Who Wants to 'Crash' My Wedding?

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So today I was randomly (as usual) depressed about my lack of family/friends. Specifically...if/when I get married, as I predict will happen within the next year or so, I will have literally four relatives to invite. I technically have more than four relatives, but the other ten are a**holes. So four is the magic number. My fiancee has many many more friends and relatives than I, but he's even more reclusive/anti-social/pessimistic than I am, so he doesn't want to invite many people from his side. So we're looking at, like, 8 people on the invite list.

Anyway, I was pathetically wallowing in my own misery on this subject when I thought, hey, people in ancient times used to hire people to populate important events like weddings and funerals. Especially in the Middle East, mourners, usually older women, were hired to cry and wail at funerals, despite not knowing the deceased.

So you know what?

Come "crash" my wedding. I will seriously send you a fancy invitation in the mail just to make you feel extra special, you can come dressed however you want (you can only be nude if you can prove your Bajoran heritage), then you can drink for free and eat fabulous food. Maybe we'll keep in touch afterward, maybe not. Who cares? We're the ones making the commitment, not you. I just want some awesome people there who are like us, to share in the fun. Because I know the people here are awesome.

P.S.: We're in the Denver, CO area.

I would run into a weird situation if me & my girlfriend were to have a wedding ceremony because I moved across the country to be with her, have no friends up here but she only has afew herself but she also has her parents, her sister, two brothers & other family members. I'm an only child & the only 1s who would travel from my side would be my parents. Me & my girlfriend both have social anxiety thou mine's alot better than her's in general but the idea of being the center of attention like that freaks me the hell out. I would much rather have an elopement but two witnesses would still be needed. Perhaps something like eloping would be more appealing to you & your guy. Or you can try talking to Hollywood about your wedding being the squeal to Wedding Crashers

This is hilarious. If I were teaching a course on AS, I would show this thread right away.

I'd happily come to your wedding (not that you want me now), but Denver's very far away from me and I have no money. It's Denver, though. There must be a massive skeptic organization or Dr Who society or something. You could join that and then invite everyone.

I'm just in Boulder... I'm awesome but my town's idea of a gift can be somewhat polarizing. Might you prefer wedding presents from hippies or FOR hippies?

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Whilst I appreciate your sadness at your lack of friends, I cannot understand how you can possibly think it's a good idea to issue an open invitation to your wedding to a bunch of perfect strangers on a public message board.

Not all the people here are "awesome." As with any other forum, there are trolls and nasty people.

If some of the nasty people showed up at your wedding, how do you know they wouldn't ruin it? They might get extremely drunk / trash the reception / wear inappropriate clothes / start a fight / kick your wedding cake onto the floor / insert other nasty occurrence here.

Of course, not all the people here are nasty. There are also plenty of awesome people as well. But my concern is, if self-professing "awesome" people start messaging you to say "I promise I'm a nice person, please can I come to your wedding?" how will you know that they are genuinely nice, and not just nasty people pretending to be nice so that they can show up at your wedding and ruin it?

Regardless of what you decide to do, I hope it all goes really well and nobody does anything to ruin your day.

Cool idea, I just wish that Denver was in Europe.

I've come across your idea before. Five or six years ago I was staying in Glastonbury and there was a sign outside the local town hall:

WEDDING 11am SATURDAY

EVERYONE INVITED

Well, Glastonbury is a friendly Hippy type of place, not quite like Middle Earth but they try hard, so the sign didn't surprise me. So, I went along and what did I find?

Thirty or so hippies (male and female) wearing a rainbow of outfits
A real honest to goodness Druid
Twenty or so tourists from all over the world including two VERY puzzled Americans
A guy with a set of bagpipes who played the bride and groom in and out of the building
and..............
A chimney sweep for luck

Have fun, it's your big day

You need a piano player?

Less people to invite = cheaper.

If I could afford to, I'd be there in a heartbeat.

I hope you have a lovely ceremony, whatever it ends up being, and remember that it is your lives together that really matter, and not one day of partying.

He certainly was covered in soot and carrying his brushes! Here are some more details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_s ... _luck_omen