Wendy says: Maybe other movies have it wrong

Usually this kind of movie ends with the main characters getting married.

But maybe we've been doing it backwards. In my generation it usually goes something like this — you date, you move in together, you get a pet, maybe have some kids, and then you think about getting married. If you win the lottery, that is, so you can make it The Perfect Wedding. And then, a couple of months after spending a year's salary on The Perfect Wedding and The Perfect Honeymoon, you realize you don't like being married to so-and-so and you break up, leaving pets/kids/house in limbo. Which, obviously, is kind of stressful for everybody involved.

Maybe it would be better if we skipped the dating, married total strangers without telling anybody, and had to stay married for a significant period of time before we could get out of it. Who knows? The western world might see a sudden increase in the number of long, successful relationships.

At least, that's if you believe what you see in the movies.

What Happens in Vegas... isn't the first recent story to do a variation on the old Taming of the Shrew theme — it's been a popular one in films and TV shows the last few years. Two people who are total opposites (and neither of them a perfect catch) suddenly find themselves husband and wife, engage in a battle of wits to get rid of and/or change each other, and end up discovering their "opponent" isn't such a bad match for them after all.

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