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by Pumpkin_Man » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:10 pm
I see what you mean, icewitch. Some times circumstances are a determining factor. My niece wanted to have her wedding on Halloween. That was back in 2005, and Halloween fell on a Monday that year, and a lot of people could not get off work that day, and that year I actualy couldn't get off work because of a very important video shoot that I had to do, so she would not have had many guests if she had done that. So she had her wedding on Saturday the 29th.
The reason I said that it should be up to the couple is because your story sort of reminded me of my older brothers wedding back in October of 71. My brother and his wife did not want to have their wedding on Halloween. They had it on a Saturday, but my mom and the mother of the bride got into a huge battle over the table cloths that were to be used at the reception. My mom prefered paper table cloths because they were more "snitary," and the bride's mother thought that paper table cloths were too "tacky," and a wedding should be more formal and fancy, so they both yacked and yacked and yacked and yacked, and complained endlessly to both my brother and the bride and almost ruined the wedding. As it turned out, the caterors ended up using paper table cloths because cloth ones were too expensive.
I was only a kid of 11 at the time, but I remember feeling really bad for my brother because of the way the parents acted. Don't get me wrong. I have the utmost respect for my mother and my father, but this was one isntance where I think the parents should have kept their opinions to themselvs and let the bride and groom work out the wedding details. After all, it was their wedding day, the most important day of their lives.
Mike