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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Seems reasonable. Good hunting guys!
I thought it was was interesting and funny to read in the article:
"...Women have so much trouble admitting they are single [that] they will bring anyone to a wedding," said dating consultant David Wygant. "They hate to answer this question at a wedding: ''Why is a nice girl like you still single?'
"So to avoid the embarrassment, they end up going with a guy they do not like and hoping to hook up with the hot out-of-town friend they met at the rehearsal dinner," Wygant added.
On the flip side, men aren't likely to bring a guest to a wedding unless they are very serious about someone, both out of fear of sending the wrong message to a starry-eyed date and also to make the most of the opportunity..."
Two guys from the N.Y. Post tried it out ( so they could report about it all ) and were almost always thrown out on their ear!
The thing is, when a wedding is run correctly, NO singles, who aren't engaged, or about to be, are allowed to bring a date.
Tables are set with place cards, there are NO extra/empty seats at the wedding breakfast/tea/dinner, so crashers can't stay without being caught.
I saw a few clips from this UNFUNNY movie and there is no way that they could do some of the things they did, without being caught and summarily tossed out on their rears.
Sounds about right.
I suspect males don't feel comfortable going alone to these weddings either if they are alone and want to find a wife (female).
It isn't "reasonable" at all.
"The thing is, when a wedding is run correctly, NO singles, who aren't engaged, or about to be, are allowed to bring a date."
Really? With permission, I would think it would be okay, correct?
I think it is totally silly. The weddings that I have attended do not promote such encounters. Everyone's attention is on the bride and groom, as it should be. It is, after all, their day.
I have not attended a wedding alone since my husband passed away. I am sure I would feel sad. I miss my husband and my marriage. Also, I would like to fall in love again and get married. However, I have not met any men who want to get married.
Asking permission to bring a date, is not only bad manners, in the extreme, but would be rebuffed by most. Unless, of course, it was a rather informal wedding and done on the cheap.
I take it that you have never been married/planned a wedding and have no idea what the correct etiquette is.
Table seatings are usually the one of the LAST things one does, since until everyone has responded, it is IMPOSSIBLE to do.
And it isn't "NAME CARDS", it's place setting cards.
I take it that you're a males and NOT doing much in the way of planning your up coming nuptials. :-)
I can understand and agree with you if you are talking only about the wedding reception after the marriage ceremony, but to attend a wedding ceremony in a church, come on now.
I am married and I was involved in the planning. We did not put any restrictions on the church wedding, (come one,come all to share in our joy), but we did limit who was invited to the reception, because of the money involved.
There is NO possible way, that two crashers, would be invited to an entire FAMILY weekend of activities, by a leading Senator, with presidential designs; let alone allowed to stay for the dinner and dancing. Such events are usually run by wedding planners, who check off invited guest on a list they carry around.
Miss Manners, is that you?
Of the last six or seven weddings I've been to recently, only one of them has had a place setting card indicating who sits where. But then again, none of my friends are into big extravagant weddings, with tons of pomp and circumstance, either. Well, except for one, and she had place setting cards. :)
But yes, just going to a wedding, crashers could do that. And yes, some people ask lots of people to attend the wedding, but DO NOT have them to the rest.
You must go to some very loosey goosey weddings. :-)
But I first replied to someone who thought that it was a great idea.
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