The wedding thread to trump all wedding threads ... Ever.

[ShadowsShadowsEverywhere]

Oh you can't even begin to prepare yourself for this one ...
My friend is getting married next year. I was chatting to him about it recently as plans are starting to take shape. He told me that they are having two full ceremonies. One for family and work colleagues, and "a few select friends" and then a SECOND full ceremony ... Which he described, and I quote, as "a kinky wedding for all our liberal friends" which I'm apparently invited to!

Armani it's not that I'm not liberal. It's that this is so SO out of character. The people he listed as coming to this second ceremony are mutual friends and having mentioned it to them they are all as shocked as me. One of them is actually really uncomfortable with the idea (15 year old sister of another friend)!!

It was just a malapropism, surely? Didn't you say to him "kinky?! Ha ha, What do you mean?" I mean, how did the conversation end?

I bet he meant something like kitsch instead.

Are you sure it's not just like how people use the word 'sexy' inappropriately, i.e; this is my favorite ice cream, it's so sexy! Maybe he said kinky but he just means a bit alternative??

I think he meant "kooky".

I googled kinky wedding.

Dont.

did he meet his bride in a club down in old soho?

perhaps where they drink champagne that tastes like cherry cola?

I don't know caspo, he's a very academic person so usually is quite precise in his language.
The conversation sort of stalled for a min while I tried to digest what he'd just said and then I said "ah well, you I'll dig out my steampunk gear, that's about as close to "kinky" as I go" and he said "yeah that'd be perfect" which does kind of indicate he did mean kinky. Me and other friends he's mentioned this to are talking now on fb messenger. None of us have ever heard him mention BDSM or similar, most of us have known him a long time or are very close friends. We think it must be coming from her. Two ceremonies though!

Haaha Beyond you know everyone will now start googling

Oh dear. Maybe his fiancé has got caught up in the 50 Shades hype.

ooh ahr...

Sorry, I know some people hate it, but I'm going to have to mark spot so this comes up in my 'Threads I'm on' every day, so I get more information

Do the rest of you usually tell each other about your sexual preferences then?

I'd love to see the gift list. I bet it isn't at John Lewis.

Op please don't get too excited Maybe his idea of kinky is having brown instead of red sauce with his buffet sausage rolls.

Naked Pagan handfastimg is my bet.

armani actually yes! At least when we all get together and have had wine no topics are off limit, we've all revealed all sorts of embarrassing things over the years him included. I think curly is most likely closest to the mark. I will try and find out more!

Ahh yes gift list from B&Q matching pair of Velcro ladder straps, sigh the good old days

No way sister I'm ex pagan, he would definitely have been more specific if it were that kind of slant.

You have to ask for more information.

Imagine if you turned up in some sort of BSDM gear, and his idea of kinky is brown sauce instead of red at the buffet?

Ah, you would have noticed if he'd said 'sky clad' then.

Who needs two weddings? They should just have the kinky one and anyone who doesn't like it should stay at home.

Ugh I really want them to move the wedding forwards now

The kinky one probably isn't legally binding, so they've got to do the two. Should be entertaining.

You need more info. We You really need more info.

Yes I would! sister I'd have leapt on that straight away because he was rather negative when I was active in the community and I'd have turned round and called him a great big hypocrite

Bloody hell. What are they going to do? What will the guests be expected to do?