- I am not allowed to insist the ceremony be started with quotes from Princess Bride, "Mawwaige, the sacwed awwangement, is why we ah gathewed hewe today...Love, Twue Love.."
- Also unsuited to the ceremony's opening is anything from Full Metal Jacket or Terminator 2.
- Also, I am not allowed to make the celebrant dress as Elvis.
- I am also not allowed to dress up as Elvis.
- I promise I will not wear a flame-throwing dress with neck frills.
Nor am I allowed wear the vagina dress (see the pic) and then run around asking everyone what it reminds them of.- But I will at least wear pants.
- The wedding is not on No Pants Thursday.
- Velociraptors do not make great wedding presents.
- Not even if they wear pants.
- And have little hangbags and matching hats.
- Good music for wedding CD's does not include Die, Die, My Darling (Metallica version) or anything by the Bloodhound Gang.
- "That'll do, Pig" is not a valid alternative to "I do".
- I am not allowed swear by love to Golden Boy by swearing.
- The wedding party are not "my bitches". I will not insist on being carried everywhere by palaquin.
- Or making them dress as organ grinder monkeys.
- Roasting politicians over the fire is not an Irish tradition bringing good luck to the wedding.
- Nor is a punch-up.
- No one has to make me offerings of pony or fear my wrath.
- I am not allowed to threaten guests with being thrown to the non-existent volcano to appease the angry SadhbhGod.
- I am not allowed create a volcano to throw guests into.
- Firepits are also right out.
Explanations of these events:
a) I have suggested to Peter, or friends, or occasionally horrified family members.
b) I witnessed another wedding do it.
c) Was spontaneously informed I was not allowed to do.
d) Was the result of a clarification what I was not allowed to do, exactly.
This is heavily based on the format of the hilarious
Skippy’s List: The 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army, which I highly recommend reading.