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Wedding Receptions. Satan's Plan to Inflict Misery on Humans?

  • 07-03-2014 11:07PM
    #1
    ClovenHoof
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    I hate wedding receptions. I think they are a form of psychological torture which can only be dealt with by people drinking themselves into oblivion so they can try and forget they are at something as miserable and fake as a wedding reception.

    Everybody hates them, only a small minority of us are not scared to admit it.


Comments

  • #2
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    The trick is to get drunk early, it can be a great night then.


  • #3
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    you do realise that the RSVP usually has a box to say that you won't be able to make it??


  • #4
    Cupcake_Crisis
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    Get tipsy on free wine with dinner and it's all uphill from there.


  • #5
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Bloody hell, whats with all the wedding threads lately. Recession must be over.


  • #6
    brevity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,536 ✭✭✭brevity


    Ahh don't be so bitter! Weddings can be lots of fun if you are going with a good crowd. Dress up, drink some nice whiskey and have a dance.


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  • #7
    efc67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭efc67


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    The trick is to get drunk early, it can be a great night then.

    Thats very true...i done the very thing at the last wedding i was at.....i was the groom like...but made the day even more enjoyable


  • #8
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    efc67 wrote: »
    Thats very true...i done the very thing at the last wedding i was at.....i was the groom like...but made the day even more enjoyable
    Forced into it? :D


  • #9
    michellie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭michellie


    I've never been to a wedding I didn't enjoy or look forward to. Maybe the problem is you OP?


  • #10
    efc67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭efc67


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    Forced into it? :D

    Ah not forced ;-0 ....but if everyone else was getting tanked, so was i.....although the church where we got married, (only a little village) the only pub was a minute walk from church...so everyone piled in there after mass....and so did we.....one of the best photos of the day was the bridesmaids holding up my wifes dress as she walked to the pub.


  • #11
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    efc67 wrote: »
    Ah not forced ;-0 ....but if everyone else was getting tanked, so was i.....although the church where we got married, (only a little village) the only pub was a minute walk from church...so everyone piled in there after mass....and so did we.....one of the best photos of the day was the bridesmaids holding up my wifes dress as she walked to the pub.
    I meant getting married, not drunk!


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  • #12
    efc67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭efc67


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    I meant getting married, not drunk!

    I thought every man was forced...thought we just went along with it for the sake of the other half.. ;-0.. come to think of it, this time last year we were cruising round the Caribbean on our honeymoon....good times .


  • #13
    cletus van damme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭cletus van damme


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    I hate wedding receptions. I think they are a form of psychological torture which can only be dealt with by people drinking themselves into oblivion so they can try and forget they are at something as miserable and fake as a wedding reception.

    Everybody hates them, only a small minority of us are not scared to admit it.

    I hear ya!
    I'd love to have a less formal thing finger food and booze...
    this hotel for the day and over night is kak .

    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    The trick is to get drunk early, it can be a great night then.

    this. the only weddings I've enjoy are the ones I've been wasted at.


  • #14
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    I find it the perfect set up for a hard night of drinking. The early pints are soaked up by the monster meal which in turn provides further soakage for the drinking ahead.


  • #15
    efc67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭efc67


    Aidric wrote: »
    I find it the perfect set up for a hard night of drinking. The early pints are soaked up by the monster meal which in turn provides further soakage for the drinking ahead.

    This is so true...the meal is the key for a long session


  • #16
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    ClovenHoof wrote: »

    Everybody hates them,

    Speak for yourself.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #17
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    michellie wrote: »
    I've never been to a wedding I didn't enjoy or look forward to. Maybe the problem is you OP?

    In fairnesss anyone I ever speak to in their 30's seem to hate them. I have only ever been at one friend's wedding, and it was like a college reunion, so I enjoyed it a lot.

    Can imagine 8 weddings a year being a super duper pain in the ring though, not to mention a pain the wallet.


  • #18
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    The reception part is fun. It's the mass and waiting around for ages while the wedding party take the perfect pictures that is a chore. I'm usually starving by the time it comes to eat.


  • #19
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    The reception part is fun. It's the mass and waiting around for ages while the wedding party take the perfect pictures that is a chore. I'm usually starving by the time it comes to eat.
    The lull between the meal and the music is the killer for me. You can sit in the bar while the photos are being taken.


  • #20
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    The lull between the meal and the music is the killer for me. You can sit in the bar while the photos are being taken.
    The speeches is another one. I was at a wedding once where for some reason they decided it would be a good idea to have the speeches after everyone had ordered but before any meals had been served. I was so hungry the table cloth started to look appetising.


  • #21
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    The speeches is another one. I was at a wedding once where for some reason they decided it would be a good idea to have the speeches after everyone had ordered but before any meals had been served. I was so hungry the table cloth started to look appetising.
    Grand if they're short and funny, a nightmare otherwise. I was at a wedding where the father of the bride droned on for half an hour. :mad:


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  • #22
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    It's the mass and waiting around for ages while the wedding party take the perfect pictures that is a chore.

    I love a good mass.


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