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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
This raises the most annoying practice of all at weddings: The bride or groom's parent telling the room how much he/she'd like grandchildren. Tasteless. Why no just say "Hey, everybody, close your eye and think about the couple fucking."
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It's tasteless not because of the imagery, but because it is unfunny in the same tired way asking a tall person if they play basketball is. Other annoying wedding practices:
1. Best man speech implying he and groom were wild and crazy guys, with vague implication debauchery involved use & abuse of hot-looking women, until along came Sally (the bride) who changed everything forever. Unfunny b/c we know they were both nerds and the groom is "marrying up" in the cool-department. Why do nerds suddenly get to become known as "former lotharios" on their wedding day?
2. Wedding favors. Don't do me any! (Unless they can be recycled as small holiday gifts, which would not include an apple-shaped tin with a candle inside).
3. Sending me a wallet-sized pic of the bride and groom 2 weeks later. That pic fits nicely in the wallet known as the trash can in my apartment lobby.
4. Failure to have a petit four table. A Sunday afternoon wedding of a work aquaintance, featuring a harp and classical guitar, (and therefore no chance of kitschy fun drunkenly passing a Tequila bottle down a Conga line of 350 people on a Saturday night to the tune of "Hot, Hot, Hot") had better have a lot of food at all times in all courses because the food's the only reason we're there.
5. The expectation that I stand and cry while the bride dances to 1/16th of some song with her Dad, like it's the pinnacle of something or other.
6. Seating me with retarded and semi-retarded wedding guests and apparently expecting me to take pics of the table of us with those cheap disposable cameras in the middle of the centerpiece?
7. Fruit as centerpiece. It's not THAT ironic!
