Drinking on your wedding day

c_man · 02-12-2015 02:28PM

michellie wrote: »

This! I'm getting married in July...

No judgement for me. I hope you have a lovely day (and lovely consummation) :pac:

Mink · 02-12-2015 02:33PM

The OH plays in a band at over 100 weddings a year all over the country and a couple times he's commented on the absolute shambles of one or the other of the wedding couple getting really really pallatic. It just takes the shine right off the whole day.

Tipsy/merry - grand. If you're old and wise enough to get married then you should know your limits

Whitewinged · 02-12-2015 02:34PM

We both had a few drinks but like some have said here, if I am nervous which I was on my wedding day, then drink doesn't really affect me too much. I probably would have drank a lot more but you are constantly walking around and chatting and you keep putting down your drink and then forget about it.

I remember I was talking to a taxi driver a few days before my wedding and he said to me to make sure to stick together at the wedding afters, obviously not glued to one another, but just remember to check in with each other because you can get separated because you are entertaining so many friends and family and you won't have shared good memories of the night.

ElleEm · 02-12-2015 02:38PM

I am getting married in a few months. It is a mid afternoon wedding so I won't feel guilty about having a glass of wine getting ready. I plan on getting quite tipsy after the meal though. We are only doing this once, so I want the party to start as soon as possible! Our friends and siblings love a session, and are likely to be up singing until the morning. I can't wait!

Baggy Trousers · 02-12-2015 02:40PM

Most people hate going to 'traditional' weddings. I think it helps the atmosphere when the married couple are drinking and relaxed.

seamus · 02-12-2015 02:46PM

Through the day you end up having a glass shoved in your hand every now and again and only managing to drink a bit before you're whisked off somewhere. Until the dinner and speeches are done, the couple are generally very busy, so you'd actually have to put in a pretty big effort to drink heavily before 10pm.

The whole notion of "consummation" is archaic at this stage. It's a nice notion, but it's not like anyone abstains anymore, so it's not like you're missing anything if you don't. Most couples are too tired to do anything at the end of the night, and if they're dead set on doing it that night, they'll nip off upstairs for 30 minutes under the pretence of changing their clothes or "taking a break", before coming back down to get drunk.

razorblunt · 02-12-2015 02:53PM

Found I was buzzing so much on the day itself it didn't really have an effect on me a huge lot.
Had a Guinness before the ceremony, sneaky hip flask from the Best Man and stayed on bottles then.
Moved to rum & diet coke later as it was easier to walk around with just a glass of coke and say I already had a drink when others were insisting on buying something for me.

Duggy747 · 02-12-2015 03:00PM

Will be having a few drinkies at mine, though until after the meal and we're not ones to get drunk heavily, we both know our limits and I wanna make sure I don't say stupid shít in front of everyone............keep it on a one to one basis. :P

I could barely get drinks in at my engagement party before being dragged around chatting shíte to everyone so I don't expect to be getting much in anyways.

As for the "consummation" on the night, we already both know that's probably not gonna happen because we'll more than likely be both wrecked. Save it for the morning where we'll both get the good ride in then :pac:

Balmed Out · 02-12-2015 03:00PM

I drank throughout the day but your just too busy to actually drink a lot, cant think of any wedding ive been to where either the bride or groom were actually drunk.

BattleCorp · 02-12-2015 03:32PM

If you plan on getting drunk at your wedding, it will take a bit of effort. Yes, easy to get drunk late in the night, but not really easy before 10 or 11 at night.

You'll be too busy yapping to people, mingling trying to get around to say hello and have a bit of a chat with everyone that you won't have time to get drunk.

I sipped at a few drinks, but nothing substantial. I enjoyed my wedding too.

I'd imagine that if you got smashed at your wedding and made a show of yourself, you'd regret it forever.

I was at a wedding once where the bride got so drunk, she got in a fight and wound up getting a box in the face for herself. I bet she'd do things differently if she had the chance again.

Vojera · 02-12-2015 04:10PM

At my own wedding I had a half a glass of champagne and the neck of a bottle of beer. I was too busy yapping and dancing to drink any more than that, to be honest! The hardest part was convincing people that all I wanted was a pint of water when they tried to buy me drinks. My wife was the same, had a glass of wine with the dinner and that was it. We were in bits the next day from all the dancing so I'm glad we didn't have hangovers on top of that!

Obviously the happy couple can do whatever they want but I think it would be a shame to miss out on the day because of being drunk or ending up falling asleep early or getting sick. I was at a wedding about four years ago where one of the bridesmaids got locked between the ceremony and the hotel (wine in the car) and it was pretty sad seeing the other bridesmaids and the bride trying to sober her up for the photos. Not nice at all, but imagine how much worse it would be if it was one of the people getting married

Ciderswigger · 02-12-2015 07:11PM

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Christ...before I'd tell a friend about my sex life with my wife. Friends will talk about their sex life with women who are not their wives, but doesn't it break some I dunno...code to talk about sex with one's wife?

I'm a girl and it was just girls talking about wedding stuff in general. One mentioned that she was wrecked the whole weekend due to demanding guests, that brought up how tired the other couple were after the big day and getting to bed at 7am after a sing song and the conversation went from there. It's not like she rang me up and was like "wait till I tell ya how I didn't ride Seamus last night!"

Drinking on your wedding day

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