Stacia L. Brown thinks deeply about how matrimony is depicted in ads:
[L]ike most unmarried people, there’s a part of me that will always romanticize marriage. If I marry, I will have some minor, irrational expectation that roughly 75% of my marital experience will evoke the emotions these commercials capture. Ideally, I want to be with someone who makes me feel that, regardless of the unforeseen–triumph, tragedy, great gain, profound loss, joy, sickness, treatment, remission–there simply isn’t anyone else with whom I’d rather be.
I haven’t married, in part, because of this. I am expecting something more spectacular than I’ve experienced.
The Dish 