If you're not invested in the outcome, weddings are a great place to people watch and not just at the nervous couple, but their friends and families on booze.  Why is it that people find weddings a great place to get smashed?  Maybe it's the open bar and someone else is paying?  There's a group shout-out with raised shots glasses from handsome young men with lavender shirts and fit young women with the shortest of dresses.  As the night progresses, the dancing gets wilder as ex-cheerleaders re-enact their college cheers and an ex-ex-ex-cheerleader attempts the splits in a dress.  There are always a few that came without dates who can't wait to leave and those who can't wait to leave with one of the might-be-available, tipsy bridesmaids.  

One good note on some new-agey weddings is the minister.  With the Universal Life Church offering ordinations online (including the freedom to "perform weddings, baptisms or funerals".  No brises, please) almost anyone can officiate.  No more boring church minister/priest.  Ministers are jokey and informal, teasing the bride and groom and chiding the new bride about sprucing up her culinary skills.  The couple laughs.  The crowd joins in. That's more like it.  

I don't remember weddings being an all-night affair.  Used to be that after an appropriate amount of dancing, the cake was cut, the bride changed "outfits" and voila', off they went in someone's fancy car with cans a-dragging.  Not now.  At eleven, the In-N-Out Burger truck rolls up for more nourishment. The bride and groom, have not left.  They're partying with their friends.