Akenaten, apparently your anecdotal evidence is more evidential than anyone else's. What you believe to be the norm where you live is not necessarily the norm elsewhere. I repeat, even in rural areas in my part of Canada, it is a rare person indeed who cares whether gay couples get married or not, and they certainly don't think it impacts or lessens the value of their own straight marriage. I would think that ease of divorce would be a far more significant devaluing of ye old until death do you part vows.

Your description of the Sacred Photo Display memorialising the Expensive Wedding does not move me to feel differently. What a ridiculous bit of reasoning! As if someone would throw out the wedding album because a gay couple also got married!

I suppose my own wedding, costing less than a thousand dollars, including church, clothes and food, and my 'wedding album', consisting mainly of photos of 150 or so well lubricated friends dancing to the fiddle in a friend's field dotted with tents, devalues their expensive wedding as well.