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what do you hate about weddings?

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coddychops · 12/09/2004 19:13

me first

bridal favours
n paying fro all oyur drinks
bossy wedding lists( or to cgive cash - rude IMo)
long speeches or rude ones
hen enights that are expensive

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Heathcliffscathy · 12/09/2004 19:31

i love the dancing too ks. but hate the clenched teethness of pressure that it is all fabulously wonderful.

best wedding (apart from mine of course ) that i ever went to had band that did full version of bohemian rhapsody complete with full vocal acrobatics!!! was fantastic.

hate line ups.

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melsy · 12/09/2004 19:41

charmed im sure coddy

MummyToSteven · 12/09/2004 19:42

ks - is this the same BIL whose wedding you are going to go to - if so, you could always eat some carnations, drink lots of wine and let nature take its course...

hmb · 12/09/2004 19:44

The photos. One of these days the photogarpher is going to ask for 'pets on the Brides side' and I will know that the world has finaly gone bonkers.

Closely followed by over long speachs

lou33 · 12/09/2004 19:46

Having to mingle with relatives I don't see for decades and pretend I have something in common with them.

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Frenchgirl · 12/09/2004 19:48

from the last one I went to: dreadful disco and pay for your own drinks!!! At MY wedding, we paid for ALL the drinks and DIDN'T have a disco. It was all sooo tasteful

JJ · 12/09/2004 19:49

Please tell me that I'm not the only one who doesn't go to weddings I don't want to attend! I mean, if it's any effort, I'm usually not there. People haven't seemed to mind so far....

Do send gifts, though. Usually nicer ones than I would have if I'd attended.

Tinker · 12/09/2004 19:49

Having to have a permanent vague inane grin on your face for the whole time. You always have to look happy at weddings don't you?

Actually, it's the rent-a-weddings I can't stand. Like a small quirky one done on the cheap

Tinker · 12/09/2004 19:50

Exactly - keep it small and intimate and you can afford to pay for all the booze.

NomDePlume · 12/09/2004 19:51

JJ, I find that I'm able to strategically avoid the weddings I don't really want to attend nowadays. Having DD makes it much easier !

bakedpotato · 12/09/2004 19:53

i've been to so many grim weddings. they knock all the good will out of me. usually the highlight is pulling them apart with DH afterwads (though he's a kinder soul than me).
these are the clinchers IMO:

  1. top tables, esp the ones when the wedding party all sit along one side like they're selling tombola tickets
  2. 'knees-unders', as my FIL calls them. when we said we were going to have loads wave upon wave of canapes instead, he was really indignant: 'what, no knees-under? you've got to have a knees-under.' ah, the satisfaction...
  3. i think it's beyond rude when the top table has champagne when everyone else has wine (at my cousin's wedding, this happened -- plus we were paying for all but the first bottle on our table)

in fact, really loathe big weddings with paying bar, esp if guests have to book accommodation and teh wedding list has been enclosed with the invite. ask a quarter of the guests, and treat them right.

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motherinferior · 12/09/2004 20:10

Ones where you think 'oh god, no, you really don't have to marry him, please no it's not too late....'

Mirage · 12/09/2004 20:13

Oooh I don't like going to weddings at all.

I hate the standing around.
The having to kiss people you wouldn't normally go anywhere near.
The horrible bland sit down meal.
The way everyone looks uncomfortable with whay they're wearing.
The fact that you are stuck there for the best part of a day & you'll NEVER get that day back again.

The only weddings that I have honestly enjoyed,were non traditional ones,abroad.

blossomhill · 12/09/2004 20:19

The bit I absolutely detest, and not every wedding does this, is when you are introduced to the bride and grooms parents. Truly awful!

auntyquated · 12/09/2004 20:22

ooo..i hate weddings too...well mainly the whole day time bit...worst aprt is bored kids who slide up and down the dance floor.
i think weddings are no place for kids (i'm getting ready to hide)...long boring service, hanging around for photos, posh meal that takes ages, too much adult chat. if we think they are bad then they must be hell for little kids

auntyquated · 12/09/2004 20:26

mine of course was the perfect wedding

25 guests all round one big table, no kids, all drinks paid for by us

night time do for 100, which ended with about 20 really good friends staying til well after everyone else and my best woman's DH selling his carnation to an American staying in the hotel for 5 quid and that was 1994.

wellsie · 12/09/2004 20:35

A Honeymoon gift account. Nice enough idea but there was a minimum amount you had to spend - £25.00 which imo is a bit cheeky.

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wellsie · 12/09/2004 20:40

We originally just said 1 bottle of white and 1 of red for all the tables at our wedding but then my mum got carried away and just told the waiters to get more - she was paying thank God!

spod75 · 12/09/2004 20:42

One's where guests take advantage of the free booze and get drunk within 20 mins. Or even take off with said bottles of free booze at the end of the evening.

Find the aftermath worse, watching videos, photos, having to agree why someone's wedding was the best for 15 months afterwards just because the canapes had local goats cheese or something like that.

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coddychops · 12/09/2004 21:01

guests who copulate in th e market square car park and tell you about it.

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