Posted by:
NormaRae
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Date: June 29, 2012 06:52PM
An attorney I work with took his family on a trip out West a few weeks ago. Since they were flying into SLC and going to rent a car and drive to Jackson and Yellowstone, they decided to spend a day in SLC and tour temple square and the beehive house.
I was almost peeing my pants listening to his rendition of his tours. An older missionary couple latched onto them--they look so mormony anyway--mid 30s, white, professional, with young kids. The mishies got his contact info out of them and told them they'd send them some info that would answer all their questions. Bwahaha. Yes, they've been "sent" visitors already since they've been back. His wife was miffed that whenever she'd ask questions about polygamy at the beehive house, the subject would be changed.
But the funniest thing was listening to them talk about all the weddings. It was a Saturday in June, fer chrissake. Can you imagine what that place looked like to an outsider. They were so confused with all the couples waiting in line to get their pictures taken and they'd been told that they had ALL gotten married that day. So this is what he thought happened in the temple:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/world/asia/15moon.htmlYup, he assumed it was like the Moonies and they'd had a mass wedding and then had to line up for pictures. I laughed so hard. I said, he was not that far off, however, they each got their own little room for a few minutes. But the whole wedding party was probably not there, and many of them didn't even have their parents or siblings there. The brides all had to share a dressing/bridal room, they had no flowers, these outside pics were the only pictures they'd have of their wedding and most of the brides' husbands were seeing their wedding dresses for the first time at the same time he was--when they came OUT of the temple AFTER they'd already been married. So he asked me how come they couldn't get married in their wedding dress. I explained that most of them probably did, but why their husband didn't see it. He was like "Wow, I can't wait to tell my wife all this." She must have been under the Moonie impression also.
The funniest thing was I explained to him that to all those people he saw that day, it seemed perfectly normal--isn't that what everyone considers a wedding to be? Mormons have no clue how ridiculous they look to the rest of the world and what total nonsense they buy into.