Bad Weddings and Wedding Trends - sperg about weddings here

[PuffyGroundCloud]

What are you guy's opinion on remembrance tables? Basically tables set up to remember deceased love ones who passed away. I don't like it because I mean, those people had their funerals to remember them by and I mean, weddings are supposed to be a joyous event, a reminder that love ones are dead, especially if they recently died unexpectedly, really kills the mood

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Enough with the signs that rhyme!

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Hold up, that table is in the Wedding?
That’s one-of-a-kind mood whiplash

 

[yasscat]

I get wanting something to honor family members who can't be there because they passed, but having a whole table seems...weird.

 

[Fialovy]

Hold up, that table is in the Wedding?
That’s one-of-a-kind mood whiplash

Yes! This is actually pretty common where people have tables or set chairs out during the ceremony with pictures remembering dead loved ones. Like, was the funeral enough?

 

[Din Djarin]

I get wanting something to honor family members who can't be there because they passed, but having a whole table seems...weird.

This is exactly what I was going to say. I'm not sure how I would do it, but a whole table seems weird. Maybe having a chair that's "reserved" during the ceremony?

Spoiler: PL

My bio dad was a piece of shit and died when I was 9 but my grandpa was my father figure. We lost him in May and I'd probably do something for him at my wedding whenever it happens.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I get wanting something to honor family members who can't be there because they passed, but having a whole table seems...weird.

Yeah, pretty much parroting this and Mandowhorian's sentiments. I kinda see myself doing this for my grandparents, just not with a table. I like the reserved chair angle, but I think a family member holding the picture might be better.

 

[NoReturn]

I get wanting something to honor family members who can't be there because they passed, but having a whole table seems...weird.

Yes! This is actually pretty common where people have tables or set chairs out during the ceremony with pictures remembering dead loved ones. Like, was the funeral enough?

This is exactly what I was going to say. I'm not sure how I would do it, but a whole table seems weird. Maybe having a chair that's "reserved" during the ceremony?

Spoiler: PL

My bio dad was a piece of shit and died when I was 9 but my grandpa was my father figure. We lost him in May and I'd probably do something for him at my wedding whenever it happens.

Yeah, pretty much parroting this and Mandowhorian's sentiments. I kinda see myself doing this for my grandparents, just not with a table. I like the reserved chair angle, but I think a family member holding the picture might be better.

If I may offer an alternative, there may be ways to acknowledge their influence and life without centering it on their absence.
For example, if someone was known for a signature scent, work that into the wedding somehow. If they had a favorite flower or song, bring that in.
A photo is just a photo of them taken one day, but the people we love are more than that, you know?

Spoiler: PL-y

I acknowledge also I may be off-base with this. I know I have a weird relationship with death, and in my autism people have had to reign me in in the past re: mourning ceremonies and how they can help people.
Just because I find the photo/table thing weird doesn't mean other people might think it's beautiful and helpful.

 

[neverendingmidi]

I kind of think the Renfaire weddings are cute. The one near me will even provide food, the cake, and decorations depending on the package you get. Plus there's entertainment for the guests.

I knew of one person who's parents were paying for a Destination Wedding. They gave her a choice of either a huge in-town wedding for however many hundreds of people she wanted to invite and that was it, or a wedding at a resort in a foreign country plus a week long honeymoon, but only for 12 people max. The resort wedding was cheaper overall.

 

[Fialovy]

Here is another weddingbee post I found after some digging. I remember earlier in the thread we touched on unplugged ceremonies and how they are popular, but also why I think they are a bad idea because your photographer could mess stuff up and not have any pictures of the ceremony (I am personally glad I didn't go this route because my aunt recorded a video of me walking down the aisle that I still watch time to time and I wouldn't get that if I demanded the ceremony be uplugged, plus my photographer was awesome and she shot it in a way where people taking photos didn't ruin the shots, but I digress)

This bride wants to take it a step further and have not just an unplugged ceremony, but an entire wedding including an unplugged reception and put everyone's phones in a box and give them back after they leave the wedding, which seems like a disaster waiting to happen and I don't know anyone who would give their phones with a lot of important information to a stranger. Just sounds controlling.

How do you feel about not just unplugged ceremonies, but unplugged receptions as well?

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

Here is another weddingbee post I found after some digging. I remember earlier in the thread we touched on unplugged ceremonies and how they are popular, but also why I think they are a bad idea because your photographer could mess stuff up and not have any pictures of the ceremony (I am personally glad I didn't go this route because my aunt recorded a video of me walking down the aisle that I still watch time to time and I wouldn't get that if I demanded the ceremony be uplugged, plus my photographer was awesome and she shot it in a way where people taking photos didn't ruin the shots, but I digress)

This bride wants to take it a step further and have not just an unplugged ceremony, but an entire wedding including an unplugged reception and put everyone's phones in a box and give them back after they leave the wedding, which seems like a disaster waiting to happen and I don't know anyone who would give their phones with a lot of important information to a stranger. Just sounds controlling.

How do you feel about not just unplugged ceremonies, but unplugged receptions as well?

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I get that people these days need to put their fucking phones away and that they don't, but I'm 100% in agreement with you. The item potentially being demanded to hand over is too important, too expensive and holds way the hell too much personal information. I hate the normalization of smartphones more than anyone else I know, so you can take that straight to the bank. It's a no-win situation and the best anyone could do that I can think of on the spot here is to very firmly request that all guests turn off their electronics aside from taking non-disruptive pictures and video and hope that the guests aren't shitty people who will play moba trash during the ceremony or avoid the reception party by sitting at their tables reading tweets.

 

[Fialovy]

I wasn't sure whether to put this here or the Etsy thread, but I decided here. Don't you want to give your bridesmaid a butt plug as a thank you for being a bridesmaid?

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

Don't you want to give your bridesmaid a butt plug as a thank you for being a bridesmaid?

Excuse me, fucking what?

I've heard of gifting dildos for brides and bridesmaids, but this is somehow so much worse. I think the only way this could get worse is if it were intended for the groom and/or his best man.

 

[EnemyStand]

I wasn't sure whether to put this here or the Etsy thread, but I decided here. Don't you want to give your bridesmaid a butt plug as a thank you for being a bridesmaid?

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Guys...can...can we....can we just have free drinks...? Guys...?

 

[Fialovy]

Excuse me, fucking what?

I've heard of gifting dildos for brides and bridesmaids, but this is somehow so much worse. I think the only way this could get worse is if it were intended for the groom and/or his best man.

I mean, I heard of bridesmaids gifting the bride sex toys and shit like that during the bachelorette party (which is kind of... eh... I mean, you'd probably have to know your friend very well) , but never the bride gifting bridesmaids sex toys and definitely not a butt plug.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

This bride wants to take it a step further and have not just an unplugged ceremony, but an entire wedding including an unplugged reception and put everyone's phones in a box and give them back after they leave the wedding, which seems like a disaster waiting to happen and I don't know anyone who would give their phones with a lot of important information to a stranger. Just sounds controlling.

I've been to weddings where I was on call that day so guess what you aren't getting my phone.

Seems like it would be a better idea to ask people to be respectful and not use their phones during the ceremony.

 

[SandyCat]

I wasn't sure whether to put this here or the Etsy thread, but I decided here. Don't you want to give your bridesmaid a butt plug as a thank you for being a bridesmaid?

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That's the fanciest buttplug I've ever seen

 

[Local Coyote]

Objections were a thing before electronic or even postal communications were popular, because someone might recognize that one of the couple at the altar is actually the guy from the next village over who ran out on his wife five years ago.

Family member of mine works in the wedding business on the church end and has to explain objections quite a bit. There's a reason the objection portion says "any reason this couple CANNOT wed" not "SHOULDN'T wed." Valid objections include one party already being married or (in a heterosexual marriage) one spouse is gay.

 

[augment]

I don't much care for cringe weddings, to each their own. They're all getting divorced eventually, and theming the thing sifts people out quite effectively. Videogame wedding? no thank you. Superheros? Fantasy or star wars shit? don't care. Juggalo, white trash, I suppose they do what they can with what they can afford.

Now, millionaire big tech asshats bulldozing national park, that's the stuff:

Sean Parker’s $10 million destruction of a park epitomizes what’s wrong with Silicon Valley

Hey, if a billionaire couple wants to spend $10 million on their wedding, it’s neither all that surprising nor interesting, as far as I’m concerned.…

qz.com

The Parker Respondents proceeded to perform unauthorized development activities within the campground. Existing roads and campsites were graded and contoured to create the appearance of ruins. Stone gateways and walls were constructed. Staircases were crafted around existing habitat and redwood trees. An artificial pond was dug and installed. A stone bridge over the pond was constructed. Several elevated platforms were created, some adjacent to Post Creek (Exhibit 9). Over 100 potted trees and plants were partially planted within the existing road beds and campsites, and lighting was installed in the redwood forest. In addition to the unpermitted development, other items to facilitate the event have also been placed on the site including tents and generators.

Sean Parker Is Sad Over His $4.5 Million Wedding Because of 'Eco-Terrorists'

Contrary to everything reality television has taught us, extremely lavish nuptials won't make you any happier — or, at least Internet mogul and noted partier Sean Parker does not sound too delighted after his $4.5 million ecological mess of a costume nerd wedding earlier this month. "My wife and...

news.yahoo.com

Parker spent at least $4.5 million prepping Big Sur for his arrival — plus another $2.5 million to contribute to the area damaged by his "production." But, alas, Parker is going through a bit of a tough time right now.
"Instead we are being spat upon by complete strangers while walking together on the street, cursed at by a waiter in a restaurant who had read bogus media reports about our wedding, and told by complete strangers that we should get our divorce papers ready,"

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

one spouse is gay

Picture being the friend of a gay dude who's using some poor woman as a beard and taking it to that extreme. Now picture trying your best to talk him into fessing up or at least calling it off before it's too late, only to have to choose between enabling him silently or outing his selfish, cornholed ass at his own sham wedding. Be it gays trapping a beard, cheaters, whatever, they deserve to get called out in front of everyone like that if it doesn't get done sooner in some other circumstances. If you could get past being villainized by retards who don't understand or care about what's happening, it seems like it would be immensely satisfying to have the honor (and integrity) to make the objection. Kudos to souls braver than I who would have had the guts to do it.

Spoiler: more common than you think

Gays using the wait-until-marriage excuse on their beards is a classic asshole tactic and one of multiple reasons why I don't think waiting until being legally bound to know your SO in bed and at home is the most responsible thing to do. It happens way more often than people seem to think and I've had the displeasure of personally knowing not one, not two, but at least four gay men off the top of my head who've had beards and pulled this shit on them. These were happening in the 2010s, and it's likely not just suddenly vanished as of now. One of the fat faggots was a furfag who lied to his overly sheltered christian girlfriend (and tried to lie about it to me) that his furry pride tattoo of a pawprint with the word "PRIDE" was a memorial tattoo for his dead cat. The fat cunt straight up told me he was a gay furry using a beard to front for his ATM parents after I asked him about other red flags I noticed; there was no mistaking it. I ended up explaining everything to his beard and cutting contact with him.

 

[Fialovy]

Picture being the friend of a gay dude who's using some poor woman as a beard and taking it to that extreme. Now picture trying your best to talk him into fessing up or at least calling it off before it's too late, only to have to choose between enabling him silently or outing his selfish, cornholed ass at his own sham wedding. Be it gays trapping a beard, cheaters, whatever, they deserve to get called out in front of everyone like that if it doesn't get done sooner in some other circumstances. If you could get past being villainized by retards who don't understand or care about what's happening, it seems like it would be immensely satisfying to have the honor (and integrity) to make the objection. Kudos to souls braver than I who would have had the guts to do it.

That reminds me of this one post on weddingbee where it was two days before the wedding and the bride basically was like "I don't know if I could do this, I think I am a lesbian and I only stayed that long in the relationship thinking that things might change and I might become attracted to him as we got to know each other more..." and she was basically freaking out. I felt kind of bad for her and I wonder where she is now.

Also, looked up bachelorette party games since I had a feeling some of them would be very cringy and well, I was right, there is one where you strap a dildo to your head and people toss rings at you like so



There is also some games that I couldn't save due to them being weird file types, but some of them included:

Porn or Polish (is it a porn star name or nail polish color?)
Singing or Sex (Lots of faces up close and you have to guess if it is someone singing or an orgasm face)
Is it a Dick? (various skin colored pictures of phallic objects and dicks up close and you have to guess which one is actually a dick)
Name the sex position (self explanatory, see how well you know your sex position terminology)
Boobs or Butt (up close shots of cleavage and ass cracks and you have to guess which one is which)

and finally, there is a game called the panty drop where each girl gets a pair of panties for the bride and she has to guess which friend got her which.

Edit: Forgot one! Charades where each person pretends to be one of the bride's exes and she has to guess which one!

 

[Local Coyote]

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That reminds me of this one post on weddingbee where it was two days before the wedding and the bride basically was like "I don't know if I could do this, I think I am a lesbian and I only stayed that long in the relationship thinking that things might change and I might become attracted to him as we got to know each other more..." and she was basically freaking out. I felt kind of bad for her and I wonder where she is now.

Also, looked up bachelorette party games since I had a feeling some of them would be very cringy and well, I was right, there is one where you strap a dildo to your head and people toss rings at you like so

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There is also some games that I couldn't save due to them being weird file types, but some of them included:

Porn or Polish (is it a porn star name or nail polish color?)
Singing or Sex (Lots of faces up close and you have to guess if it is someone singing or an orgasm face)
Is it a Dick? (various skin colored pictures of phallic objects and dicks up close and you have to guess which one is actually a dick)
Name the sex position (self explanatory, see how well you know your sex position terminology)
Boobs or Butt (up close shots of cleavage and ass cracks and you have to guess which one is which)

and finally, there is a game called the panty drop where each girl gets a pair of panties for the bride and she has to guess which friend got her which.

Edit: Forgot one! Charades where each person pretends to be one of the bride's exes and she has to guess which one!

I really don't understand bachelorette parties with dicks and sexual innuendo everywhere. It just seems so juvenile.