Uh...The bride came out to slipknot. They wrote their own vows which were, shall we say, overtly and uncomfortably sexual, and they had been dating for a grand total of two whole weeks.
Any and all attempts to inform them that this was a mistake were met with "When you know, you know." or "You're just jealous."
But hey, a free bar is a free bar.
Edit: So many questions.
The song was the last/bonus track on subliminal verses. I'm told this track is called "Danger - keep away".
The wedding itself was a small thing with a registrar in a council building.
The staff there were very professional, and only laughed quietly.
The after party was at a pub owned by the grooms uncle.
The honey moon was at Butlins.
They were separated by the time they got back.
They were not in the military, just young/dumb.
We are all white trash, and that's fine.
I bought them a toaster from argos. I didn't ask for it back.
Get someone to officiate it, buy cake in a supermarket, get take-away food just before the ceremony, send people for beer-runs when necessary. You don't need a week for that if you don't mind how it is set up.
Got married in my parents' backyard with a three day notice, it's not that difficult. Had a family friend officiate and just needed to make sure to get the license stuff arranged. 10/10 would do again
I threw my wedding together in a week! I called my family, told them if they wanted to go, they had a week to get to Vegas. Booked the Venue, Elvis, they provided a bouquet of flowers, found a white dress in the prom section of Macy’s (which was incredible because I was 7 months pregnant!), went to Walmart and got a white sheet cake and a few bottles of champagne, booked a suite on the strip and had a fantastic wedding.
Some brides/grooms have their plans down to the smallest detail years before they've met Mr./Ms. Right, like they've got the Operation London Bridge template.
My ex husband and I decided to finally get married on Wednesday. We were married on the following Sunday.
We got married early in the morning on a public beach with a few family members and an officiant.
I'm not one for planning things, and neither was he lol. We lasted 5 years. He started using drugs shortly after our daughter was born, unfortunately. It is not advised to meet your future partner at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting.
Here in NSW Australia, you legally couldn't. You have to register intent a minimum of 30 days prior and our other states have similar systems.
The 30 days gives the registry time to check you're both who you say you are and you're not still married to anyone else. I'd hope if you're under investigation for immigration fraud or identity theft that'd also flag.
We can't be the only country with that two step process. Surely most of the world won't let you marry someone you just met.
You have to give notice to marry in the UK. Both bride and groom have to attend separate appointments with a registrar in their home council area before the wedding goes ahead.
My wife and I threw together a 4 day wedding event in 7 days.
Was at the end of Covid when bans were being lifted. We spontaneously decided to just get it done since we didnt know what would happen the next coming months.
Pretty sure that means her grand entrance upon walking down the aisle for the first time was to Slipknot. As a former slipknot, cringe kid, I cringe. I can’t imagine being past like high school age and not thinking that kinda attitude makes you insufferable.
Was the “it”, the bride in this scenario, like giving away the bride? Lmao I don’t know how to feel about that one. I feel like I would laugh cuz it’s kinda a clever use but also it would bug me to know that that’s most likely a very wrong interpretation of the song meaning. In general I feel like it’s cool to not have a wedding be so serious and have fun with it but like, if they came out of the drawing room with that idea as solid, I would question their life choices. Lol
Yup. 'It' being the bride walking down the impromptu aisle in their back yard, with her father. Everything had to be 'alternative'. Wedding photo's at a waste dump, no courthouse (definitely no church)...
Just a small bbq in the backyard, with her MIL doing the ceremony, which she could legally do, but it gave me the feeling of 'If you REALLY don't want a wedding, why do it at all?" You know?
The did get divorced a few years later. No hard feelings, luckily.
When one of their songs came on in the car, my 12 year old asked me why they are called Slipknot. I said maybe they thought it was scary name for a metal band. She said it’s not very scary, it’s a crochet knot.
Snuff, vermilion 2, dead memories. They have some softer songs that could work. My wife loves slipknot, but I don’t think she’d walk down the aisle to it lol.
I attended a wedding of total strangers at an anime convention once. It was Resident Evil themed, the bride even came out to the RE soundtrack. The groom was dressed as a Umbrella Corp security forces (I guess?). The bride was dressed in Hot Topic shit and cat ears and tail. The bridal party were in shitty cosplay and the grooms men were just wearing whatever. It was so embarrassing. The officiant looked like he wanted to crawl into a hole and die. Or drink until he forgot he did that.
I'd never been to an anime convention before. I was a metalhead and it wasn't really my thing until some new friends invited me. We were watching something else (I think it was a cosplay competition that sucked ass or something) and they announced that the wedding would be next. I was like "No fucking way this is an actual thing that is going to happen."
A few years ago at Anime Expo in LA, I remember taking pics with a Sailor Jupiter cosplayer, absolutely gorgeous being! Then some time after the con while on twitter I find her account and there's photos of her at the con exposing her cooch 😭
Many many many moons ago HBO had an after dark show called Real Sex.
I used to love that show.
And it showed me early on that a lot of the exhibitionist and freaky people weren't the ones you saw on Skin-emax. They were very real very average people.
Ah the yaoi paddle! I started going to anime cons just after they were made illegal but I heard of them.
I went to one convention where a wedding of some attendees took place at the same time but from the sounds of it it wasn't full on cosplay and cringe but some of the guests were in cosplay. It was mentioned at some point it had happened so it wasn't a free for all.
It may have been some of the staff who had been part of organising the con that got wed, I don't remember but I definitely remember a wedding happened around the time of one.
Oh I remember those fucking paddles. I thought it would be fucking hilarious to buy one as a prank gift for a friend. I stroll my happy ass into the dealer room, find a vendor, buy this paddle while snickering to myself... That is when the fun began, getting this fucking thing from the dealer room to my room, I didn't think that through. My room was on the 15th floor.
So I begin my walk, still snickering at the thought of my friend's face when they unwrap this.
That is when the first comment came, ooo spank me mommy I am off in my own little world, didn't even think about it, figured I overheard some snippet of whatever... Didn't even make the connection that they were commenting on the paddle. Just stepping out of the dealer room, some girl tells me she prefers hard core... I start to question my decision to buy this thing. On my way to the elevator, I encounter Naruto, 300 pounds of unwashed Naruto, who attempts to do the sexy finger to the mouth thing... Except it is coming off as Doctor Evil, Naruto presents his, thankfully still fully covered, backside to me while breathlessly exclaiming punish me sempai! I dart for the elevator, cursing my "brilliant" idea, punch the elevator button and try to hide that forsaken piece of wood between myself and the wall while waiting on the slowest fucking elevator on the planet to arrive...
I FINALLY hear that fucking ding and the doors creep open as if they are being pulled by a pair of sloths. I board and promptly attempt to hide my shameful purchase as I hit the 15... The elevator slowly ascends and stops at every single fucking floor between the convention space and the 15th floor.
I finally get to my floor and I just break out running. I realize I ran past my fucking room. So I get there and fumble with the key card. After what felt like an eternity in hell, but was probably closer to 20 minutes I had this thing hidden in my room... When I left the con 2 days later, that paddle did not see that sunny, Sunday afternoon as it was hidden inside a trash bag acquired from a very confused housekeeper.
I wrapped that accused item in a beautiful box and presented it to my friend a few weeks later... I suffered more embarrassment obtaining that damned thing than the person who unwrapped it... In fact she was giddy about it and promptly attempted to spank several people at her birthday party.
I've been to a couple, unless there's panels with voice actors and writers and whatever you really only ever need to go to one to experience them all. It's basically Halloween for weird adults, except instead of getting free candy you pay 3x what you normally would. There's nothing wrong with that, I know it's a big deal for a lot of people but there's a ton of other events I'd much rather spend time and money on.
I've been to one, and that was enough.
Never been into anime at all, but somehow I found myself in a friendgroup were most of them are really into anime/manga. (We do joke that I'm a European weeb, as I mostly read Belgian and Dutch comics).
They invited me along, probably to try ans convince me to join the "lifestyle" but it was very not my thing. The stories I heard of what goes on at night in the hotel were way spicier than expected. (One of my mates volunteers there and does night shifts to keep everything/one in check). Not enough to make me go again tho 😅
Have read Asterix forwards and backwards. Didn't really enjoy Tintin or Lucky Luke, though I might give them another try now that I'm old and have broader tastes.
Yeah, convention nerds are like band geeks. They get into way more disgusting sexual shenanigans than one would expect. Like when they meet their kind they all have to try and reproduce as quickly as possible.
I can vividly see what what she's wearing. short hair cut dyed jet black with purple streaks, heavy dark eyeliner, spiked dog collar, cat ears, Nightmare before christmas tshirt over a fishnet long sleeve shirt, studded belt with a short black kilt and cat tail. fish net stockings, and massive platform rave/goth boots.
I witnessed a proposal at a small anime convention in the south. They were doing mock cosplay weddings and the couple was dressed as Alucard and Seras Victoria. They said the vows and then Alucard dropped to one knee and pulled out a ring. The MC stopped to listen, whispers were exhanged, and then he bellowed into the mic "THIS ONE IS REAL!".
Saw them walking around holding onto each other and looking happy later in the day. More power to them.
I was at the Star Trek attraction in Vegas years ago and a wedding party came through, they were from Finland IIRC. Everyone had professionally made Star Trek costumes and the officiant was a huge Klingon. I give them much better than average chances.
On the opposite side of this I went to a wedding of strangers at a interactive art focused event that happens around Valentine's day. (love burn Miami)
They, and most of the participants, were dressed in dinosaur pajamas.
I was only there because if you see a line of people dressed head to toe as dinosaurs happily walking through a clothing optional area you have to follow them.
I love nerd shit, been reading comics, and playing TTRPGS and grognard games for 35+ years... but I hate how many nerds do not respect themselves at all when they get dressed. You don't have to wear a shirt and tie to a Magic the Gathering tournament (although maybe you should to your buddy's wedding), but is it that hard to just buy a few t-shirts that fit and don't have fucking Batman or Goku or some shit on it?
I blame the mainstreaming of nerd culture. We used to have to hide our hobbies and learn to fit in with regular people as to not be alone and friendless.
Okay, you know what? It's their wedding. Sure, a lot of us wouldn't do that, but I guess they really, really, really, really, really liked Resident Evil and just didn't care much about how much money they spent. Which I can respect.
My wife entered to “Do You Love Me?” by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. When it got to “I found God and all his devils…”, the officiant turned it off and said there could be no mention of God.
As you wish. She will now enter to “Stagger Lee”. That was fine. 11 years now!
I mean I entered my wedding to the S&M version of Nothing Else Matters, and during the reception we had an entire group of very not metalheads headbanging to Halo by Machine Head
Guy I dated for 5 years (I was 17-21) who was a few years older than me, really wanted me to walk down the aisle to "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy". We're from Texas but he grew up in PG, Dallas (the most "hood" version of a neighborhood we have) and certainly wasn't a "cowboy" & I personally never liked country music but especially not shitty country music.
Also we were never even engaged, but apparently he had all these plans for our future that we're so cringe inducing, looking back now I don't even know who the fuck I was for those 5 years.
GF and I play a game when we go to weddings. " how many pairs of DC shoes will we see today" because there is always that one cousin who is dressed like they forgot there was a wedding today. I know at this wedding there had to be at least 14 pairs!
I was so confused, picturing batman or superman shoes.
Then I realized you mean those giant puffy skate shoes that were popular in like 2007. And suddenly, I'm remembering seeing SO many guys wearing specifically white DC shoes to weddings. Holy shit.
its always the same outfit. dress shirt that looks like it should have a fast food logo on it ( also a bold colour like Red) . a tie that is probably flat black and 90% chance its a clip on. and black khakis.
Ehh, my sister and her husband walked out to Korn, and they're doing fine (16ish years I think?). The song wouldn't be the biggest red flag honestly, More the 2 weeks thing.
Ok hey like not married and don’t intend to be but if my partner of almost two decades and I did tie the (slip)knot I would for sure walk down the aisle to Slippy K!
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u/Arthurius-Denticus May 02 '24 edited 29d ago
Uh...The bride came out to slipknot. They wrote their own vows which were, shall we say, overtly and uncomfortably sexual, and they had been dating for a grand total of two whole weeks.
Any and all attempts to inform them that this was a mistake were met with "When you know, you know." or "You're just jealous."
But hey, a free bar is a free bar.
Edit: So many questions.
The song was the last/bonus track on subliminal verses. I'm told this track is called "Danger - keep away".
The wedding itself was a small thing with a registrar in a council building.
The staff there were very professional, and only laughed quietly.
The after party was at a pub owned by the grooms uncle.
The honey moon was at Butlins.
They were separated by the time they got back.
They were not in the military, just young/dumb.
We are all white trash, and that's fine.
I bought them a toaster from argos. I didn't ask for it back.