Wedding invitations

I am so fully stoked on making these damn things. FULLY STOQUED!

One of my best friends got married recently and I think her and hubby just buggered off well before everyone else did - its yer perogative, you're the married couple! Thats why you leave the rest up to caterers/parents/helping hands, I guess :)

Weddings scare me, I wanna get married but all that fancy hoohaa looks like too much work and not much fun :/

it goes until "?"

hahaha

"It goes until the RIDDLER shows up, batwedding atendees!"

You guys get to leave whenever. As to clean up, it depends on where you're having it. Some places include that, other places don't. If you need to provide the clean up crew, recruit friends & family and appoint someone not otherwise involved in the wedding stuff as being in charge (some younger person who will be thrilled to be called upon is the ideal candidate, but sometimes they go powermad.)

also, jergins laughed at me for designating end times to parties, but sometimes that is the thing to do!

laughed+respected

I have to get a porta potty for this...it's in the backyard of a friend's whose indoor toilet shifts 30º toward the floor when sat on and doesn't really flush.

Screw porta potties, get your guests to dig latrines, say it's a M*A*S*H-themed wedding.

HELLS YES

"What are you saying you need asswipe, there's an aspen tree right there, you pansy."

You should make 'em look like a high school kegger map.

A friend of mine, in replying to a wedding invitation that came with a reply card, filled it out by writing johnny will be, crossed out attending/not attending, and wrote getting shithoused.

So...all you have to do is get married and have a good time. Assign someone else the task of ending the party and cleaning up.
When is the big day? I know you've probably mentioned it before, but I can't recall. Soon? This month? This summer?

The tradional way of doing this is

Carriages 2am

or whatever time you suggest.

I prefer:

When we run out of booze

or

till we run out of fuel for the Genny

the second one didn't really work though as someone went out with fuel cans at about 1am and we kept going, the bride and groom were long gone by then.

I just remember shutting down the hotel bar at 2 am at the Scottish wedding I attended and stumbling down the hall with the bride's parents, my then-girlfriend and her parents. So all of Ed's answers may apply.

The two weddings I've been to with the former clause:

1) We never finished the booze and most people stumbled off around 4, Anyone staying for the clear up went away with half a case of wine.

2) Ended with me, the bride's sister, her husband and possibly a cousin in a jacuzzi at 3 in the morning.

"Carriages"? The English, you can't beat 'em.

x-post -- So how well did the live streaming video work on that last one?

"Hovercrafts to arrive at 6:30 p.m."

It's June 29, aimurchie.

Most weddings I've been to recently have ended around 12:30 because that's when the reception hall had to close.

TThis is where I'm staying after the wedding. God, I love Boise.

I hope you have devoted an entire thread to your, um...threads!

Boise! Oh wait, is this going to be the kooky religious family members? No booze?
i need to get caught up on your nuptials, apparently.

Yeah, it'll be me artskool buddy crew and my Mormon extended family. John has like 4 members of his whole family & they'll be there, too. We're still unsure if we're going to have a keg & champagne or not. It would offend my family, which, oh well, but the main thing is John's mom drinks like a cheerleader and then starts shit when she's drunk. Lord, I don't know. I am thinking we should just have an alcohol-filled 'after party' or something.

A wedding! A party! A wedding! A party! A wedding! Oh, joy! Oh, happy day! The planning is a bitch, though, ain't it?

No kidding! None of the portable toilet rental places will give me a quote. "So you'd like to reserve the industry standard single seat, non-ADA unit?"
"I want to know how much it costs."
"... ...We'll give you a call back."

You could assign a few wedding attendants to stand near the bushes and hold up a bedsheet to screen your guests from public view. But paying back the favor might cost you more than the porta-potty would.

re: the mormon extended family - my wife and i had a similar situation when we got married 3 years ago. ended up making the reception alcohol-free (cuts down on costs too) and then having a party later that night @ our favorite bar. we had planned it out ahead of time, so we also had 3 of our favorite local bands playing in our honor. it was good times all around and as far as i could tell, no one was offended. :) making our parents happy was just as important as making ourselves happy, so compromise was a good solution. ymmv. good luck!

I am thinking we should just have an alcohol-filled 'after party' or something.

This is known as a "reception".

I say everyone should have flasks.
Also a mini -keg behind every bush. And a bottle of Jaigermeister in the porta-potty.

You should have champagne. Surely no-one can be offended by champagne?!
Then get all the non -drinking types off to their prayer group, assign a sibling or cousin to take care of your new mother -in -law and party like the rock star that you are.

Hahaha

A porta potty is the exact right place for Jaeger.

I was thinking champagne and sparkling cider, some of each. Self-righteousness really helps with the taste of the latter.

We're having everything on kebabs except for the cake.

http://www.calstrawberry.com/recipes/recipeImages/strawberry%20lemon%20cake%20kabobs.jpg

cakebabs can happen!

Awesome! Nobody will notice any drinking because they'll be too busy trying to eat food in chunks from a stick!

kabobs are also a great way to insure that nobody actually talks to each other.

Hmmm... Thanksgiving kabobs....hmmm...

I recommend the recording of the party, just for future blackmail/lolz/fight montage material.

Every time I've had my friends film or photograph events, they've all just been footage of mine & my friends' boobs.

All men become very quiet.

guys I am super stoked about my wedding invitations that I spent most of Saturday making in Photoshop: http://i48.tinypic.com/2nhes10.jpg !!

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