Posted on 07/20/2005 2:48:29 AM PDT by KneelBeforeZod
Party pooper.
Watch "Wedding Crashers"...the rules are all laid out nicely. I gathered that vain attempts to stifle your laughter as the bride and groom read ridiculous vows that they themselves have written are frowned upon. ;)
Wedding Rules: Yes, marriage is good, have fun as you will always remember your wedding day. Don't worry too much and invite whomever you damn well want to.
If you're the one who's going to be paying for it assume that whatever initial bugdet estimate you have will be blown up almost immediately..
Is this the voice of experience? I am about 7 to 10 years from my mother of the bride scene.
Unless they're a pair of Andalusians, complete with saddles! (from the funniest wedding story I've ever heard!)
I must add: DO NOT wear white, even if it is a June wedding and your choices are limited. It's the bride's day. She gets to look like the cake.
In 1989, my parents gave me a budget ($3,000) and I didn't use all of it.
Where I am from in the Midwest, weddings always have a table set up in the reception hall for gifts and cards. EVERYONE brings their gifts to the reception. Then, the brides family customarily loads it all up after and takes it to it's final destination.
Good advice from others also:
1. only bring a guest if the invite says you can
2. Dress appropriately for the type of couple and place you will be. (If a backyard bbq, jeans are probably o.k. If at a country club, formal attire is in order)
The invitation to my sister-in-law's second wedding (this May) specified that the guests *should* wear white or khaki. (My mother and I had a good snicker over that.) I said I wasn't going, but my husband could if he felt like it; he invented a previous commitment :-).
Hey!.right back at ya....BTW..pattern baldness is hereditary, whereas a beer gut ain't....takes excercise and a little self restraint....and FYI..everyone knows that partially bald men are WAY more virile....we don't waste all that testoserone on growing hair...
LOL!
Wait a minute. My folks honeymooned at a backwoods cabin. One that is sometimes a hunting camp... No hunting went on (that I know of) so maybe that does not count.
I think it's 'no pardons' you want to hear from... She's the one who had the rule about no guests for singles...
When I was single, I was always invited to bring a guest if I wished.... and I always brought the gift along to the wedding, as did many others... there is always a table there to place gifts on and someone assigned to see to them. :~D
I could handle skynard, as long as there was no "chicken dance" or " hokey pokey"
My daughter just attended a wedding on the weekend of the 4th this year. I wondered about it, but his family is from the Seattle area and hers are from Baltimore, where the wedding took place. I figured a long weekend was maybe easier for more people to attend a distant wedding.
Neither of us is from the DC area so we had lots of family from out of state. I made reservations at the local budget hotel and most of them came and turned it into a mini vacation. Of course it helps to live in a major tourist destination.
Ping to some funny (and some not so funny) wedding stuff.
Single people are more than welcome to bring a guest, if the invitation so specifies.
Writing "and Guest" does NOT specify and is inappropriate. If you care enough about your single guest to wish him (or her) to bring a date, call him (or her) and find out said guest's name.
Also, one does not bring gifts to the wedding. One sends them to the newlyweds' home.
Now on to the rest of the thread!
No "Free Bird" because "Free Bird" sucks ass, is why.
Further, it is an inappropriate song for a wedding or reception, inasmuch as it deals with one-night stands and leaving the woman immediately thereafter.
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