50 Wedding Moments So Awkward They Made Guests Question Reality

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I was "acceptable" to my ex's Chinese parents because I was white. It was made very clear that a Chinese girlfriend would have been preferable, but I was acceptable as a white person because we were all living in the US (ex was born here, his parents are immigrants.) Ironically, I'm adopted, and my adoptive family is Mexican (so I was raised in Mexican-American culture.) One of my cousins was apparently shunned and fully "excommunicated" from the family (so to speak) back in the 1970s because she married a black man. Racism is definitely everywhere, and it's not limited to just one race or culture.

It works all ways too. Im white and Mediterranean and i dated a black man in high-school. Knowing our parents, we lied from the jump. We both decided on middle eastern since we could both pass and our parents just adored the other. If theyd known our real races and ethnicities, wed never of been allowed to meet them. So weird imo

Part of me wants to say stay in India with that noise.

Ikr , but In reality they are a million times worse aren’t they !! Some of em I add not all x

This was more of a racial issue than religious one...

Not true. The first thing most people from North America think of when thinking "wedding" is Christian origin. Also, there's a song called "The Orange and the Green" of a protestant man marrying a catholic girl, and everything is fine until the kid (who is the narrator) comes around.

Maybe the trainer sponsored the wedding, that was the commercial break.

Dad's the bank, dog is the protector.

In Texas (where I've lived awhile now), there's a good chance that dog would have died before the trainer was on the ground. But if anyone involved was Texan, I don't think that demo would have ever happened.

They do. It's called a restraining order.

It's when you dream one thing but mean your mother?

Right?!

I bet in the back of his mind he kind of expected her to pull a s****y stunt like this, but there was probably pressure from other family members to “give her a chance” and invite her. There’s a good reason he had no contact with her for over a decade, and she proved it with this stunt. I also bet he hasn’t been in contact with her ever since, and won’t be making the mistake of contacting her ever again. Even to tell her she’s a grandmother.

I was invited to my half sister's wedding on behest of my father. I had not seen her since she was 3 in 1991 and I left their house due to her mother (dyed [sic] 2012]. Her wedding was in 2014. We did all have lunch before the wedding and we got on just fine and it was nice to see the family I had "lost" having moved to my mother and then London. They live in Saffa. Sometimes there are reasons that not everyone else understands. For us, this was a reunion of our family who had been torn apart by her mother when she was a child and didn't understand the dynamics.

That sounds like something I would do as a result of nerves. Sometimes my brain short-circuits and I forget what's appropriate.

As if everyone broke out into genuine laughter . Flipping fool

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She was going to get her face smashed into the wedding cake so maybe she thought immaturity was traditional.

I agree. You can never be a 100% sure that it isn't a cry for help, so not going through anytime someone says no in any way, sounds like a good standard practice. And he can have a conversation with that person afterwards to see if it was just a joke or whether there was something real behind it.

I'm pretty sure as soon as someone says no they're required to not continue because it's a legal thing. And if someone objects they have to talk to whoever it was and find out if it's a legitimate objection (ie there's some reason the couple can't legally marry). You don't f**k around with this kind of thing unless you want to wastea lot of money.

If no means no for a one-nighter, it certainly means no for a marriage.

Our officiant sat us down for a few counseling sessions to make sure we were ready to get married and then discussed communication skills, problem solving, etc. It was essentially marriage counseling. Wish we listened better, but it's been 28 years this June so I guess it worked.

In Finland is has nothing to do with the church. Latest a week before the wedding the couple needs to request an "examination of impediments to marriage" (i.e. neither one is under-age, already married or too closely related). In swedish it is called "prövning av hinder mot äktenskap" or shortly "hindersprövning".

Pre-marital counseling.

Converting religions, complete church memberships and religion classes, complete marriage counsoling, donated so much to the church. 2 of my friends just did this. One had to convert to orthodox to marry and it was a shockinf amount of hoops ro jump through. I too am agnostic but even if i or my husband were religious, that would turn us off from a church wedding.

Apart from anything else, it has to be announced locally for legal reasons - not that many are in the habit of dropping round to a registry office just in case someone they know is getting married who shouldn't be.

it depends on your local church. Can be anything from a 1-hour talk with the local priest, to a multi-session counseling one-on-one meetings, to a dozen group "lessons" with a priest and other people involved in the local parish.

I'm guessing a lot of "cleave to your husband" and submit kind of stuff.