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The approach of this article is entirely wrong in that it focuses exclusively on one portion of a wedding (the marriage ritual), and as a result fails to provide a full treatment of the subject. The current approach reduces all of the ancillary trappings of a wedding to tangents, and makes it impossible to truly take an inclusive, inter-cultural approach to the subject, because all of those various trappings found in different cultures become largely off topic.
The article should be restructured to present weddings as a broad event that may (not always) include a ceremony or other ritual (though not necessarily), along with other celebratory features, such as a feast and a dance party. This would then establish a structured and organized opportunity to present practices and traditions from different cultures as being of equal importance to the subject matter. As it stands, the article's approach can only be considered valid when viewing the subject through an ego-centric lens that posits one cultural background as having greater importance than others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:4040:B078:6C00:E9F1:D5CD:7A3B:BBF (talk) 21:19, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]