Greeting cards are a multi-bajillion dollar industry.[1] You have cards for every seemingly meaningless occasion on the calendar, made-up occasions, congratulations, salutations, animal rehabilitations, or marriage nullifications. Each of these categories have something for everyone, something funny, something sentimental, something touching, something ornamental. It's brilliant marketing, I suppose. Yet with all of these options...
WHY IS EVERY WEDDING CARD SAPPY, TACKY, OR OTHERWISE CRAPPY? I'm a mildly amusing person, so I want nothing more than a mildly amusing wedding card, but every one you find is so serious and flowery... I just don't understand it! I've resorted in some cases to re-purposing some creative anniversary cards (which are usually more amusing), or something else. I haven't yet resorted to giving someone a "congratulations on your impending divorce" card for their wedding[2], considering that would be in poor taste even for me. :) All I want is a reasonably mainstream "Congratulations on Your Wedding Day" card, with Snoopy on the front holding a bunch of balloons or something. Is that so much to ask!?
[1] Not based on any statistics I could find or bothered to look up.
[2] Not that I haven't thought it might be more appropriate at times...
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