Weddings - a terrible day out.

I think they are great. As long as its not me up there I'd go to one a week if I could.

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Opened the letter box this morning, and discovered an invite to the wedding of my nephew and his girlfriend. Has put me in bad mood as a result. I’ll have to go, but I’d rather get a 5-fingered prostate exam than attend to be honest. Does anyone actually enjoy Irish weddings?

Would that be 5 fingers at the same time or one after the other?

jacksie66 wrote: »

I hate social gatherings as a whole. I hate being in a room with more than 2 or 3 people..

My feelings to a tee
Will you marry me?

This is a "marmite" issue, you either love or hate weddings.

But even if you hate them, there are some of close family that it is very difficult to get out of, particularly with the "save the date" things, meaning you cannot inadvertently oooops, have booked a holiday for the same time" Trapped we are !

Anyway, I'm not a great lover of weddings myself have to say, but will go to immediate family ones no problem. I know everyone and get sitting beside like minded people. Usually good fun.

Younger folk love them for the all day event, the drinking and dancing, and sing song into the small hours. I was one of them once!

But now I'm getting older the only part of weddings I don't like is the dancing part. So now, we go to all the ceremonies, hang around, have a drink, eat the meal, chat to everyone, and then feck off about an hour into the dancing. We are NOT missed at all!

I think the Queen has the right idea. At all the recent weddings she attended, she just toasted the B+G at the after ceremony drinks reception and fecked off home to her corgis!

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

You kind of do though. And you have to give 150 as a gift if you’re single, or 300 if you’re a couple. They are nearly always a complete waste of a day. As I said, the only positive is that there’s a decent chance you’ll chat up a bird later on in the evenings, and retire to the massively overpriced room for a bit of the beast with two backs.

Feck that!!! I wouldn't give that much :rolleyes:

They probably only asked the grumpy uncle out of politeness and obligation

I have to go to my nephew in law's First Communion next Saturday.

It's a 2 hour drive away.

Apparently we have to go to the mass which lasts an hour.

Stand around for ages taking photos of the snot-nosed brat and his friends.

Go back to the parents house for shop-bought lasagna.

Spend ages there talking to people I have absolutely no interest or nothing in common with.

Stay sober because I have to drive home.

50% of the weekend gone doing something that's going to be painful from start to finish.

No guarantee of ride afterwards either - she'll probably be 'too tired'.

I'll take the wedding any day.

One thing I have learned from the responses to this thread is I'm not as big a weirdo as I thought I was ha ha

Hate weddings. Luckily for me I'm so anti social I don't get invited to a lot of them!

I honestly think the way forward is to just be known as that person that doesn't do weddings. Just blanket ban them. That way there's none of the "oh he went to hers, but not to mine" or any of that shít. Just don't go to any if you feel that strongly about it. You'll be grudgingly respected. And as for falling out with people over non attendance, if you land the 150/200 quid in front of them around the time of the wedding, you'll still be a hero and everyone's a winner.

Depends on the wedding.

For the last three years I've averaged about 11 weddings annually.
I look forward to the ones that are friends of mine as they are the few times we get to meet up these days.

If it's a wedding of my girlfriends side then I wouldn't say I look forward to it although I do enjoy it when I'm there. If I'm honest the most part I resent in that case is that my whole weekend is gone between the wedding and the afters.

Meadow Freezing Newsman wrote: »

I also wish this fad for destination weddings would die a death. At least if a wedding is at home you can make your excuses at some stage in the evening and escape. But if you're all trapped in the same Spanish village it's a bit difficult to say you have an early start in the morning/the babysitter needs to go home/you have to be at another function later on.

I will NOT go to destination weddings abroad ever. Close family do not like the idea either, so all is good in that department!

Sorry, not going, but will always give a present of money whether attending or not. Saves loadsa dough by not going anyway, and everyone is happy.

ballsymchugh wrote: »

getting married in the summer. toying with the idea of putting

'you are summonsed to the wedding...' on the top of the invite.

And ten penalty points or jail if you don't attend