I want to get married.

[DipDipDive]

But I don't want to have a traditional wedding. Wedding hooplah is fucking stupid. Wedding showers with finger foods and matching bridesmaids dresses and cookie cutter photos with fake smiles and the bride and groom hardly spending any time together on their special night because they have to take care of this and that and thank everyone for coming. It's all bullshit and I don't understand why anyone would want to have a wedding like that.

P.S.
How come the electric slide is the only dance that whitey has managed to master?

[Kid Presentable]

Hells Bells will be her entrance music, we've got pyrotechnics and a Titan-Tron. One of my uncles is going to protest the marriage over the mic like a true shit heel, then I'ma sweep him up with a steel chair. Instead of a ring, she can wear my championship strap over her shoulder while my theme music (Van Halen 'Jump') plays for the crowd.

[DipDipDive]

Hells Bells will be her entrance music, we've got pyrotechnics and a Titan-Tron. One of my uncles is going to protest the marriage over the mic like a true shit heel, then I'ma sweep him up with a steel chair. Instead of a ring, she can wear my championship strap over her shoulder while my theme music (Van Halen 'Jump') plays for the crowd.

I think instead of kissing your bride every time someone taps their glass with their butter knife, you should give the guilty glass-tapper a wedgie and have your woman throw a pie in their face.

[Kid Presentable]

I think instead of kissing your bride every time someone taps their glass with their butter knife, you should give the guilty glass-tapper a wedgie and have your woman throw a pie in their face.

We're hoping Vince Mcmahon will give her away.

[beastieangel01]

I want to fly me, the groom, and a few close friends down to mexico for my wedding.

I can have a SPEEDY ceremony (I hate the ones that are an hour long, yawn), maybe in one of the gorgeous churches they have there. I would have to see how much I need to pay so I don't have to do a catholic wedding though, mayeb I'll just have it on the beach instead. Then we can all celebrate by getting drunk on the beach in Mexico.

Heck yes!

[DipDipDive]

At this wedding I was at last night, the priest said to the groom, "what do you give as a token of your love for this woman?" and I was thinking it would've been awesome if he had said "CHEESY POOFS!"

[Kid Presentable]

I suggested '99 problems' as our first waltz.

But for real, we're getting married on a farm, in this winery rich valley. Just 40-50 peeps. Pretty low key, no god involved. (y)

[cookiepuss]

I want to elope.
I don't even know if I'd invite my friends or family. we'd probably just go get married and come back and have a small party to celebrate.
No way am I spending thousands of bucks on one day of our lives. The best money spent on a wedding is the reception anyway.

Tahoe isn't far so, that's probably where we'd head since it's prettier than Reno.

I want to play the Stray Cats version of "be bop a lula" for my wedding march. hee hee hee (y)

[bigblu89]

I think instead of kissing your bride every time someone taps their glass with their butter knife, you should give the guilty glass-tapper a wedgie and have your woman throw a pie in their face.

At my wedding, the first time someone tapped on the glass, insted of kissing my wife, I went up the the lady that started it, and kissed her instead.

[mickill]

What a bunch of frickin' hippies.

[Kid Presentable]

What a bunch of frickin' hippies.

Oh no, it's cool. i'm fairly violent towards her.

[milleson]

My wedding cost 50 bucks. $20 for the license and $30 for the JP. Best $50 I've ever spent.

That afternoon, for our honeymoon, we went to the state fair.

Since we didn't waste money on a big ass wedding, we were able to become home owners that much sooner.

[kll]

At my wedding, the first time someone tapped on the glass, insted of kissing my wife, I went up the the lady that started it, and kissed her instead.
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[bigblu89]

Well, she was about 70 years old...

But you know I was still mackin' it.

[kll]

I just returned from my brother's wedding this past weekend. They had a very formal wedding for next to nothing thanks to my mother's discount. What would normally cost $50,000+ they got for $8500.

www.oceantrails.com

[Monsieur Decuts]

white man can do the running man too!!

[Echewta]

If I happen to get married again, I'm going to do it online.

[monkey]

^ i love you too echewtaaaaa.


fo' realz though, i want to get married in a civil court, then have a nice, chill party. really low key. as long as i get an awesomely beautiful dress. not a gown. a dress. 40's style, showing off the curves my mama gave me.

and my party? i want people to be able to pick up a ball and play and that kind of thing. wear sneakers. who needs stuffy parties anyway.

[Echewta]

Love is a strong word Pauli. You sure?

[monkey]

im really sure. i want you to have my e-kids. will you have my children and post about your pregnancy? in exchange, i promise to post pictures with all the foods you crave.

[Echewta]

I have so much to plan. Evites, photobucket, IM, etc. I hope your parents don't mind footing the bill for this.

E-kids. I suppose thats better than not having children. The time difference should work well for us taking care of them.

[monkey]

do you mind signing the pre-i-nup? i just want to make sure that in case we dont <3 each other 4eva, we can keep our stuff and not have any problems.

[Echewta]

Yea, I'm ok with that. I don't want either of us to be :( or :mad: because someone got the email or myspace account the other person use to have.

[cosmo105]

steger and i want to get married so we can get new knives and a new bedframe free of charge from family members.

in all seriousness, i do not want a diamond engagement ring. sure, i'd like a ring of some sort, but i don't see any point in him spending a ridiculous amount of money on something i will most likely lose, as i am horrible with losing jewelry...and hate most jewelry anyway. that shit's gaudy. i don't care about the status symbol thing or whatever. i'd rather have an antique ring that i actually liked than a sparkly rock that was mined by a 9-year-old in the Congo. and gold's hideous.

[discopants]

For some reason a woman wouldn't want to have the Buzzcocks as the first song. That's the problem with women, they're so fucking selfish.

[Rancid_Beasties]

We're hoping Vince Mcmahon will give her away.
You need to get fozzy to play the wedding then.

[Echewta]

Yea but a diamond ring can help in emergencies. Like if you need to escape out of a window that is all glass. Things like that.

[BangkokB]

DDD,
that says alot about your character. Marriage it seems to me has been explioted into some sort of lucrative business..So yes, keep it simple


and how may times do I have to ask you to wash my skankass shoes? :D

[g-mile7]

I want to get married.











'you accepting applications?

[cookiepuss]

steger and i want to get married so we can get new knives and a new bedframe free of charge from family members.

in all seriousness, i do not want a diamond engagement ring. sure, i'd like a ring of some sort, but i don't see any point in him spending a ridiculous amount of money on something i will most likely lose, as i am horrible with losing jewelry...and hate most jewelry anyway. that shit's gaudy. i don't care about the status symbol thing or whatever. i'd rather have an antique ring that i actually liked than a sparkly rock that was mined by a 9-year-old in the Congo. and gold's hideous.

heh, see now that's the one thing I do want. I don't want him to spend ridiuculous money on it either...but he's poor so that won't happen anyway. :D

but I like diamonds, I really do. I'd like something small and preferably vintage. I love the old engagement rings of the 20's, 30's and 40's. I don't like gold either. White gold, or platinum...I don't think they set diamonds in silver but that would be fine too. but yeah keep it simple, nothing too gaudy.

[Sarky Devotchka]

two good friend of mine got married last weekend and their wedding was great. it was in a 3 story loft-style building in the gold coast and the ceremony on the top floor. they had a friend perform the ceremony and they wrote their own vows. also a couple of our friend played the music for the ceremony and the bride walked down to that Smiths song that plays in Ferris Bueller when they're at the art institute.

oh yeah, and when they were introduced, the DJ played "thunder" by AC/DC.

they had a photo booth too, which got a little raunchy at the end.

[cosmo105]

^now that sounds cool. especially the FBDO part.

[mickill]

I rock a lot of bling, myself.

[skinnybutphat]

oh yeah, and when they were introduced, the DJ played "thunder" by AC/DC.


We walked in to 'Highway to Hell'.

We were stressed about the cost and everything but we both wanted a big party and I'm glad we had a traditional wedding. It really was the best day of my life. The only thing I regret is not reading the vows we wrote.

[bigblu89]

My wife and I came in to "Crazy Train".

The wedding party came into "The 900 Number" by 45 Kings.

AKA "The Ed Lover Dance" song.

[mickill]

We walked in to 'Highway to Hell'.

We were stressed about the cost and everything but we both wanted a big party and I'm glad we had a traditional wedding. It really was the best day of my life. The only thing I regret is not reading the vows we wrote.
Are you sure you wouldn't have rathered if you two just had a little ceremony where you got to wear shorts and matching "I'm with stupid" t-shirts in the parking lot of your favorite health food store with 10 of your closest friends and family members present and given each other wedding bands you carved out of a clavicle bone from some poor zebra that dehydrated out in the desert somewhere in El Azizia and exchanged self-written vows based on verses from your favorite Weezer songs?

[avignon]

When my sister got married, everyone was worried about what antics my pop might pull. He had to walk her down the aisle and the reverend was to say, "Who gives this woman in holy matrimony?" And Pop was supposed to say, "Her father does," or something like that. He did it perfectly at the rehearsal. But at the wedding he got there and said something like, "She belongs to no one and never will, but I am her father and I condone this marriage." He really is a hell of a guy.

And for my wedding, I have been promised jugglers, fireworks, giraffes, and at least one magician.

[ms.peachy]

But at the wedding he got there and said something like, "She belongs to no one and never will, but I am her father and I condone this marriage." He really is a hell of a guy.

That's pretty cool, I think (y)

[avignon]

That's pretty cool, I think (y)
Yeah. He's great. He was also very upset that she wore a veil. He kept calling it a burka. He kept saying something about a tribal wedding ceremony, although I still have no clue what that might entail exactly.

[cosmo105]

there is something to be said for tradition, and at times it can be nice...the weddings i've been to this year (and there have been a lot) have been traditional in a lot of aspects but they didn't drag on and they were never stuffy or pompous.

the weirdest thing i have ever attended in my whole life is my sister-in-law's mom's "unwedding." that's what she called it. it was a ceremony that lasted about 5 hours, involving her and her boyfriend of about 12 years. basically it involved them dancing around each other and wearing crowns (think Coneheads), chants (Swahili, of course), tambourines, stories, kung fu demonstrations by the guy's son, a song and dance by his granddaughter or some shit, and all this involved the audience. see, this woman used to be seventh-day adventist and very involved in the church, a bit of a crusader. now she's completely against it and is into paganism and celticism. she sends out winter solstice cards. my mom describes it as "aging people trying desperately to attach meaning to their lives."

anyway, it was hysterical. my brother and i spent the whole time looking at each other and crying we were trying so hard to not laugh.

[skinnybutphat]

Are you sure you wouldn't have rathered if you two just had a little ceremony where you got to wear shorts and matching "I'm with stupid" t-shirts in the parking lot of your favorite health food store with 10 of your closest friends and family members present and given each other wedding bands you carved out of a clavicle bone from some poor zebra that dehydrated out in the desert somewhere in El Azizia and exchanged self-written vows based on verses from your favorite Weezer songs?

That does sound pretty sweet, but I would hate to steal all your wedding ideas.

[cosmo105]

Are you sure you wouldn't have rathered if you two just had a little ceremony where you got to wear shorts and matching "I'm with stupid" t-shirts in the parking lot of your favorite health food store with 10 of your closest friends and family members present and given each other wedding bands you carved out of a clavicle bone from some poor zebra that dehydrated out in the desert somewhere in El Azizia and exchanged self-written vows based on verses from your favorite Weezer songs?
is this a knock at me? just tell me the truth.

[SobaViolence]

"aging people trying desperately to attach meaning to their lives."

that's pretty much religion in general.


my wedding would be at my cottage, in the great wilderness. friends and close family. i think my brother would dj. my best friend would replace the priest's role, but it would be a civil ceremony. lots of booze. sit around and tell stories more than toasts, 'cause that shit is lame. instead of driving off with cans attached to a car, i would take the pontoon boat and drive around the lake for a couple hours, maybe some skinny dipping. then all those who would care to would jump in the lake in our clothes(the formal stuff) then change into sweats and have a bonfire, with marshmallows, hotdogs and more booze. singing, dancing and swimming until the sun came up.

shit, i wanna get married now...

[jennyb]

This thread is quite enlightening for me... uh, I just got engaged myself. Gosh, I still can't get used to saying that. I feel like that's grown up stuff or something. But my man designed the ring (minimalist of course) utilizing the diamond from his mother's engagement ring. So it's pretty special for me. I liked cos's commentary on rings! Good shit. (y)

Anyhoo, all we can think of doing is going down to the beach with whomever wants to be there and immediately afterwards go to a nearby place and have a throw down! W/out any pre-concieved notions of what it 'should' be. Not much grosses me out more than a bridezilla. I'll be damned if I fall for all that crap one 'should' do. I just want to celebrate. (oh and wear a beautiful dress) :)

[cosmo105]

^good ideas. i love that with the ring! it's wonderful that it's meaningful to you two. and a beautiful dress...well, of course. gotta have that.

i think the thing that really made my older brother's wedding was that my grandfather performed it. he was ordained (or whatever) to do it for that one day, and it was really beautiful. he's the kind of man everyone loves - very intelligent, very compassionate, very funny. wherever he is, he lends a sense of stability. when he read the words he had prepared for them, pretty much everyone was in tears.

[cosmo105]

When my sister got married, everyone was worried about what antics my pop might pull. He had to walk her down the aisle and the reverend was to say, "Who gives this woman in holy matrimony?" And Pop was supposed to say, "Her father does," or something like that. He did it perfectly at the rehearsal. But at the wedding he got there and said something like, "She belongs to no one and never will, but I am her father and I condone this marriage." He really is a hell of a guy.
this got me thinking. i don't want to be "given away" at my wedding. that whole deal is so stupid. it implies that the bride belonged to someone else beforehand, and now she belongs to her husband. and that's so fucking Dark Ages. if anything, i would have my mom do something along those lines...my sister-in-law (not the one with the crazy mom) had that at the wedding, because her dad's not in the picture. i used to think i'd have my brothers or my grandfather do it, but why not my mom? and why anyone at all?

thought-provoking and shit.

[yeahwho]

this got me thinking. i don't want to be "given away" at my wedding. that whole deal is so stupid. it implies that the bride belonged to someone else beforehand, and now she belongs to her husband. and that's so fucking Dark Ages. if anything, i would have my mom do something along those lines...my sister-in-law (not the one with the crazy mom) had that at the wedding, because her dad's not in the picture. i used to think i'd have my brothers or my grandfather do it, but why not my mom? and why anyone at all?

thought-provoking and shit.

Go with your Mom, it's classy. Mom is first class all the way. (y)

[mickill]

is this a knock at me? just tell me the truth.
Oh, hell yes it was, hippie.