Not wanting to go through a wedding

[Bobby Ralgex]

The year 2007 - I felt I had to. Looking back I was a twat. I didn't want to.

Didn't last.

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

This thread title is a real tease, Bobby. I assumed the titular wedding was this weekend.

[Bobby Ralgex]

No it wasn't. Didn't really get on with her.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

You shouldn't have agreed to marry her then, you dozy git.

Someone will come along soon, and put up an image of Mark and Sophie from " Peep Show" leaving the church in tears  directly after getting wed, I'm sure.

[The Boston Crab]

Need to have strength of conviction or you got nothin, I always say.

I once called off an engagement because she said AnCo were shit.

Looking back, she was the most principled human being I've ever met, prepared to die on that hill knowing full well that I would react in the only way I could.

All it would of took was a pair of headphones.

[Crabwalk]

I'm not convinced that anyone in history has really wanted to go through with their wedding.

[Brian Freeze]

I wanted to be married, marry the person I was marrying and was very happily married. Didnt want the wedding bit though.

[checkoutgirl]

I'm not convinced that anyone in history has really wanted to go through with their wedding.

It's just showing off isn't it? That's what annoys me about weddings. It's just proles trying to see what it's like to be famous for a day. Speeches about nobodies when they met each other. Saying doesn't the bride look fuckable 57 times. Unfunny jokes that crack up the audience.

The worst human invention yet.

[bgmnts]

I hate funerals for the same reason, just replace the word bride with corpse.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

You mean go through *with*, too. Bloody annoying me, that is.

[Urinal Cake]

Weddings, funerals are ideally once off occasions. Now birthdays and Christmases people always try to outdo some imagined past.

[NJ Uncut]

I'm sorely disappointed.

I thought this was a rare CaB motoring thread!

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

All it would of took was a pair of headphones.

Of you ever thought that was silly?

[Johnny Yesno]

Of you ever thought that was silly?

Must of.

[Bazooka]

Go around instead.

[Buelligan]

Weddings, funerals are ideally once off occasions. Now birthdays and Christmases people always try to outdo some imagined past.

Have I ever mentioned, I don't do birthdays and Christmas?  Never.  Weddings are right out. 

I will, however, allow myself just the one cheeky funeral, just to see what they're like, a dimly-lit funeral for one, no guests, keep it simple, post me back to god with the printable label and forget about it.

[SetToStun]

It's just showing off isn't it? That's what annoys me about weddings. It's just proles trying to see what it's like to be famous for a day. Speeches about nobodies when they met each other. Saying doesn't the bride look fuckable 57 times. Unfunny jokes that crack up the audience.

The worst human invention yet.

Not always. When my wife and I married a few years ago we just had a few close friends and our families come to the register office and then, when it was all done and dusted, retired to a local pub for Champagne and other drinks until the opened the live music venue next door. Free bar all night and a right proper buffet - not one speech, nothing more than a proper knees-up.

I agree, though, that for an awful lot of people weddings have become a competitive sport - I've been to a couple where the "happy" couple were proud of the fact that hiring the castle, paying for their families' rooms, getting the catering sorted, hiring the wedding planner, table flowers, the dresses and all the other malarkey that seems to come with these things cost them the thick end of £50,000. And the next couple to be getting hitched take all that in and decide they have to spend even more - because that means they'd had a better wedding. Fuck that.

[Astronaut Omens]

post me back to god with the printable label

That's a fantastic way of saying it.

[Buelligan]

Ta.  Nice of you.

Fuck me Stunners, you're home.  I'll get kettle on.

[wosl]

In the summer of '95 someone bounded up to me (I knew them quite well) while I was taking a dip in the sea at Zandvoort and said winningly "I'd like to marry you!" And, although becoming married had never vaguely figured in my goals or ambitions - such as they were - in any case, it dawned right then and there that I'd never be capable of the developing the sort of belief you need to go through with an act like that.  Good times.

[SetToStun]

Fuck me Stunners, you're home.  I'll get kettle on.

Buellers! I have truly, genuinely missed being around here - and you're one of the biggest reasons I've missed the place. Sadly this will be but a flying visit so belay the kettle and get the wine out (a slightly-chilled Gamay for preference).

[Buelligan]

Seriously, please try to come back here more often, you have been greatly missed.

[SetToStun]

Seriously, please try to come back here more often, you have been greatly missed.

You're way too kind but yes, I promise I will try to get a little more free time and come back. Now where's my (lightly-chilled) Gamay?

[wosl]

We placed a glass near your bad leg.  Don't kick it over.  With your leg.  The bad one.



_{^{(apologies if you've actually got a bad leg)}}

[checkoutgirl]

retired to a local pub for Champagne

Maybe there is hope for the human race.

It's the speeches that get me. It's just....fuck off. They're interminable claptrap. At best.

[José]

I once called off an engagement because she said AnCo were shit.

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