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Post by penguinopolipitese on Sept 10, 2008 9:56:30 GMT -5
who else hates them? you often have to give up funner stuff to go to them (or worse yet travel for them), sit around with a bunch of douchebags you have nothing in common with and pretend to be interested in what eachother says, get ignored by your friend or family member who is getting married, shell out a for a wedding present or money, and on top of that of 75% of the weddings I've gone to the couples are now divorced.  |
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Post by halfbreed on Sept 10, 2008 10:09:55 GMT -5
my sister's getting married in march... i don't like dressing up.  |
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Post by jak on Sept 10, 2008 19:10:06 GMT -5
I love weddings! I'm a big sucker for romance
Plus you can get smashed at weddings and be generally inappropriate
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Post by teek on Sept 10, 2008 19:42:52 GMT -5
How can you say weddings suck?!
The whole point of going to a wedding is the fact that you don't give a damn about the douchebags, and you get totally pissed and be all out inappropriate.
If the next table has nicer food, take their food! Sit down at the Bride's family table and talk to them like you are their son, eat wedding cake with your hands, tie your tie around your head like rambo and dance around on the floor while they're giving speeches, get the groom so drunk he can't stand and have a generally fun time.
Weddings, they're the best man. I only wish people would invite me to more...
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Post by Roam'n on Sept 10, 2008 21:32:34 GMT -5
I think marriage isn't a bad thing, but the whole wedding thing is overrated.
I went to my first non-relative's wedding last year. I asked about 3 gals to accompany me (as friends, not as a date)... and they all declined! So I went stag, but afterwards I could see why so many girls hate to go to weddings. It seems like many of the ladies that did go gave off a weird catty vibe to each other. It's like a competition of sex appeal or something stupid like that. Whatever. Hopefully they'll realize their looks will fade in a few years and then nobody will give a crap.. so they might as well lighten up.
and about 10 years ago when my cousin was getting married.... they did the bouquet toss and the single gals were a avoiding it like a game of dodgeball. The 5 year old flower girl caught it. ;D
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Post by betahat on Sept 11, 2008 0:16:22 GMT -5
I just got married two weeks ago. Pics to come. The band was amazing, the food was great, the bar even had aguardiente, the weather was perfect, and I managed to avoid complete drunkenness in spite of the efforts of some of my friends. I have to say the Jewish part was especially fun (the wife is Jewish as were about half of the guests). The sweetest part is that by setting the bar so high and getting married relatively early we have greatly increased the odds of more awesome parties in the next decade or so. I have to say, the only possible downside to weddings from my point of view (besides the fact that they cost a ton, especially in New York City) is when you go to a wedding where you don't know many people - that was the case at my wife's second cousins wedding two years ago. Your own wedding is invariably awesome because you know at least half of the people and they're the ones you care most about, though your own wedding also goes by way too fast, and you spend half of the time talking to people so you have less time to dance, get wasted, and enjoy the food.
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Post by 9001shinyforks on Sept 11, 2008 0:26:02 GMT -5
Someone's obviously never crashed an unknown wedding reception and got piss drunk.
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Post by mingzayni88 on Sept 13, 2008 14:07:26 GMT -5
Marriage is a beautiful thing (well..it should be anyway), but I have to admit going to weddings (or wedding showers,baby showers,graduations anything like that) is a chore for me.
The last Wedding I went to was a month ago and I forgot all about it until 2 hrs before, so I had to hop out of my sweats and pry away from a football match (soccer or w/e) to go sit in a hot (albeit beautiful) garden and we had to wait for the bride and grom cuz they were really late (lol).
Good food though, Oh and I don't drink, neither do the Bride and groom..so, know getting smashed to fall back on.
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Post by Emily on Sept 14, 2008 19:16:20 GMT -5
^ Sorry you had a sh*tty wedding experience. It's only your first in attendance, they're usually much more fun, I tell you. Mind you, most of the ones I went to, we were seated with a group of friends, so that automatically makes it more fun.
My half-brother's wedding last summer was tremendous fun. My sister, boyfriend and I were seated with the bride's cousins from her mom's side, who are all from the south of France. They are the best people to have at a wedding, breaking out into random songs at any time. Oh, and you always, always have the loud, funny uncle at weddings. This time, the bride's uncle had too much to drink, as did my brother's friend, an arrogant heart surgeon from here. Two tables separated their tables, but they were duking out the insults like no tomorrow. Spiting each other because of typical French vs Quebecois quirks. Sheer entertainment. They ended up making up and dancing together later.
Nope, weddings are fun. ;D
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Post by saeka on Sept 16, 2008 5:24:16 GMT -5
I've never been invited so i have never gone to one before
My auntie didn't even invite me to hers because they didn't want kids there or something :\
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Post by Phil on Sept 16, 2008 9:04:12 GMT -5
I just got married two weeks ago. Pics to come. Congratulations! I too also enjoy weddings. Never been to one untill last year and then I went to 4 in four months! A Viet wedding, then Cambodian, then Malay , and finally a Korean one just so it wasn't a SE asian thing. All were great, Malay one didn't have booze but it had drummers and dancers and lots to MAKAN MAKAN, and I could eat with my hands! My Taiwanese and Indian friends are getting married to each other. THINK OF THE FOOD penguin! Theres no way that can suck. |
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Post by betahat on Sept 16, 2008 13:06:48 GMT -5
Yeah, I can't wait until my Malay cousins get married...
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Post by Miyuki on Sept 17, 2008 7:29:00 GMT -5
^Congratas on your wedding betahat!
I think the key to having fun at weddings is who you go with, and if there's an open bar. I hate making small talk with the random people sitting at my assigned table, but aside from that I don't find weddings that bad. So far, of the 7 or 8 weddings I've been to, only one couple has gotten divorced. Not bad.
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Post by ozarka on Sept 24, 2008 10:45:32 GMT -5
I've been to a few weddings in the US and it's pretty tame, with the exception of one Jewish wedding I've been to. The best weddings I've ever gone to were in Malaysia, especially Chinese weddings. The 8 - 10 course meals, campy music and skits (the closest thing I can compare that to is Telemundo), the screaming of the "yam seng" toast....can't go wrong with that!
Btw, congrats betahat!!
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Post by dead0baby0chick on Oct 10, 2008 5:01:23 GMT -5
How can you say weddings suck?! The whole point of going to a wedding is the fact that you don't give a damn about the douchebags, and you get totally pissed and be all out inappropriate. If the next table has nicer food, take their food! Sit down at the Bride's family table and talk to them like you are their son, eat wedding cake with your hands, tie your tie around your head like rambo and dance around on the floor while they're giving speeches, get the groom so drunk he can't stand and have a generally fun time. Weddings, they're the best man. I only wish people would invite me to more...I wonder why they don't.  ;D I f***ing hate weddings. They give me anal rash. |
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