Another thing that I thought I might bring up is Jordan Almonds. you know, those sugar coated almonds in pastel colors? I think they taste alright and they are nothing special, but that is only when they are fresh, which most of the time? They are stale as fuck and you can't bite them without feeling like you are breaking a tooth.
Also, dogs as ring bearers, which just sounds like a nightmare because like, if you think small children are bad, dogs are like, tons worse. Plus most of these people don't think about what is best for their animal which might find the situation stressful or overwhelming.
Another thing that I thought I might bring up is Jordan Almonds. you know, those sugar coated almonds in pastel colors? I think they taste alright and they are nothing special, but that is only when they are fresh, which most of the time? They are stale as fuck and you can't bite them without feeling like you are breaking a tooth.
My family is from the region of Italy where those were invented, so I've had to eat them at basically every baptism, communion, graduation, and wedding. My grandmother likes to save them, so there are a bunch from the seventies lying in various places around her house.
Me too, and I'd also told him I'd break up with him on the spot, probably crying, if he did that shit to me. We did the responsible thing of discussing our relationship's past, present and future before mutually deciding that marriage was the way for us to go.
It's a private moment and I don't want to share it with a bunch of random strangers gawking at us. It's even worse these days when people you don't know are filming it and posting it online
This shit. Holy fucking assbananas, proposing to someone in front of a fucking audience is such a garbage thing to do, with few exceptions. If the couple has spoken extensively about the possibility of a proposal in public/with an audience and both people are hyped for it, cool. But can you imagine the type of mindset it takes to do that to someone who might possibly not be that much of an attention whore and have a guaranteed, pre-discussed decision to say "yes"? There are countless dudes out there who will use attention to press a "yes" out of some poor woman. That con story situation type deal from earlier in the thread is something that happens way more than you might think.
No matter the context of what the audience doesn't know about, picture some creep publicly proposing to a woman who he's been shitty to or has only known for like a week, or one of her fucking crazy exes, you won't know. There is absolutely nothing that poor woman can say that won't give at least half of the audience an excuse to shit all over her for 'being a bitch', aka ruining their precious public spectacle moment that they wanted to be witness to and get socmed hits for. It's such a horrible and common kneejerk reaction to villainize a woman just for refusing to marry anyone who asks her and it's sick.
I think the worst wedding trend is that weddings still exist. Marriage is awesome, but the whole wedding industry is a massive scam. Tens of thousands of dollars to some overpaid grifters to throw a free party for the guests while the couple barely even remembers it. Funerals and weddings are two industries that need to be abolished. Gigantic waste of money. Elope and get cremated.
"Scam" doesn't even begin to describe these two predatory industries. Tell someone that the pillow you're getting custom made is going into a coffin and suddenly it's $500 in stead of $75. Slap an "urn" label and a lid onto a mass-produced $30 vase from China, and suddenly it's $1,750. If the first florist (always get multiple, try to compartmentalize) figures out that the centerpiece arrangements are for a reception hall, suddenly their listed $25 a pop price shoots up to about $200 each. Let it slip to the property manager that your "family reunion" is a wedding, and they get some kind of mental clarity that reminds them that booking the hall for one day isn't $500, it's actually $2,500.
If you absolutely must celebrate your new life together by throwing away money that you could actually use to start said new life, 100% absolutely do not ever tell any renters or vendors involved that they are getting business for a wedding or funeral. Do not buy all of your flowers from the same florist, or they will be guaranteed to figure it out and extort horrifying amounts of money from you.
As much as some people seem to hate on fun, non-traditional weddings, having essentially a big Halloween party for your shindig is not only a lot more fun and memorable, but you're not going to get the 500+% wedding tax on everything. Just have a fun party, it ain't that serious. The serious part is the marriage itself, so calm down and just have some fun without ending up on some YouTube cringe compilation like those furries, juggalos and pokefags and call it good. It's not that hard to add some fangs and fake blood to your formal attire if you're too lazy and unimaginative to put together a costume fit for a formal Halloween party like the annual ZomProm. No matter if I'm 5 or 25, I've always hated going to traditional weddings. They're boring, tedious and nothing but a big, expensive circle-jerk peppered with condescending religious exposition, shitty food, shitty speakers, shitty raging brat kids and the expectation that you brought this specific gift that cost $950 because fuck you.
As an aside, why the fuck are people getting into and staying in relationships where they don't think that marriage is eventually going to happen? So many people are sleazing around, wasting each others' dwindling 'marketable' years like some kind of dead end job that doesn't save enough for retirement to ever happen. If you've been together for over a year (or two, tops IMO) and you're not engaged, move the fuck on and stop stagnating like rotting corpses. The whole point of finding a mate is to, you know, find a mate. Nobody aside from the very shallow and selfish care too much if you want a big wedding or not, but at least bother to try to find the one for you.
Wait what. Is it like the whole midget tossing thing, or closer to a bar mitzvah? Would it count as killing two birds with one stone to toss a midget bride?
Another thing that I thought I might bring up is Jordan Almonds. you know, those sugar coated almonds in pastel colors? I think they taste alright and they are nothing special, but that is only when they are fresh, which most of the time? They are stale as fuck and you can't bite them without feeling like you are breaking a tooth.
Also, dogs as ring bearers, which just sounds like a nightmare because like, if you think small children are bad, dogs are like, tons worse. Plus most of these people don't think about what is best for their animal which might find the situation stressful or overwhelming.
My husband had my dog (because he knew how much I loved her) assist with the proposal -- he put the ring box on her collar. But no way would I have had my dog in the wedding. She was adorable, but not very well behaved. And who wants to assign someone the job of being a dog wrangler on your wedding day? It's not worth the stress.
First couple: Way too immature to get married. I'm sure they are already divorced by now, even if the photo was only taken last week.
Second: Who wants a photo with a wheelbarrow (never mind the stupid shoop of your husband in it)?
Third: Yes, we get it. You popped the kid out of your vagina way before you got a ring on your finger. The real question is why did it take the groom so long to agree to get married?
Fourth: This may have been how she actually got him to propose. If you are a landwhale, best not to take photos that make it easy to crack jokes about forcing the groom to marry you.
I know we were talking about proposals a while ago and there was something about promposals, but now people are expecting you to have elaborate ways of asking your bridesmaids/groomsmen to be in the wedding usually giving them a gift box of stuff. Whatever happened to just asking them over the phone/texting. Does it really have to be that elaborate? Do they think they will say no if they don't give them something they are shitty friends if they do that. Seriously, does there have to be an elaborate proposal for everything?
As an aside, why the fuck are people getting into and staying in relationships where they don't think that marriage is eventually going to happen? So many people are sleazing around, wasting each others' dwindling 'marketable' years like some kind of dead end job that doesn't save enough for retirement to ever happen. If you've been together for over a year (or two, tops IMO) and you're not engaged, move the fuck on and stop stagnating like rotting corpses. The whole point of finding a mate is to, you know, find a mate. Nobody aside from the very shallow and selfish care too much if you want a big wedding or not, but at least bother to try to find the one for you.
I have heard a lot of people not want to get married saying "marriage is just a piece of paper" or something or don't see the point in it. I do have to agree with you, unless you got together really young before you were more established as an adult maybe you can get away with more time together before getting married, but once you are in your late 20s/early 30s, there is really no excuse.
Infact, I see this on the wedding websites I lurk on all the time, like every week or so someone makes a new post asking why their boyfriend won't propose to them and they wasted over a decade with them (and they met after college, not in high school or anything like that) and everyone is like "Listen, he doesn't want to marry you" but these people are almost always in denial. Some of them even have kids and buy houses with these people thinking they are going to marry them. They are idiots.
I had a chance to fly across the country for a wedding as a kid. I wanted to for the adventure, but we didn't go. Reading this thread makes me glad I've never been to a wedding.
Reading this thread reminds me that I have to go to the marriage of one my closest friends in highschool for Thanksgiving weekend. The wedding theme is Lord of the Rings. Pls pray for me lmao
Reading this thread reminds me that I have to go to the marriage of one my closest friends in highschool for Thanksgiving weekend. The wedding theme is Lord of the Rings. Pls pray for me lmao
Reading this thread reminds me that I have to go to the marriage of one my closest friends in highschool for Thanksgiving weekend. The wedding theme is Lord of the Rings. Pls pray for me lmao
If you know it's going to be a shitshow then relax, grab some popcorn and enjoy the inevitable dumpster fire that will most likely occur. And make sure to take pictures.
I still remember my wedding. Over 400 guests attended. I purchased a couture Carolina Herrera wedding dress with matching traditional wedding veil embellished with Swarovski crystals. I considered a bust because I got a very strong cold a few days before the ceremony that also caused really bad stomach problems for about 2 weeks. I haven't thought about it in a while, and I'm glad there are worse weddings than mine.
Here are some terrible weddings that I consider pretty ghetto not-so-fabulous.
If I didn't know any better, I would swear there are at least 20 trannies at that venue. I feel bad for that poor flower girl, I just hope she didn't get molested.
I love you just for including that rat, Meghan Markle. It boggles me. Prince Harry could of had his choice of fine English Roses (in before hur dur English women ugly) but he picks the twice divorce mutt harpie.
Reading this thread reminds me that I have to go to the marriage of one my closest friends in highschool for Thanksgiving weekend. The wedding theme is Lord of the Rings. Pls pray for me lmao
For Thanksgiving weekend? Are you serious? Wow, they must really hate their friends and family to pull something like that. Fuck you and your potential holiday plans to travel and/or chill with family, I guess. I send my sincere condolences and best wishes that the rest of your Thanksgiving is lovely. (PS, plz take lulzy pics and report back k thx)
If you know it's going to be a shitshow then relax, grab some popcorn and enjoy the inevitable dumpster fire that will most likely occur. And make sure to take pictures.
It's not going to be a shit show, but it's definitely going to be a huge, nerdy affair. I think nerdy wedding themes are cringy, but whatever. People should be allowed to do whatever they want, and there's gonna be an open bar anyways.
It's not going to be a shit show, but it's definitely going to be a huge, nerdy affair. I think nerdy wedding themes are cringy, but whatever. People should be allowed to do whatever they want, and there's gonna be an open bar anyways.
That's good to hear. The way the original message was worded I thought it was something that you weren't looking forward to and only going out of obligation. Regardless, hope the shindig goes as planned and it isn't too cringe
I have been going over the archives of Weddingbee to find memorable threads throughout the years and the bad news is that the admin, Tyson, really likes to DFE if there is any bit of controversy, but luckily I was able to find a few interesting threads that I remember diving into the archives. This one is basically a bride who wanted to plan a 1950s themed wedding for 100 guests on a 1,500 budget for 100 people, now that would be doable if she did something like cake and punch at a time in between lunch and dinner (and that would be very much 1950s as that is how a lot of weddings were done back then), but she wanted a full on reception, the works and she was more concerned about decorations and bridesmaid proposal gifts than the actual wedding. People started poking holes in her plan asking her legitimate questions and concerns which revealed that it would be even more of a trainwreck with food poisoning just waiting to happen and making her family members slave away in the kitchen. She got really defensive when people told her to be more realistic. Here is the posts from her.
This is a wedding I would like to see told about from the guest's perspective if it ever did happen. It sounds like it would have been a trainwreck.
As for The Knot, there was this one thread I remember that was kind of sad more than funny, but this 15 year old girl came on excited she was was engaged to an 18 year old dude who was part of this fundie cult and she was basically being groomed into it by him and his parents and was planning to move to Texas from California with him and be a homemaker for him while he goes into ministry and despite everyone telling her to run, she would not listen and I always wondered what happened to her since this was back about 2014ish.
You could always buy a ring at someplace like Costco. That's where my husband bought my ring. It was a lot cheaper (it was appraised at twice what he paid for it) and they take returns if for some reason it doesn't work out. (They just make sure you haven't swapped out the stones.) I know it's not very romantic to buy a ring from Costco, but the amount he saved paid for our honeymoon -- so I was fine with it. It's a nice ring.
There is nothing wrong with getting a less expensive ring so long as it's the right one. The wedding/engagement industry is a massive ripoff, especially with rings, the moment you say "engagement" they will do everything to suck you dry. And people will just go along with it because it's "expected". I've told my boyfriend that if he is serious about marrying me to please not mention it's an engagement ring if/when the time comes for him to buy it, just to go what he feels is right and chances are it will be.
Edit: Also, here is another thing that annoys me, Military wives and wives of police officers/first responders whose whole identity is being a wife of someone of that occupation. It gets really annoying because do they have any other identity other than that?
For what it's worth their husbands tend to not have an identity other than being in the military/police/whatever themselves, and are shitty themselves. Ditto for family members as well.
After looking at how much engagement/wedding rings cost, both me and the bf have deemed them a scam. Maybe it could increase in value later if it's custom made or an heirloom, but going to the shop and shitting out several hundreds over two rings, especially if you don't really wear rings every day anyway, just seems like such a waste.
That kind of reminds me, I can't understand people who do unplugged ceremonies and just rely on the photographer to take all the ceremony photos. While I can kind of understand maybe being on your phone texting during the ceremony can be seen as disrespectful, what if the photographer somehow loses the pictures and you have none left from the ceremony? That is a real concern that that has indeed happened before. It's good to have people taking back up photos in case such a thing happens.
Most modern digital cameras have two SD card slots that can be run in raid 1. And unless you're shooting in RAW format, I doubt a single wedding has enough pictures that youll fill up a 64gb card. And its not like swapping for backups takes long.
After looking at how much engagement/wedding rings cost, both me and the bf have deemed them a scam. Maybe it could increase in value later if it's custom made or an heirloom, but going to the shop and shitting out several hundreds over two rings, especially if you don't really wear rings every day anyway, just seems like such a waste.
There's nothing wrong with a Walmart special. My engagement ring was 38USD and my wedding band was 10USD. my husband's ring was 25USD. Ultimately, you can also completely skip getting an engagement ring entirely and just get simple bands and call it a day.
Jewelry stores are fucking scams and the people who work in them probably don't have souls. Depending on the store, the workers get commission off of what they sell so they use very similar car salesmen tactics. Most of the time the bands for the ring are next to worthless[depending on the metal used] and the price only really changes when it come to the stone.
One way to keep the price down is to buy the stone and band separately or go with something synthetic.
