Is this a good idea or are you setting yourself up for failure?

Call me old-fashioned, but there are some traditions that have stuck around for a reason. Sure, nowadays brides and grooms are paying for the weddings themselves as opposed to letting the father of the bride foot the costs, and a bachelorette party doesn’t always have to be wild nights and crazy shenanigans. Stag ‘dos don’t always involve a stripper. Heck, not all brides even wear the fifteen-tier affair wedding dresses (Nancy Shevell, you are fabulous and I love you). For that matter, not all brides marry someone of the opposite sex! But on this point I am holding firm: it is a man’s job to do the asking. It’s brilliant that a New Zealand woman had the guts to orchestrate her own wedding and proposal, but why leave room for disappointment and error?
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