Ludikrus wrote: » A wedding I was at went off without a hitch and so did the reception. It was a really lovely upmarket hotel/lodge setup. Then, at about 5AM two guys smoking a spliff set off a fire alarm and the place had to be evacuated. Bride & groom, parents, everyone outside, half dressed and wrecked.
HBC08 wrote: » I was at a cousins wedding with the other half,she hadnt met any of my extented family at the time. We were three drinks in before we realised we were at the wrong wedding. We also missed the actual wedding earlier that day because we couldnt find the church.
Mister Vain wrote: » A bit like the episode of Only Fools And Horses where Del and Rodney went to the wrong funeral.
lawred2 wrote: » The queue to shake hands thing is horrible alright but I doubt it's uniquely Irish..
odyssey06 wrote: » We've had people turn up at the wrong wedding. We've had people turn up at the wrong funeral. Most tragically, we've had weddings turn into funerals. But I hope we haven't had anyone turn up at a funeral thinking it was a wedding!
Purple Mountain wrote: » Absolutely not. How honourable is it for people to stand in a queue in solidarity to take a few minutes to pay respect to the deceased and offer some little comfort to the family? I think it's an Irish custom that should never die.
odyssey06 wrote: » But I hope we haven't had anyone turn up at a funeral thinking it was a wedding!
lawred2 wrote: » I'm not sure what honour has to do with it to be honest... Either way I'm speaking from the perspective of the grieving family shaking hands with a procession of people not the 'honourable' folk who stood in a queue.
Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: » You're making a big assumption that it is comfort though. In any of my experiences, it has been anything but. Ive just wanted to go and comfort my family, and not sit in the cold for the benefit of strangers. I think I started this funeral talk so hopefully to close it, with an example of my reasoning. A cousin of mine passed away in a tragic accident, a young man in his early 20s. His parents and siblings were distraught beyond anything Ive seen, but held themselves together as best they could to get through the funeral. The one thing they asked was that people not pay their respects in person, they couldnt face it. It was announced by the priest at the mass, on the local radio announcement and even a sign on their front door that they ask people to hold off on passing on their sympathies. Did anyone listen? Did they fcuk. They were queuing as the priest asked them not to. There were endless knocks on the very door that had the sign. I even saw them cornered putting diesel in the car. My mother in law (about as old Ireland as it gets) talked about paying her respects. I told her as bluntly as I could not to, his mother was on the verge of a breakdown and just wanted to be left alone. She did it anyway, she said she couldn't let an event like that pass, despite knowing it would upset the recipient (which it did). Fond rememberance of an old person dying is all well and good, but there's a certain arrogance to think that acquaintances offering platitudes brings any comfort to a devastated family.
Jim Root wrote: » Drink really brings out the worst in people
Cilldara_2000 wrote: » Obviously there's different strokes for different folks, but IMO, having had more than my fair share of loss, having loads of people sympathising and a big funeral or wake or both is helpful. Having said that, there's no excuse for these gob****es ignoring the sign on the door etc in this case.
Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: » I don't know if it ever actually got to the church but I worked in an office a while back with a fella who talked a lot about his upcoming wedding. I assumed it was to another girl in the office, since they flirted outrageously and there were thinly veiled jokes about them shagging after work nights out. Turns out she was the other woman, but it was so well known that people in the office had gone beyond gossip and openly talked about the situation in front of them. Your man and his fiance had a party in their house a few weeks before the wedding, and the following Monday he was openly joking about riding the colleague in his utility room while his fiance was in the living room. I left that week so never found out the ending, but kinda hope it all blew up in his face.
RubyGlee wrote: » I was at a small wedding a few years ago. Day was going great until the speech’s. The bride has a daughter from a previous relations and the bride and groom had a 1yr old son. A comment was made about the 3 of them being a beautiful little family now and the little girl was heard crying then asking was she not part of the family anymore. It was actually really sad and the bride and her two bridesmaid sisters stormed off to the comfort the child. The atmosphere dropped after that
Andrea B. wrote: » Had a colleague once who headed off on a 200 mile roundtrip for our bosses father in law funeral. Wtf.
cena wrote: » Hi, Folks. OP here. I was not expecting this many replies. So brother got married 8 years ago. Uncle and his come over from England the day before the wedding. The hotel was 30 minutes away from where we all lived. They wouldn't even come out to the brother and his wife the night before. Day of the wedding we get to the hotel and they stayed in the room while the photos are been taken. It left a bad atmosphere for the day the way they treated my brother, they were also heard to be saying they didn't want to come to the wedding. We also had an aunt come over from England. She stayed with us the night before and kept going on about staying in the hotel. We didn't stay at the hotel and we only lived 30 mins away and I was driving (non-drinker), Anyways the whole day of the wedding she kept going about us staying there for the night. We kept telling her no due to living so close. The night rolls on and the aunt is very fond for the drink and gets plastered. She makes a show of the family jumping on the chairs and making a fool of a much older cousin. Anyway, we going home and my mother lets loose in the aunt and uncle her (sister and brother) how bad they acted over the weekend and the uncle couldn't even come to the house the night before. The aunt got her wish and stayed at the hotel after been told she was no longer welcomed back to the house. I arrived back to the hotel the next morning with her suite and she gets in the uncle's car to get onto the same boat home as the uncle and wife. He only came for the day 8 years later and haven't spoken to any of them. We have another aunt in England who wouldn't come over for her first nephew of 3 to get married. That took the biscut altogether with hte brother and mother
Seth Brundle wrote: » Looking at his death notice, he was originally from Carrickmacross. No idea what was wrong with him on the day.
freshpopcorn wrote: » That's not him. I knew a priest and he could go missing, fall asleep at any event or sleep in and the family/alter servers would have to go to his house to wake the priest up for a wedding, funeral, etc.
Leg End Reject wrote: » Narcolepsy? Boredom?
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