Do you cry at weddings?

[LaraMN]

My Mom and I helped serve food at the wedding of one of her friend's daughters, a couple of weekends ago. As soon as we got out of the freaking car and started crossing the lawn to the reception area, to set up, my Mom burst into tears. :eyes: I don't generally cry during ceremonies, but the father-daughter dance gets me. I think the fact that about half the weddings I've been in or attended in the last five or ten years have already ended in divorce, makes it hard for me to get too worked up about the "magic" of a wedding, or the beauty of the vows that I pessimistically figure have a 50/50 chance of being broken. Are you a gusher, or a more-removed spectator?

[Solon]

1. Not really...

Please bear in mind that I have been in about 4 weddings for cousins, in every single one I have been an Usher, the first cousin got married when I was about 14, and just keep on going from there. So for me, its almost routine, though next year will FINALLY be different, my sister is getting married then, and I told her I BETTER not be a damned Usher again! :) I may cry then.

[miss_american_pie]

2. I used to

before I got married. ;)

[LaraMN]

4. I was the first of my friends to get married,

so I have no real base for comparison, but I think you may be on to something...

[miss_american_pie]

12. I think

I used to cry because it was all just so over the top and romantic (and I was relatively young).

[billyskank]

7. 'PIE!!!!!

:loveya: :bounce: :hi: :D

[miss_american_pie]

11. Billyskank!!!!!

:bounce: :loveya: :hi: :bounce:

[BlueIris]

3. Yep.

Watching a perfectly good relationship get totally ruined by misogynist institutionalization is damn depressing. (That's actually why I no longer attend weddings.)

[asthmaticeog]

16. Institutionalization?

Good idea. :D

[Richardo]

17. .

:spray:

[CanuckAmok]

18. Jeez, lighten up! All she wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi.

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[Blue-Jay]

19. Wait until my wife hears that I'm a misogynist.

She'll probably stop cooking dinner for me.

[CanuckAmok]

20. Just continue to keep her away from outside sources and you'll be fine.

I find the best way to keep her isolated and get things done around the house is this: I take all the remotes to work with me everyday.

[Pool Hall Ace]

5. I saw a photo of me at my cousin's wedding, looking like i was

about to cry. I believe it was out of boredom, though.

No matter how close I am to the people involved, I've never really cared for weddings. They're just boring to me, which is probably why I chose to just go to the courthouse. I would just as soon skip most ceremonies.

[billyskank]

6. Only if I really fancy the person getting married

:D

[LaraMN]

8. If it were my best friend or my sister AND I really like d the guy they

were marrying, I MIGHT shed a few.

[taterguy]

9. Depends on whether or not I've slept with the bride :)

[matcom]

10. OMG YES!

i cry because i'm forced to sit for hours on end through someone's pomp and circumstance that cost thousands so two people can have their '15 minutes of fame' and say 'LOOK AT MEEEEEEEE' while i'm anticipating shitty food, watered down drinks that cost too damned much money and either a fucking oompa band or some professional 'wedding DJ' later who will play the same shitty music just to get 'Grandma' to do the fucking Hustle

i weep.

[Lowell]

13. The only weddings I've cried at

were my own. All three of them.

[RebelOne]

14. Always, but not out of happiness for the bride and groom,

but because they don't know what they are getting into.

[RetroLounge]

15. No, but I do cry at divorces...

:hi:

RL

[Dukkha]

21. I cry from the painful ennui

of the service, then cry more at the reception when I discover no open bar! How the hell am I supposed to endure this crap sober!
thankfully I was relieved of duty to attend a coworker's wedding tomorrow whom I don't even know. I owe my g/f for that pardon.

and earlier this year I had to pay to be in my brothers THIRD ceremony! I felt like coughing *BULLSHIT* in between his vow recitals.

[RevCheesehead]

22. Only if they don't pay me.

Once, I got as payment $5 and a Snoopy card.

[Sequoia]

23. Only if someone gets shot.

[RandomKoolzip]

24. I didn't cry at my wedding.

I vomited.

[NewWaveChick1981]

25. I haven't cried at any wedding except for my sister's.

Didn't even cry at my own. :) I was the matron of honor (I hate the word "matron"---makes me sound like Aunt Bee! :rofl:) at her wedding, and I didn't start the waterworks until my sister and her husband started walking back down the aisle as the ceremony ended. I tend to be happy for the people involved, which is why I don't usually cry. I cried at sis' wedding because it was my little sister who got married. *sniff*

[swimboy]

26. We all should have cried at my brother's FIRST wedding . . .

oy veh

[LaraMN]

27. Lol!

I was in my friend's wedding a few years ago, when I was five months pregnant with Sophie. I had to buy a dress I'd NEVER be able to wear again, and the marriage lasted about a year. Following the divorce, my friend developed a meth habit, lost 95 pounds, and virtually dropped off the face of the earth. Thankfully, she got clean, met a new man, and had a BEAUTIFUL baby girl, this year. I just hope things work out for her, this time around. She's in no hurry to get hitched, and I don't blame her!

[tigereye]

28. yeah

I'm a softie. It is actually cool to see old friends and couples you have known for years decide to make it "legal."

I really like weddings, they are all so different. And I get to pull out my large collection of giant, over- the- top hats! :D