Not getting married, I think getting married is a lovely thing to do...it's just "weddings" that are, to me, overhyped.  I wish more folk would put more effort into being married than they do wedding days (I know that makes me sound exactly like a 76 year old WI member )

Like, breakdowns and stresses over table decorations, and what guests wear and getting arsey over what their gift list is (people with gift lists, you are mostly bloody brats *hmmph*) FFS when it's all over, what you have to do is live with someone, and their annoying habits, and their twattyness, and they have to put up with you (me) poor sods.

The intricate attention to detail, smoked salmon or foie gras for starter, panicky, headcase lunacy won't mean you can still tolerate each other in a years time.

Now I'm gonna go kick myself for being a stupid, miserable, grumpy old fart

I quite like the really "naff" ones..    they can be a right giggle.  (unicorns    just ignore the string tying the horn onto the horses heads) 

Not keen on the ones that thought it was great fun to "Mix it up" with the seating arrangements and would put everyone on separate tables from anyone they know!  

I ended up on a table with three blokes in kilts (who were probably very nice... but I couldn't understand a word they said)...   and a woman who had been split from her partner... plonked on our table.. with their hyperactive toddler and a nursing newborn!   It was a long long long wedding breakfast...   I could hear what a jolly time hubby was having across the other side of the room... on his table full of lively, witty, interesting people!  


Though...  this may have been cos of the previous wedding when they had put us all together at tables..     our table decided to have the "eat the desert with no hands...  but not allowed to eat the decorative mint leaf race challenge"

Nah, you're just being realistic

I think eloping sounds ace   I think we may have done that...had we had a few more quid and time to think.

I agree entirely *is also a grumpy auld wumman* People pissing about with tiny details and spending £20K on one day is bonkers

You get invited to some right weddings!  A dessert with no hands challenge and a unicorn??

oh god yes!!

I remember one where we got the happy couple 2 forks, 2 knives, 2 spoons...   costing £100!

The only thing would be I wouldn't want my parents to miss it... can they come too, or does it somewhat defeat the point of eloping?

YAY! have us Northerners got our heads screwed on or what!

I thought everyone had a gift list now... I thought it was the done thing?

hahaha! Or we're reet miserable bastards, depending on your viewpoint I just think though, the money some people spend on the wedding can be put to better use... like a deposit for a house or summat.... people seem to focus far too much on the wedding, rather than the marriage

Aww Ditty, I know I sound I right commoner here but I just cannot hack the kind of wedding you have just described...My idea of naff is probably different.

If I went to a wedding and it was loads of good friends and a meal from the chippy I'd love it...I find the "standard" planned over hyped thing naff, if I knew someone who got married in a tracksuit and had cheesy wotsits for the meal I would think it ace...if it suited them...and they really loved each other.

Its' all the headwrecking over-planning and shite...just urgh.

And what makes my contribution to this thread all the more surreal is..... I'm a single girl/woman, who likes her own company!   

worra pleb Leccy 

Nah, parents are different.   I think parents or if you have especially cool grandparents...
Infriggin'deed!  A house/place to live (trust me) can be so huuuugely important to your well-being...a dress? Nope.
More pease pudding wi' that pet?

My wedding cost about £300 (granted it was 21 yearsago) and thati cluded the rings and my dress...our mums did the food and everyone said it was the happiest, most relaxed wedding they'd been to....I couldn't have hacked a big do or a church one either.

and a stottie

awww, I've nor had a stottie fer yonks man

Flippin eck! Tell me they were made of real gold

Awww Saz *Sends Saz a Greggs ham and pease pudd stottie*

I actually agree.

We seriously considered doing something quiet.. or going away and doing it.  But it was cos of the kids we decided to do it properly.    Hubby wanted them to feel involved..   and I loved my wedding (but with hindsight.... yeah, I regret spending as much as we did on it!).   No doubt about it...  as the day grew closer & closer the feeling that our wedding was becoming more & more about doing things for other peoples sakes!  (tis always the guests/family you think will be understanding & supportive about stuff that end up being the right pain in the arse)

We both felt it was something quite private...  it felt odd.. the ceremonial bit...  doing it in front of people...   which is probably why we giggled the whole way through it!  


But ours was quite informal compared to most of his mates do's...   on couple got married in the little round church on The Strand!

TWO unicorns (though neither of the horses were actually white)...   that was the wedding when they did the tacky dove release thing too! 

nope!   they were pretty unimpressive!

they were all we could afford off the list!

I just id a multiple quote thing, replied to everyone then flupped it up, posting in the wrong bits.

Oh, I've often wanted to do that..............You're not the person to ask for advice then

If I did get married I'd have a great big pegasus.

Just snipping this bit....it's awful innit? On my wedding day my sis in law (Mrs L's sis) moaned about him spending to much with me over his kids...I mean WTF?

We made sure his girls were included in everything...even down to his ex and in laws depositing them at the venue and me going out to to fuss over/kiss/schmooze them (ex in laws AND ex wife AND her new bloke)
 
...then his sis pipes up "Are you gonna spend ANY time with your daughters instead of paying attention to HER (me) all day" 

All you'd need is 1 horse (or pony, or if donkey)..  & then just tie on some fairy wings  (kids dress up section in Asda - £5!)

You just quote, then x it off, then click on reply again, ad infinitum but I started typing in the wrong box

ahahahahaha that even naffer

Oh right ta, I'll try it when I'm in a better state than what i am

oh god!   don't even get me started on my brothers wedding.  I was a bridesmaid.  Only time I had ever been a bridesmaid!

I agreed to wear the dodgy green christmas tree like dress with white piping...   agreed to sit on the "top table"...  after some serious tantrumming on my part, I agreed to wear the really horrible white shoes...  and then she told me I wasn't allowed to get my hair cut shorter than so many inches below my shoulders!

It was like Challenge Anneka...   I was straight to the hairdressers getting my hair cut into a short jawlength bob!

And.... I smuggled a decent dress with me to the reception...  got changed after we'd eaten... refused to do the "all the girls mandatory Wigfield dance" and spent the rest of the night doing the dirty lambada with the best man!

I was thinking of crossing a horse with a swan.   I'd have to plan it well in advance though - how long is the gestation period of a horse/swan?

Bridezilla tastic

Dunno Kmarx, I haven't really taken the time to find out

I think it would be best if the horse impregnated the swan because I don't think eggs take long?

Ditty, this is all that is eeeebil and nasty about weddings!

Green dresses with white piping!  And hair cuts!

Yeah, but when you look at the size of them both  

If a swan can get an egg out it can get a horse in.

It's how to get the egg in there between them both in the first place though innit