If you’re interested in this sort of thing, goggle Pam Bondi wedding. She’s the Florida attorney general and (relatively) famously had a non-wedding last year.
My cousin’s son and his fiancee cancelled the night before. Family had come in from all over the country for the wedding. They just said that it was too important to go into just because plans had been made, and that they considered their wedding a sacrament and the only marriage they’d have, they wanted to be sure. The family agreed with them and partied anyway. They married about 6 months later and are still married now, about 12 years later.
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We got married at a (public) country club which had a location for holding an outdoor wedding (this is why we chose the place; my then-fiancee really wanted to get married outdoors). As the wedding was in August, in Chicago, we rented a big canopy so that everyone would be out of the sun – this turned out to be a good idea, as it was a hot, sunny day.
Our wedding was at 11 a.m.; there was another wedding scheduled for 2 p.m., also using that same location (a hill, overlooking the golf course). About a month before the wedding, as my fiancee was arranging the details for the canopy, the director at the country club told her about the other wedding, and suggested that we see if the other bride and groom would be interested in splitting the cost of the canopy with us. My fiancee called the other bride, who (surprisingly) said she was completely uninterested.
After our wedding ceremony, the staff at the country club actually moved all of the folding chairs out from under “our” canopy, about 20 yards, to the “uncovered” portion of the hill, since the other wedding hadn’t chipped in for the canopy.
After we finished with the wedding pictures, we headed inside, to one of the club’s reception halls, for our reception (this was some time before the other wedding was scheduled to begin). At some point during our reception, some of our guests decided to head across the hallway, to see what the “other” reception was like. They saw several people leaving, carrying wrapped gifts, and looking pretty angry. The other wedding never went off (we learned that the groom stood the bride up)! We suspected that the bride knew something was up, and that was why she didn’t go in on the canopy (no sense throwing good money after bad).
I had totally forgotten about it, but I do remember a wedding like that. A good friend and co-worker of mine got engaged when she was 16, due to an unplanned pregnancy with a 27-year old guy (!) who was also a co-worker. The wedding was planned, but at the last minute, her mother declined to permit the wedding to happen (since the bride was underage, she didn’t have much choice) and the wedding didn’t happen.
She wound up miscarrying, but didn’t let that deter her from marrying the guy once she turned 18. Lasted a few years, ended in divorce. She is a bright and beautiful young woman, and I always did wonder how she ever wound up married to a loser-doodle like that. Thankfully she chose better the second time around!
This question has come up before, and I’ll give the same answer I always give:
EVERY wedding I’ve ever attended has gone forth as scheduled, and nobody has yet called off a wedding on the day of the ceremony.
And only ONCE have I even heard a priest/minister/rabbi/justice of the peace ask if anyone knows of a reason why the couple should not be joined in matrimony.
Heard about one:
I was in a music store looking at guitars and got to talking with some guys that were working and /or hanging out. One guy was telling about a wedding reception his band was hired for. They were at the reception hall setting up when a few people from the wedding came in. The bride’s father walked up to the band, took a wad of cash out of his pocket, paid them in full and told them the reception was off. Turned out the bride’s brothers had found the groom and a bridesmaid in a car making out (or maybe more) before the wedding and kicked the shit out of him, leading to cancellation of the wedding.
Wait. To me, “making out” can be anything from holding hands to inserting a live ferret anally. Is there an upper limit to “making out”, and if so, what is it?
Thanks!
“Making out” encompasses 1st-4th base, but does not include intercourse. “Fooling around” seems to cover everything.
Not quite but this is a dramatic twist - I was in a wedding where due to last-minute decisions by the bride and groom, the marriage license was not signed but the wedding was performed. Only a very few people (including those who were supposed to sign as a witness, one of whom was me) knew this fact.
One of the couple had medical issues that were feared may get worse, and it was suspected that legally marrying might lead to a situation where said person might not be eligible for medical assistance were it needed later. As far as I know, the marriage may still not have been legally completed, many years later.
It was a story I heard years ago from strangers. I don’t recall if the groom and bridesmaid (supposedly) were having sexual intercourse, getting a blow job, holding hands or inserting ferrets but apparently it was enough that the wedding got cancelled. Let’s put it this way…if your (hypothetical) sister was getting married and you found (on the wedding day) the groom in a car with one of the bridesmaids… what would be your upper limit to what you would accept before the ass kicking commenced? 
Urm? Isn’t “4th base” Home, aka intercourse?
Sarabellum1976: “loser-doodle”! Hee hee! I’m stealing that.
At my wedding the question was not asked either. But after the vows were exchanged, and we had been pronounced husband and wife, the minister said “If either of you knows anything which would divide your heart and soul from one another, let it now be left behind, to the mercy and forgiveness of God.” And the congregation was told “If henceforth anyone should seek to divide them one from another, let them do so at the peril of offending a creation that God has made, and that has his blessing.”
But the next time you tell this story, say the bridesmaid was anally inserting a live ferret into the groom.
Many years ago I was invited to the wedding of a co-worker and her longtime sweetheart. The bride had had a really rough couple of years - her mother had died, her father remarried rather quickly, and she really viscerally hated her stepmother and was convinced her stepmother was trying to alienate her father from his kids. We had no way of evaluating the reality of any of that, so all tried our best to be supportive.
Well, I got home a few hours before the wedding was scheduled (a local one, thankfully) to a phone message that the wedding was off because the bride had been admitted to the psych ward. The party was still on (reception had been paid for, after all, and a rather elaborate one), but we felt weird about the whole thing, so we didn’t go. The bride was eventually released from the psych ward, but she was never quite the same after that, and sadly the relationship didn’t survive.
I was to conduct a wedding: crowd gathered, including bride. Groom never arrived. Eventually they called it off, and bride’s mother begged people to come and eat the food already prepared. Later we found that the groom was in a car accident on the way, and was in the hospital, all his family with him.
Couldn’t remember the name of the church, so they didn’t phone, or think to send someone. I don’t think they ever got married. I’ve seen a wedding delayed while the groom tried to find someone to sew up the rear seam in his tux - he had never taken it out of the box. Wedding went on, with safety pins.
Intercourse is “going all the way.” Fourth base is just fingering, heavy petting dry-humping, other genital contact. Maybe that was just 1980s Kentucky, but it seemed pretty standard for everyone at the time.
According to friends with teens, 4th base is typical first date behavior nowadays.
D’oh, it just hit me - that’s 3rd base. gigi was/is right, 4th base was indeed intercourse. Can’t believe I misremebered that! :smack:
I’ve always been fond of the old “sacrifice fly with runners in scoring position” if you get my drift.
One of my best friends from the old hometown lives in NYC and let me know she and her (jerkwad, asshole) boyfriend were getting married. She has a bit of money and had already paid for the deposit at Tavern On The Green in Central Park - a rather pricey location, to say the least.
Luckily, just a few days before I booked the flight (which I could ill afford at the time), she called and said the wedding was off. I was relieved that I wouldn’t have to fly out there and take off work and spend money I didn’t have, but also relieved it was over with idiot boyfriend!
No such luck - 12 years later they are still together, not-married, and he is an even more obnoxious moocher asshole, but what can I say - she must see something in him that I (nor any of her friends) can see.
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I was at one that was noticeably delayed because- I found out later- the bride was puking up everything she had eaten or even thought about eating for the past 3 years due to a horrible case of nerves that required a complete undressing and re-dressing and mouthwashing and the like, but the show went on and last I heard they were still married more than a decade later.
I’ve read mixed accounts of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln’s first engagement, some being that he essentially left her standing at the altar like Miss Havisham and others that they called it off mutually a few days before the nuptials. Does anybody know which is closer to truth? (Either way, when they became engaged the second time it was a very low key affair with only a few of her relatives in attendance as a “Just in case he bolts” precaution.)