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wedding favours what a pile of shit and other crap wedding crap

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youDontHaveToBeCrazyToWorkHere · 20/04/2007 14:04

here pelase

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nailpolish · 20/04/2007 14:16

lol i went to a wedding with cameras on tables

they ahd 400 snaps of 'up kilt' shots

FluffyMummy123 · 20/04/2007 14:16

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Astrophe · 20/04/2007 14:16

pellets of what? Slug pellets?

escape · 20/04/2007 14:17

cousin got married abroad, and had party in hotel function room upon return. Fine except they both wore their wedding outfits to this bash - cue HIM in a cream linen suit with open necked shirt and leather sandals, her in full meringue (bad choice for Carribean IMO), but In the UK In February

FluffyMummy123 · 20/04/2007 14:17

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OrmIrian · 20/04/2007 14:18

But it's lucrative isn't it. Tempting to start a wedding crap supply business. 'Cos no matter how hideous it is someone will want it if it's the right colour or has some silver horseshoes on it.

Astrophe · 20/04/2007 14:19

oh. Slug pellets would make for an interesting wedding party though, and green is a popular colour scheme.

FluffyMummy123 · 20/04/2007 14:20

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LadyMacbeth · 20/04/2007 14:23

Father of the bride speeches when they are long and pontificating ramblings about the bride's wonderfulness... yawn...

Feel like shouting "look mate I saw your little angel stumble into a parked car last week after losing her knickers."

IntergalacticWalrus · 20/04/2007 14:25

If DP and I ever get round to getting married, it;s going to be infornt of 3 people in the reg office, and then we will go to the pub and get pissed afterwards.

I can't be doing with bridezilla shit.

DANCESwithaFewExtraPounds · 20/04/2007 14:25

We had chocolates. I love chocolate and was in no way involved with their preparation - therefore perfect wedding favour. I thank you

IntergalacticWalrus · 20/04/2007 14:26

Oh god, speeches. I have been to a few weddingw shere the FOTB hasn;t been mad keen on the groom. Any compliments have been made through gritted teeth.

I went to a wedding a few weeks ago WHERE THE BAR SHUT AT 11pm!!!!!!!!!!

mrsflowerpot · 20/04/2007 14:28

lol nailpolish, we had cameras on our tables and yes, we have shots of nearly all our friends' arses. (I have kept them just in case any of them become famous, although how we'll tell them apart I'm not sure )

escape · 20/04/2007 14:28

I live on a mediterranean island where if you go to a wedding - theres about 20 guests at the church and then the party afterwards is heaving! People literally get invited, can't be arsed to sit through the ceremony and just turn up for the bash!

mumto3girls · 20/04/2007 14:32

I am getting maried next year. Seeing as DP and I have been together for 10 years and (as the name states) I have three daughters I hardly think it appropriate to go guns blazing into spending thousands on a wedding - but already my mum is pestering me for info on colour schemes, bridesmaid dress styles and what hat she should buy.
The other dsy I sat almost in tears and decided to cancel all the plans in my head and just forget it...

FimCrocbo · 20/04/2007 14:35

Mumto3 - just go out and get married and don't tell her until afterwards and then have a big party!

saltire · 20/04/2007 14:36

mrsflowerpot, I left my camera on the table at a friends wedding, and when I got the photos back, there were 10 "up kilt" shots. My mum was looking at the photos, and kept saying "so who's is this one then"

nailpolish · 20/04/2007 14:41

lol Mrsflower and saltire

SlightlyMadSecret · 20/04/2007 14:46

Actually I used to assemblke favours as a job....

....one of teh best things I have ever seen at a wedding were little (shoebox sized) boxes given out to all the children before the speeches. They contained age appropriate activities to keep them occupied during the speeches (e.g. cats cradle + instructions, colouring/puzzles, jewellery, little doll for the littlies, little cars...). They were from a commercial supplier but I can't find them by googling - but they would be much cheaper to do yourself. Kind of like party bags.

LazyLine · 20/04/2007 14:48

I went to a wedding that had

Cameras on tables
Champagne bottle bubbles
Themed tables

I saw all this and excused myself so as to miss the speeches. Knew it would not end well

ShrinkingViolet · 20/04/2007 14:57

had a nightmare time at the pre-wedding showing of the gifts thing as all DH's relatives (being English) didn't know they were supposed to have handed over the present beforehand, so various great aunts and 2nd cousins and whatnot decided that his family were boycotting the wedding cos they didn't like me, and kept trying to hug me and pat my hand.
And my mum spent weeks putting together little dried flower arrangements in baskets as favours.
And we fell out about colour schemes in a BIG WAY. And about my chief bridesmaid hitch-hiking her way from Italy three days before the wedding. Total nightmare, am never doing it again.

Issymum · 20/04/2007 14:58

So tell me, what are "Champagne bottle bubbles"? I really can't work that one out.

It's been a while since we've been to a wedding and the few we do go to are for our friends in their late 30s early 40s which are achingly understated and tasteful.

I'm still berating DH for failing to reply to an invitation to his ex-colleague's wedding to his very long-term gay partner after it was revealed that the colleague had taken to wearing women's clothes and calling himself 'Sheila'. I can only begin to imagine what the wedding favours might have been at that wedding.

nailpolish · 20/04/2007 14:59

you know the childrens little plastic pots of soapy liquid with a plunger wiht a cirle on it that they blow bubbles wiht?

well that but champagne bottle shaped

its suposed to be romantic and nice in photos

nailpolish · 20/04/2007 14:59

the bubbles htat is