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wedding dance thriller hell.

753 replies

shoptilidrop · 06/05/2010 20:55

that is what i am stuck in.

An update was promised and i wasnt going to update until we had done it.

Tonight was the final practice at the venue. Hideous doesnt cover it. It was made worse by people wondering about the venue checking it out and sound and light men etc.... all standing and watching.

THEN the wedding planner woman just oh so causally asked if it was still ok fdor her to film it, post it on you tube and link it to the website.

MOther had lied and said this wasnt going to happen.

So, not only will we be embarassed in front of the whole wedding party, but also the rest of the world

fucking great mother.....

GGGGGRRRRR

OP posts:
schmontilidrop · 07/05/2010 15:06

only beacuse its not you doing it

if it was happening to someone else it would be the funniest thing in the world

thinking about my poor brother instantally makes me pmsl. then i remember its me too.

will be starting on the champers early. is the only way to get though it as well.

ive also got to do a reading... have not worried about that at all. compared with whats happening later its irrelvant isnt it.

lucykate · 07/05/2010 15:07

i sympathise with you on the mothers getting married subject. when my mum got re-married, she wasn't at all bridezilla about it but i did have to endure seeing my mum, on her hen night, tied to the bar in a hotel eating a chocolate penis that had cream dribbled down the side of it. i left and went home.

diddl · 07/05/2010 15:13

OP -you area better person than me.
I would have mutinied & convinced the others to not "take up their positions" but just stand & watch your mum & her husband.

FakePlasticTrees · 07/05/2010 15:17

god, it's going to be hidous. I would just refuse. Or could you, your brother and sister just leave after the wedding breakfast before the first dance?

How long could she stay mad? I mean, she'll have calmed down after her honeymoon...

fearnelinen · 07/05/2010 15:32

"i did have to endure seeing my mum, on her hen night, tied to the bar in a hotel eating a chocolate penis that had cream dribbled down the side of it"

DS just asked what I was PMSL at, had to flick over to hotmail! Am considering using this as a bribe in the teenage years though! It's almos worth getting divorced so I can remarry and threaten to do this to my DCs!!!!

MrsMiamla · 07/05/2010 15:36

oh this is so funny. OP, I really do feel your pain but really, I'm amazed my pelvic floor has held up to me reading this!

its bad luck to wish you 'good luck' so from the bottom of my heart i hope you break a leg

whatwasthatagain · 07/05/2010 15:39

Not read all the posts, but how old is your mother?

whomovedmychocolate · 07/05/2010 15:41

Perhaps a sit down protest against the state of the government following the election is in order?

schmontilidrop · 07/05/2010 15:42

53

its also her birthday tomorrow.

shes gone all out on what was originally a 'small budget wedding'

its now a HUGE wedding. think posh and beck really.
not my taste but, its up to her.

luckily i escaped such hen night hell as lucykate. ( god that must have been terrible!)

but thats being more than made up for by tomorrow.

anyway, must dash. pre wedding meal thing starting at 4pm....

dinkystinky · 07/05/2010 15:44

Oh my god.

Wear a mask - all of the dancers. Get cut outs of Michael Jackson's face - or even better your mum's face - and do the danc ein that.

That'll teach her

lynnexxxo · 07/05/2010 15:56

Please, please give us a link once its on youtube. We promise all to say 'no you look fine, its not embrassing at all.....'

Grumpyoldcaaaaaaaa · 07/05/2010 16:15

"i did have to endure seeing my mum, on her hen night, tied to the bar in a hotel eating a chocolate penis that had cream dribbled down the side of it" Oh dear God, I am weeping, weeping.

Yes schmon, you must let us see the dance, we will all be terribly supportive.......

fustyarse · 07/05/2010 16:18

absoluely pmsl a shchmon, motherfucker, geekoftheweek

stid - I feel for you, honestly

but i will be very funny for the guests, everyone will think you're a great sport etc

maybe you could try to incorporate the MJ lean from smooth criminal?

OMG I cannot WAIT to see this on youtube - promise you'll link it?

or dress like this

heeee-heeeee

thumbwitch · 07/05/2010 16:20

oh so sorry I have missed this until now! SchmontilIdrop (great name, btw ) I feel your pain, but only in a minor way - friends of mine got married a few years back and they oh-so-subtly asked numerous friends if they felt like coming to Bollywood dancing classes? Well, it was bleedin obvious to most of us (oddly, not to some!) that it was going to be FOR the wedding and sure enough! So we had to do a choreographed Bollywood dance on the night as well. Thankfully there were more than 6/7 of us and the bride and groom were centre stage - but still.

This thread is hilarious - it has to be moved to classics, it can't be lost in the mists of time...

HOpe it all goes well tomorrow - have a lovely lot of bubbly beforehand and get someone to nut the cameraman (even if he is a friend) beforehand.

I also think the Jacko hat and facescarf might be an idea - after all, if you're in character, why not?

Grumpyoldcaaaaaaaa · 07/05/2010 16:24

fustyarse - we used to call one of our cats that (or 'fustybum') - he was rather old and smelly

inchhighprivateeye · 07/05/2010 16:25

I went to wedding once where the 1st dance was expecially hysterical, and somebody did film it on their phone and put it up on Youtube. So many phones have cameras these days, I think you have to accept the inevitable. And wear a mask.

fillybuster · 07/05/2010 16:25

this is utterly brilliant (and completely, hugely enormously embarrassing for you, yes, I do see that....) - I've also not heard about anything like this before and am torn between wanting to curl up cringing in the corner and watching it on youtube

Sorry, was that not sufficiently supportive?

I do feel for you, I really do, but come on....it is funny....no, really, it is .

cocolepew · 07/05/2010 16:38

Stop telling the op it can't go on youtube for various reasons, we want it to be on. We feel your pain of course

WingedVictory · 07/05/2010 16:38

Good luck, dear, and do remember to stick it to the cheeky cow of a wedding planner. Remember: even though she didn't make the situation, she is taking advantage of it, and that's not on.

Good to hear you getting some hilarity out of this, even if it is hysteria; it would be awful for you to be feeling crushed still! Un-MN-ty hugs to you and the Unfortunates!

stealthsquiggle · 07/05/2010 16:42

XP is so going to watch it. He will come to pick DD up, and DD will go "Daddy, Mummy is going to do her special dance soon - please can we stay" and he will stay and get his camera out and you will have lost all negotiating power with him for ever.

And your sister is going to call any minute now and say "you'll never guess what happened. I was shopping and I slipped and....my foot...plaster....crutches" If When she does, demand X-rays.

Sorry - not supportive and positive - it'll be fine, honest

toddlerama · 07/05/2010 16:43

Wear this

No-one will recognise you.

bintofbohemia · 07/05/2010 16:47

awesome. Please share the video with us.

PouffeGalore · 07/05/2010 16:57

This is just so hilarious. Can't you name the venue so a nearby MNetter could go along and report back sabotage the music system.

mummyplonk · 07/05/2010 17:06

Poor "schmon", I bet you are going to have a very stiff drink when this dance is done, oh I feel for you (am trying so hard not to snigger), I would be counting the minutes all day until it comes. I have never wanted to gatecrash a wedding before but you are all I'm going to be thinking about (approx 7pm?) tomm.

WorkingItOutAsIGo · 07/05/2010 17:20

Oh schmon! You have opened my eyes to a whole world I had no idea existed... . Crying with laughter as I read this. Your mum sounds a hoot! And so do the rest of you!

MN has not been terribly funny recently and this is the best thread in ages...will be thinking of you all tomorrow and desperately scouring YouTube for the video.

Stop it wingedvictory! You can't want to deprive us all of this joyful experience. You like dancing yourself!

Marking my place for further updates on your experience.

I'm with fillybuster - was this supportive enough of your pain?

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