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Don't worry, the garter tradition isn't for everyone, and we're not going to do it. IF we have the flower-toss, we're going to make it rocket powered to ensure only those who REALLY want it can get it. ^_^

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Audrin wrote:
Anyone heard the wedding tradition where the bachelor who catches the puts it up the leg of the girl who catches the boquet? Well I haden't. Last weddding I attended was my girlfirend's Aunt. She caught the boquet, but my desire to catch the registered nil. Why on earth would I want to touch that, its been up her aunts leg. Well, some other guy gets it ( i could have caught it easy went right to me I had to step back to avoid it) and then everyone starts pushing my girlfriend to sit down for him to put this up her dress up her leg. Now I know she isn't wearing underwear under that dress so as to avoid panty lines. This was not happening. Thus, I got into a fight at a wedding. Not so much a fight as a me standing infront of some guy and pushing him backwards, then everyhting being silent for a moment, then the groom proposing a toast out of nowhere to cover it up. Anyway, Fiss and your lovely lady, to keep harmony in your wedding AVOID THIS TRADITION!


The first time I saw or heard of this 'tradition' was at a co-worker's wedding and I thought it was sick. Then my oldest brother married and they did the same thing. I'll tell you the outcomes of both. In the first ceremony the bride threw her bouquet TO her best friend. The garter was caught by a man that had been hitting on another of my co-workers all night. They had to buy him three or four more drinks (what is up with 'drink tickets' anyway?) before he'd touch her.

I don't remember who caught the bouquet at my brother's wedding, there was just a big shuffle and I ran (I'm really getting sick of being forced to stand in for the bouquet toss, by the way), but Michelle's SON caught the garter. He then proceeded to slide it up his OWN leg and smile for the camera. Now THAT was funny.

Don't worry, Audrin, there is a SEVERE limit on what traditions will be incorporated into Chris and my wedding. I'm still fighting with my mom over the 'something old, something new...' thing, but I might let that one slide since I do't actually care one way or the other about it. We want our cake built around a computer that will play our mp's throughout the ceremony and we still havein't figured out who's gonna preside over our vows and such, so things are very much still up in the air. Whoever interested, we'll keep posted though. Promise! ^_^

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You guys should start a NEW tradition. How about, instead of the Bouqet Toss, you have the Rabid Ferret Toss, and instead of the Garter Toss, you have the Electric Eel Toss? ;)

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Um... SPCA?

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Screw 'em. We'll never tell.
Or if they hear about it, in Canada pagan religious tradition trumps all. Just tell 'em the ferret was an ancient African tradition that pays homage to the weasel gods, and the eel thing is part of Fiss' Scandanavian heritage to ward off bad luck from the walrus demons. They'll leave you alone.

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A friend was telling me about a Romanian tradition where the bride's party 'kidnaps' the bride, and the grooms party has to pay ransom after chasing them all over creation.

She said it was the most fun she's ever had at a wedding.

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So last week I go to a friend's wedding (single now so the GF is not a factor in me going after the garter.) A semi-cute but rather young looking tall girl (Alot of leg to slide that thing up) catches the boquet. So my firend throws the garter, I snatch it out of the air no problem. Then the DJ says "do over, we haden't played the intro yet." He proceeds to play a cheesy intro, and then the garter is in the air once more. Now I should say up there were me, 5 of my closest friends, one of whom is the groom throwing it, and some 40 year old Jeff Foxworthy lookalike drunken redneck. I kid you not. Girl who caught the boquet btw, I estimated her age at 15. So, I catch it once more (I'm the tallest) and the redneck TACKLES ME, knocks me to the ground, I land on the garter and try to sit on it so as to keep them away, but it seems to dissapear. Oneo f my friends caught it. He slides it up the girls leg. I askthe bride her age and she says she is 17 my friends 20 so it isn't that bad. My friend proceeds to spend the rest of the night talking to this girl. He returns twoards the end of the wedding with a pieec of paper in hadn and says "i got her number!" I say "she looked pretty young how old was she." He says FIFTEEN! It turns out she WAS 15! (only 16+ was meant to be going for the boquet and there were two HOT twins there who I wish had gotten it... would have fought tooth and nail for that garter) He jsutifies it by saying her 17 year old sister and her mother are single and attractive, and now he has all of their numbesr. I say he deserves jail time.

Just thought I'd share a pertinent story while I wait for @#$@#$# Elfen Lied 13 to download.

All spelling errors are intentional, even when not.

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"I will post a story about a hot, leggy 15-year old and a garter. On a board full of raving otaku. Surely nothing bad can come of this."

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Your right Tozetre...

What evils have I unleashed upon us...

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Eh, peodophilia ran rampant before this. If the girl in the story was japanese, I'll bet NO ONE would have batted an eyelash. ;)

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And if she had blue hair.
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::blinks:: Good GAWD!

That's it! Anyone caught THINKING 'garter' at our reception gets forcibly escorted out of the area by the groomsmen! ::shudders:: I haaaaaaates those stupid, STUPID traditions!!! They make me wanna PUKE!! GRR!

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Steady on, Ms. Senie. It don't mean nothin' - a thousand years from now, nobody's going to care if you have the wedding party play four-wall stickball with the next person that comments favorably on garters, so you can have your peeps beat the crap out of them with a song in your heart.

{BTW, if anybody else is stupid enough to do that, can I get downloadable video of the stickball game? :wink: }

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Michael J Doyle wrote:
Steady on, Ms. Senie. It don't mean nothin' - a thousand years from now, nobody's going to care if you have the wedding party play four-wall stickball with the next person that comments favorably on garters, so you can have your peeps beat the crap out of them with a song in your heart.

{BTW, if anybody else is stupid enough to do that, can I get downloadable video of the stickball game? :wink: }


::giggles:: Done and done!

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Lady Senie wrote:
::blinks:: Good GAWD!

That's it! Anyone caught THINKING 'garter' at our reception gets forcibly escorted out of the area by the groomsmen! ::shudders:: I haaaaaaates those stupid, STUPID traditions!!! They make me wanna PUKE!! GRR!

Lady Senie


Could I get forcibly escorted out of the area by the groomsmen? I'm thinking I can show up with some sort of unorthodox weapon... chopsticks. No no, something better. A claymore. Ahahaha! I'll be in my formal wear kilt that I'd wear to a wedding anyway, but with a CLAYMORE! Then I fight the groomsmen one after another until they are all defeated. Then the groom himself steps in and, at his own wedding, the Fiss is defeated. Then the lady Senie is taken as a prize and put on auction to the highest bidder at an all-otaku auction house. Yes. I can see the carnage now. Slain groomsmen all over, bridesmades swooning in terror, and the Fiss in his tuxedo, bloddy and beaten, begging for mercy... yes.....
No, not begging for mercy, but admitting defeat!

A WEDDING SWORD CHALLENGE MUST BE MADE!

*Sets to work in preperation*

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:shock:

<looks up at sky, sees firestorm brewing>

Oh, Shi'ite...

<drops into bunker and prays he doesn't become "collateral damage"...>

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Audrin wrote:
Then the groom himself steps in and, at his own wedding, the Fiss is defeated.
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the Fiss in his tuxedo, bloddy and beaten, begging for mercy... yes.....
No, not begging for mercy, but admitting defeat!


"An' I wanna PONY, an' I want ICE CREAM, an' I wanna RULE DA WORL'!"

If this was an attempt at sarcasm, it go lost in the text medium.
If it wasn't- geez, kid, do WE threaten to come trash your birthday? This isn't a cock comparison contest, it's The Happiest Day Of Their Lives.

Besides which, I chould point out, all the groomsmen will be armed with swords as part of the ceremonies. I won't go into details, but none of the swords are purely for show.

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The point of having 5 of my best buddies armed and crazy at my wedding serves 2 purposes. Not only does that make the wedding party...But it also ensures nobody tries to compare cocks during what should be an excellent time for everyone. ^_^


While I apreciate the...enthusiasm, Audrin, keep in mind this is discussing wedding tradition. All swords will be peace-bonded anyway. About the only person with a live weapon will likely be Sign-Guy. And trust me... you don't want to mess with him, even if it is only a quarterstaff. ^_^ (Even moreso if he has 2!)

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"Ahh.. I see your schwarz is as big as my schwarz." ;)

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Christopher Fiss wrote:
(Even moreso if he has 2!)


Dual wielding the quarterstaff? How many feats do you need for that?

Anyway, I figure Fiss will be starting a wedding tradition that many of us will follow; sword-bearing groom/groomsmen. ^_^

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My husband and I plan to eventually renew our vows, maybe on our 10th Anniversary, in medieval fashion. The men will all be armed and we'll have a medieval feast at the reception. I think I wanna go peasant garb, but by then he plans to have a full formal kilt so I don't really know how it's going to go. As to the swords at Fiss and Senie's wedding, European or Japanese? Please say katanas... :D

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Do you even have to ask? ^_^

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Hey, I just heard "swords." I know yours is gonna be a katana, but isn't my zweihander going to be okay? And didn't Byron want to bring a claymore?

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Ok...I know that wedding pictures are inevitable but...

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Audrin wrote:
A WEDDING SWORD CHALLENGE MUST BE MADE!

*Sets to work in preperation*


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I... I just KNOW that was some horribly unfunny joke. I know that no one just threatened to ruin what will be one of the happiest days of my life. I know that this fucking asshole did not just threaten to fucking SELL ME like a piece of goddamn MEAT after killing the man that I love with all my heart, mind, and soul.

And I know for goodamn sure that the buttmunch in question does NOT think that I wouldn't take my time in breaking every bone in his skull on my way down through his trachea AND esophagus to his intestines to pull them out with a fucking lynchpin and string him UP BY THEM AS A FUCKIN PARTY FAVOR!!!

Because I know all of these things... I now give this.... individual... a chance to retract his statement.

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