Does anybody else dread family weddings ?

[inej]

You know when you haven't seen certain relatives for a while and you get those little remarks , oh not married yet, still in the same job,little things that get to you but you can't go mad about. Does anybody else think that sometimes you have to bite your tongue at these events?

[whiskeysheri]

I have to bite my tongue everytime I see my nan inej, she's got a vicious tongue on her. Everytime I see her she says "have you put on weight?" (I've actually recently lost 2 stone). So, yes, I know how you feel inej :o) x

[smurfchops]

Why is it some people always say the wrong thing? I have a relative like your's whiskeysheri - 'I dont like your hair, its a bit stringy, you should get it cut' or 'That's a nice new coat, I don't like the one you used to wear' or 'Why are you buying chocolate - I thought you were on a diet?'. And why is it at weddings or family 'do's, there is always someone who's not talking to someone else, or a slanging match starts .... As they say 'You can choose your friends but not your family'. How true.

[B00]

Ooooo no, I love family weddings, it's about only place I can totally plastered knowing full well adoring aunties will look after my baby and dance myself stupid to Time Warp and YMCA!!!!

Yes I'm well aware of how sad i sound- don't rub it in ok?

Tee hee

[noxlumos]

Weddings in my wife's family are always a bit frought for us as my first wife was her second cousin ( my elder kids mother) and even if she doesn't turn up, the whole sorry tale of how I married both of them gets rehashed every time by someone.If she does show up there's nervous shuffling because my present wife has issues with the way she treated our eldest son and my first wife usually totally ignores her own kids so it's just great either way.

Weddings in my family usually just end up in a damned good drunken brawl, tame by comparison:)

[gessoo]

I dread any weddings. I just don't like them. I feel uncomfortable dressed up and don't feel like me and can never relax. I have a few drinks to make me feel better but they never seem to work and just make me feel tired! I don't like the small talk and I hate those evening discos where everybody sits around the edge and a few people dance in the middle. Usually make an excuse not to attend unless it is a very close friend or relative. I am quite an extrovert person and like going out and having fun - just not weddings.

[smudge]

I quite like weddings - it's the very boring bit inbetween the ceremony & the disco I don't like! I could quite easily curl up in a ball & nod off!

I'm also an extrovert & always end up having a good dance (or knees up) with the rest of the lively ones!

(Except when the likes of 'Come on Eileen', 'YMCA' or the 'Birdie Song' come on - Aaaarrrrgggghhhh - I soon scarper back to my seat or the loo)!

[treacle84]

I quite enjoy going to family weddings but you're right, something is always said that grates your nerves or there is always someone not talking to someone else. My boyfriend's brother is getting married next friday. They've been together 6 years, seperated 4 times and the last engagement ring she had from him was thrown into a canal as she thought he was seeing someone else so it really should be a fun event!

[sammylane]

I was at a family birthday party last Sat and the subject-du-jour was smoking. A cracker. Always set to divide a room, literally. All that tut-tutting. And loads of recent converts - nothing worse than an evangelical who's just given up. All this while trying to be polite to all and sundry when all you want to do is tell them to mind their own bl**dy business! So then they take it a new leve. 'well maybe if you gave up that nasty habit you'd meet a nice young man' So yes, Inej, I agree and I sympathise, wholeheartedly!!

[Hammer Head]

When I was a single man I used to hate it when old Aunties always used to say to me at weddings, "Your turn next."

They soon stopped when I used to say the same to them at family funerals.

[smudge]

That's hilarious HammerHead!!

[~Wingnut~]

LOL Hammerhead!!!! Thats a good one!