# Wedding dancefloor etiquette, or, "Get off my man, beyotch!" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 10, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322 "2012-09-10T19:47:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/21 "2012-09-11T18:13:13Z")
… Having my brother sink a jet-ski and my father wreck his boat at my wedding reception. The damage to the water crafts cost more than the ceremony+reception. And neither party was drunk (my brother is just stupid, Dad was hit by another boat.) … Having my stepmother yell “You are such a goddamned cocksucker!” at my father during my older sister’s reception. Good times! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/22 "2012-09-11T18:18:23Z")
My friend had a money dance at his wedding. Everyone was down with it, except his drama queen ex roomate, who didn’t see any problem with cutting in front of 15 guests and wanting to dance without contributing so much as a dollar. When she was politely asked to get back in line (and pick up a few singles along the way) she ran off crying :rolleyes: . At my wedding, during the reception, they were getting ready to have tables get up to start getting the (buffet style) food. My Best Man’s wife, upon hearing the caterer call another table instead of hers, tried to insist they eat before everyone else, including my bride’s parents/immediate family :eek: . My wife was deepy offended by this. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/23 "2012-09-11T18:22:45Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > At my wedding, during the reception, they were getting ready to have tables get up to start getting the (buffet style) food. My Best Man’s wife, upon hearing the caterer call another table instead of hers, tried to insist they eat before everyone else, including my bride’s parents/immediate family :eek: . My wife was deepy offended by this. Was the best man’s wife not sitting at the head table? I’ve never thrown a wedding, only attended a few. But shouldn’t the head table be served first? Including the bride/groom and bridesmaids/groomsmen? Not sure how yours was set up, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Mithras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mithras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithras)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/24 "2012-09-11T19:06:08Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Was the best man’s wife not sitting at the head table? I’ve never thrown a wedding, only attended a few. But shouldn’t the head table be served first? Including the bride/groom and bridesmaids/groomsmen? > > Not sure how yours was set up, of course. In my experience, weddings with larger bridal parties tend to have only the bridal party itself at the head table. The last (large, formal) wedding I was at had a memorably inappropriate speech by the best man/the groom’s brother. He had said “shit” by the second sentence. I figured that while it was a bit edgy for a best man speech, it could be argued to be a way to loosen up the crowd. By the end of it he’d worked in several other words I would hesitate to say to my grandmother and young nieces and nephews. What pushed him over the edge was, when insulting his brother for wrestling in high school, said that he’d had, “more balls on his chin than Elton John.” There was a camera recording it but sadly I’m not close enough to the couple to have hope of getting a copy. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/25 "2012-09-11T19:10:59Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > **As long as she wasn’t a family member** , clearly the only solution was to have a threesome. Prude. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/26 "2012-09-11T19:16:40Z")
> [@Mithras](#): > > In my experience, weddings with larger bridal parties tend to have only the bridal party itself at the head table. > > The last (large, formal) wedding I was at had a memorably inappropriate speech by the best man/the groom’s brother. He had said “shit” by the second sentence. I figured that while it was a bit edgy for a best man speech, it could be argued to be a way to loosen up the crowd. By the end of it he’d worked in several other words I would hesitate to say to my grandmother and young nieces and nephews. What pushed him over the edge was, when insulting his brother for wrestling in high school, said that he’d had, “more balls on his chin than Elton John.” There was a camera recording it but sadly I’m not close enough to the couple to have hope of getting a copy. That sounds like a movie. Hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/27 "2012-09-11T19:22:10Z")
> [@j666](#): > > It’s rude. No-one likes it when some-one is rude to them. It is the “to them.” part that causes all the trouble…“to them” is all about perception and ego, and not the rude behavior. She was behaving like a skank. You can laugh or get pissed, or totally ignore it…your choice. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/28 "2012-09-11T19:41:42Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > At my friend’s wedding, one of the bridesmaids brought a date she had just picked up off the side of the road – literally. Some strange guy’s car had broken down and she stopped to see if he needed help, decided he looked like good times and brought him to the traditional fancy wedding in his jeans and flannel shirt. I won’t say there was anything wrong with him (he didn’t start a fight or get obnoxiously drunk) but it was amusingly memorable as a breach of standard wedding protocol. Ha. A week before we got married, my (now ex-)husband-to-be was getting his hair cut by a flaky girl who, also cut _my_ hair. His buddy who’d driven him to the haircut, zeroed in on this nut and invited her as his date to our wedding! So the whole reception I was like, “… and this is Petal, um, she cuts my hair.” Adding to the surreal air was that the wedding was in another city some distance away from the hair-cutting. It wasn’t like she just jumped in the car and came. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/29 "2012-09-11T20:12:01Z")
We had an extremely drunk speech by hubby’s uncle than droned on and on and said nothing… it was not the highlight ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/30 "2012-09-11T20:38:40Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Prude. Ok, make that close family member. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/31 "2012-09-11T22:52:09Z")
> [@Kevbo](#): > > It is the “to them.” part that causes all the trouble…“to them” is all about perception and ego, and not the rude behavior. She was behaving like a skank. You can laugh or get pissed, or totally ignore it…your choice. Hitting on another person’s sweetie is rude to said person, as well as embarrassing for said sweetie. I think the definition of “skank” includes pissing people off; otherwise, you’re just a tramp. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/32 "2012-09-11T23:06:21Z")
I used to work in a hotel where we also did wedding receptions. One time a cow-orker ended up sleeping with the sister of the bride. The husband was downstairs partying on, 2 kids asleep upstairs (me on baby monitor duty), they were having sex in the cloak room. Awkward… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/33 "2012-09-11T23:10:37Z")
> [@gracer](#): > > I used to work in a hotel where we also did wedding receptions. One time a cow-orker ended up sleeping with the sister of the bride. The husband was downstairs partying on, 2 kids asleep upstairs (me on baby monitor duty), they were having sex in the cloak room. Awkward… If it’s a big enough cloak room, it doesn’t have to be _that_ awkward… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/34 "2012-09-11T23:24:22Z")
I watched a bride, groom and entire wedding party get arrested at their own courthouse wedding after all of them joined in on a slugfest between the bride and the groom. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/35 "2012-09-12T00:06:16Z")
One of my cousin’s groomsmen, Steve, was dating a very unstable, very insecure girl, Pam. We’d heard many, many stories about Pam from my cousin before we ever met them. Pam was part-girlfriend, part stalker. If he made eye contact with another girl, she’d go into hysterics. If he told her he was going out to a bar with friends, she’d show up. Major whackadoodle. Anyway, at their engagement party, she accused my sister on hitting on him, which was ridiculous. We’d all been sitting around talking and laughing and telling stories. There was no flirting going at all. But she had a meltdown and off they went. Well, to teach her a lesson, my cousin deliberately paired him with my sister for the wedding. (She was a bridesmaid.) My sister made a point of overtly flirting with him during the wedding party dance. She laughed and made him do dips, etc. He kept asking her to stop, because he knew what was coming, but she poured it on. I think that she assumed that he’d see what a nutjob he was dating and break it off. Predictably, Pam ended up making a big scene by bursting into tears and running out of the reception. Steve followed her. They never returned to the reception. Joke was on us. They ended up getting married a year later. I need to ask my cousin if they’re still married because that was 25 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Koldanar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@Koldanar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koldanar)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/36 "2012-09-12T14:13:46Z")
I must say, these are EXCELLENT stories to hear when your own wedding is two weeks away! There ARE issues in the family, but luckily, those that might start things aren’t attending! YAY! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322/37 "2012-09-12T17:21:38Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I watched a bride, groom and entire wedding party get arrested at their own courthouse wedding after all of them joined in on a slugfest between the bride and the groom. Classy. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dancefloor-etiquette-or-get-off-my-man-beyotch/634322.md?page=1)