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Started by Caliga, May 02, 2011, 02:27:20 PM

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Your opinion?

I'm in favor.
5 (25%)
I'm against.
4 (20%)
Depends entirely on the destination.
7 (35%)
Squee!
4 (20%)

Total Members Voted: 20

The Brain

Quote from: Ideologue on May 02, 2011, 03:49:38 PM
Quote from: Slargos on May 02, 2011, 03:02:06 PM
Quote from: Caliga on May 02, 2011, 03:00:45 PM
Quote from: Slargos on May 02, 2011, 02:57:43 PM
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.

Did you ever do a prison wedding?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

derspiess

Quote from: Caliga on May 02, 2011, 02:57:39 PM
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. :P

Did your friends & family have to fly to another continent?  From my perspective it was very much a destination wedding.  From my wife's perspective it wasn't, but who listens to women anyway :)
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Caliga

Quote from: derspiess on May 02, 2011, 03:54:38 PM
Did your friends & family have to fly to another continent?
Given how some of them bitched, you would think they did, yeah. :wacko:
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Caliga

Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2011, 03:35:45 PM
Well that's why your wedding sucked.
Honestly, this didn't bother me at all, but I guess it bothered him... not sure why.  I didn't even notice that a lot of people did that... I was too busy getting drunk off of the nonstop drinks my uncle was getting for me.
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Barrister

Quote from: Caliga on May 02, 2011, 05:06:30 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2011, 03:35:45 PM
Well that's why your wedding sucked.
Honestly, this didn't bother me at all, but I guess it bothered him... not sure why.  I didn't even notice that a lot of people did that... I was too busy getting drunk off of the nonstop drinks my uncle was getting for me.

Well, to me the ONLY thing that's important about a wedding is that people are having fun.  So if they're leaving early maybe they weren't having fun.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

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Barrister

Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2011, 05:11:55 PM
Open bar = fun.

If your friends and family are anything like my friends and family, open bar = drunken fools.

An at-cost bar is the way to go. :thumbsup:
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Caliga

Important point for consideration: Baptists don't drink. :)
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Ed Anger

Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2011, 05:20:26 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2011, 05:11:55 PM
Open bar = fun.

If your friends and family are anything like my friends and family, open bar = drunken fools.

An at-cost bar is the way to go. :thumbsup:

I like to think my generosity is opening doors and gaining valuable allies.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Caliga

I think my bar was open, but I can't recall for sure now. :hmm:
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MadImmortalMan

A friend of mine did this in Miami. Bought a huge block of seats for the New Year's Dolphins game for all the wedding guests. Neat idea.
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"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Josquius

Where the people being married are paying? Wow....that's....bizzare. But awesome.
Usually the problem with such weddings is not many guests can afford to go.

I rather dislike weddings anyway so its all bad for me.
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Just for the record, I *am* an ordained minister & have performed three weddings so far, so if anybody ever wants to do a destination wedding to Peru* then just let me know...

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*Peru, Illinois

Caliga

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