Taking shirts off and dancing topless at weddings

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Someone I follow on instagram has just posted a video from a wedding. Dancing round at evening party topless with other men while women look on clapping. Jumping up and down slapping each others backs.

Lots of comments saying it's not a wedding until that happens/best bit about a wedding/this happens at every wedding I go to.

I have Never heard of this? What is it for?

Never heard of this either. They must be very drunk?

Doesn't sound like any wedding I've ever been to.

How ghastly.

Are they marines?

Getting naked and wrestling seems to be a requirement at a marine wedding.

Grim.

What’s it for? Well, nothing. It’s just drunk men being idiots.

Maybe it's a cultural thing?

Greeks smash plates....monies were pulled at my wedding (I'm not sure my DM has ever fully recovered) but I'm pretty sure that was a cultural norm amongst DHs friends at the time. My maid of honour still thinks it was superb .

Moonies...monies is another culture altogether I suspect.

Euww. My ex's brothers used to do this at weddings and house parties; inevitably the police would end up getting called when it all got out of hand. I put it down to a weird scouse/Irish tradition, it was truly grim positively ghastly

Phew, it wasn't female guests

Classy.

Never seen this at any wedding I've been to. Sounds a bit odd.

Never seen it but it could be a cultural thing from a certain region or group.

My friend showed me a film (!!!) of a wedding he had been to when done of the ladies took their tops off to dance. That freaked me out and made me think he was a bit of a perv for filming it!

Is that the dad who has triplets? If not there are multiple weddings where people are doing that

Very odd

The most I've seen is ties being removed once the groom has taken his off...

Ugh! This has never happened at any weddings I’ve attended!
I thought men dancing with their ties around their heads was bad enough

I was at a ska music night recently and they were all at it! (The men I mean, do not be alarmed.)

Actually, when I have seen this ‘topless man dancing’ at weddings it is always during the Madness section! The ska music connection! What is going on?

In our friendship circles the wedding is in full swing once ties have been removed and tied round heads think at our wedding DH had my gliterry belt tied round his head cos he was gutted his cravat wouldn't fit

Primal male bonding ritual? A bit like those Native American sweat lodges?

Yes triplet Dad!

Whilst at uni, there was a thing called Tops Off to Brightside, where the male sports teams took their shirts off and put their ties around their heads whenever The Killer’s Mr Brightside was played in a bar/club on Student Night.

This ‘tradition’ has been carried on whenever there is a ‘uni’ wedding and (male) partners have even started to join in