Food for thought....Check out MSN home page and look for the wedding guest gripes heading...this is the link but it may not work.
http://women.msn.com/1193769.armx?GT1=6559
My FAVOURITE one...
Gripe 21: Giving thanks. 'I can't stand it when brides ***** about who didn't buy them a gift, then fail to thank you for the one you bought them! I expect a handwritten thank-you note within a week of the wedding -- not a brief 'thank you' shoved into a Christmas card months later!' -- Theresa, 28
Is Theresa on crack? Who does she think she is that you would be writing her a thank you card from your honeymoon so she could get it within a week....
All I can assume is that looking at the average age listed for these guests - early 30's that none of these guests are married themselves as some of their so called gripes are out of order...
I know you will all have your favourites!!
I also love the one where the guest is complaining that the service is too long....they shouldnt attend if they are just looking for a vegas drive through.....
Is Guestzilla a Word?
sarahthegreat
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i read this on msn but i missed the thank you one. seriouly a week, is she nuts?? i say for a bridal shower, 2/3 weeks is the minimum, but for a wedding!! she is just crazy!!
sarahthegreat
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i'm just re-reading some of these and i have to ask, is the wedding for the bride and groom or the guests?? seriously, if i had to take into consideration every guests personal request - i wouldn't have a mass, too much kneeling the ceremony and reception would be at the same place - possibly simutanelously, to lessen my poor guests aggrivation about driving from one place to another. give me a break!! these are all just too much
july06bride
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BLAH BLAH BLAH they were super whiney people!
Wintersbride
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Gripe 13: Timing is everything. 'I can't stand any speech that's longer than four minutes -- especially sentimental ones where a brother talks about not being sure he could ever fill his big bro's shoes.' -- Walter, 24
I think Walter is too immature to understand.
That 'saying hi thing'...isn't that what a receiving line is there for? I can only imagen that it must be difficult for the bride and groom to say a personal 'hello' to every single person when they are either being pushed onto the dance floor or in front of a photo lense, but I am sure they will do their best. My parents warned me that at their wedding they did not even have time to eat!
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oh man, the 'it stinks with the B & G are too busy to come by and say hello'...we missed a couple tables and at end of the night, 1 couple approached us to say 'we wish we would have had a chance to say hello to you'
We really did do our best. I know we visited most of the tables, but then people would walk over to talk, or ask us to come out on the dance floor. So, there just wasn't time.
And the 'awkward table'. Crap. What do you do with the 'odd' people? 1 HS friend. 2 college friends. 1 former neighbor
eta: the couple who made the comment about not getting to talk to us skipped our ceremony. That's when we had our receiving line.
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Gripe 6: Class act. 'I was at a wedding in Malibu and it was beautiful... until the DJ let it rip with 'Baby Got Back.' It must have been the bride's request, since she and her gaggle of friends began squealing and ran onto the dance floor. There she was, in her beautiful white Vera Wang wedding gown, with her hand in the air and her *** swinging back and forth. It was nasty. I'm not Miss Proper, but it just seemed out of place to be rump-shakin' at your own wedding.' -- Colleen, 33
hmmmm....maybe I should cross this song off my play list
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Gripe 5: Theatrical weddings. 'The worst was this wedding where the lights dimmed, and then this guy dressed up as something out of Phantom of the Opera came out and performed songs from the musical.' -- Joe, 39
I was at one of these!
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Gripe 4: On the far side. 'I hate when there's a long distance between the ceremony and reception. I went to one wedding where the ceremony and reception were over an hour's drive apart from each other and no transportation was arranged. We kept passing churches on the way to the reception and saying, 'Why didn't they get married there?'' -- Jennifer, 34
OMG...seriously!!?? Just deal!
Im getting married about 45 minutes away from the reception hall cause its the family church and means alot to us...Im getting so upset by these
I can see this one from both sides. As a bride, finding not one but TWO places that are suitable is difficult. As a guest at an out of town wedding, this is a real gripe. When you have no idea where you are and the reception is an hour away and you have already been driving 4 hours to get there, you are not a happy camper. But you do what you gotta do.
