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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To not be the least bit interested in other people's weddings?

157 replies

PiperChapstick · 05/11/2015 13:17

A colleague is getting married next month, and it just seems to be the only topic of conversation in the office at the moment. I've heard endless conversations about what the favours are, the first dance, cake, colour themes, "disasters" with the MIL dress (it's the same colour as her mums ShockHmm). She's a bit of a queen bee and other people in the office are making a terrible fuss - there's gonna be a hen do, a meal after work for colleagues who make the hen do, a day where we've booked a meeting room to present her with champagne and on the last day before she gets married the chief exec is presenting her with flowers. For that day people have various tasks such as filming, photos, making sure everyone in building has signed the card etc.

AIBU to find this all horrendously boring? I get it's important to her and she's excited but why does everyone else need to care? Maybe I'm just miserable re weddings - I couldn't even be arsed having a "proper" one, DH and I buggered off to America to elope. I did make a feeble attempt, we were gonna get married in our home town but I just never found myself caring about any of it, I just wanted to be DHs wife and be done with it.

I haven't said anything to colleague but I also haven't been insanely enthusiastic eitherConfused I actually love weddings of families and good friends, I've always had a good time, but that's because of the people who are there, not the stuff on the table

OP posts:
Bunbaker · 07/11/2015 18:16

My parents paid for our wedding 34 years ago derxa

derxa · 07/11/2015 18:29

It's like another era, Bun.

regenerationfez · 07/11/2015 18:44

I love going to a wedding and all the bits on the day. I think the bad feelings come from everyone else being expected to spend £££ on hen do's and wedding lists and babysitters and traveling to the middle of nowhere for an identikit wedding. I have liked all the weddings I have been to apart from my own parent pleasing traditional crapfest but I can't remember all the minutiae just the partying!

TowerRavenSeven · 07/11/2015 18:50

Very boring. But even worse I think is when you are actually in a wedding and there are all the "bridal party meet" where the future bride gets the whole wedding party together a few months before the event to 'meet'. And then after the wedding as a 'follow up'. Like now we're supposed to be best friends. I couldn't care less!

AlmaMartyr · 07/11/2015 19:06

I love hearing about weddings, I love seeing people so happy and excited. Similarly to when they have babies, talk about jobs etc. Obviously some people do take these things a bit far though. Not too keen on hearing about people's fab holidays much but only because I'm jealous!

My parents paid for my wedding too, it was very important to my mum for various reasons.

Bunbaker · 07/11/2015 19:14

"It's like another era, Bun."

It certainly is derxa.

Back then a stag night was a night out at the local pub with all your mates. I didn't even have a hen night. I don't think it wasn't even a "thing". It certainly never occurred to me to have one.

Unlike many mumsnetters I actually enjoy going to weddings. Maybe because in mine and OH's families weddings aren't OTT or boring.

reni2 · 07/11/2015 21:49

A follow up meeting after the wedding, TowerRaven!!

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