Wedding drunkness

PTH2009 · 22-05-2016 07:02PM #1

Why do people get drunk more at wedding afters than they would normally ???

Is it the shame of still being unmarried/single

Most of your peers are there and u can get off your face without consequences

s4uv3 · 22-05-2016 07:03PM

It's the drinking all day innit?

cml387 · 22-05-2016 07:04PM

Surely actually having to go to a wedding is reason enough.

ToddyDoody · 22-05-2016 07:05PM

I agree, you'd be better off with a nice cup of tea.

yupya1 · 22-05-2016 07:05PM

free wine

pgj2015 · 22-05-2016 07:07PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

Why do people get drunk more at wedding afters than they would normally ???

Is it the shame of still being unmarried/single

Most of your peers are there and u can get off your face without consequences

you would wonder how they show their faces in public at all:rolleyes:

MadDog76 · 22-05-2016 07:08PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

Why do people get drunk more at wedding afters than they would normally ???

Is it the shame of still being unmarried/single

Most of your peers are there and u can get off your face without consequences

Is it only unmarried/single people getting drunk at Weddings?

pgj2015 · 22-05-2016 07:10PM

MadDog76 wrote: »

Is it only unmarried/single people getting drunk at Weddings?

exactly, the last two weddings i was at, one married woman didn't know her name and was carried out, the other guy who was also married puked all over his table during the meal.

PTH2009 · 22-05-2016 07:12PM

I thought drinking early would be eliminated by the big dinner you get later, it would sober you up a bit ???

I don't get American weddings. It all happens in marquees and very little craic

Eastern European weddings go on for days and lots of craic is had lol

Ohbethehokey · 22-05-2016 07:14PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

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Most of your peers are there and u can get off your face without consequences

jealous they can have a few without facing consequences from a Naggy partner?

Busted Flat. · 22-05-2016 07:15PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

Why do people get drunk more at wedding afters than they would normally ???

Is it the shame of still being unmarried/single

Most of your peers are there and u can get off your face without consequences

It's the fear of marriage/instituation that drives people to drink Single / married.

Del2005 · 22-05-2016 07:18PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

I thought drinking early would be eliminated by the big dinner you get later, it would sober you up a bit ???

The only thing that can sober someone up is time. Eating or drinking coffee does nothing. Doesn't help that most people still drink during the dinner.

Then you are mixing the grape with the grain along with all day drinking, what could go wrong.

Fleawuss · 22-05-2016 07:41PM

Insufferable relatives. Strangers. Different generations. Shyte music. Insufferable relatives singing. Talking about nothing ad nauseam. Drink. Awful shapes on the dance floor. Insufferable relatives singing. Talking about nothing. Strangers. It's a great night out. Innit.

L'Enfer du Nord · 22-05-2016 07:50PM

Tell me an Irish occasion that isn't a piss up.

Weddings, funerals, football matches, concerts, graduations, Debs. Christnings and communions too, I hear.

The only large social/sporting gathering I can rembering at where there was no drinking is the Special Olympics.

TrustedApple · 22-05-2016 08:00PM

My sisters Wedding.

I was drinking from 2pm to about 4am .....

Drunk TA includes singing sex on Fire solely with the Wedding band playing behide me.

Doing the Gangham style dance with the singer of the Wedding band singer.

Doing the sexy and i know it dance with the Wedding band singer.

Its a day to have fun you might as well enjoy it then sitting there with a face on you.

Lyaiera · 22-05-2016 08:06PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

I thought drinking early would be eliminated by the big dinner you get later, it would sober you up a bit ???

I don't get American weddings. It all happens in marquees and very little craic

Eastern European weddings go on for days and lots of craic is had lol

I think this is a matter for the UN or maybe the OECD. Divide the world into "craic havers" and "no craic." Irish, Polish, Scottish, mad craic. Americans, South Africans, English, no craic, and maybe a little racist. Then we fund the craic havers having the craic despite living in a no craic country, and maybe send them to the craic having countries to get an advanced certificate in mad craic so they can teach the craic. Soon the world would be fierce craic and we could finally afford to help anyone with a chronic case of dryballs.

Mister Vain · 22-05-2016 08:13PM

TrustedApple wrote: »

My sisters Wedding. I was drinking from 2pm to about 4am .....

I don't know how people can drink that long. At my sisters wedding I drank from 2pm to 8pm and then I had to go to bed. I'm a complete lightweight. Even if I was capable of going the distance, I wouldn't want to listen to the insufferable relatives for that length of time. I was bored off my tits by 6pm.

Olishi4 · 22-05-2016 08:15PM

I love weddings but they are a long day. I've never been at a wedding where someone drank so much that they got into a fight or anything but I've seen a few funny falls on the dance floor.

Up until the point the dinner and speeches are over, people are fairly well behaved and just have to go along with the day set by the bride and groom. They've been drinking but they still have to sit at the table they were placed, be quiet for the speeches, become acquainted with people they don't know at their table etc.

So while slowly getting drunk, after the speeches and the music starts, there's a sense of freedom to enjoy the rest of the night and the first place people tend to go is to the bar.

SEPT 23 1989 · 22-05-2016 08:16PM

We just love getting fcuked up

22-05-2016 08:23PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

I thought drinking early would be eliminated by the big dinner you get later, it would sober you up a bit ???

Dinner makes no difference if anything id nearly be drinking more as I would be drinking pints and wine at the same time during the dinner.

Weddings are great craic and it's a solid days drinking so you are going to end up in a heap. First pint is usually had by about 2pm (though I've started at 8am when I was a groomsman and we were drinking with the breakfast at the grooms house) and I'm usually one of the very last to call it a night at the end of the residents bar so minimum 4am and I've been up until 6am and I'd be drinking constantly in that time including loads of shorts and shots as the night goes on so yeah you are going to end up drunk.

Fleawuss · 22-05-2016 08:31PM

Lyaiera wrote: »

I think this is a matter for the UN or maybe the OECD. Divide the world into "craic havers" and "no craic." Irish, Polish, Scottish, mad craic. Americans, South Africans, English, no craic, and maybe a little racist. Then we fund the craic havers having the craic despite living in a no craic country, and maybe send them to the craic having countries to get an advanced certificate in mad craic so they can teach the craic. Soon the world would be fierce craic and we could finally afford to help anyone with a chronic case of dryballs.

Mighty crack.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 22-05-2016 08:36PM

Long day's drinking. Lots of really boring things happening at the start, need to drink through them. Probably going to be seeing friends and relatives you haven't seen in ages, end up buying drinks/being bought drinks to mark the occasion. Bit of social anxiety going on, need to drink through that. Free drink, yay. Lots of reasons.

I ended up too yoked to remember to drink much last one I was at, was nice to be able to remember the night and not be hungover the next day, plus I was one of the last ones standing, which I don't usually manage when drinking. Missed the first dance because I was sitting out in my OH's car listening to 2fm and hugging him though but oh well.

pgj2015 · 22-05-2016 08:39PM

Andres Thankful Toilet wrote: »

Long day's drinking. Lots of really boring things happening at the start, need to drink through them. Probably going to be seeing friends and relatives you haven't seen in ages, end up buying drinks/being bought drinks to mark the occasion. Bit of social anxiety going on, need to drink through that. Free drink, yay. Lots of reasons.

I ended up too yoked to remember to drink much last one I was at, was nice to be able to remember the night and not be hungover the next day, plus I was the last ones standing, which I don't usually manage when drinking. Missed the first dance because I was sitting out in my OH's car listening to 2fm and hugging him though but oh well.

you did ecstasy at a wedding? lol that must of been weird?

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 22-05-2016 08:39PM

pgj2015 wrote: »

you did ecstasy at a wedding? lol that must of been weird?

Ah sure it's kind of a loved up occasion anyway, it was nice

SEPT 23 1989 · 22-05-2016 08:41PM

pgj2015 wrote: »

you did ecstasy at a wedding? lol that must of been weird?

Even weirder for the priest giving her a head massage

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 22-05-2016 08:43PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Even weirder for the priest giving her a head massage

No this was the kind of wedding where there was a Celtic hand fasting ceremony carried out by a family friend and no priest, so it really wasn't that weird. I was far from the only one :pac:

SEPT 23 1989 · 22-05-2016 08:47PM

Andres Thankful Toilet wrote: »

No this was the kind of wedding where there was a Celtic hand fasting ceremony carried out by a family friend and no priest, so it really wasn't that weird. I was far from the only one :pac:

Sounds like the perfect wedding

pgj2015 · 22-05-2016 08:48PM

Andres Thankful Toilet wrote: »

Ah sure it's kind of a loved up occasion anyway, it was nice

ya but all those old relatives and neighbours you don't like and them not on the same buzz at all:eek:

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 22-05-2016 08:50PM

pgj2015 wrote: »

ya but all those old relatives and neighbours you don't like and them not on the same buzz at all:eek:

Na it was a friend of mine, so none of my extended family there, wouldn't have been at it if there was. Waited til fairly well on in the evening, so anyone who would have cared was too scuttered to notice, hopefully I just came across as a happy drunk. I wasn't out of it either like, just the one.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 22-05-2016 08:52PM

I can never understand this heavy drinking at a wedding. It’s so uncouth. Sitting in a hotel lobby drowning pints until five or six in the morning.

I was at the wedding of a cousin of mine about two years ago. It was a lovely day with a beautiful ceremony in a small church by the Shannon. They splashed out on proper champagne for the reception at the hotel, and the meal itself was surprisingly ok. I had a lovely evening catching up with my relations and letting them know how I was getting on over here in Frankfurt. I certainly enjoyed myself, and didn’t go to bed until at least 1am.

I didn’t want to let the festivities interrupt my marathon training regime, so I rose at around 6am to go for a light run around the grounds of the hotel. I arrived down into the lobby to see a bunch of drunken idiots still sitting there horsing back pints. My uncle in law –the father of the groom - arrived over and attempted to hug me. His face a deeply unhealthy red colour from the enormous excess of whiskey and stout he had consumed over the previous 16 hours of drinking. Another cousin was sitting there with an acoustic guitar, missing notes and slurring out the words to The Green Fields of France. I told them to cop on and call it a night before one of them injured themselves. Not one of them could construct a coherent response, and my brother told me to “fúck off and go run back to Germany”.

I didn’t wait around that day to see the aftermath of such excess. Why grown adults act in such a manner will always remain a mystery to me. Disgraceful.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 22-05-2016 08:54PM

When Aongus and I get married you can all get drunk on Buckfast.

Wedding drunkness

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