I attended a friend's wedding this weekend, and I couldn't help but notice many people spend their evenings at one differently. So what do you do at weddings?
Maybe you can be found at the bar the entire time, chatting it up with the bartender, pleading he gives you a double shot of whiskey instead? Or just a wallflower, quietly observing everyone and planning your next move.
My buddy and I went into the other wedding next door and headed up to the bar, talked to random people, even the bride(!) and said congrats. She seemed so clueless as to who we were. Have you done that?
Or perhaps you just spend the evening cutting a rug on the dance floor. Or talking to EVERYONE you see. Let me know.
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Re: At A Wedding...
It depends. If it's my own family, then it will be a drunken Irish shin dig and I will seek out my little brother to indulge in much drinking and revellment.
However, if it's Mrs TD's family, I'll still get a little merry, but generally be on "watchful" behaviour, just because I'm not comfortable getting drunk around people I don't know so well.
If it's just friends, I'll probably just try and go home early and say the kids are tired.
I have only attended two weddings. I was a groomsmen at one, and a best man at the other. Both weddings as well as the receptions were in a church so there was no alcohol. After the weddings I just talked to people and that was it.
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Weddings always look like such a good time. I cant wait for one of my friends to get married, cause lets face it, it'll be a wile until my own. If I even get there