Long long time no blogs, but after finishing up my third wedding of the summer, one in which I was a member of the wedding party, it gave me thoughts about the whole wedding celebration. Thoughts I would like to share with anyone who still checks this blog:
1. Short Wedding, Long Reception: No one in the church wants the priest to try to make jokes at the young couple's expense while going on for twenty minutes in a sermon about compromise. Your groomsmen are wearing three piece suits in the 90 degree church. Get to the point. I dos and out the door.
Reception on the other hand can go on for days. Feed your people a meal, they came a long way and spent far too much for you to run them through some appetizers. If you're planning on getting out of there in a half hour or less, just don't bother. Also OPEN BAR.
2. AC in the church: Like I said above, if you're making your groomsmen wear three piece suits, that church needs to be cold. Unless you want to have your friends be remembered as the guy who passed out at your wedding. Sweating balls during a twenty minute sermon sucks.
3. Kids in the wedding: Flower girls and ring bearers are adorable but really should be stopped. Yes it is cute that they're wearing mini versions of big people clothes. But most of the time they are just running around complaining during the ceremony being a distraction. Also during the reception, when they call for single guys and girls for the tossings, they don't mean your five year old.
4. Did I mention OPEN BAR?: Doesn't have to be a full bar, but lets get real. This is an adult ceremony, and there's probably some single people here. Sober people don't do the electric slide.
5. Bubbles are dumb: Seems to be a new trend sparked by the rumor that pigeons explode from eating wedding rice. Lies. Pelt those suckers with some Uncle Ben's. Old school beats cute anyday.
Also we came up with an correlation between the shiny-ness of rented shoes and their discomfort..... be warned.
3 comments:
I hppe you remember this particular post for your own day, Mr. Robertson :) It is a whole different ball game if the bride and groom are footimg the bill for the ceremony and the bill to wine and dine and entertain 100+ people :)
Your simple requests are easily $10,000+ without even blinking an eye (the average American wedding is $25,000-$30,000).
As for the other stuff, see what your future wife has to say, you may find yourself with flower girls and ring bearers and surrounded by hundreds of bubbles (which by the way, it's the church that determines all of the regulations regarding things like if rice is allowed to be tossed. We HAD to use bubbles if we were going to use anything at all) ;-)
Word to the wise, be careful about being too critical about your friends weddings - this openly. I spent the entire 10 months I had dedicated to making those few hours that one day what it was and I'm sure the other brides (couples) did too. It's a lot of work and very expensive and compromises between the couples are made; it truly is an ordeal.
LoL, just wait for it Mike ;)
Note: If the couple does have a 20 minute ceremony in an air conditioned church with an open bar reception, fantastic food and great entertainment, it's nice for the guests to arrive on time to the actual ceremony. The expectations go both ways ;)
Hahaha . . . that is the first time I read Katie's reply. I mean, it's not like ya'll were REAL late. You did get there just as we walked out of the church, so you just missed the wedding by a smidge.
In all honesty i think us coming when we did was better than if we barged in in the middle of it.
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