Posted on 07/13/2005 12:16:21 AM PDT by rawhide
NEW YORK — This summer, hide your bridesmaids.
So warns the promo for this weekend's new movie, "Wedding Crashers", which is about a couple of bachelors who show up at weddings uninvited to prey on lonely bridesmaids and especially desperate female guests.
The movie cashes in on two common stereotypes about weddings: that women hate attending nuptials alone, and that men, realizing how vulnerable weddings make single women feel, use the occasions to their advantage.
But how are true are these generalizations?
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Drunken behaviour will not be tolerated at my wedding. That's what I was getting at. The people giving the wedding made no effort to control their guests' guzzling of adult beverages.
My wife and I are going to have a cajun party soon loosely based on it.
The trouble with you is, you have to exaggerate so much to make your points valid. These are wedding guests we're managing, not a third grade class.
Any state that went for the Dem is now to be considered a "YANKEE" state? So, when New York went for Reagan, then New Yorkers weren't YANKEES? You have a very warped way of deciding who is a YANKEE and who isn't; I must say.
Maybe you should review your posts, as well as your own strange opinions about who is and who isn't a YANKEE. :-)
I also said long standing relationship, which negates taking last week's "hookup".
I wouldn't think so - but I don't know. I am no master of etiquite but my family and wife's family are definitely up on it.
'Drunken behaviour will not be tolerated at my wedding.'
Nothing wrong with that, but drinking alot doesn't necessarily mean drunken behavior.
'The people giving the wedding made no effort to control their guests' guzzling of adult beverages.'
It is your wedding day, as long as there is no embarrassing behavior, you need to concentrate on that fact. Control what you can. Have fun at your reception, leave the policing of it to others.
Phooey. I'm through with this.
The premise of the movie, men crashing swanky weddings to hit on women, sounds funny, and not like the final straw that will break down civilized society.
Good grief. Talk about inventing things to be upset about....
Well in this case I was trying to be charitable to other states. Being Southern is a much more elite group than that. We see Yankees moving south every day trying to be southern, and well it is kind of embarrassing. But, hey, 2 or 3 generations down the road, their progeny have a chance for better life ;-)
What would you do to actually control it if there are people with drinking problems? It wasn't a problem at mine, but mine was day, outside, and the atmosphere was beach and kid and food oriented rather than dancing and nightclub type entertainment.... I think that makes it easier.
Are you serving alcohol at all?
You weren't at our wedding! :-)
I think the movie looks like it will be a box office bomb.
It doesn't look funny at all. The two bachelors are butt ugly, homely, nasty looking and old and couldn't "hook-up" with cute single bridesmaids if their lives depended on it IRL. Maybe if it starred Brad Pitt or Orlando Bloom it might be believable. The gags in the trailer weren't funny and the trailer usually contains the better jokes.
That's just my 2 cents.
They would be dispatched from the reception area and back to their room or asked to leave (given a ride home). Before it even gets to that level, I'd be keeping an eye on things. Or my mom will be keeping an eye *lol* I want it to be as formal as possible but it may not be that way :-)
that men, realizing how vulnerable weddings make single women feel, use the occasions to their advantage.
Well, I believe it depends on the bridesmaids. In this case above, all the whiskey in Kentucky could not make me want to "take advantage" of those heifers.
I didn't "invent" anything; most especially NOT to have something to be "upset" about, since I'm NOT "upset" at all. I'm just discussing the topic and answering replies. LOL
Oh - you shouldn't have your eye on such things... Leave that to your mother. in fact... you shouldn't still be there at the point it goes too far!
I tell ya, if you want one more bit of advice from me to ponder, it would be you and P leaving pretty early. Get your rituals like the cake and the toast and the bouquet all done and go off together. You'd be amazed at how, fun as it is, it's a pressure cooker... and slipping off after two hours to be alone together (and eat!) was the best thing we did. We resisted an early departure, we thought we wanted to be at the party, but my dad pushed it, and he was right. You need to be the first to leave, not the last :~D
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