Amerikaner wedding traditions

[Warspite]

Looking good, Ark.

THanks.

[Malthus]

She only does that when she's pissed off at him.

However, that's almost all the time. 

For example: in the months before the wedding, he takes off with his buddies on vacation for three weeks (not that he works, you understand), leaving her to single-handedly deal with all the organizational details. 

Mind you, he did shell out lots of family money for fancy duds like Manolo Blahnik shoes, and she did look good in them, which covers a multitude of crimes. 

Damn rich men!

prenup i presume? keep fatting him up so he gets a coronary before they next young thing catches his eye

Actually, not. To his credit. He refused to go with their urgings to get her to sign.

[HVC]

She only does that when she's pissed off at him.

However, that's almost all the time. 

For example: in the months before the wedding, he takes off with his buddies on vacation for three weeks (not that he works, you understand), leaving her to single-handedly deal with all the organizational details. 

Mind you, he did shell out lots of family money for fancy duds like Manolo Blahnik shoes, and she did look good in them, which covers a multitude of crimes. 

Damn rich men!

prenup i presume? keep fatting him up so he gets a coronary before they next young thing catches his eye

Actually, not. To his credit. He refused to go with their urgings to get her to sign.

a fool and his families money are soon parted

Actually, is it his, or is it set in trust? and in the case of trust, can she still get it? ie when his yearly stipend (or whatever) is paid out she gets half?

[Malthus]

I keep trying to figure out which family your friend married into.

There's a fairly limited number of families with that kind of wealth...

I'll PM you ...

[Malthus]

a fool and his families money are soon parted

Actually, is it his, or is it set in trust? and in the case of trust, can she still get it? ie when his yearly stipend (or whatever) is paid out she gets half?

I have no idea. Naturally, just the sort of question to keep family lawyers in gainful employment. 

[Jacob]

I keep trying to figure out which family your friend married into.

There's a fairly limited number of families with that kind of wealth...

I'll PM you ...

I'm curious too....

[derspiess]

I'd just like to say I hate wedding tuxes with a passion.  Just a nice, regular suit (or maybe a morning suit) seems a lot more dignified and less pretentious. 

Unless you're going for the sarcastic Dumb & Dumber look-- in which case, let 'er rip

[Grey Fox]

Rent Tuxedo. Morning suit, evening suit, wtf.

[AnchorClanker]

Rent Tuxedo. Morning suit, evening suit, wtf.

Tux is for evening.

[Admiral Yi]

Does best man give the toast in Pomistan?

I had to wear morning suit one time.  I think they look dorky.

It's also your duty to shag the shit out of one of the bridesmaids.

[dps]

Generally renting a tux is pretty reasonable though.  It was one of the smallest expenses from my own wedding.  Peanuts compared to you having to fly across the atlantic.

When my brother got married, some of his friends who were in the wedding party were, well, not very well off financially, and it was more than a bit of a strain on them.  I think that my brother helped them out on it a bit, and in one case, I think my mom paid for the guy's tux.  But, yeah, compared to the overall cost of the wedding, it was peanuts.  Of course, I think my brother and his wife spent more on their wedding than I've ever paid for a car--including the cars that I bought new.

[Valdemar]

Over here you don't wear Tux in church.  You wear white tie and tails if formal, suit if not formal. At a pinch the suit can be swapped for Tux between church and dinner if its an early wedding with a dinner later.

Off course young hipsters growing up on US TV shows thinks you do, and so alot of weddings is in tux  There was a hillarious story of a groom who wanted the priest to tear down the narrow gate in the wall around his 10 century country church in order to allow an Elvis style cadillac all the way up to the church

traditions are being drowned out by faux tradtions imported through US TV series 

V

[Brazen]

"Other" best men? I urge the groom to look up "best". Like Highlander, there can be only one!

Here's where I learnt all I need to know about American wedding dress and traditions:
http://wedinator.icanhascheezburger.com/

[Richard Hakluyt]

Sounds ghastly.

You should go to a nice entertaining funeral in, say, Ireland instead.

[Ideologue]

I got stung like this - I was a male maid of honour ( ) at my best friend's wedding earlier this month, only to find, a month before, that all of the guys in the wedding were supposed to buy *bespoke* suits of identical pattern from a specific tailor at a cost I do not wish to disclose lest it expose me to further scorn and abuse ...

Too late, McDuck.  I assume it cost as much as a normal person's car and you were probably like LOL THAT'S WHAT THINGS COST NOWADAYS I GUESS.