These days, young married couples are an anomaly. In pop culture, they usually get married at a surprise wedding: Think Andy and April in Parks and Recreation or Jessa and Thomas-John (who’s not really young) in Girls.
Before the bouquet toss, viewers were counting down to the divorce episode, probably because celebrities have taught us that it won’t last.
Britney Spears’ first marriage was annulled within hours, and she racked up a second divorce before age 26. At age 22, Jessica Simpson scored a reality television show about her marriage to Nick Lachey: The couple divorced three seasons (er, years) later.
Is it any wonder the world scoffed at Miley Cyrus’ plan for three weddings?
See Wednesday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Family section for the other side of the story, a young married millennial who says it’s the act of marrying young and growing up together that makes the one you marry your soul mate.