Older People = More Wisdom? or More Money?

In traditional Filipino weddings, usually 'old wealthy person' stand as principal sponsor and they are partnered with other 'old wealthy' opposite gender. I think the reason behind this is because they are aiming for the monetary gifts - imagine getting your town's mayor to be your ninong when in fact you haven't even met him! Only after the gifts fit for politician ha? duh?!

But also there are some who gets old people for wisdom. For me it is so old-school to think that being a PS to someone's wedding comes with age. I guess the reason behind getting old people is that they have more wisdom to guide the couple through their marriage. While I agree that wisdom comes with life experiences, this does not necessarily mean that you have to be old to have enough wisdom. Some went through a lot already although they are still young, which can be considered equal to those old people who barely have life difficulties (read: those born with silver spoon on their mouth). I, for one, experience a lot of life struggle even though I'm relatively young.

Call me anti-tradition for all you can, but I don't want to follow that trend. I think more and more couples nowadays are doing that also. In fact, we inherited that from D's sister. They choose married couples instead. Some of them are not that old. Plus it is more practical because it's like hitting two birds at one shot. To illustrate, if you invite one sponsor, you have to invite the spouse also right? So if you have 5 pairs of PS (10heads), then you will have to invite 20 persons (your 10 PS plus their spouses) OMG! So if you choose 5 couples as PS, that will only total to 10 people. Brilliant? Practical! :)

Other consideration I like is that we have to choose those couple that gave best impact in our lives. We also want those who can be real ROLE MODELS - whom marriage we admire the most. We want someone to really play the role of PS to us throughout our whole married life (read: advices, talks, suggestions). Who wants people to just walk with you in the aisle and then after that you will be back to total strangers again? DEFINITELY NOT US!

Thus our WYB wordings for PS:
Wherever the road may lead us..
   Can we count on you to guide us?