MOST OF US have at least one thing about weddings we cannot abide.
Well, in actual fact, most of us have multiple things we cannot stand about the happiest day of someone else’s life, but sure look, it is what it is.
Indeed, from the speeches to the duration, there are no shortage of things that wind us up when we’re meant to be celebrating a loved one’s big day. Again, we never claimed to be perfect.
In the interest of time however, we thought we’d keep the angst to a minimum and asked you to share the one thing you’d like to change about the standard wedding day.
Not everyone managed to keep it to a minimum; FYI.
Well, pretty much everything.
The generic-massed produced nature of them. The waiting around. The expense. The small talk. When there isn’t enough Prosecco at the drinks reception. I’d love if the current format for Irish weddings went completely out of fashion and everybody just pared it right back.
No shade, Susan.
That you have to invite basically every member of your distant family, including your second-cousin Susan who you haven’t seen since you were five. And if you don’t invite them, they get offended.
It’s a recurring theme here.
Having to invite people you haven’t seen in years because they’ll take offence if you don’t, even though deep down, they don’t want to go. Confusing but true!
An entire weekend, really?
The two-day thing is starting to get to me. People my age are so time-poor and cash-strapped that the two-day event – the extra night’s accommodation and all that goes with it – can really add up. Especially if you go to multiple weddings a year.
Calm down, lads.
The way people freak out over free Prosecco and wine. Chill the f*ck out with your two-glasses-per-hand.
Sorry, but are you trying to kill us?
Speeches should never EVER be before food.
In saying that, not everyone is waiting to get bet into the food.
Sorry to say it, but the food is totally crap. Soup? For a wedding? Really?
The fact it bankrupts you.
It’s the overall cost. Maybe I need to learn how to cut corners but between the outfit, the beauty prep, the accommodation, the drink, and the present, I don’t know how you can avoid breaking the bank every single time.
Here’s that money issue again.
The lack of free bar. Oh and the fact that you have to give a lump of cash to the bride and groom.
The hand-in-pocket situation.
Where I’m from, you don’t pay for drinks at a wedding. I find it so weird to pay for the drinks, but on the other hand I can’t imagine 150 Irish people and an open bar. It would be the apocalypse.
