I was doing some late night googling of venues and I noticed one about two and a half hours away from me that is a chapel of an old asylum that was converted into an event center which I found interesting. The rest of the asylum was also converted into a bunch of shops and restaurants and condos and whatnot. I know a lot of people say plantation weddings are racist because of how badly the slaves were treated there in the past and I agree, but what about at an old asylum? Disabled and mentally ill people back in the day when it was an asylum were also treated badly by the doctors and nurses there and given lobotomies and stuff like that.
For the record my fiance has bipolar and I have psychotic depression and ADHD and we both have autism so we probably would have ended up there if we were born a century ago and I initially didn't think it was ableist until I read about the controversy about plantation weddings and a lot of the arguments for why not to have a plantation wedding can also be made for not having a wedding at an old converted asylum.
What are your thoughts?
