others when we want to deter attention from our own mis-deeds?

And maybe, just maybe, its okay for the ceremony to be extravagent in the face of international crises. Because sometimes we need to see something happy, something life giving, on the news and in our world in order to remind us that things are not quite so bleak.