We went to the oddest wedding reception last night, much to our dismay. The reception was held at one of those "full service" reception centers---they provide everything food, music, cake, decorations, bar all for a set fee. Well, the wedding couple were actually married in the afternoon at the court house. They had photos at the groom's parent's lakeside house. Around 5 or 6 they dressed up in their wedding garb, got into a limo, and rode around drinking shots for an hour or so. They were all drunk by the time they turned up at the reception. They walked in doing that "arghhhhh!" you see on MTV or wrestling channels. The best man's toast was "Well man, I thought you were F ---ed, but she seems to have helped you". OK- well wasn't that pleasant.? All the "boys" sat in the limo drinking and all the girls danced in the reception. It was like a prom gone bad. We stayed long enough to eat a bite, got a piece of cake (I thought they would never cut the damn cake), took bets on who wuld vomit first, smiled at everyone, and left. It was one of the longest two hour segments of our lives. The groom's mother and bride's grandmother did not seem at all abashed that their kids were acting like complete jackasses. I must be getting old.

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How old were the bride and groom?

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The groom is 21 and the bride may be 18. Of course, their 4 month old kid was also there. Oh, we were sitting at the table next to the head table, I heard the bestman tell his girlfriend in a drunken WHISPER, "I give them a year, no no, a year and 4 months".

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That's a shame! What a weird wedding - not the kind they're likely to look back on with fond memories.

The weirdest wedding for me was one in which I was actually I bridesmaid for an old high school friend. After the clergy person proclaimed them husband and wife and the married couple turned to walk back up the aisle, the mother of the groom stood by the front and handed out huge signs to each usher as they followed the groom - the signs said "...and another one bites the dust" - there was all this snickering, and I looked over to see "my" usher carrying this sign dutifully that had been handed to him as we walked up the aisle in the church! The marriage didn't last longer than a few years. My poor high school friend didn't stand a chance with that mother-in-law, I imagine...

We've been to a wedding where in the first hour the entire bridal party, plus parents were drunk. It was not fun. Plus they had a full sized cow bell they kept ringing over and over.

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I have seen it all (I am a catering manager)! One wedding the groom was so drunk he was puking in the men's room. Just last weekend the bride was doing shots and at the end of the night, she could barely stand to walk out to her ride. We just kept saying hope she gets out of her gown before she yaks!!

I have seen mothers of the groom fall asleep at the table because they were drunk and even an old grandma fall on her butt on the dance floor because she had too much.

It is one day you want to remember, can't these people control themselves and limit the alcohol for this day. It bugs the crap out of me to see this at a reception. We strongly discourage our bartenders from making shots for anyone at a wedding. It's bad enough these people are drinking at a 4 hour open bar let alone adding shots to the mix!

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I've never been to a drunken wedding but at my sister's wedding the limo driver told us his customers the day before, were a group of 20 bridesmaids/groomsmen... They drank 8 bottles of liquor in the limo on their way to the service at a Catholic church and could barely walk into the entrance. I can't even imagine how that ceremony went if most of them were smashed before it even started. Not sure why people do such dumb things -

And you got through all that without a few drinks yourself? You're one tough person.

We got married in Vegas, had a limo, because all the packages seemed to come with that, and were told we weren't allowed to drink in the limo. I didn't think much of that, until the driver mentioned that they had to come up with that rule after having problems with women peeing out the windows of the car. The limo was owned by the wedding chapel, just by the way. I literally was struck speechless.

Um, I could see a man peeing out the window, but, a woman??? OMG!!! I don't know what it is about wedding receptions that seem to make people think they can throw class out the window. SIL had a wedding, and had it of not been for sitting next to him at the church, I would not have known DH even went At the reception, another family member felt the need to get plastered, and try to kick the groom's a*s, and recant his entire screwed up life. DH was sweet enuf to keep him occupied in the room where the bar was so he didn't ruin the entire thing. I was NOT so "sweet".

I've also had a bunch of horn dogs forget they brought their wives to the reception and try pick me up. Back off Jack, I'm just the Bridesmaid and you're a groomsman.....down doggy!!!

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Gosh, sounds like a bad Jeff Foxworthy joke...wow. For their ages, it's not too much of a stretch. I live next to a college town and get to see how kids that age act all the time. OMG...I just called them kids...I AM getting old! There was a bacholorette party going on at the On The Border we ate lunch at yesterday. 20 girls...top age maybe 23. It was shameful. They were all drunk (or appeared so), they were stacking empty glasses on top of empty chip bowls until it fell (and broke the glasses) and the bride to be a T shirt with lifesavers tacked onto it and was trying to get the waiters to *suck* them off. Uh, those lifesavers are NOT in a location where people need to see them sucked off! I complained and our waitress said the staff was complaining as well but the manager let it keep going. I can't imagine acting like that....shameful and rude to the other people around.

I mean, if the bride and groom wanted to get trashed (which is sounds like is the case plus illegal for the wife to do), why have the reception? I would have taken a nice photo of them in a bad position (puking, etc) and printed it and framed it for their gift LOL

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As a little girl we went to a Hell's Angel's wedding. It was my Mom's goddaughter. People were drunk and the police came checking everyone for warrants. The food on the buffet table ran out that is what horrified my mannerly Mother the most! We left early and Mom took us to the drugstore for paper dolls.

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