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This weekend I was in Montreal because one of my cousins got married. As someone who is planning to get married in the near future, I found it a very useful study in what not to do at a wedding:
1. Do not serve the meal in small courses spaced 45 minutes apart. Old people have to go home, and most people, when they sit down to dinner at 6, expect to finish before 10.
2. Make sure that dinner includes real food. Half-cooked vegetables and instant potatoes do not count as food. Vegetarians should also get an appetizer (especially when the appetizer is cantaloupe and prosciutto-it's very easy to just bring a plate with cantaloupe).
3. Do not let the DJ also MC. Do not hire a DJ who thinks she is clever. Do not allow her to play stupid games in between courses.
4. Bring a tazer or strong sedative for members of the family who are drunk by the end of the appetizer course. Knock them out and pile them in the coat room so they cannot embarrass the rest of the family.
5. If expecting mostly drunk and rowdy twentysomethings, do not choose tea cups as take-home trinkets. (Although it did mean I came home with a set of nine teacups...)
Overall I had fun, I guess. But I've decided that it must be much more fun to attend a wedding for a friend than for a family member. Weddings are also way less fun when your significant other isn't there. Especially when the wedding is particularly bad, 'cause I really could have used someone other than my mother to get drunk with...
But at least I had an excuse to look fabulous.
1. Do not serve the meal in small courses spaced 45 minutes apart. Old people have to go home, and most people, when they sit down to dinner at 6, expect to finish before 10.
2. Make sure that dinner includes real food. Half-cooked vegetables and instant potatoes do not count as food. Vegetarians should also get an appetizer (especially when the appetizer is cantaloupe and prosciutto-it's very easy to just bring a plate with cantaloupe).
3. Do not let the DJ also MC. Do not hire a DJ who thinks she is clever. Do not allow her to play stupid games in between courses.
4. Bring a tazer or strong sedative for members of the family who are drunk by the end of the appetizer course. Knock them out and pile them in the coat room so they cannot embarrass the rest of the family.
5. If expecting mostly drunk and rowdy twentysomethings, do not choose tea cups as take-home trinkets. (Although it did mean I came home with a set of nine teacups...)
Overall I had fun, I guess. But I've decided that it must be much more fun to attend a wedding for a friend than for a family member. Weddings are also way less fun when your significant other isn't there. Especially when the wedding is particularly bad, 'cause I really could have used someone other than my mother to get drunk with...
But at least I had an excuse to look fabulous.