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LOL! Nothing so interesting on mine, just the socially inept/extremely rude, alcoholic, emotional ice, piece of crap father of my cousins (all three are in the wedding, as a BM, Jr. BM, and ring bearer).
Hmmm, well - we're inviting my high school prom date/guy I lost my virginity to/longest bf I've ever had (still longer than FI and I have dated!!) & FI's high school prom date. I think those are the only really odd ones.
EDIT: To explain, I dumped my high school BF when I went to college. He stayed in touch with some of our friends from that period and about 6 yrs later started dating my best friend (who'd dated and gone to prom with one of HIS friends) They got married this summer, and I was MOH - it was great to see his whole fam again=)
Ooooh good post! I'll stick with just the especially bad ones though I could go on:
Too many random relatives I never see/talk to to count, my mom's psycho crazy "friend"/business partner who drama follows around like flies to s**t, a bridesmaid who I have since begun to absolutely loathe, a best man who I REALLY cannot stand and his meth-addict looking pseudo-girlfriend, my MOH's BF who doesn't own any dress clothes and has social anxiety and doesn't know anyone else there, and last but not least my aunt (who used to be my uncle) who since her surgery has become one of those "all about me" people and uses all family get-togethers to pull her "I am now woman, hear me roar routine" and makes everything all about her. SHE is the person that will wear white to my wedding, guaranteed.
The alcoholic, a male cousin with too much drama, two people that needs gluten free diets, a family that I allowed to be the exception to the adult only wedding, one guest who is legally blind, a bunch of retired marines, one active in the navy, pyscho MIL, FIL with much younger gf,
@kitty...the "my aunt (who used to be my uncle)" part was fabulously unexpected! THANK YOU for that.
@ Kitty- I think your "aunt" takes the cake!
I have two sets of great and aunt and uncles that my family laughed out loud when I mentioned their names to get their addresses. One of these great aunts was in the hospital on a psych hold last fall. And the other couple are money hungry and have sued people so many times for rediculous things. I just hope they don't trip and fall and try to sue my vendor (they have done this before only no to my vendor:))
Well, originally, we had only our closest friends and family on the list, and since we both get on very well with our families, there were no "worst" guests. But now, my mother is insisting that we invite a bunch of friends we don't really know, so the "worst" guests are just strangers.
The best is everyone else. :)
A few relatives I havent seen since my first birthday, MOG who is determined to ruin the wedding, and several alcoholics who havent grown up yet... that will probably try to play beer pong at the head table :)
Haha! We haven’t gotten RSVPs back yet, but ones I know for sure will be there as they are all close fam/friends include:
The nudist doctor, the Marxist philosopher, the thrice divorced friend who will marry us, several alcoholics (on both sides), Obama’s former White House counsel, the spot-light stealer, the “I’d-tell-you-what-I-do-but-then-I’d-have-to-kill-you” Army guy (my fave cousin!), a gaggle of adorable children, and a bunch of “sometimes” vegetarians.
Last but not least – our 6 year old Godson, who announced, when we told him we were getting married and he would get to fly cross country for the wedding “Umm, so I’m suppose to fly all the way across country, just to see them kiss on the mouth??!! Umm, NO!” LOL
-The alcoholic
-Aunts who criticize/judge everything
-The asshole to his wife
-The bitter wife planning her escape from her marriage
-The formerly slutty woman who is now a suburban soccer mom
-The everything I eat must be organic woman
-The nuveau riche cousin who is now a snob
-The friend who loves to argue about anything (politics, religion, traffic, whatever it is, he turns it into a debate)
-The woman desperately holding on to her youth and ends up throwing up at the party coz of too much alcohol
-The emotionally unavailable dad
-The rebellious sister
-The super jealous fiancé of a groom’s man (she may not even come coz some of groom’s man’s ex-gf’s will be at the wedding
Despite their flaws…they're still family/friends so we still love them (or accept them) nonetheless. Fun times!
I guess the only characteristic of our wedding were the gaggle of alcoholics we invited. Namely, my side of the family and my parents friends! That's ok though, we like alcoholics, they made the reception interesting!
Love this post!
Hahahaha thanks for the entertainment... we most definitely have a few of our own
Hmmm best??? I would just have to say any of my family. Worst: My high school prom date (hes actually a super sweet person and we are really close to his family so hes not the "worst" just oddest) and my FI first cousin, shes a prostitute. (for real) SOOOO not looking forward to her being there!
A convicted felon as a best man, feuding FMIL and FSMIL, pre-teen drama queen, grandma that hates everyone and everything, just like hazel920 - I have an aunt who judges everything... and whispers about it all, a groomsman that has false teeth (motorcycle accident) and loves to remove them as a party trick, ex bf's mothers who refuse to go uninvited, and a neighbor (40ish yrs my senior) that I think is starting to develop a lesbian crush on me.
Ooh, good post! (NB - I do love all my guests. But they do fit into stereotypes so incredibly well)
- Our alcoholic family friend who always wanted me to marry her son (thankfully he married a lovely girl and they have a child) and is making our cake
- My crazy aunt who keeps making everything all about her and doesn't always class us as family (way to feel welcomed!)
- My FMIL who just lost her husband and at every family event since then has made a toast on his behalf (cringeworthy)
- FH's cousin who thinks she's the most amazing party planner ever - she's not. She'll try to take over being the MC at the reception
- And last but not least, FH's crazy aunt (mother of his crazy cousin above) who thinks that we're getting married too far away (next suburb over, 30 minute drive max) and that she can't possibly afford to pay for parking (um, £1 an hour on a Sunday? Pretty good to me!) and may try to crash our immediate family only ceremony.
Ah, what would life be without drama right?
Oh, this is kind of fun! Here's my guest list rant:
First we have the "food issue" people:
- 1 guest who has celiac disease (that means she needs a gluten free meal -- totally not her fault of course, but it adds some extra drama to planning our wedding meal)
- Many vegetarians including one who *hates* mushrooms, pasta, cabbage, seaweed (won't eat veggie sushi), etc.
- My mom who won't eat pork, dairy, shellfish, refined sugars, anything with soy in it, refined flour, etc, etc.
- FI's entire step-family who all eat like 5-year-olds -- only meat & potatoes, or very americanized italian food. Nothing "weird", "fancy", or "ethnic", and certainly NO interesting vegetables.
Then of course there's FI's dad -- he's divorced from FI's mom, and DOES NOT get along with her. He also doesn't get along with his sister, or his neighbors who are invited to the wedding. We're joking that he will be seated at a table for 1, over in the corner somewhere where he cant piss anyone off.
only the first one is "bad", the rest are cool:
-drama queen grandma who didn't want to come because it's not going to be a "big thing" i.e. not at a golf course with a chicken or fish entree
-our favorite barista who offered to be our dyke ring bearer
-a polyamorous goth couple
-hacker/dj and his burlesque dancer wife
-awesomely redneck coworker
um... i am inviting my cousin (who is female) and the man she is married to who has been living as a woman for 7 years (this is not yet the weird part... keep reading..) whose job is **drumroll please** that she runs an online "hypnotic s&m porno" website out of their house. I don't understand what that means really... and I never ever want to.
Worst: Uncle who proclaimed to our families that he was disowning my husband because of some stupid argument (that everyone resolved like two seconds later and was no big deal) that didn't even concern him.
Best: ALL our other guests. Seriously. We had 73 people attend, and besides the one uncle (and maybe a handful of other people in his family), we loved every single guest and were elated they attended.
My bridesman is one of my exes - he's promised to not go up to FMIL and say, "Your son is marrying a good one. I should know - I've hit that." :)
My officiant is the founding member of The Pickled Brothers Sideshow (they do stuff like bed of nails, fire eating, sword swallowing, etc) and set Guiness's record for holding the most Madagascar hissing cockroaches in his mouth at one time (and appeared on the Late Show for that trick).
The owner of our venue used to play for the Steelers, and is therefore an ENORMOUS Superbowl-ring-wearing dude.
We also have several alcoholics, those with special diets (veggie and kosher), frat brothers who will vomit on one another, and extremely seizure-prone FFIL (he had a brain abscess 20 years ago and hasn't been mentally normal ever since). Oh, and we also have a friend's wife with a crazy alter ego called "drunk [insert name]" - when intoxicated, she tends to do stuff like locking herself in rooms, throwing hotel items out onto the lawn, passing out in bushes, and sprinting outside in winter wearing a t-shirt and disappearing for HOURS.
I'll play! (Although no "aunts who used to be uncles" or S&M website running relatives!)
An NFL Mascot, FI's high school girlfriend, an assortment of alcoholics, my grandmother whose favorite saying in regards to my wedding is "Well... if I live long enough to be there...",my brother's in-laws who I barely know, several people with dietary issues (kosher, vegan, gluten free), and the girl who announced at my engagement party to one of my best friends whom she had just met "Miss Root hates me." (I don't; even if I did- NOT an appropriate time to be saying such things!)
@Miss Root My grandma (the one who didn't want to come) uses the "live long enough to be there" line ALL THE TIME, except not for herself. She says it in regards to my grandpa, who is perfectly healthy. She also said it for 15+ years regarding her own mother, who died at 99.
Her favorite hobby is reading the obituaries to see which of her friends have died (no joke)
Who doesn't love morbid old people?
Let's see. We've got Bad:
My crazy mother who if things don't go her way will cry in the corner about it.
A snobby friend whose husband doesn't like us or the best man at all.
MIL's crazy crazy friend who will drink and try to give everyone "hugs"
Another friend who if she doesn't take her meds will probably pout and fake a stomach ache to go home.
And the good:
Our awesome best man who although he has stage 4 lung cancer will still stand up and give an awesome speech!
Our friend who just had both knees replaced and will dance the night away.
My 92 year old grandma who will tell my crazy mom to "can it" if she gets out of hand!
@Kittyachi The Aunt that used to be your Uncle tops the list! LOL
out of who I know we'd invite when the time rolls around...
a fussy eater(sister), an accountant who is 6'4''(cousin), a couple of car fans(cousins), a guy who does battle re-enactments (uni friend), one or two nutters (too many to mention ;)), veteran RAF(grandad), people so laid back they're horizontal (uncle and cousins), some teachers (our dads, his family friend, his cousins) including one who teaches english in italy, some optometrists (us and our friends)....
it's not really all that exciting. Not too dramatic a family thank goodness!
@gingerlex haha. I love that. "people so laid back they're horizontal"
HAHAHAHA! These are hilarious, ladies! My best picks:
skibobbrown's making her FFIL sit on a table by himself so he doesn't piss of anyone
redherring's ex bf who will talk to FMIL about "hittin' that"
corgitale's guest who runs a hypnotic s&m porno website
nexus-6's barista who offered to be a dyke ring bearer
Another reason why WB keeps me smilin' during work days you just find so boring sometimes.
@VMarie... You really have a couple coming who won the jackpot? If that's true thats pretty awesome! Maybe they will buy you a house for a wedding gift!
Hmm...Disrespectful, no good, white trash, crazy out of her mind woman who loves to drink with her crazy out of his mind husband...and this sums up more than just this couple...how sad! LOL! And these ppl are my family members!
Its really funny but kinda sad that we all have those people who LOVE to drink!
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Here's some of my guest-list high/lowlights:
**disclaimer, I am just labelling them for fun. Individually, they mean a lot to either FI or myself...they're all great people!
An alcoholic, The blonde bimbo on the old man's arm, Tiger Wood's Laywer, A D-Day veteran, Grieving Mother, Raw-food diet person, Couple who won a state jackpot (97mil!!!), An ex-convict, a nun, and many, many, more!
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