And I didn’t hijack my thread. :smack: I plead lack of sleep…
I’ve got two this summer one the weekend before we close on a new house that is one of my good buddies from my partying days based on the guest list my wife anand I booked a full day to recover before traveling home. The second is a kid in a family that is close to my wife’s family it’ll be the third wedding in this family I’ve been two. This is the unruly child so hopefully there will some fun to be had at this wedding generally they’ve been just terrible.
I have one, which is one too many in my book.
Fortunately it’s on a Friday and I will be working during the actual ceremony. I’ll take my time getting to the reception.
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I have one friend who is getting married, but I’m not attending. 
I would have loved to have gone, but it’s an out of town wedding and due to the nature of my work this time of year, I can’t get the time off.
My bro-in-law is getting married to his boyfriend this summer. There will be about 80-100 people on “his” side of the family (including his folks, flying in from the old country… and staying with them for the whole summer), and maybe 6-10 people on “our” side. It will be an interesting day.
I was sitting in the church waiting for the wedding to begin. The woman I was dating was the maid of honor. She came running over to get me. Turns out the best man had just recieved a phone call that his newborn son, who was in the neonatal ICU since his birth two weeks prior, had died.
I filled in as best man. I thought I did an admirable job, given that I didn’t know a single person there other than the maid of honor. The mother of the bride was stressed out and kept screaming at me to do things I had no idea were my responsibility.
The marriage lasted a few months. The bride never stopped “seeing” her “other boyfriend” and her husband found out.
I’ve got two coming up. One is supposedly going to be a Jewish wedding, but they’re having it on a Saturday with an early-afternoon start time, so I’m a little worried we’ll be expected to hang around without food or drink for hours until the ceremony can start after sundown. (Incidentally, the other wedding will also incorporate some elements of the groom’s Jewish heritage and will be on a Saturday, but it’s low-key, being officiated by an uncle, and I know the couple and they would never force their guests to spend hours being hungry and sober.)
The first wedding is actually an out-of-town 3-day event of which we’re only attending one day; we’re not interested in spending our limited vacation time on the other events. It’s also a child-free wedding, which primarily affects my husband’s brother and his wife, who will therefore also only attend one day. I don’t fault the bride and groom for having additional celebrations for the folks who can make it or having the wedding their way, though I will be annoyed if there ends up being any blowback for our choice.
The second wedding is one I actually would take time off for, but I don’t have to. I’m sort of an unofficial bridesmaid in that one. There’s no wedding party, but they’ve designated a few “guests of honor” to do readings or toasts; we can wear whatever we want and don’t have to show up to a rehearsal. Chillest bridal couple ever.
Daughter getting married in a forest (almost on a mountain*). A long weekend of NO cell phone signals, NO Wi-fi.
A hundred Millennials unable to share their experiences. Ha!
*… actually an active volcano. Due to erupt the day after the wedding, as I keep telling the bride.
I stand corrected.
Congratulations on finding an un-exhausted friend ! 
I’m safely out of Utah so I won’t be attending Mormon receptions in the cultural hall (basketball gym with a stage) with a minimum amount of crepe paper and white balloons, red bunch and sheet cake. With 30 plus cousins, some of their kids will be getting married on any given Saturday. Never Sunday. The weddings are in the member-only temple so off limits to us rebels. Very limited number of seats, so I’d not likely be invited for the wedding anyway in that the families are too large to invite cousins.
My wife’s friends are generally already married with elementary school kids. Second marriages are not unheard of, but thankfully not made into huge events. Out kids are still in elementary school as well, so we have plenty of time before that rolls around.
Maybe. One of my closest friends turned 40 yesterday and her boyfriend proposed! I’m so happy for her, her fiancé is wonderful and will make her very happy. I’m certainly going to the wedding, I haven’t asked for the details yet so don’t know when it is.
I haven’t been to a wedding in decades.
If someone is close enough to me to invite me, I politely tell them to invite me to their 10 year anniversary instead.
Got back from a hot Texas afternoon outdoors wedding yesterday. These things shouldn’t be done outdoors from May-August.
Just attended one of my cousin’s yesterday. And in four weeks, my oldest daughter.
One of the 4 I’m attending will be outdoors in Austin, July 6th! :smack: