Real wedding of the day: Hawaiian Elvis church nups in Louisiana!

Here at Bride at 35, we're a big fan of doing you. If you want Rockettes as bridesmaids, kick it out. If you want all of your attendants dressed as members of the combined casts of "The Love Boat" and "B.J. and the Bear," you hire that monkey and have your brother start working on his Isaac the bartender "Right back atcha!" fingers.

And if you are rabid Elvis fans like this couple from Louisiana and your budget and your church will allow you to stage a "Blue Hawaii"-themed wedding with island-dressed attendants, a King impersonator crooning and peanut butter and banana cupcakes (SCORE!), we're all about it.

We usually preface statements like that with "...as long as it's tasteful," but who's to say what tasteful means? (Well, we are, but don't quote us on that). We are sure that we did stuff at our weddings that some people would think were tacky (Say it isn't so!) And according to those stuffy sites that annoyed us into starting this one in the first place, having an army of attendants and making a huge formal thing of our weddings at our age wasn't expected.

So we say that if you can't help falling in love, no use crying in the chapel! Put on your blue suede heels and head to the Heartbreak Hotel (which, incidentally, is the Memphis resort at Graceland where this couple is spending their honeymoon). We're so happy for them! And although we know that nobody does newspaper stories on stuff like this unless someone thinks its at best different and at worst weird, we celebrate the funny-cool opportunity to present your love in the way that makes you happiest. If the church is cool with it, then everyone else should be.

Save us a cupcake!

TV Bride (Over) 35: Finn's Mom on "Glee"

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.

Over-35 Bride of the Day

The only part of this that isn't just crazypants is how awesome Liza looks. At least she still has that. When that-era Michael Jackson is one of the most normal-looking people in your wedding party, well, that must have been a party.