"DreadfulBitch" > wrote in message
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> On 5/21/2014 9:45 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> I hate wedding receptions too. Especially the ones that go on for hours
>> and hours and hours and have some hokey band or DJ that thinks they are
>> playing the music that we like.
>
> The music, Julie, is the choice of the bridal couple, not the guests. And,
> if you don't want to stay for hours and hours and hours you could, oh... I
> don't know.... leave!
>
I know the music is their choice but... I went to one wedding where nobody
could figure out exactly what the music was supposed to be. There was a
band but they were playing songs that nobody had ever heard of before. The
bride was a year older than me but most of the people she invited to the
wedding were around my parents age. So when she saw that nobody was
dancing, she approached some of them and asked something like... Isn't this
the kind of music that people of your age like? She was met with sort of
blank stares as nobody really knew what it was.

Another time I had to stay because the bride and groom were both blind and I
was the one who had to take them home. Yes, home as they were poor and had
no real honeymoon. The groom had actually chosen that band and it was very
loud heavy metal. Did I mention that marriage didn't even last 2 months?

Leaving isn't always an option. Sometimes I am not the one driving. Most
of the time I am not the one driving. Often the wedding is far away and we
carpool.