Neither of us have children, so perhaps we can't understand the urge to make every important thing un your life about your offspring. We get that your kids become your focus in almost every way. But should they hijack your wedding?
A huge sparkly nay, we say. Which is why, as much as we love "Glee," and admire the stratospherically perfect voice of Kurt (Chris Colfer), we cannot condone the show's recent wedding of Kurt's dad to Finn's mom, which took a beautiful older couple's special day and turned it into a very bridal "Kids From Fame" special. Whose star was Kurt. And as adorable as he is, we think the bride gets to be the star of the day. Or the groom. But mostly the bride. (Don't tell our husbands we said that.)
Yeah, yeah, we know the show's called "Glee" and not "Loving Older Couple," and that it's a big fluffy fantasy where people burst into song, with instant accompaniment, six times an hour, in major production pieces on a Midwestern public school's budget. So we're not looking for stark reality here. But was it really necessary to have the Glee kids be the attendants, when this nice-seeming 40-something couple should probably, you know, have friends of their own? And for the focus to be on Kurt and his awesomeness? This reminds us of a wedding our aunt told us about, where the (older) bride basically had a special presentation for everyone she ever met, including a song for her dead father. We're all for a production - Lynne's groom sang him and his groomal (?) party down the aisle to Jackie Wilson's "Your Love (Is Lifting Me Higher." But it was awesome. And about, you know, Lynne's love lifting him higher.
Also, we know that the "Glee" wedding was cast in the middle of a very, very important storyline about the bullying of gay students (in this case, Kurt), and that he needed to feel supported. But couldn't they have written it so the kids and the family staged some sort of separate Kurt Appreciation Day - you know they love nothing more than the staging of events on that show - on a different day? To purposely write it so that the wedding had to be all about anybody but the bride and groom made me wish they hadn't done the wedding at all.
We know, we know...Kurt's now-stepmom is awesome and lovely and willing to make this day about her new family, including her new stepson. And that's sweet and generous and blah blah blah IT'S HER DADBLAMED WEDDING. Just because you're older and getting married for the second time doesn't mean you have to surrender your spotlight completely. Maybe we're just not that nice.
Yeah. That's probably it. She did look pretty, though. And, at least, elsewhere in the episode, this got to happen.
Groomal? Please explain. :)
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