White vs traditional marriage: Aesthetics above culture?

These passages affirm marriage and the responsibilities that come with it, but they do not prescribe a specific modern wedding format, whether a couple must marry in a church, wear a white gown, walk down an aisle, or have a particular type of ceremony.

Then came another form of marriage: the white wedding, which involves the aisle, the white dress, the church, the vows and the words, “By the power vested in me…” And somehow, for many Ghanaians, the white wedding has become the picture many people grow up imagining when they think of what a “proper” wedding should look like.

A white wedding is beautiful, so that’s what appeals to me.