Brianruns10 wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
But hey, look at the bright side: you're making money out of those show-offs! good for you!
Fools and their money shall soon be parted, so I might as well be the one to do the taking. Here are some adds:
10) All the people. Because when two people marry, every single goddamn person they or their parents ever met must come, to again be shown how happy these two utterly insufferable twits are.
11) The incessant documentation. Photographers grab every single moment. I am part of the beast here, and I hate it. I have to document every single second, and every moment is created and calculated for documentation. There is no spontaneity. No privacy. No candor.
Alright, I have to put my two cents in here... I agree with most of your points. I hate weddings in general too, and for a lot of the same reasons. The part I don't agree with is the obvious jealousy. I can understand feeling jealous, but you almost suggest that's a big part of why they even do the wedding. I don't think anybody does it to flaunt in the faces of their guests, but they certainly do put on a big show. It reminds me of highschool graduation in some ways... I remember my class being told we weren't allowed to throw our hats in the air(not like it mattered anyway, the whole thing was a big friggin' joke. I just wanted to get my diploma and go the hell home) because someone had gotten hurt in the past... We were told exactly how to walk, where to walk, and to keep quiet, and all this other BS, okay? THEN we were told "this is your day. This is a celebration for you." No it f*****g isn't. If it was for US, then shouldn't WE have a say in what goes on? No, it's a big stupid presentation for the PARENTS, so they can feel like their tax money was well spent, and so they can be proud of Jr.'s stupid little "achievement" of graduating high school, which only requires the ability to breathe. Weddings are like that too. Yes, it's all about the bride, but the bride usually has to worry about what her stupid family will say/think if certain things don't go a certain way too. It's just a show.
One of the biggest things I don't get about weddings is the whole garter thing... What confuses me is how if two people kiss in public, people freak the f**k out and yell "get a room!" Or maybe it's only when they think the people kissing are ugly, I dunno, but anyway... Then at a wedding they all gather 'round to watch guys stick their hands up dresses, and nobody gets upset?
It's too much money to spend on almost anything, let alone blowing it all in one shot for a stupid party and a ring. For f**k's sake, buy a house, buy a car, or just SAVE that s**t. I went to a wedding recently where they did the actual wedding outside, and they rented out a firehall for the reception. They had friends from the fire hall who did all the DJing and whatnot, and then everyone who attended the wedding also brought food. It was still pretty expensive... I'm not sure how much, but they did a lot of things like that to keep costs down. And we all had a lot of fun, actually, which is rare, because I usually can't stand weddings.
If you feel jealous at weddings because you haven't found love for yourself, don't take it out on the bride and groom. They didn't plan their wedding around the objective of making YOU miserable. And just remember that getting married doesn't guarantee happiness. About half of all marriages end in divorce.
My girlfriend and I have decided that whenever we get married, we're gonna go to the courthouse. We'll have some kind of party/picnic/cookout/whatever, but there won't be an actual wedding "ceremony." We just can't afford it, and I don't know enough people to make it worth inviting them anyway. And I feel like most people I could invite(I know plenty who wouldn't mind going) don't really care and just want free food. I have like no family, and the family I do have hates me, so they'd probably just b***h the whole time anyway. I have no need to validate myself via their approval. I also have no need to flaunt anything.
Oh, by the way... That wedding I went to recently that I actually enjoyed... They DIDN'T plan things out. They did, to the extent that we all knew where the wedding was taking place, and we all knew where the reception hall is. They had a DJ and decorations up and stuff like that, but beyond that, it wasn't really planned out all that much. In fact, the photographer that was there taking pictures was told to just take pictures of people acting natural, doing whatever. They were supposed to have disposable cameras on each table, but the photographer, who was a real big bossy b***h, said "no, I don't want anyone "stealing my shots."" She refused to move most of the night, so she only got pictures from like this ONE angle. And, she kept yelling at the bride and groom, as well as other guests, telling them how to stand and pose and whatnot, which is BS because they wanted pictures of people just being themselves. The photographer also tried to tell everybody else there that they weren't allowed taking any pictures, and then by the end of the night she was lying down on her back in the parking lot, totally shitfaced. Even before she started drinking, the DJ had to keep calling out to her, asking where the photographer was while people danced, because she just disappeared and was missing lots of photo opportunities.
18 Nov 2012, 5:32 am
