June: From Wedding to Marriage

Escapist again? Guilty!  As death by murder and mis-adventures stalk our newspapers’ front pages and as numerous commentators and columnists contend with our politics and governance in daily robust manner, I tire of such issues.

So, still with serious intent, but with lighter touch, let me take you down a journalistic aisle, exploring briefly one of mankind’s lifelong attempts at maintaining a social institution, now, reportedly, under stress – and almost threat of extinction.  I write of the western version of marriage. First, a few basics.

Why is this month of June associated with Western/Guyanese weddings? I’ve read that it has to