Destination Weddings

[Slargos]

How come whenever you say something like this you always put a little smily face at the end?

I put a smiley face at the end of most of my posts.  It's sort of becoming a schtick of mine.  I got bored with the tits schtick so I replaced it with some others, such as signing off with a smiley face.  I was kind of inspired to do it by Arky who used to sign off with a mean face because "people tell me I have that expression a lot in real life".  In real life I'm like a Smiling (Laughing) Buddha figure.

It often lends your posts a sarcastic tone.

[Caliga]

Ah gotcha.

I try to use a smiley face to sign off at times where it's most inappropriate, too (examples: I just fired someone, my dad had a stroke, etc.)

[Slargos]

However, I say go for it: You're only supposed to get married once. I'll happily help them a bit along the way.

Cool, I'll let my brother know a random Scandinavian racist dude is going to help out the cost of his wedding.

What does it matter that I'm racist if I'm about to give them money?

[Caliga]

It often lends your posts a sarcastic tone.

I refer you to my: followup post.

[Caliga]

What does it matter that I'm racist if I'm about to give them money?

Would you give my brother money if he was marrying a negress?

[Barrister]

Between me and my two best friends, all of ours have been destination weddings.  Mine was in Buenos Aires and the other two were on a Caribbean cruise and Vegas.  We had a few friends/family fly to Argentina for ours, the cruise was just my wife, me, and the couple getting married, and Vegas had a fair number of people fly out since it was fairly cheap.

Does yours really count?  I mean, your wife is from there so presumably her family was all there, right?

By that standard I had a destination wedding, too.

Same here - a few dozen friends and family travelled from Manitoba to Alberta for our wedding.

Weddings are what you make it.  I'm sure spending a week in the Bahamas (or wherever) for a wedding would be lovely, but that could also be pretty generic.  On the other hand my wedding may have been in the town community hall of a hick Alberta town, but everyone had an absolutely awesome time.   

Just as the long-rumored Brazil wedding will not be a "destination wedding" by my count...

[Slargos]

What does it matter that I'm racist if I'm about to give them money?

Would you give my brother money if he was marrying a negress?

I wouldn't give him money under most circumstances, the race mixing wouldn't really sway me one way or the other. I was simply curious why you'd need to tell your brother that I'm a racist when informing him I'd pay for his wedding. Would he not accept my money in that case?

Regardless, my sister is marrying a guy whose father is Romanian. I'm not exactly thrilled about it, mostly because he's a red socialist, but he could pass for a Swede most of the time.

[Caliga]

I wouldn't give him money under most circumstances, the race mixing wouldn't really sway me one way or the other. I was simply curious why you'd need to tell your brother that I'm a racist when informing him I'd pay for his wedding. Would he not accept my money in that case?

I really don't know how to distinguish you from other Scandinavian types except by this attribute.   Oh, I guess I could tell him you're a Scandinavian kitchen salesman.

[Caliga]

I think my brother is basing his preference for this in part on my wedding, which in his opinion sucked.  He has valid reasons for saying so, I think:

* We had several hundred guests, most of whom I didn't even know, thanks to my mother-in-law basically inviting everyone she's ever known in her entire life;

* Though nearly everyone did bring a gift, a lot of them basically ate dinner, dropped their gift off, and left the reception;

* He was bothered by the fact that we had a religious (Episcopalian) ceremony, even though we are both atheists--again, another thing done to placate Princesca's family.

I think my wedding was basically the wedding Princesca wanted to have, but really wasn't the wedding I wanted to have, nor would ever have again.  However, for my part--and I've explained this to my brother countless times, but he either doesn't understand or doesn't care--the ceremony itself was totally meaningless, so whether or not it was 'the wedding I wanted' really plays no role in my life.

[Ed Anger]

I've always favored the small wedding, large reception model.

[Valmy]

* He was bothered by the fact that we had a religious (Episcopalian) ceremony, even though we are both atheists

He is aware he can have a small wedding without any evil religiosity being involved without having to leave home right?

[Ed Anger]

Ugh, home weddings. 

[Barrister]

* Though nearly everyone did bring a gift, a lot of them basically ate dinner, dropped their gift off, and left the reception;

Well that's why your wedding sucked.

We actually had a second, informal, invite list - we could only squeeze so many people into the hall, but we knew some of the older invitees would leave - so quite a few people were invited to come over after dinner.  I don't think they were expected to bring a gift (although hell - nobody was expected to bring a gift).

[Valmy]

Well that's why your wedding sucked.

Well I am not sure if the fact Cal's brother didn't like the wedding is solid proof of that.

[Ideologue]

However, I say go for it: You're only supposed to get married once. I'll happily help them a bit along the way.

Cool, I'll let my brother know a random Scandinavian racist dude is going to help out the cost of his wedding.

What does it matter that I'm racist if I'm about to give them money?

It doesn't to me.  Give me some dough, fellow white dude.

Anyway, my favorite wedding is the kind they do half at the probate court and half at the bank.