Do you remember the late 80s and early 90s, when NBC use to air the Small House on the Prairie episodes? Thats right, back then Michael Landon wasnt just a star, but he was a producer as well. If your not familiar with the television series, then you probably have not been familiarized with the book compilation either.
The setting for the tale takes place in the 1870s on the American Frontier. The characters which the tale is based upon are known as the Ingalls Family, and they have literally faced joys and sorrow together. Relocating from Wisconsin to Kansas, the Ingalls family not only faces the rough and rugged untamed wilderness, but they have to build themselves a new home in it from scratch. Through all of the pearls which have befallen them, they still triumph victorious and even pleased. One particular episode which aired on television had the whole fan base watching. It was the episode in which Laura Ingalls married Mr. Almanzo Wilder, thus becoming Mrs. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Seeing as to how the setting was the 1870s there were obviously no wedding party favors and obviously no wedding guest favors.
This is because this family literally had nothing in aspects of money, yet they were rich in the since of like and strength. Their wedding was made special not because of the decorations, or how many guests were present. Their wedding was made special by the like in which was shared by their entire family. It is not often in this day and age to come across a couple who is blissful solely because they have found one another in life. Generally in todays society a marriage is accompanied by gifts, music, and lots of guests. In Lauras day and age, a traditional marriage was simple. A man, his soon to be wife, and their family, all stood before a pastor or justice of the peace. That was what a real wedding use to be.
These days when someone thinks of having a wedding, they generally reckon about how much money they will have to spend on it. Sometimes people overlook and ignore the right meaning of marriage. If the Small House on the Prairie saga has taught us anything, it should be that the joining of a man and woman in holy matrimony should require nothing more then two things. These things being the like they have for one another, and the courage to stand before themselves and God and vow that like. But times are not as they once were. These days men buy gifts for women that they are wooing after, they take women out on dates to movie theaters and to expensive restaurants.
Could you imagine what it would be like if you lives in the 1870s? How would you celebrate your wedding if you were to be married in that time period? It is a rather fascinating concept isnt it? The mere though of living in a time where the wits of man triumphed over the wits of a machine seems unfathomable in these days. Living in an age where technology was something that didnt exist, and an Instant message was considered to be yelling yellow across a field in hopes that you neighbor would hear you. The though alone makes one pleased that we are not in those times, and even makes you appreciate how the world has changed.
