2007-03-13 09:40:39 · 15 answers · asked by Cinnamon 6 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
Having to send every freaken relative an invite because his mom or your mom knows this person will get upset even though they haven't bothered to see you since you were 3 years old.
2007-03-13 09:50:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 0⤋
Some are just silly. Like all the dinners and breakfasts and showers and parties...I mean really, who can afford it! Then the silly tradition of the charm cake...where you take the bridesmaids to lunch and have a cake with charms backed inside and on the outside you pull the charm and it'll read something like "your next", "Love and Fortune" which is supposed to be both a thank you for being in my wedding and a good luck omen (this is of course an antiquated tradition assuming that all bridesmaids are SINGLE and what's more VIRGIN Maidens). I don't know of one person today who has done that.
2007-03-13 16:52:27 · answer #2 · answered by Brandy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The bouquet toss, and the garter toss. Most people hate it and no one believes in the superstition. The garter usually falls on the floor because no man wants to catch it and put it on the leg of some strange woman. Men have to be dragged out to the floor. Married men are coaxed out just to make up the numbers. Usually the garter is caught by an 8 year old boy.
2007-03-13 17:08:27 · answer #3 · answered by danashelchan 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am getting married in June and we are doing some things traditional.. but mostly keeping it the way we want it. My mom and I had a discussion about the tradition "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue"... this is supposed to mean good luck for the marriage, but I really believe in our marriage and definitely don't need luck for it. I think it's silly and just something else to add to the list to stress over finding the "something's".. definitely a tradition that was fine when my parents got married, but not so much for these days. Anyone else doing this?
2007-03-13 18:54:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The biggest one that we are very glad to see gone is family paying for a couple's wedding. These days, with couples working, they are totally paying for their own wedding, since they are mature adults, then there is no squabbling about who wants what. Of course, they still need to be respectful of family traditions.
Women for second weddings having a "traditional" wedding - nuts to that - to everything from a big white dress and someone walking them down the aisle... totally silly. Just have a simple ceremony, with family and friends to dinner at your home.
Glad to see more and more women NOT doing that garter thing, and either just not having it, or having the groom just throw a little bundle of Hershey's chocolate kisses or something to the single guys. No more oppression and sexism!
Not really about a tradition - but I just WISH more "girls" (not necessarily women) were more gracious toward a guy who is buying them an engagement ring, and just accept what he chooses for them. NOT demanding a specific ring, diamond size, etc. That is just crazy. Real women appreciate anything! Especially the question!
2007-03-13 17:36:14 · answer #5 · answered by Lydia 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The tradition that the bride's parents, or any parents, pay for the wedding. If two people are adult enough to get married, then they're adult enough to finance it themselves, even if that means making sacrifices to have a smaller wedding.
2007-03-13 16:47:53 · answer #6 · answered by Pink Denial 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Brides only wearing white, the bride's father "giving away" the bride at a wedding
2007-03-13 17:14:59 · answer #7 · answered by melouofs 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
RECEIVING LINES!!!! Hate them, hate them, hate them. I hate as a guest having to go through and shake the hands of all the wedding party (who I usually don't know) in order to congratulate the bride and groom. And I know all the people having to stand up there hate it as well....
2007-03-13 17:00:39 · answer #8 · answered by basketcase88 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not seeing your fiance before the ceremony on your wedding day. My fiance and I had a relative drop off breakfast the morning of the ceremony and took my kids so him and I could have some alone time before the wedding preparations began. Its was great!
2007-03-13 16:56:22 · answer #9 · answered by Kristin Pregnant with #4 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The "garter grope" thing is pretty tacky. Is it really necessary? Wasn't for me.
2007-03-13 17:23:05 · answer #10 · answered by Violet Pearl 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋