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to exclude the very elderly from my wedding

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TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 21:28

I am getting married for the first time the spring after next and am so excited! I have not been married before although my df has been married twice before, and so am possibly being a bit bridezilla about it, but we have chosen our venue and menus, band, outfits etc and it comes to so much money that we are going to have to restrict guests.

I know people are anti excluding children, and I can sort of see that, but what about the really old? Not horribly, but just because a lot of our relatives don't really know where they are IYKWIM and wouldn't really benefit from it. AIBU?

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TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 22:06

No lolololol not the cruise ships. He performed in casinos in Vegas though.

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Clary · 21/12/2009 22:07

Is this thread for real???

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TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 22:08

Dolls? I don't want dolls at my wedding. I think that would be a bit kittyish.

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ImSoNotTelling · 21/12/2009 22:09

Oh I'm crap at guessing games. Sorry. Only vegas person I know is Tom Jones.

And there's no way you're marrying him, I met him through biggins, and all his relatives are very with-it.

donkeyderby · 21/12/2009 22:09

Make sure non of the kids are in la la land either - too young to know what's happening, or special needs. And make sure people don't drink so much they don't know who they are either. Perhaps you should have a fitness test to weed out the undesirables? If any manage to slip through the net and get into your perfect wedding, give them a bell and a sign round their neck saying 'unclean'

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TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 22:10

Tom Jones!!! Lolololololol. I should be so lucky! (oops sorry df - only kidding!!). No, Tom is already married.

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TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 22:10

Good point donkey.

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RainRainGoAway · 21/12/2009 22:12

Are you marrying one of those two blokes who are lion tamers in Vegas. They are forrin' like and reckon they would have relatives in the Ukraine.

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TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 22:13

No, but they are coming to the reception (sans lions we hope!!!!!!!!!)

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Hassled · 21/12/2009 22:14

DH went to Vegas and saw those men with the elongated blue heads. Are you marrying a man who once had a blue head? Does he still have a blue head?

expatinscotland · 21/12/2009 22:15

This shit sounds made up.

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TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 22:15

I don't think that's altogether kind.

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LowLevelBahHumbug · 21/12/2009 22:15

hang on, isn't there only one lion tamer now

have I been stitched up like a kipper with this bizarre thread?

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TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 22:15

Oh! It's a joke isn't it? You mean that film Avatar???

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TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 22:17

There is only one lion man now, but he has an apprentice who is accompanying him. He is very young but quite able.

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RainRainGoAway · 21/12/2009 22:17

No LowLevel, there are definitely two still I think. Only one had a bit of a run in with a tiger or something.
Reckon need to google that.

Hassled · 21/12/2009 22:17

It's the guy on the left, isn't it?

RainRainGoAway · 21/12/2009 22:18

Ah, no need to google him. Poor chap.
They were very odd looking though and think we may have caught hully out!

bellavita · 21/12/2009 22:18

Are these the lions in the MGM Grand?

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TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 22:18

No, df is older than them (not much lololol)

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TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 21/12/2009 22:19

People get very confused between the lions and the tigers for some reason!!

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LowLevelBahHumbug · 21/12/2009 22:20

no it's ok the lion tamers are still there.

and they will look bloody great on your wedding pics. Ditch the looney gimmers, but don't skimp on the lion tamers!

I'm photoshopping them into my family Christmas pics as we speak.

bellavita · 21/12/2009 22:21

I saw the lions and two men when we were there in August.... at the MGM.

Hassled · 21/12/2009 22:22

Bloody hell, it's Aslan

wildfig · 21/12/2009 22:22

I am imagining the wedding photos like the cover of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Uncle Bob, Auntie Pauline, Mae West, Gandhi, etc...