Also, I once attended a wedding where the bride's father died on the dance floor during the reception. That one was over quickly.

Gee,thanks for that Father dropping dead story.

Both my wife and I had been married before. Although we're both Catholic neither of us had a Catholic wedding ceremony. My wife's brother is a priest and he boycotted her first wedding because it wasn't in the church. When we were getting married we decided to have a small ceremony at the same venue where the reception was held. This bastard boycotted again even going so far as to e-mail her about how she keeps making the same mistakes. What an asshole. This guy is the world's worst priest. If your God calls on you to hurt your sister's feelings, you have a shitty God. And I could even respect him if it was some kind of Catholic doctrine, but it isn't. Priests attend weddings of different faiths for the friends all the time. This is some personal douchebaggery of the world's nastiest priest. In my family that would be a raging fight with everything on the table. In hers, it's all this passive-aggressive bullshit where everyone knows he's an asswipe but nobody will tell him. My wife has been snubbing him at family functions ever since. I think I'm the only one who noticed. He's so fucking self-absorbed, he sure doesn't notice himself.

Forgiveness is the proper response.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

We're not doing the Catholic Mass. Did that already and didn't want to fight the Church for an annulment.

Catholic mass weddings are usually the same length of the regular mass. Communion takes less time, the 2nd reading is typically skipped. Homilies tend to be shorter. There are a few things that take up that time. Lighting of the wedding candle, visitation to the Virgin Mary, etc...

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Both my wife and I had been married before. Although we're both Catholic neither of us had a Catholic wedding ceremony. My wife's brother is a priest and he boycotted her first wedding because it wasn't in the church. When we were getting married we decided to have a small ceremony at the same venue where the reception was held. This bastard boycotted again even going so far as to e-mail her about how she keeps making the same mistakes. What an asshole. This guy is the world's worst priest. If your God calls on you to hurt your sister's feelings, you have a shitty God. And I could even respect him if it was some kind of Catholic doctrine, but it isn't. Priests attend weddings of different faiths for the friends all the time. This is some personal douchebaggery of the world's nastiest priest. In my family that would be a raging fight with everything on the table. In hers, it's all this passive-aggressive bullshit where everyone knows he's an asswipe but nobody will tell him. My wife has been snubbing him at family functions ever since. I think I'm the only one who noticed. He's so fucking self-absorbed, he sure doesn't notice himself.

Also, I once attended a wedding where the bride's father died on the dance floor during the reception. That one was over quickly.

We also had our wedding at like 11:30AM with the reception right after. Shit's over by 3 and everybody else can do what they want at night. That was a big hit with all of our parent's old friends.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

Christ, write a book, Hemingway Jr.

No offense intended, but daytime weddings are almost as bad as Sunday weddings that don't take place on a holiday weekend.

Im pretty hammered right now.

Seriously, can you think of anything more awful? I think she probably consoled herself with the idea that he got to dance with his daughter on her wedding day.

Why is that?

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This may just be how my family is, but even the older generation really enjoys the night reception. It gives grandma a chance to enjoy a night out, as opposed to sitting on her couch watching Reba or whatever the hell is on the Hallmark channel for the night. To a degree, it makes the old folks feel younger again, if just for a night. I don't like the idea of taking that away from them.

As someone with kids, if I'm going to get a sitter, I'd much rather have it be at night so we can have fun and come back to sleeping children.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

Nothing more annoying than this. I went to a catholic wedding once and they had a full mass and the ceremony lasted close to 2 hours. No excuse for that if you are planning a wedding.

There's a good chance a good portion of your guests aren't practicing the same religion as you so do the right thing and limit the religious stuff to the minimum. Do the mass on your own time. A wedding ceremony shouldn't be longer than a half hour tops and even that's pushing it.

Mine was less than a half hour and we cut out several religious parts as a courtesy to our guests.

Both my wife and I had been married before. Although we're both Catholic neither of us had a Catholic wedding ceremony. My wife's brother is a priest and he boycotted her first wedding because it wasn't in the church. When we were getting married we decided to have a small ceremony at the same venue where the reception was held. This bastard boycotted again even going so far as to e-mail her about how she keeps making the same mistakes. What an asshole. This guy is the world's worst priest. If your God calls on you to hurt your sister's feelings, you have a shitty God. And I could even respect him if it was some kind of Catholic doctrine, but it isn't. Priests attend weddings of different faiths for the friends all the time. This is some personal douchebaggery of the world's nastiest priest. In my family that would be a raging fight with everything on the table. In hers, it's all this passive-aggressive bullshit where everyone knows he's an asswipe but nobody will tell him. My wife has been snubbing him at family functions ever since. I think I'm the only one who noticed. He's so fucking self-absorbed, he sure doesn't notice himself.

Also, I once attended a wedding where the bride's father died on the dance floor during the reception. That one was over quickly.

You may need to watch the news sometime...

This guy is the world's worst priest.

it's spam...

Oh, good. A wedding Evite is almost as bad as shower shoes on an airplane.

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