Mentsch1
“According to your rationale how do you explain the wedding takonos from 15 years ago?”
Easy!!!
1) The takanos where for the community that the Rabbanim presided over. They were printed in Jewish observer and Yated not Jewish Action.
This is my main point. So dont get too caught up on number 2 please
2) They werent really Takanos. They were an “out” for those who couldnt keep up with the “Jonses” OR “Shwartzes” to say “We arent making a fancy wedding because of the takanos” I was at more than one wedding in which it seemed that the takonos had been used as lehachis a guide to make the Wedding as fancy as possible by violating EVERY takanah with several of the signatories in attendance.
3) The takonos weren’t really about mussar it was about not putting pressure on others to comform