Pork Pies And Water Pistols - A Wedding To Remember

[sunny-dave]

I know this is old news ... hence it's in CB

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I particularly like the quote :

“Not one glass got broken. They were concentrating on killing each other rather than the tables and chairs"

[gness]

After the long wait for the inquest into MrG's death the daughter took me away to a quiet hotel by the sea.....for a relaxing break.....

A wedding fight to equal this broke out on the Saturday night, Dave.... the groom knocked out the bride's granny during a dance and all hell broke loose....

Cars were wrecked.......guests ended up in the water and had to be rescued by police......bridesmaid's hoiked skirts up around their waists and joined in......killer heels make great weapons....

I sat by the fire knitting......like Miss Marple........☺

[Tilly2]

Were you knitting a twiddlemuff, Gness?

[gness]

Pre twiddlemuff days, Avatarless Tilly...... probably birding gloves.....x

[Tilly2]

I have an avatar. Can't you see it?

Never been to a wedding where a fight broke out but I've had a few Christmas days ruined by family squabbles.

[wolf63]

There was a battle at a wedding in our family when I was young. I don't remember much about it. It was fuelled, as usual, by alcohol. I know that two of my dad's brothers didn't talk to each other for years afterwards.

My mum went to her grandfather's funeral in Fife when I was about ten. It broke into a fight with plates of sandwiches flying around but was ended when the police arrived. It was only the women that were brawling - my mum was cowering in the kitchen with the men folk.

☺

[gness]

Now you have an avatar.......before you were jelly......

My sister could ruin any celebration.......and nobody ever knew why..... she'd suddenly explode for no reason.....but made all the more frustrating for her because my brother and I don't argue or squabble.......x

[Cloverjo]

Avatars seem to be randomly visible recently. I can see Tilly's and Gness's but a few others are the jelly men or non-existent.

Thankfully I've never been to a wedding where things kicked off like that.

[Tilly2]

It's amazing that people can get into a fight over a pork pie. You just cut it in half and share, don't you?

[gness]

Odd isn't it,Wolf.......at my dad's funeral in 1968 my aunt took a hissy fit over the sandwiches and never spoke to the rest of the family for the rest of her life......over sandwiches????

Like with my sister we never really knew why....no alcohol involved.......most of my family are Pioneers....I'm not.....☺

[gness]

Hi, Jo....avatars are playing hide and seek today.....x

[marval]

I am going to a wedding in May, salmon and chips apparently. So no fights over pork pies.

[gness]

No flicking chips at the other guests, Marval!!!...;-)

[marval]

Oh, that's my fun gone Gness.

[Islay]

I have been to 6 weddings where fights broke out 5 Irish 1 English. Also have to say enjoyed the Irish weddings more!

[wolf63]

I think that we all think our own family is the only dysfunctional one. They all are to some degree or another.

[gness]

Awww...go on, flick a chip, Marval...why not!...x

The Irish fight with such humour, Islay....the English take things so seriously sometimes.......
My family were Guards when I was growing up.......they'd go up into the mountains before a wedding to take the illegal stills......that way we had poitín for the toast....well those of us who drank.....♣

You're right of course, Wolf......but I think mine would win a prize for oddness.......☺

[GenuineclAss]

gness, I'm not surprised fights break out if they're drinking poitin! A pub in Sheffield used to sell it. He had newspaper wrapped around the bottles and they had HW on them, which stood for Holy Water.
I wasn't keen on the taste of it. A couple of glasses were enough to make me ill for 2 days. It burned my stomach and gave me acid reflux. Never again!

[gness]

Oh it is a killer, SirA.....not so much now that it's legal.....I have some here but it doesn't knock the socks off you like the stuff from the mountains did.......

You did well to knock back a couple of glasses though.....my uncle fell on the bed after one glass.....his leg went in the air and it was two days before we got it down again.....☺

[ummmm]

I was in a pub where a wedding reception was being held upstairs. The bride bottled the groom!!

[Old_Geezer]

Now that is what I call a proper wedding !