weddings and oaps

[Hullygully]

I have been invited to a wedding where the bride has developed what must really be called a phobia about old people. (Long story)

She refuses to have any one over 70 in case there is a "medical emergency" which would spoil her day and in order to avoid an outcry she proposes to organise a coach trip for the old people to see The Lion King as a treat on the same day with a special tea at a Holiday Inn afterwards and a video link to her ceremony.

Her mother is 72 and is allowed to go because she recently passed a stringent medical, but no one else of a similar age is allowed. My mother is 73 and looked after her a lot when she was little and really wants to go. Also, she has seen The Lion King already. I think she should be allowed to go to the wedding as a fit and healthy sort of "extra" mother. AIBU?

Deep Red Betty?

Who is typing for you, dear?

It was so sad, to lose one arm is bad enough, but two looks like carelessness, and should you be up and about after so many drugs?

I think it's a fab idea. Would much prefer to go to a west end show and hotel afternoon tea than a wedding. This could catch on, you know.

My sister's vows were interrupted by her DH's Grandfather having a bit of a turn in his pew and deciding to stand up, shout a bit, and then lay down in the aisle and to ramble loudly and incoherently, clutching his chest and hyperventilating. An ambulance was called. It was all very dramatic. They carted him off to A&E where he was right as rain after a cup of tea and a quick prod by the doctors. My sister's FIL missed half the wedding breakfast picking him up from A&E, and he rejoined the party like nothing ever happened.

Arf at 'my mother really wants to go and she has seen the Lion King already.'

Might do it for .

You know how people have children's entertainers in a separate ante-room at weddings? Perhaps there should be OAP entertainers. Someone with a ukelele and a packet of humbugs should do the trick.

Hully there is no end to your talents-expand,publish and 50 shades will be eclipsed.

Ooo xposted. Who says I'm typing with my own fingers?

You need to be thinking about who was at the other end of Copernicus's PushMe PullYou, that's all I'm going to tell you.

Two elderly people have died in the last 10-15 years at weddings of extended family of mine! I'm getting married next year.

Hully! I know very well how to distinguish between imagination and fantasy. [sulks] It's reality I'm having some problems with.

Anyway, how long until Copernicus posts?

you know Deep, we go back a long way, yet that night you went too far, you knew about Bruce's prostrate

so sorry, I was abruptly halted by an exploding boiled egg.

his prostrate form under the onslaught of that resurgence of parasitic worm

The alpaca and the incense has just finished me. I'm laughing so hard I have a stitch.

interesting

.....and hully I think I know why you started this thread.

Popularity and fame will surely follow.

OP

I think your Mother should just show up at the church.... and behave disgracefully like any upstanding septugenarian should!

So, the alapaca is not being regularly wormed.

I think we need more info, Betty needs more than wine, who was it had a hip flask to smuggle in with the olds.
Poor GU Bruce, I think his death is suspicious, was it the year three doctor who diagnosed his death? I think he may be our assassin.

Funny you should mention Leslie Phillips.

Some years ago I went to an 'at home' party at a neighbours who happened to be an actor. Got all excited about what famous telly people might be there.

It was a let-down. No atmosphere, poor nibbles, babycham.

Afterwards, to save face, I told my sis that Leslie Phillips had been there. She believed me.

Trouble is, I was so convincing that i'm not 100% sure that he wasn't there.

I'll never know if I've shared a breadstick with Leslie Philips or not.

It may well have been the Stepmother, she liked to dress as him and frankly was so good she may as well have been him. Does it really matter? To all intents and purposes you have indeed shared a cheese straw with dear Leslie.

Poor Betty has succumbed to her unfortunate condition, it's unlikely we'll hear from her again.

She's armless though.