Who hates weddings??

Poor Craythur · 10-02-2011 09:23PM

snyper wrote: »

While practical i think wedding lists are a very impolite idea - equally as are "cash only" requests

I agree but I was talking about this on an English forum and most people there didn't think it rude at all, and couldn't understand my saying that asking for a gift at all is rude.

marywary · 10-02-2011 09:26PM

I agree but when everyone else we know say thats the going amount, not easy to do anything else. No wonder we call wedding invites another summons when they drop through the door

Aishae · 10-02-2011 09:27PM

had one invite that said they didnt want any gifts - but would welcome any donations towards the honeymoon. sounded nice enough, well worded. it was still a cash only request though. oooh i just recalled, that 10 euro gift i gave was actually to someone who gave the cash only please on their invote...

the way i look at it is - if you cant afford to have 150 guests including people you only vaguely know and your mammies friends - then just have one which includes your close family and friends, more affordable and you wouldnt have to say cash only.

id marry somewhere secluded and send invites like this 'if you would like to share my special day, please log on to www.mywebcam.com at 3pm GMT time on july 23rd' or similar - thats the truth...

Poor Craythur · 10-02-2011 09:31PM

Aishae wrote: »

the way i look at it is - if you cant afford to have 150 guests including people you only vaguely know and your mammies friends - then just have one which includes your close family and friends, more affordable and you wouldnt have to say cash only.

Exactly. Your guests shouldn't just be there to pay for your wedding.

Asphyxia · 11-02-2011 04:13AM

Oh I love weddings

It's my chance to stay in a fancy hotel and have a savage dinner followed by drinking and dancing!

And there's cake

:D:p

neaideabh · 11-02-2011 04:36AM

I don't mind Weddings but not too mad about them at the mo as I am out of work! But 2 things that annoy me about them.... When 2 people from the same town proximity have to have their wedding in another part of the country! ON A FRIDAY!!! I doesn't bother me now but if I was in employment, I'd be declining these invites! On avg, ppl are invited to between 2 to 4 weddings per year! And there is a grwoing preference to have them on a Friday! That's eating 4 days into your 21 days holidays per year!

Really gets to me!:mad::mad::mad:

neaideabh · 11-02-2011 04:40AM

squeakyduck wrote: »

Love weddings....
Reason to get dressed up and dolled up to the nines
Free 4 course meal (and maybe a free bar)
Getting to stay in a nice hotel!

That meal cost you 100 squid!

Aoifey! · 11-02-2011 05:18AM

Besides the cost, I love weddings!

Elohim · 11-02-2011 09:32AM

Don't you hate pants?!

STIG83 · 11-02-2011 01:58PM

Have one wedding this year, and hopefully thats the end of them for awhile

Duggy747 · 11-02-2011 02:04PM

Have a stupid wedding to go to despite not knowing one single person there, girlfriend is dragging me because she's doing the bride's hair.

Then in May I'm off to Florence to the creator of Runescape's wedding

STIG83 · 11-02-2011 02:10PM

I had to go a wedding with an ex of mine,i didnt even want to go!! she was bridesmaid so had to sit at a table with loads of strangers, it wasnt too bad cos the ex's brother was at the table too but there was one or two idiots at the table too

Azureus · 11-02-2011 02:12PM

I like weddings if Im close to the people getting hitched.

Stupid family weddings used to drive me up the wall-not a close family, never see em, dont know em at all but obligation to go to show face (couldnt be seen to be snubbing a family wedding or drama kicks off). Ridiculousness!

I love friends weddings tho, always a party and theyre worth it!

jester77 · 11-02-2011 02:36PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Have a stupid wedding to go to despite not knowing one single person there, girlfriend is dragging me because she's doing the bride's hair.

Then in May I'm off to Florence to the creator of Runescape's wedding

Italian weddings are some of the best. So much food

Couple of different meat and fish main courses and it's not rammed down your throat in a single 90 minute sitting like in Ireland.

Poor Craythur · 11-02-2011 03:55PM

jester77 wrote: »

and it's not rammed down your throat in a single 90 minute sitting like in Ireland.

Oh my God, yes! The thing I hate most about Irish weddings! My friend married an English guy last year and the British contingent could not believe how quickly the dinner was over. We were all so uncomfortably full.

Aishae · 11-02-2011 07:19PM

too eight - i love weddings of friends and family youre close to. theyre special, not just about the party but the party is a pretty decent bonus! and youre bound to know some of the other guests and generally feel like youre sharing their special day.
i honestly dont know how i could get round the so-called invitation rules if i had a more traditional wedding. im close to some of my cousins. others i havent seen in years but they dont live far from me. and im also closer to one side of the family than the other. so i wouldnt want to have to invite an extra 50 people and their extended families (wives/ hubbies n babies) when - if it was up to me - the wedding would have about 50 guests max. all of whom were closer family and friends. if you DIDNT invite them all i know there would be absolute war.
when i had my confimation - wow... ages ago now. i asked my godmother - also mums sis - to be my whatsit... stand for me... and when my godfather - dads bro - heard i didnt ask HIM, he hit the flippin roof... youre only meant to have 1 person sat with you during the ceremony. i had half the bloody family cos people got pissed off on other peoples behalf. so id hate to imagine the wedding!
you can see why so many elope :pac:

marywary · 19-02-2011 05:11AM

At the end of the day its your day so try not to worry about others in your family that you might leave out, they'll get over it, not your problem, they won't remember in a while anyways.....

vampire of kilmainham · 20-02-2011 03:41AM

grenache wrote: »

Dont like them at all. You get too many nosy f*ckers enquiring about your life and what you are doing now. And there's always the people you dont want to see that are in attendance. I have my sisters wedding in December, and if i could get out of going to it, i would.

just lie to them all get pissed and enjoy ya mite even get laid stop moaning and enjoy life ya could be dead tommorrow:eek:

Kiva.D · 20-02-2011 05:02AM

Must admit, I am not fond of weddings...
May be why I keep putting mine off.

we'llallhavetea_old · 20-02-2011 05:21AM

who fcuking likes weddings? eh? EH? pile of ****.

Bruthal · 20-02-2011 05:24AM

KeithM89 wrote: »

Nothing worse than being forced to dance with a drunk relative...

True, especially if its your new wife.

dilbert2 · 20-02-2011 05:52AM

Cerocco wrote: »

Today yet another invite came through the letter box. This one is in Scotland :mad: I hate weddings, boring, cr@p filled, waste of a day. Anyone else feel the same about them. More importantly how do I get out of going without offending the person. They have been banging on about it for months and how great it is that i'm gonna go :mad::mad:

I do, perhaps for another reason. I just think marriage is a load of nonsense, an artificial construct that some religion came up with - apparently to make two people think they would “become one” through some silly rituals. Of all the animals on the planet, humans are the only species to go through the process of marriage, so really it is just cultural and social engineering of an ancient form that has managed to continue into the modern world, despite serving no practical purposes.

Why anybody feels the need to go in front of a priest and get a piece of paper stamped to say that they like each other is beyond me. It is just illogical and senseless to be honest, particularly considering the possible financial losses with divorce. A man and a woman can live together perfectly well without getting married.

However, if anybody wants to get married why not do it in a registry office – about €100 or so and you're done - instead of allowing hotels / limo services/ the Catholic church etc. to scam you out of €20,000-€50,000.

Blitzkrieger · 20-02-2011 03:07PM

LambsEye wrote: »

In America, there's a WHOLE channel dedicated to weddings. And it's awesome.

Sadly, we have that here too......

I used to love weddings when I was younger, but as I'm getting older, and as the age profile of the typical wedding I'm at these days is getting older, it's all getting a bid boring tbh. There was a lot of parts of the last wedding I was at that I didn't enjoy - notably the meal (at a top Killarney hotel that I won't name) was really awful - but I made the best of it. It was a close friend getting married so if I didn't care enough to try and help them enjoy their day, why would I bother going?

sidneykidney · 20-02-2011 04:27PM

One of the best weddings i was ever at was one that did'nt happen. We all turn up at the church do the usual hanging about, to be herded inside about 20mins after it was due to start to be told that the bride had changed her mind.

Maybe its the sadist in me, but oh how i laughed to myself, whilst all my older relatives were tutting about no consideration. Class day.

Fluorescence · 20-02-2011 05:52PM

sidneykidney wrote: »

Maybe its the sadist in me, but oh how i laughed to myself, whilst all my older relatives were tutting about no consideration. Class day.

Ah yes, how inconsiderate of her not to marry someone just to appease the nosy aul busybodies :rolleyes:. Though she probably could have reached that conclusion before the big day :P

Captain_Generic · 20-02-2011 06:13PM

fluorescence wrote: »

Ah yes, how inconsiderate of her not to marry someone just to appease the nosy aul busybodies :rolleyes:

If her actions jeopardized my ability to acquire cake I might have to hulk out

Tesco Massacre · 20-02-2011 10:31PM

I've had a good time at all the weddings I've been to, apart from the last one where I was best man and I felt physically ill before the speech.

I can understand why some people find weddings a bit lame or cheesy, though.

Who hates weddings??

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