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Big Wedding or Small Wedding?
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If you were to get married would you prefer a huge wedding or a small one?
My friend got married and there must have been about 3,000 people there and that was mainy the girl's side - most of his relatives live abroad so they did a 2nd event there as well with probably another 3,000 people.
I think I prefer the smaller type...
My friend got married and there must have been about 3,000 people there and that was mainy the girl's side - most of his relatives live abroad so they did a 2nd event there as well with probably another 3,000 people.
I think I prefer the smaller type...
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TSK.
Apart from our wedding of course, Dave.
That's better.
just family and friends.
I also have a big family but I wouldnt invite all of them.
I cant be doing with all the seating plans and speeches and stuff, thats far too formal for my crazy family!
This time it`s going to be different. It won`t be a huge wedding but it won`t be 5 people in a registry office either.
My friend`s wedding was the best I`ve ever been to. The first bit was quite big and formal. She got married in a little country church, then we all went to a country hotel where waiters brought round jugs of Pimms until the meal was ready to be served. They had a seating plan and speeches and all that.
Then in the evening a bunch of us (just their closest friends) met up with them in a nearby town, we went to a few pubs and later on we all went to a Chinese restaurant and sat around a huge table eating Chinese food and drinking.
Best of both worlds.
But the killer was my uncle - her father paid for an open bar, anyway the bill came to like £5,000 just for drinks - he was totally shocked!!
He paid it - but he said later if he knew it was going to cost that much he'd have flown everyone to Goa, where he is from and had the wedding there for a fraction of the price and everyone would have got a holiday into the bargain!!
I think weddings inthe Uk are real rip off, for insatnce they've all stopped you from having Buffet style dinner - which is what I prefer because people get up and mingle - now they want per head seated meals cos they charge a fortune for those!!
In the olden days (at least in our family) a wedding would be a family affair, with the women usually spending days cooking and preparing food. It would eb a time to bring everyone together even before the wedding began. But now it's very commerical affairs with companies doing the work - for a heafty price!!
Ouch :eek:
Hmm, it IS a nightmare trying to work out who to invite and who to leave off the list though, especially if you want to keep it small. I think that ultimately, if it`s your wedding you should have who you want there and not invite everyone and his dog out of obligation.
This might be a bit of a sore point with me though cause I had people I didn`t want at my wedding.
I want a nice church wedding with a white dress, bridesmaids, confetti and men in suits
:yes: true.. but the wedding part is 3/4 her family, 1/4 ours even thought our family is the biggest!!! and inviting my sister and not me :no: not happy! (im like a jealous little kid!!)
but i can imagine it would be hard working out the list!