This is the way to do it. My wife and I didn't even bother to invite anyone except close family to the actual ceremony. We just had people show up the next day for a celebration.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
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This is the way to do it. My wife and I didn't even bother to invite anyone except close family to the actual ceremony. We just had people show up the next day for a celebration.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
At least they walked her together. Typically it's just the father of the bride, with the implication being that the father is giving away "his little girl" to a new man now for him to take care of.Quote:
Originally Posted by ledfloyd
I did it at city hall with our roommate and a good friend acting as witnesses, and another roommate as our photographer. Whole thing took less than 20 minutes, then we all had lunch together at a chicken & waffles place. Drinking it up later that night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spinal
Who knows what manner of evil could befall the bride if she were allowed to walk those steps alone? As we all learned from the The Virgin Spring, there are malcious goatherds lurking everywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
Brilliant! Sounds like a blast.Quote:
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they didn't, it was just my uncle walking her down the isle.Quote:
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and i agree completely, it's strange to me that most people accept this as the norm. so rarely do people stop and consider the implications behind tradition.
I had a couple come to the brewery last summer looking to get stuff for their wedding.
Their wedding was held in their backyard with a group of 30 friends and relatives. The food served was barbecue.
They got a keg of beer and served that instead of wine.
Now that is the kind of wedding I would be thrilled to attend.
I can't stand ritual in any extent, really, though I suppose there are a few exceptions. I am the least ceremonious person I know. Sometimes it I get violently agitated. I usually feel like a five year old boy in Sunday dress. And this includes my own wedding.
It's funny how some people get uncomfortable when even the silliest of traditions are discarded. My mother-in-law wanted a picture of us feeding each other wedding cake. And we were like, no, that's weird. We're not doing that.
Another awesome thing about my wife, she took about half an hour to select a wedding dress.
that's more or less how i would envision my wedding being. close friends and relatives. outdoors somewhere. good food, good beer and good music. just a quick non-religious wedding followed by partying with people i love.Quote:
Originally Posted by megladon8
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Originally Posted by Spinal
My old Scottish grandmother is absolutely repulsed by the idea that my sister, brother and I have lived/will live with significant others before marriage.
It's a generational thing, methinks.
I think all of these fears are left over from an age with unreliable methods of birth control.Quote:
Originally Posted by megladon8
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My dad (her son) is an only child.
I'm pretty sure she and my grandfather only had sex that one time in their entire marriage.
Hmm. That's one of the nicer and harmless traditions. It's pretty common.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spinal
Over here, it's becoming more and more of a mess as the years progress... the thing is, you have at least three kinds of tradition clashing:
- we were a communist country for 50 years and gradually the religious aspects of weddings all but disappeared. It was a civil ceremony at the town hall, with families and friends attending, and a large party afterwards.
- but in recent years, religion made a comeback, and church weddings and religious ceremonies were un-mothballed, so now many couples do both, most often on the same day. And most of the old traditions are very old and primitive, and every region, town and even village has their own, so it's often something families fight and/or make compromise over.
- and then came the last decade, people increasingly being able to afford more expensive weddings, and, naturally, couples came from the generations that grew up on Hollywood films... so they try to make everything as movie-like as possible... while doing the other stuff as well.
I have several photographer friends who are shooting American-style cheesy pre-wedding photo sets and videos of the couple, and charging obscene money for it. One of them is so popular, he sometimes does two weddings on the same day. And the rest, you name it - huge cakes, elaborate wedding dances, the works...
Be grateful to live post-sexual revolution. Thanks, hippies!Quote:
Originally Posted by megladon8
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Originally Posted by Spinal
But even 100, 300, 1000, or 4000 years ago people loved sex. It just wasn't talked about as openly as it can be today.
And there always have been and always will be "prudes", or people who genuinely don't enjoy sex. But they're the exception, not the rule.
Sin.
It ruins all the fun.
Finally got it framed...
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._7020405_n.jpg
That's awesome, D
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Originally Posted by megladon8
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I'd say it was more in the open in the old days, actually.
Well I'm sure I can find a couple present day pictures that rival yours via this internet thing.Quote:
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Yeah, ETM, you have a little more work to do on that front.
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Yeah, the kama sutra was certainly a dirty text.
But I mean, East Indians statistically have the smallest genitals in the world. So they had to figure out some way to make it work.
Yeah, we didn't do this tradition at our wedding either.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8