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[Choop]

Try what I did. Only $10k.


Actually we eloped, it cost us about two hundred bucks all told. Like 5 months later we threw a "wedding" and to this day not everybody knows it was a fake. We had a catering company at the time so all the supplies were wholesale or borrowed, except the cake & dress. Venue? Free: our backyard. We hired one chef to cook and a preacher to "marry" us; the DJ was a buddy of mine from work.

Also: NO CHICKEN DANCE, NO HOKEY POKEY, NONE OF THAT SHIT. IF I WANTED TO ACT LIKE I WAS FIVE OR RETARDED I WOULD SPILL FOOD ON MYSELF, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[littlefallsmets]

Also: NO CHICKEN DANCE, NO HOKEY POKEY, NONE OF THAT SHIT. IF I WANTED TO ACT LIKE I WAS FIVE OR RETARDED I WOULD SPILL FOOD ON MYSELF, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Holy crap. So key.

58% of what is lame about attending weddings is all the shit-ass childish dances at the reception.

[Golfhaus]

Indeed... we informed the DJ that he would not get paid if any of that crap went down.

[Doc]

Also: NO CHICKEN DANCE, NO HOKEY POKEY, NONE OF THAT SHIT. IF I WANTED TO ACT LIKE I WAS FIVE OR RETARDED I WOULD SPILL FOOD ON MYSELF, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Really? People do that?
I mean I've only been to a couple of weddings but if someone started pulling that shit on me there would be words.

[Liz]

I think that a Hokey Pokey is acceptable if you have a lot of people with kids at the reception. At least, most of my memories of wedding-related 'Pokeys are from when I was a little kid.

[Cap'n Squeakers]

Indeed... we informed the DJ that he would not get paid if any of that crap went down.

Man, you guys need to loosen up and have some fun.  The chicken dance is a hoot. Just get a couple of drnks into you and it's nonstop shenanigans.

[Golfhaus]

I will never see the enjoyment of the Chicken Dance. As a child, I dreaded the potential of being picked at the Bavarian Dance show at the Festhaus at Busch Gardens. It's no different now.

Seriously, I've been a bit of a fuddy-duddy since the age of 4.

[Cap'n Squeakers]

I guess I have a fairly positive view on weddings and the party-style fun associated with them.  I have a very small family, so I didn't have to attend any Boring Place weddings as a child.  Indeed, I first went to a wedding in my mid-twenties, and I've been to a dozen or so since then, so they're mostly assocated with drinking lots and dancing with bridesmaids.

[side_show]

We are not going for any dance music, just our own iPod play list of classic standards like Sinatra (Lady is a Tramp, Love and Marriage, etc.), Ella Fitzgerald, the Beatles, etc. for background music.  Someone is trying to force us to have a DJ, but we're talking about a horrible small town DJ who has only stale pop music and country, which are the two types of tunes we both hate.  I did add John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" to the list as a secret joke nod to what could have been and as a reference to the SO's roots. We're not dancing people, and the reception is under a tent on the SO's family farm.  If spontaneous dancing happens, that's cool though.  I'll probably put together a secret play list on our other iPod of dance music that doesn't suck in case things turn that way. Apart from the standard classics, we've got some songs that have meaning to us from other stages of our lives, like the super cheesy Bangles song, Eternal Flame (which I lipsynched to over and over again as a little girl.  I had the cassingle, and I still know all the words.)  Also Neil Young, Harvest Moon, which is just too beautiful and perfect for a prairie wedding, and other favorites of ours.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Have you heard some Feist? Leslie Feist is my go-to background music.

[side_show]

Many folks I know like Feist.  I do not.  Something about her voice annoys me. In Canada, we don't get that many global success stories, so she's just way too overplayed for my liking.  Honestly though, she is really well liked around here, and people love her so much. 

[jay-ell]

Man, I KNOW that you mean that sincerely, so thanks. But still, I dunno, I guess it's just not my thing. I mean like, the present girl does things such as reminding me to eat and when I do eat, making sure that I don't eat moldy or rotten things out of negligence. It's a hard quality to come by, I hear.

I've been with Pedro since I was fifteen.  We got married at 22 and this November we will finally have been married as long as we were together pre-wedding.  It's good times. 

There's a lot to be said for growing into a relationship like that.  It doesn't work for everyone, but it's been darn good for us. 

[milhouse]

I've been with Pedro since I was fifteen.  We got married at 22 and this November we will finally have been married as long as we were together pre-wedding.  It's good times. 

There's a lot to be said for growing into a relationship like that.  It doesn't work for everyone, but it's been darn good for us. 

Hear hear!

Me and the Mrs met in 7th grade. Started dating when we were Juniors in high school. Got married after we had been out 8 years (a two year separation in there when I got antsy). Next month we'll have been married 10 years. Good times indeed...

[Harlock Hero]

Word, good to hear I'm not the only one.

I think I'm the only one in my extended family to have it together in these regards. I attended my cousin's second wedding on June 7th, and he filed the divorce papers on the 29th. Call me old-fashioned, but...