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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I attended a wedding two weeks ago - I was the only single person there. No single ladies, desperate or otherwise.
Generalisations of this type tend to miss the mark.
Regards, Ivan
There was one fellow in the wedding party who I felt kinda bad for. He's a geeky/nerdy type...very intelligent...great if somewhat odd sense of humor...good looking...but just can't get a date. He attended alone...started getting real depressed because all his friends are getting married and he's spinning his wheels.
It became especially apparent the wedding night. Seems like htere's this new deal where the ENTIRE wedding party spends the night with the bride and groom at a hotel. Yuppers over a dozen guyz n gurlz in several rooms adjacent to the bridal suite. Pool party, beer in the bathtub...things are a lot different from when Wife and I tied the knot.
Wife and I were there for a couple of hours as well. It was sad watching this fellow try to mingle when everybody else was pairing off. He and I ended up sitting in one of the rooms and watching coverage os hurricane Dennis...at least until I left early Sunday morning.
That said here are a couple of other highlights/things I learned from the wedding...
For a year all I heard around the house was...wedding this...blah-blah-blah...wedding that...blah-blah-blah. I know their speaking but all I hears was blah-blah-blah...hey I'm a guy.
Here are some of the festive weekend highlights...and prove why guys aren't into weddings.
In no particular order...
Ceremony opened with 5 minute stand up comedy routine byt Pastor Greg...actually was kinda cool in a guy kinda way.
Now the best...
Being chased by the State Police Copter during the drug bust...
Being strafed by the USAF Thunderbirds jets 50 feet above the car on the way to the reception...
The dead or dying deer flying in front of my car after a mini van in the next lane hit the animal...late saturday night coming back from the reception.
I also learned...
I don't even OWN a pair of dark socks.
A white and red USA baseball cap is NOT considered appropriate attire with a tux...even OUTSIDE the church.
Now it wasn't a total loss. I've come up with a new and I suspect very lucrative idea. Weddings planned by, organized by and totally run by and for MEN! Picture this No wimink at the church...They'll be off to the side in their own room where they can talk and take tens of thousands of pictures to their heart's delight. Meanwhile Men will gather for the ceremony using pictures or possibly life size cutouts of the bride and the other wimink. Vows can be taped or phoned in.
Preferably taped.
For the reception ...again the wimink can gather in a side room while Men enjoy a couple of big screen HDTV's...a few kegs ...and finger food...preferably fried....deep fried. Only wimink present will be Hooters girls...or similar ...attending to filling the mugs, plates...etcetera. Who knows you >might< find a gal more...ummm...interesting.
prisoner6
Good manners are free. You don't haves to be wealthy to have them. And it doesn't matter how much or how little you're spending; but it DOES matter that you don't care enough to bother about your guests.
Hint...hint...unless you've planned otherwise, your guests will be sitting at table, during the dancing. It is rare for EVERYONE to dance every dance at a wedding.
If I had wanted to be "crass", I would have written something far worse.
And good manners ( which is simply a way of showing others that you care for and about them !), are FREE!
Have you ever told your wife your idea? LOL
You've managed to miss ALL of the points and put your own spin on it. But that's okay...it's no skin off my nose. :-)
She'll get over it we've been married...24....26...ummm...27 or more years...I think 28 come some teen something day this August.
Guyz - like me - aren't good at remembering stuff like that.
prisoner6
You sure like to attack other people, don't you, with your know-it-all attitude?
Quick1, have a great wedding and do not put a lot of stock in what rude people might tell you.
I got your point. You say that etiquette demands that "place setting cards" must be used to sit guests at the same table as other guests that know each other. I think that's an idiotic notion that people can't either a) find a seat near people they know and want to talk to or b) make polite conversation with the people at the table if they don't know anyone. We'll just have to agree to disagree.
For the record, we will probably do place setting cards, that is, unless we don't have time to get to it. There are more important things to be done, first.
There's nothing sissy nor wimpy about loving your wife and therefore, there is no need to try to sound like some mannerless slob, when talking about a wedding.
Weddings are one of the very last rites of passage, that civilized man still engages in. It is marker, and a happy one at that, that should fill your heart with joy.
No, most men aren't ever all THAT caught up in the planning; however, they should enjoy the occasion/celebration.
Thanks. Weddings are supposed to be about having a big party for everyone.
Corrected reply:
nopardons, you sure like to attack other people, don't you, with your know-it-all attitude?
Quick1, have a great wedding and do not put a lot of stock in what rude people might tell you.
YIKES...you still haven't got it! I said it was proper to seat people WHO DIDN'T KNOW MANY, OR ANYONE, with people whom they might/hopefully enjoy being with. After all, you do know the people whom you are inviting, so it is easier for you to know whose company they might enjoy.
No, I got your point. Check option b) in my previous post. Goodnight.
nopardons, you have been so touchy about this subject ever since it was posted tonight, and you have managed to attack almost everyone's reply (maybe if you go back through the thread, you might be able to catch up with the ones you missed).
Why is that?
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