If you have not seen this, you MUST go to Oddybobo's and see her post on the Redneck Wedding she attended.
Good grief you cannot make that stuff up.
It reminded me of the worst wedding I ever attended. My husband and I had been dating for just a few months. We were invited to one of his friend's wedding.
Keep in mind, my husband is Italian and almost all close friends, if not Jewish, are Italian.
I was used to regular, non-Italian weddings. A real upscale wedding from where I come is heavy appetizers and wedding cake.
Italians don't do it that way.
The groom's Dad was a baker. So it was all out when it came to the food. Heavy appetizers... would be an understatement. Shrimp, small slices of filet on toast, cheeses, scallops, fruit, everything.
I thought that was the reception... and then we walked in and there was a full sit down dinner where no cost had been spared and on the far wall... Holy crap. On the far wall was every type of baked good you could imagine.
Cakes, pies, cannolis, Sfogliatelle, cookies... Good Lord. I'd died and gone to heaven.
But the creme de la creme, was the wedding cake. It was a cake high on a pedestal, with smaller pedestals on each side, each one with another layer of cake, and the pedestals were bridged together by stairs, that held groomsmen on one side and bridesmaids on the other... and the figurine bridesmaid's dresses actually MATCHED the real bridemaid's dresses.
Good grief. The attention to detail and the money spent, was absolutely astounding to me.
The groom's father paid for the wedding.
Flash forward to the next day... the groom's SISTER got married... in her parent's backyard.
THEIR DAUGHTER, got married in the backyard, where the catering sucked and the bugs were so bad, we had to go eat in our cars. I've not seen a swarm of gnats like that ever in my life.
On the food, in people's noses, around guest's heads... it was summer time so it was an outside summertime wedding at dusk, where very bug imagineable was in attendance.
Horrible.
I think the parents might have been pissed the bride was pregnant... but I'm just guessing. Oh and the groom had a mullet.
So. The best and worst, same family, same weekend, truly bizarre.
Feel free to leave your worst wedding moments in my comments, or write them on your blog and post a link in my comments and I'll create a horror wedding post linking them all!
Meanwhile, go to Oddy's. I can't wait to see it on TV...
Posted by Boudicca at August 25, 2008 07:52 PM | TrackBackGee Wally...i wonder how long that one will last?
Posted by: Jay- the friendly neighborhood piper at August 25, 2008 10:53 PMAt a friend of mine's reception the DJ played "Like a Virgin" and "Mony Mony" (complete with the "Get Laid, Get F*d" crowd chants). I think I was the only one shocked.
Posted by: Jerry at August 25, 2008 11:48 PMJay- Believe it or not... the expensive weddding's marriage is done. They got divorced about 10 years ago. But pregnant girl and mullet boy... are still married. I swear. Their parents had it soooo wrong...
Jerry- Holy crap. When I played for a bagpipe band, at weddings we used to play a song called "Itchy Fingers". Everyone loved it... but absolutely NOBODY knew what we were playing. Our little joke...
Posted by: Bou at August 26, 2008 05:14 AMMy Sister married herself a Marine LT. I like the guy, and his family (all Marines). When it came time during the service to light the unity candle, they ran into a problem. It seemed the wick was imbedded in the wax, and was unable to be light. So the LT reaches into his pocket and pulls out a rather large pocket knife, and proceeds to cut away the offending wax, as the Deacon darn near falls off the alter. My side of the family - watching in disbelief, his side - head in hands not looking. It was Awesome. It turns out, the Deacon had put the candle in upside down. Yea, nobody though to check that, and Marines are very results oriented people. As I understand it, that candle still sits on their mantle, upside down.
Posted by: Web at August 26, 2008 08:02 AMAt the magistrates office. Just 4 people. The bride, groom and two witnesses. The groom wore a horsehide biker jacket.
Oh, Wait, that was my wedding. The ceremony wasn't the worst part.
Posted by: K-Nine at August 26, 2008 08:58 AMSIL marrying BIL (Mr Weenies brother). In Baltimore (she lived/grew up in Montgomery county, the richest county in the country) and it wasn't necessarily the wedding itself it was more the bitchbride.
Snubbed everyone very openly from Michigan because she thought we were backwater trash (yes, her groom was from Michigan but hadn't lived their from quite awhile).
She wouldn't include Mr Weenie (bestman) and one of the groomsmen in activities because they were from Michigan.
Oh and I have to say Italian and Polish weddings rock the food, I love going to both those types of weddings!!!!!
Posted by: Quality Weenie at August 26, 2008 10:08 AMMy sister's second wedding reception: everyone brought a covered dish, and we played tackle football in our "wedding clothes" and cornhole - which is not as dirty as it sounds but is really "redneck horseshoes" or "beanbag toss".
Posted by: oddybobo at August 26, 2008 12:31 PMLike Quality Weenie, my story is more about the horror that was the bride and the run-up to the wedding.
My brother's wife - beeyotch doesn't even come close. She had all the women wear hats to the wedding ceremony, out of respect - for her. She wept like a schoolgirl all thru the ceremony (but not as much as my parents and I did, at the thought that this nightware was about to enter our family).
The reception - was dry. Yup. In New England. No alcohol. My dad tipped one of the waiters quite heavily to ensure that a full bottle of wine was on our table at all times. We needed it.
My brother has 2 sisters; he was in both of our wedding parties. We were not in his.
But - our husbands were.
My invitation to my brother's wedding was handed to me over dinner - to save her the expense of a stamp. She told my mother she thought I was too materialistic and far too much of a hedonist (I took those as compliments...).
Posted by: Kris, in New England at August 26, 2008 02:19 PMI was involved with two horrible weddings. The first was...wait a minute...never mind.
Posted by: Toluca Nole at August 26, 2008 05:03 PMNope, no horrible weddings, though a few friends were worried what might have been caught on the camcorder.... hahaha
Posted by: vw bug at August 27, 2008 05:14 AMVW- Ack! Holy crap. I can't believe you said that... but alas it is true. Heh.
Posted by: Bou at August 27, 2008 03:01 PMI put one up for you.
I swear to the Maker...I can't make this up.
Posted by: Yabu at August 28, 2008 10:15 AM