Say what you will about funerals, but at least they're more permanent than most marriages, Alex Beam argued in his latest column for The Boston Globe.
On Wednesday, Beam joined Boston Public Radio to attempt to dig himself out of the six-foot hole he's dug for himself with this argument.
"A wedding is a coin toss. It's suffused with a lot of false emotion," he said. "There's a 50 percent chance it's just not going to work out, and then you have to go to the second wedding and gush over the new partner."
"I just can't take weddings, on any level," said Beam, who has of course attended his own wedding, and the weddings of his own children.
Alex Beam is a Boston Globe columnist. His latest book is "The Feud: Vladimir Nabakov, Edmund Wilson and the End of a Beautiful Friendship."
