This institution called marriage

Hello there, it's been long huh? Well just trying to live life to the full. Anyway am back and today I was pondering on a very big issue surrounding our society today. Marriage. Yes the M word.
I know some expect me to talk about the rise in divorce rates, marriages failing within months bla bla bla.... But no.
I don't believe in marriage I lost faith long time ago, I would easily blame it on my parents and the environment but it is what it is.
I was thinking about this institution and it hit me that,  if the person who discovered or invented or made up marriage would be disappointed to see what it has become.
What do i mean?
Well I believe whoever came up with the idea of marriage,  saw it as a way of expressing love.  In that two people love each other so much they give their lives to each other and make a covenant.  A covenant to stick by each other no matter what happens. It was not a ceremony to raise to a new social status,  it was not a ceremony to show off to your people how good a wedding you can through, it was not a ceremony to make your ex jealous that you got married before them.  In any case I don't even think it was meant to a ceremony either. 
It was just a very intimate activity of professing your love and promising to be on each other's side till death do you part. It could have taken even minutes maybe seconds. 
Many may say it's the 21st century but am damned if marriage has no means g nowadays.
It's even sadder the hypocrisy behind it, when you say those vows but in your heart you know you don't mean any of it. You actually know you guys won't even last that long.
To some it's the ceremony that changes sin to a conjugal right. That's why they rush to it before their libido levels kill them.
You ask most of the people in marriage today,  it is just for convenience, for the kids, for the money, for the comfort, for the luxury, for laziness of hitting the dating world again.

It's sad though but as I said it is what it is. I would never forgive myself if I see myself doing that which I detest and see as overrated. Hell I wouldn't be caught dead in a gown. Jesus! How do people move in those things?
For those going down the aisle good reddens to thee..... It's December,, they call it the wedding season so I had to include that.