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08-10-2003, 03:59 PM
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I need tricks to play on my best friend on his wedding day.
My best friend is getting married next month and I’d like to make it as memorable as possible. To do this I need ideas for tricks and pranks to play on him. The two ideas that I have already are 1. To have all his grooms men dress in tux T-shirts right before the wedding and scare him in thinking that that is what we’ll be wearing. 2. Some how get a hold of his shoes and write on the bottom “help me” so that when he kneels down, everyone will see his cry for help. I need more ideas then this though. I don’t want to be mean or cruel, but he has a great sense of humor and I want to take advantage of this once in a lifetime event.
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08-10-2003, 04:02 PM
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08-10-2003, 04:04 PM
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I had a bridesmaid who thought it highly amusing to hide a part of my outfit (the garter) the morning of the wedding. If he's got a great sense of humor, then he won't pop you in the nose for hiding his bow tie.
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08-10-2003, 04:52 PM
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Crazy glue his briefs on.
THe wedding night hijinx will soon ensue
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08-10-2003, 04:56 PM
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08-10-2003, 05:02 PM
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Will you have access to their car? Fill it with balloons I mean FILL it.
If you have access to where ever they'll be spending the night... Sleigh bells pinned to the mattress at the head of the bed. Fill the bathtub with jello. Are you best man? If so, when its time to hand him the ring put a condom inside the ring. Kiss him instead of the bride in the receiving line.
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08-10-2003, 05:05 PM
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08-10-2003, 06:24 PM
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When the minister says, "If anyone here who knows why these two should not be joined in marriage, speak now or forever hold your peace." have someone stand up and begin saying all kinds of horrible things about the bride. Really pile it on as they walk towards the altar. Everyone, of course, is going to be looking at this person and when he gets fairly close to the bride, have him act like he's just now able to see her face and then say, "Oops! Wrong wedding!" and then run out.
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#11
08-10-2003, 06:47 PM
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It depends on whether or not you want your next thread title to be:
My Former Best Friend Got Married Yesterday... Just be sure everyone has the appropriate level of humor at their disposal...
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#12
08-10-2003, 07:47 PM
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Whatever you decide to do, please, for the sake of your future friendship, make it something not too public. Please don't screw up the wedding or the reception. The groom may well have a great sense of humor, but his mom (or his future mother-in-law) may not, and I can guarantee you that someone's got an Aunt Martha or other elder relative who won't find a prank funny at all.
I personally like the tux t-shirt idea. Or the setting clocks ahead, assuming he has a pretty strong heart.
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#13
08-10-2003, 09:11 PM
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Find out what they'll being throwing as they leave the service - rice, birdseed, whatever.
Stock up on it. Hand it out secretly to people you like. My dad always did this. I have seen many a surprised bride and groom as huge showers for rice rained down on them.
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#14
08-10-2003, 10:25 PM
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An oldie but a goodie. At the reception, during the toast, ask that now that Joe is off the market, for all the people who have a key to his apartment to please turn it in. Have all the females be holding keys ahead of time. This is especially funny if an elderly lady comes up with a key, or a man or two. Then say the same for the bride. Have the same elderly woman turn in a key.
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#15
08-10-2003, 11:33 PM
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Get hold of his honeymoon luggage.
Remove all underwear. Replace with one thong. Make it small, black and lace. Fill extra space with rice or birdseed. Also, put rice in each pair of socks. In the pockets of other garments. In his toothpaste tube. Have all groomsmen write the bride's name on their hand before the bachelor party. Every time they refer to her, have them check their hand. Explain that nobody wants to get her name wrong, so they'll refresh the marker before the wedding... Where will they be "going home" to after the honeymoon? Get a key, fill the pantry with canned goods. Remove all labels. If you know a good electrician, wire the doorbell to ring whenever more than one persons bodyweight is on the bed. (This is time consuming and hard to figure out. Our best man was an electrical engineer, however.) They also hooked up a tape recorder (voice activated) to the underside of the bed, but I found it. Is he dressing at the church? Steal his black socks and give him red ones. Bribe the organist to play the Funeral March AT THE REHEARSAL when the groom comes in.
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#16
08-10-2003, 11:45 PM
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Random photo + Photoshop + tasteless picture of an ugly hooker = A rather disturbing photo that's distributed to everyone.
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#17
08-11-2003, 12:28 AM
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 OMG that's hilarious!
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#18
08-11-2003, 07:07 AM
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I'm going to go out on a limb and assume your friend is not Bengali, and will therefore not have heard of this wedding tradition. It's very simple. Steal his shoes and give them to the chief bridesmaid. Then ask her to gather up all the girls at the wedding and have them follow him around and bug him until he pays them for the shoes.
It sounds simple, but it works! 
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#19
08-11-2003, 07:39 AM
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Our best friends got our apartment keys and redecorated in rice and hershey's kisses. And balloons. And icing. And streamers. So the ones who procured the keys are getting married on Friday and I'm Matron of Honour and dammit, she won't tell me where they're honeymooning, so I'll be refilling and redecorating her luggage.
Must buy pink glittery confetti today.
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#20
08-11-2003, 07:47 AM
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Some of them were filled with confetti, just before we sold the car, three years later, there was still confetti appearing from out of the air vents and other places.
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#21
08-11-2003, 08:12 AM
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A few other tricks for the newlywed's new home.
Stretch celophane over the toilet. Loosen all the lightbulbs and leave the switches on. Leave a fake eviction notice on the door. Turn up the volume on all tv's and radios. Shortning on the underside of every knob and door handle. Deer rut lure. If you know what it is, you know how to use it.
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#22
08-11-2003, 11:38 AM
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Oh for God's sake....the guy is going to be nervous enough as it is.
It's his wedding. Believe me, unless the guy is a complete moron it's going to be a memorable day. The bride and groom are going to be on edge as it is...back off and be supportive. This is not the time for jokes. Now, after they get back from the honeymoon...
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#23
08-11-2003, 11:47 AM
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Well, if you can work it out with the other groomsmen and the pastor....
When the pastor asks for the ring, pat around and realize you don't have it. Look at groomsman #2 and ask where it is. He turns to the next guy and does the same thing all the way down the line until the LAST guy who reaches into his pocket and pulls out a Ring Pop which goes back to the bride and groom. Laugh hysterically and then have the pastor produce the REAL rings from inside his robe. IDBB
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#24
08-11-2003, 11:52 AM
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A good prank must be something that the victim will laugh at... when it's all over. This rule* applies even more so at a wedding. Keep the pranks in good taste and good humor. And NO pranks at or during the ceremony -- that's just plain disrespectful.
* Actually, the Pranksters' Code is really more a set of guidelines.
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#26
08-11-2003, 02:46 PM
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Another vote for "nothing that will disrupt the ceremony, reception, or wedding night/honeymoon." Don't be a clod.
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#27
08-11-2003, 02:56 PM
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If your or one of your cohorts has access to the luggage, remove the groom's underwear (you can leave him one pair, if you're feeling generous). This is pretty standard. But then you can add the patented Dr.J twist to it. The day after the wedding, the groom will get a call from the front desk saying that he has some mail. The mail? A package containing his underpants. For maximum hilarity, mail the underwear a pair a day. (He did this five years ago, and the guy brought it up at our wedding this winter.)
Likewise, I like to put a twist on all the car tricks people standardly play. Sure, decorate/fill/saranwrap the car however you like. But if you're filling the car, you've got the keys, right? And if you have the keys, you can start the car and drive it, right? I think you get the point. That one got brought up at our wedding, too, but she wasn't as amused as the other victim. But then, she's now a professional wedding nazi, so she doesn't really find much humor in weddings. (Her husband, however, just snickers when it comes up. Quietly, so she won't hear him.)
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#28
08-11-2003, 04:44 PM
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This is great stuff. Keep it coming. Unfortunately he lives in Florida and most of us live up here (Delaware & PA). The wedding is in New Hope PA so he won’t have his car with him. His luggage though, I think I can get a hold of.
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#29
08-11-2003, 05:38 PM
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At one of my best friend's weddings, all of us groomsmen put pieces of paper with numbers from 1-10 inside our tux jackets. When he layed the big kiss on the mrs., we pulled them out, turned, and held them high for the audience to see. It was just like olympic scoring of the kiss. The audience loved it, even the parents of both the bride and groom. Make sure the camera man knows, so he gets a classic photo.
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#30
08-12-2003, 07:43 AM
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Ace, he should have a rental ...
Just make sure it's not bad enough that he pays a damage fee.One note, my sis was smart enough to get a rental and drive it to the site the day before and not tell anyone ... I got to drive her 'decorated' vehicle home while they drove off in the rental.
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#31
08-12-2003, 08:23 AM
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Then there's the French tradition: serve them champagne and chocolate mixed together in a chamber pot. French weddings are often done at a communal location (they tend to drink a little and it keeps everyone from driving). An American friend, who was also offered a serving from the chamber pot by the wedding party, was sure that it was the "real" thing in the pot . . . to the great amusement of the French.
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#32
08-12-2003, 08:37 AM
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If he's going on a tropical honeymoon, or anywhere where he must wear shorts....
pin him down the morning of the wedding and shave one leg, just one. He'll struggle at first, so have all the groomsmen help, but once you hold the cold hard steel against him, he'll be too afraid to move too much. We did this to my best buddy. We had too much pride to shave the other himself to "even it out", so he had one bare leg for the entirety of his Carribean Cruise.
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08-12-2003, 09:05 AM
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08-12-2003, 10:24 AM
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Be careful about doing anything that could be seen as an insult to the bride, no matter how harmless you may think it is. Many people at a wedding will find any insult or embarrassment of the bride tacky. I wouldn't do anything during the ceremony - you want this to be funny for the bride and groom, and not potentially hurtful or prevent them from enjoying the ceremony. Keep in mind the temperament of the rest of the family also - you don't want an irate mother of the bride coming after you.
When friends of ours went on their honeymoon, we filled their bedroom and floor of their apartment with balloons. I mean filled their bedroom. We also put notes in some balloons, confetti, money, gift certificates, etc. so they couldn't just pop them all too quickly. I was in a wedding this weekend where the dj handed out number cards for one table to rate the kisses at the reception. People thought it was cute, but I'm not sure if it would be appreciated at the ceremony. People are a lot more forgiving of things at the reception (pressure's off, people have a few drinks and are ready to have fun).
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#35
08-12-2003, 11:20 AM
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You know the groom/bride and so I'm assuming that you have an idea of how a prank will be received. BUT, I'm with the people cautioning you to watch out for the clod factor. Remember, it's *their* day, not yours. I'm more cynical because I personally know about three different couples who severed ties with someone in their wedding party because of "funny" stuff.
That being said, some of these ideas are hilarious...I hope whatever you do ends up being great!
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#36
08-12-2003, 12:44 PM
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Just going to chime in with "nothing during the ceremony." Don't even think about doing anything cute with the rings. Even if the bride and groom ordinarily have a wonderful sense of humor, it's simply not an appropriate time.
After the ceremony, though, hey, it's fair game.
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#37
08-12-2003, 01:07 PM
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I saw the "rate the kiss" gag at a wedding, and it was really cute. At that point in the ceremony, everyone's happy and ready to applaud anyway. Just make sure the scores are all pretty high.
At our wedding, the best man had my ring duct-taped to the inside of his coat -- my husband is big into duct tape, so that was fun. It was minor enough that it didn't disrupt anything, and I don't think anyone thought it disrespectful. The only other thing I remember seeing at the ceremony was also a ring gag -- the ring bearer (who was the 18-year-old cousin of the bride), when it came time for the rings to be handed over to the minister, made like he couldn't find the rings (only for about 2 seconds!), and then opened up his tux coat. Inside were rows and rows of rings (like the old "wanna buy a watch?" guys on the cartoons). He went up to the groom or the pastor (who was in on it beforehand) and let them pick the right one. It was great, actually, because it was at a point in the ceremony when everyone was getting all weepy, and it made us all laugh without detracting from the ceremony (IMO). Whatever you do, make sure it's something that even the most conservative person at the wedding won't find offensive. A prank is not worth losing a friend over. And given how much time and money the couple has probably put into this day, they'll probably be upset if the only thing anyone remembers about their wedding day is your prank. Don't piss off the lady in white.
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#38
08-12-2003, 02:24 PM
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yet one more vote for "don't mess up the ceremony". PARTICULARLY if the bride-and-groom-to-be have been the ones who've been doing all the planning and arranging themselves. they've been stressed out no end by this point. you're likely to be on the receiving end of Unholy Wrath if you go d!cking with things that affect the ceremony.
once the wedding's over, they should (hopefully) be relaxed enough to enjoy a good joke.
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#39
08-13-2003, 09:12 AM
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Why play pranks on them at all? Honestly, this is just mean. What's the point here? Some of the "pranks" suggested border on the downright cruel and jerkish. If you feel you MUST play a prank, make it completely harmless AND after the Big Day. They're going to be tense enough without you pulling some "joke" on them. And please don't move their car around. It's going to be an exhausting day - they don't need another half-hour-plus car search on top of it.
And if you really want to see what the Brides and Grooms think of these stupid jokes, and other things that Bridesmaids and Groomsmen do, check out http://www.etiquettehell.com/wedding...maids/ebms.htm Please don't do the "key" trick at the reception. It's disgusting and it's pretty much telling everyone that you think the bride and groom did nothing but sleep around before their wedding. That one's mentioned, i believe, somewhere in the Etiquette Hell website.
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#40
08-13-2003, 09:54 AM
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DogMom touches on two important points of a good prank:
A good prank is funny. People laugh at the PRANK, not at the victim. And the prank's target should eventually look back on the prank, laugh, and acknowledge that you got him but good. A good prank causes no lasting damage. The target must be capable of undoing the prank. If the target is particularly sensitive, anything that embarrasses or demeans the target will not be reversible. Of course, "no lasting damage" has sometimes been interpreted very liberally.... The point is, visualize your prank. Then honestly visualize how your target will take it. If you even slightly suspect that your target will take it the wrong way, find a different target. Also, a good prank stands alone. A wedding is memorable in its own right. Which will be the stronger memory: The friend getting married, or your prank at the friend's wedding?
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#41
08-13-2003, 10:26 AM
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Chill, DG. The car was just down the hill, in plain sight. I took a grand total of three minutes for the groom to walk down and pull the car around. And he still snickers about it. Quietly, though, so his wife won't hear him and give him hell about encouraging us.
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#42
08-13-2003, 10:43 AM
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Simple but effective: Offer to polish the groom's shoes. He'll be glad of the help.
But, paint (in chalk, tippex, white-out or whatever) the letters "HE" on the left sole, and "LP" on the right. When the bride and groom kneel for the blessing (or communion, if it's that kind of wedding), he will display the soles for the congregation to see.... Cue suppressed sniggers. (Seen it done - it's pretty hamless, but funny!)
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#43
08-13-2003, 03:03 PM
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I'm with DogMom. If you must do something, make it cute and harmless.
Honestly, this thread is making me seriously consider eloping if I ever get married.
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#44
08-14-2003, 10:57 PM
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I did say I don't want to be mean or cruel, didn't I? Let me check.... yep, I did. No mean or cruel. Interrupting the ceremony = mean. Degrading someone on there wedding day = cruel. There, now does everyone feel better now.
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