Do you LOVE going to weddings?

Spanish Eyes · 28-10-2016 04:48PM #1

I do and I don't.

Three day events NO.

Wedding and overnight OK.

But the cost of it all... my God. Outfit, shoes, bag (and that's only for the girls lol).

Wedding pressie, overnight, drinks and all the rest of it.

You'd get a holiday abroad for sure.

Still it's a nice day for meeting people. Then what? Hang around all day until yer fed. Then the band and the dancing, and the obligatory sing song in the early hours. And hangover heads the next day!

Is it a boring formula or what now?

Ah here.

whoopsadoodles · 28-10-2016 04:55PM

Love them.

Love love love love love them.

Love everything about them.

The dressing up, the wine, the eating, the dancing, the laughing with friends, the romance of it all when it's two of your favourite people getting hitched.

Love.

I've been to I'd say 40 weddings and I still look forward to the next one!

ElChe32 · 28-10-2016 04:57PM

Weddings me arse.

munster87 · 28-10-2016 04:58PM

They are good for catching up with friends or family. An excuse for a bit of a piss up usually. But they can be expensive. So I'll say no, I don't love them.

Spanish Eyes · 28-10-2016 05:00PM

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

Love them.

Love love love love love them.

Love everything about them.

The dressing up, the wine, the eating, the dancing, the laughing with friends, the romance of it all when it's two of your favourite people getting hitched.

Love.

I've been to I'd say 40 weddings and I still look forward to the next one!

OKKKKK

Does the formula not bore you to oblivion though?

You know, the hiatus between church/civil ceremony/photos and FOOD!

You can only talk for so long...

I find it is a long day TBH. And formulaic. But it is what it is I suppose.

Not my favourite way of spending hundreds has to be said.

Barry Badrinath · 28-10-2016 05:01PM

Nope.

Fcuking drama Llama's most of them.

I have another one on Dec 15th to go to. 10 days before Christmas like, cnuts.

theteal · 28-10-2016 05:02PM

At this stage it's probably the only time that all the lads are out together so I suppose, yeah, I have a fondness for weddings.

As for the expense, it's only as pocket lightening as you want it to be. We've stayed in nearby B+Bs as opposed to the main hotel. We've made extended holidays out of the few foreign weddings we've been at to help absorb the expense - it can be an expensive weekend or a bargain of a week away. We've got enough suits/dresses to open a 2nd hand shop so there's no need to add to the pile.

whoopsadoodles · 28-10-2016 05:02PM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

OKKKKK

Does the formula not bore you to oblivion though?

You know, the hiatus between church/civil ceremony/photos and FOOD!

You can only talk for so long...

I find it is a long day TBH. And formulaic. But it is what it is I suppose.

Not my favourite way of spending hundreds has to be said.

Not really tbh.

I think the photos thing is mostly over with nowadays. There's generally no big group photo I don't think, and instead the photographer just takes non posing pics throughout the day.

I really like all of it, I've four next year in the diary already!

Riazor · 28-10-2016 05:04PM

December 31st, a good friend's wedding so I may bloody show up. :rolleyes:

suicide_circus · 28-10-2016 05:06PM

theteal wrote: »

At this stage it's probably the only time that all the lads are out together so I suppose, yeah, I have a fondness for weddings.

This.

And once the weddings are done, the next time you'll all be together is for one of yer parents funeral.

Life is short.

Spanish Eyes · 28-10-2016 05:08PM

Riazor wrote: »

December 31st, a good friend's wedding so I may bloody show up. :rolleyes:

Now there's a date for a wedding that I would enjoy!

eviltwin · 28-10-2016 05:08PM

Hate them, didn't even enjoy my own. If I could do it over I'd marry abroad and then have a massive party at home. You get to have the fun without all the fuss.

tupenny · 28-10-2016 05:10PM

No. Not a fan. 4 next year. Ugh. Dread.
They're more or less all the same.

Atlantic Dawn · 28-10-2016 05:11PM

One day wedding on a Saturday yes, anything else is a pain in the hole.

DoozerT6 · 28-10-2016 05:12PM

Yeah they're basically all the same. Having said that, I've only been to maybe 6 weddings in my 42 years. So I've never experienced the wedding in a barn, or one where there was a chip van/ice cream van/dance-off/flash mob

Maybe they'd be a bit more interesting.

dodderangler · 28-10-2016 05:13PM

Have one tomorrow for 2 days. Cost me an arm and a leg as well

Spanish Eyes · 28-10-2016 05:13PM

tupenny wrote: »

No. Not a fan. 4 next year. Ugh. Dread.
They're more or less all the same.

That's what I mean most of the time.

Same formula, different people.

whoopsadoodles · 28-10-2016 05:13PM

dodderangler wrote: »

Have one tomorrow for 2 days. Cost me an arm and a leg as well

you'll be shyte when it comes to the hokey cokey so

McDermotX · 28-10-2016 05:14PM

Feckin' hate going to weddings.

That's why I gave those 2 young ones the elbow down the years.

.........Back of the net.

05eaftqbrs9jlh · 28-10-2016 05:14PM

I loved mine. Myself and my partner had a humanist signing, it was done in ten minutes. The witnesses were my brother and his wife. The four of us went into the dance hall in the gorgeous hotel in Clonakilty and had a laugh dancing around the place. Then we had an unreal dinner and afterwards we went to a gig for the end of the guitar festival. It cost us â‚¬1500 total.

We might have a party at some stage but we haven't told anyone else we're married because people have this idea that it's supposed to be this big stupid event and we just couldn't abide that crap. We're together over a decade so being each others' legal spouse was something that we regarded as important. We're delighted with the craic we had on the day though.

BrokenArrows · 28-10-2016 05:16PM

They're great craic but expensive as ****, especially when you have to travel.

LirW · 28-10-2016 05:16PM

I'm easily bait-able with food. Can't say no to anything involving food.

Invited to my partner's best friends wedding in December. I know food will be amazing.

Food.

Olishi4 · 28-10-2016 05:20PM

I love weddings. Everyone is usually in a good mood and just there to have fun. I don't know what's not to like?

Sometimes they can cost you a bit with the gift and if you are staying over but it's just an effort you make for your friends or family members day.

Also if it's a friend's wedding and you don't know their family that well, you get to see that side to them too which is nice.

lawlolawl · 28-10-2016 05:24PM

Hate them.

I don't feel like spending a bunch of money on someone's Special Princess Day only to spend it talking to a bunch of pissed up arseholes I don't know/care to get to know.

If I was ever to get married (ha, the ****ing thought of it), it would be in a registry office with the minimum possible amount attending because I don't like wasting people's time.

I'd be just as married as the clowns who spend thousands on twaddle.

D9Male · 28-10-2016 05:31PM

I like weddings if they are:

In Dublin or nearby
On a Saturday
With no arse boxing between ceremony and dinner /drinks.

I have kids, limited resources, a job and my own life so anything veering off the above formula gives me a pain in my hole.

Spanish Eyes · 28-10-2016 05:37PM

But what about the formula for most of them?

Does anyone, I mean anyone ever think, OMG. Church/civil ceremony, hang around, ha ha with everyone just because you have to be nice lol.

And the talking to people can be tiring too. Then they and you move off and it is all so irrelevant.

And then you are sitting at a big table listening to speeches and oh holy moly, there is betting on the length of the speeches, how original is that!

Formula. And you cannot break out of that formula in general.

28-10-2016 05:54PM

I intensely dislike weddings. The most predictable, creatively-challenged, boring event imaginable. Sameness, painful sameness. Isn't the bride looking absolutely gorgeous....And that roaring amplified rock band blowing the ears off people so you have to roar over at somebody to talk to them. Utter shíte quality of a day. Funerals are much better craic. More depth there.

Now, if anybody wants to do a medieval wedding where bride and groom arrive in autumn (when the harvest was in/there was enough food) on a white horse or some such thing, where the feast and clothes are medieval garb, where the crap loud band is replaced by either a quartet or a seisiún, where there are poets and harpists...

retro:electro · 28-10-2016 05:55PM

Hate them. They're all the same, no matter how different they try to be. Nothing worse than going to a wedding of a neighbour or relative you barely know, or even worse again being a guest at one where you know nobody, and trying to stay awake during the speeches where Michael is talking about how him and Jimmy were wild young lads stealing cars and drinking in the park but all that changed when he met the gorgeous Maria (doesn't she look gorgeous ladies and gentleman)

Stheno · 28-10-2016 05:59PM

Have to go to one tomorrow

Orders are to be at the church at one there is a two hour drinks reception while they do photos and the bell for dinner will ring at 530 so everyone will be half starved

Dinner is until 830 at which point I'm going home

There is then a bbq on sunday

Spanish Eyes · 28-10-2016 06:00PM

I'm firmly convinced that those who love weddings are of the Extovert variety, whereas those who find them boring or whatever are Introverts.

I confess to be of the latter variety. lol.

Take note... introverts are sociable, but cannot do the hail fella/gal well met for too long either!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 28-10-2016 06:00PM

No I hate it

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