Another cash bar over here! We did provide wine on the tables for the guests though.

Ha! This is funny.

Sigh, I too will be having a cash bar, with wine during dinner and giving out a drink ticket. So maybe I'm only semi-tacky? I've heard people say, "if you can't have an open bar, then just don't serve liquor," but I know FOR CERTAIN that many of my guests would rather come to the wedding and have to buy most of their drinks, rather than come and don't have the option of having alcoholic drinks. Plus, I don't think anyone is necessarily expecting an open bar anyway. (edit: meaning my guests)

Hmmm... what else... I don't have a proper DJ. My uncle is volunteering his super-duper stereo/speaker system and will run the music for the night. Part of it just on random so he can be part of the reception too. That's probably not tacky, but all I can think of for now.

Hey!
We served non-alcoholic punch, tea, coffee, beer & wine (red & white).
That is it, that is all.

...and our guests survived & had a very good time, thank you!

oh, afternoon reception, 9 days before Christmas-> one non-attending guest wrote us a letter & critized our choice of date!!! affected them by being unable to get a sitter, for which we were also critized for having NO children event!!!

LET TACKY RULE!!!

I love this concept!

We're also cash bar-ing it! We're doing the punch and wine with dinner thing!

We're also having an "adult" only wedding and reception! SHOCKING!

My garter is skull and crossbones design...my FH is punky! haha!

Can't think of any other tacky things I've done...but I'm sure someone will find many flaws in my wedding...there's always that one! hahaha!

this is a great post. I don't know how tacky the wedding will be (we are having an open bar and kids so no one to offend there) but....we are having a social (a MB institution) and I know many ladies find these tacky. So I guess that's my contribution

What constitutes for having a tacky wedding?
I'll list a couple things that might count!
-We're having an open bar but our parents are making the wine for the tables... and I'm so pick about wine, there's no way I'll be drinking it! lol!
-We ordered our invitations online!
Hmmm.... I need ideas on what tacky is to continue really!

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this is a great post. I don't know how tacky the wedding will be (we are having an open bar and kids so no one to offend there) but....we are having a social (a MB institution) and I know many ladies find these tacky. So I guess that's my contribution

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Us too, another tacky MB institution/social here, but we will have open bar and kids at the wedding. Oh I will also be having a hockey garter ( alittle tacky) and we may do the first dance as one of those funny mixed tape kind of dances (ie:i like big butts and the like).

We're not having a "tacky" wedding, but I've got a story of tacky.

My MOH went to a wedding in NS for a high school friend. The wedding was very simple as was the reception. They had the reception in a high school gym. It was a "dry" reception. No wine for dinner. And for dinner they had Chinese food ordered in served on paper plates, with plastic utensils. I understand budgetting and that some people don't need all the pomp and circumstance, but it gets better! There was no dancing after dinner...instead they OPENED THEIR PRESENTS!!! That's right folks, they opened their wedding presents at their receptions!

Just wanted to share...I thought that was the tackiest wedding story I had every heard!!

My brother in laws sister's wedding:

-Having a non alcoholic reception
-Have to bring your own food
- Wedding is 6 months away, still hasn't done invitiations
- My sister who is in wedding has to spend 500 dollars on just outfitting themselves to be up to her standard.
- Pretty much demanding my sister be in the wedding (Her wedding is June 23rd, My sister is due June 26th)


My wedding:

- Cash Bar (Definitely not spending the money to get my heavy drinker Newfoundland family drunk
- Having wedding in St. John's, and reception 45 minutes away (Which isn't bad because everyone lives in the town we're having the reception)
- Having the ladies auxilary cater (Like 8 bucks a plate)

I don't care, it'll still be amazing

MY wedding,

Cash Bar- provided wine during dinner and non alcoholic beverages all night

Did not register.

No wedding cake, I made all my friends bake something and we had a sweet table instead

Hubby got so hammered he puked on himself and passed out in a field

Went to a hotel and partied with friends and family until 6 am- THEN grabbed my hubby and went to our bridal sweet, ate like pigs, showered and passed out.

I will tell you something.. we both had a fantastic time.. it was amazing, everyone loved it and had a great time.... I wish I could do it again!!

Hi, I'm Heather and I think I win for tackiest wedding
The reception was held at a children's baseball diamond (this is where DH asked me out in highschool)
We had a twoonie bar
We had a margaritta machine that ran all night
I went and bought a hot dog at the kid's baseball game that was going on because they were Sherwood Park hot dogs (long story)
My garter was from DH's baseball team
We had our friends stand up for us and do everything instead of family, some members actually got mad at that one
If we had to do it over again, I doubt we would have invited some family members
And the piece de resistance, We had a giant bbq out front with steaks and chicken breasts cooking as people came into the hall.

Wow, what a great idea!

Hi, my name is Linda, and my wedding will be a little tacky.

-Twoonie Bar, with free wine for dinner, two free drink tickets (courtsey of the Parents of the bride), and free non alcholic drinks

-did not register, have done a "wish list" on our wedding website instead

-Did not send out travel and accomodation information, directed guests to out wedsite instead

-Sent out email engagement anncouncments w/ the date of the wedding

-Doing a buffet for the reception

I'm sure there's more tackiness to my wedding, but I can't think of it right now.

ETA: Thought of more

-Did labels for the invitations instead of handwritting the address'

-Sent out the invitation REALLY early (I didn't want to, but got overruled)

-Not having chair covers

-Men are wearing tuxes for a 1:00pm wedding (FH insisted) and it's an OUTDOOR wedding

-Our guests are going to have 4 hours between the ceremony and the reception because of pictures, EVEN THOUGH THE CEREMONY AND RECEPTION ARE AT THE SAME PLACE.

Hi I am Christie. Our wedding

-We have not registered and don't plan too
-We are having a cash bar after dinner. Drinks will be free for the cocktail hour and dinner but for the rest of the night, guests are paying.
-No kids, adults only.
-I have one sibling and they are not coming to the wedding
-I bought my dress online for half the cost.
-We are paying for our whole wedding since our parents think we are old enough too and they shouldn't have too.
-We purchased the attire for our wedding party, so no one would be out of pocket and be stuck with a dress they will never wear again.
-I am making my own invites,menu's and place cards and am not a DIY type of person but it saves us money.

Wow, what a great post. I feel better saying that out loud
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We're doing the cash bar as well! Too many liquor pigs invited for me to be footing the bill!
We're having a Christmas themed wedding. I have been told that having a themed wedding was tacky, but I say OH WELL!!! My wedding, plan yours how you want it!
Our guests are going to have to wait for a large chunk of time in between ceremony and reception while we do pictures because we are having everything all at one place and don't want to do pictures before the wedding and ruin that first moment seeing each other.
We aren't having kids other than the flowergirl and ring bearer and one cousin. (this is all with VERY good reason)
We are having a social, a Halloween one to boot, with tons of Halloween decorations and props!

I'm sure there is more, I just can't think of it all at the moment.

Personally, the idea's that people have put on here that are "tacky" are either idea's that I'm doing as well, or that I think are great! Like the barbecue and baseball diamond! Way to make your wedding all yours! So cute!

- toonie bar over here (we did give bubly for cocktail hour and wine at dinner)

- my garter cost me $1.80 so did my flower girl basket


haha, i had forgoten to take my hair elastic off my wrist



- no chair covers



- i had a winter wedding and i wore my regular winter jacket


- did not register

We definitely have some things that make our wedding tacky but I love them and I'm excited for them!

-we're having a social
-our guests have a 4 hour wait between the ceremony and reception eventho they're in the same place
-we're having an "adult only" reception
-some guests won't be allowed to bring a date
-neither my brother nor FH's sister are standing up for us (she is very upset about this)
-we have a "B" list

This is a good thread. I love hearing about people's "tacky" weddings! Frankly, who cares if it's what the couple wants!

Ooh, me next!

My name is Jen, and I'm committing the following etiquette offenses:

-Having an adult-only event (ceremony, reception, all of it!)

-Having a destination wedding, meaning *everyone* has to travel

-Having had our guest-list hijacked by some family, we had to omit two couples from our Save the Date card list, and only sent them invites once we figured out how to squeeze another table in

-Having a honeymoon registry instead of a "household things" registry

Haha! Awesome topic! You girls ready?

....MY MUM AND I ARE PLANNING MY BRIDAL SHOWER (look of shock overcomes all of your faces)

Gotta love when you move 15 hours away from your closest family & friends, so that's why we'll be doing it. So MOH can't do it & my mum is coming up 1 month early to throw it for me. Tacky & damn proud of it!

Hi, I'm Tatiana and I had tacky aspects in my 2006 wedding.

- We didn't have bar service of any kind, only two bottles of wine per table and other refreshments.
- We put a tiny insert in our invites with registry info (word of mouth just doesn't work in our families...at all)
- We invited someone to my shower who wasn't invited to the wedding
- We didn't play any traditional wedding music
- We did photos before the ceremony...oh no we're not married in our wedding pictures what ever will we do??!!
- I had a buffet at the reception

LOL...I love you Marie-Eve!

So I guess I'll chime in, my name is Amanda and I'm hand delivering invites! Not because I want to chit-chat with all my guests, but to save the $10 EACH it would cost to mail.

Hmmm...what else...

We're having a DW but I'm wearing a full, pouffy, princess style dress instead of one of the simple dresses you're supposed to wear for a DW.

I love being in barefeet so I'm not wearing shoes when I get married.

FH is wearing a short-sleeve shirt during the ceremony so the photographer can get good pictures of his tattoo's.

We're paying for our photographer to come with us (because we want wedding pictures just like everyone else) even though there's lots of friends/family members who aren't coming because they can't afford it.

I'm doing a TTD - this is the one thing I've gotten the most looks about. Not a TTD in that it will get a little wet but one in that I don't care how dirty, etc. it gets.

However, unlike a lot of you, we are doing open bar...but only because our wedding is taking place at an all-inclusive resort.

Okay you guys made me think of a few!!
-We registered, but purposely made it quite small so that people will *hopefully* give us cash instead
-We are having SO many children attending that I'm quite certain that there will be at least one baby screaming during our ceremony.
-We're making people wait 2 hours between the ceremony and reception so we can take pictures.
-We are not having limos.... the bridal party will be in FH's parents' SUV, and the groomsparty will be in another SUV. FH and I will be travelling in his parents' bright yellow convertible mustang.
-Buffet reception
-Our wedsite looks really cheap
-Our engagement photos were a disaster... never have an aspiring photographer take such important photos

Ah well.

Yay! Finally a place where I can be unashamed of my tackiness!!!

- Our wedding is out of town so pretty much all of our guests have to travel to spend the day with us (oh, and the town we are getting married in has a population of 800 people, and there are like 20 hotel rooms. with over 200 out of town guests, that means that most will have to travel another 20 minuets out of town to get a hotel room for the night!)

- Our RSVP system is either by phone, email or through our wedsite. Saving money on postage and saving a tree too!

- Twoonie bar all the way baby! We have homemade wine for the table (totally illegal BTW) for dinner but afterwards we're making them pay!

- We are going to hand deliver as many invitations as possible.

- We have about 3 and a half hours between the ceremony and reception so we can take photos. Our ceremony is on a farm, so beautiful scenery for photos. But hey, we are providing food and bevvies for our guests during the time

That's all I can think of right now. What can I say....it's a small town wedding. Honestly, for being a farm town, I'd say our wedding actually looks pretty high-class!

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I wrote the date as 'two thousand eight' on my invites because I'm a math teacher and I couldn't handle writing 'two thousand and eight' because even though it's the 'correct' way to do it, it's technically incorrect. And the labels will not be hand written.

Oh and we're having a cash bar, no chair covers or even really any decor at all at the reception other than centrepieces, and we're not inviting anyone with a date unless they are living together. Plus I'll probably end up having about 4 showers.

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Me too! - I am writing "Two thousand eight" ... not because I am a math teacher, I'm just picky with numbers as well.

One more thing - no chair covers for me either. I'm actually not a big fan of them. Any of the ones that were available to me were too "flouncy" - and I prefer a plainer look.

I had a pretty tacky wedding.

• MY DH had to move out of our apartment a few months before the wedding because the pastor wouldn't marry us if we were living together
• I bought my gorgeous wedding dress for $600 at a consignment shop
• I had 3 showers, including one at my MIL's house
• I was LATE for my own ceremony! (We were busy with pictures)
• We made the guests wait 3 hours between ceremony and reception
• We were late for the reception TOO!!!
• I had a cash bar (too many booze hounds) with alcoholic punch and wine on the tables
• DH and I forgot to thank our parents in our speeches! (I know, i feel awful, but we were so overwhelmed)
• I ate a hot dog and fries on the beach while getting our pics taken
• I had a buffet at the reception
• The BM dresses were bought for 90% off at Reitmans (only $15 each!) without the BM being there
• I bought my veil and tiara (among many other things) off of eBay.
• I made my own RSVP cards
• I took a long time to get my thank you cards out....

However, the wedding coordinator told me that I was one of the most laid back brides she's ever worked with!

Here I go:

- BM dresses made by seamstress instead of designer, store bought
- Wine and alcohol during dinner; cash bar otherwise
- Single invites to friends (no guests unless they are married/engaged)
- No limo (renting a car instead)
- Reception ends at 11pm (the restaurant won't stay open past 12 and it takes 1 hour to clean up)
- Wedding gown from David's Bridal

Lemme think about it; I'm sure that some people find me tacky! haha...

Oh I'm sure that we did some faux-pas too...

-my dress was an off-the-rack leftover from the previous year.
-no wedding party at all.
-no chair covers.
-no bar really. Wine on each table (1 red and 1 white for every six people) and all the pop, water, tea, coffee and non-alcoholic punch you could drink.
-buffet.
-we did our photos before the ceremony so we went straight to the reception. Now if only all the guests had paid attention to that info on their invites, plus the announcement at the ceremony, and we hadn't showed up before half our guests.
-I made our invites (from one of the kits) and RSVP cards (coloured recipe cards were the perfect size and colour) which were just printed on our computer.
-no STD's were sent.
-no wedsite.
-no kids at the ceremony or recepion. My two neices who were our flower girl and ring girl were bought McD's for dinner after the ceremony (OK so I guess there were two kids at the the ceremony) as they went back to their other Grandma's for the night.
-we didn't have any dancing (no one dances in either of our families and very few friends do). Instead we played music and everyone visited and socialized and, in some cases, got to meet each other for the first time.
-our music was CD's of tropical style music that we downloaded from the internet and mixed ourselves.
-no gift opening (I hate those)
-my Mom planned my shower because I don't think that anyone else would have.
-no garter or bouquet toss.

Kalua80 - We have the same chairs except ours come in numerous colors think 70's orange green black LOL and no chair covers to boot!!!

We are having a cash bar

Reception is at the legion

2 hour wait time between ceremony and reception

lots of OOT guests

e-mail and phone RSVP

NOT iviting everyone in FH's Italian "side" of the family(over 300 alone)

Homemade wine on tables

Bought my Dress off e-bay that is a maggie "knoc-off" but im in love with it and it was only 200 with shipping

Got my veil and tiara off ebay

Wow that was fun LOL

My name is Sarah and I am also having a tacky wedding (and I am kinda proud of it!)

- no bar
- no chair covers
- wedding is on a SUNDAY! (NOT of a long weekend)
- single guests do not get to bring a friend
- we are not providing entertainment for the kids who are coming
- we are including an insert in our invites that tells people where we are registered
- we are not having cocktails for our guests in the hour and a half between the ceremony and reception (same location...they will get punch though)
- I am buying MYSELF coolers to drink during the dance (I hate wine and beer but am not providing coolers for everyone!) (I KNOW SO TACKY!)
- My FH sent his friends the STDs over Facebook (ok, I kinda hang my head in shame over this one...)

- I am sure there is more

Hmm let's see..

-twoonie bar
-buffet
-fake flowers
-no chair covers
-bunch of things like cake set etc off of ebay
-guys have skeleton ties

I'm sure there will be a few other things

-No seat covers
-MIL is making my dress
-The whole wedding party (including me) is wearing sneakers
-I'm wearing black nail polish (I always do, why change?)
-Out of 100 person guest list, 10 live in town (and doesn't include any of our families)
-We're doing very little decorating for the reception, just centrepieces and guest book/cardbox table
-I haven't sent out my STDs yet
-RSVP by phone or wedsite. Save a tree and some $$!

kristen_mario - pick the orange chairs and make it very tacky, it would be super great. and make sure to post pics. oh i thought of better make a mixture of orange and green ones.

i forgot to add that the only flowers were ours bouquets (no boutonieres) and they were all fake flowers. and i had no decorations at all except for the tiny little center pieces.

I had a DW in Jamaica. My wedding was anything but "politically correct" and we purposely avoided all the traditions we possibly could. I feel like this thread was made for me! I was a "wedding rebel" and broke all the rules! ...and we had the most incredible wedding that WE could've ever wanted. It was OUR perfect wedding and everything WE ever dreamed of ...and all of our guests who came along absolutely loved it too.
Warning: Traditionalists may be horrified

- we had an adults only wedding at an adults only resort with no children in sight for 2 weeks (woohoo!)
- we cut our guest list at DH's aunts/uncles - none of my aunts/uncles or any of our hoards of cousins invited. We said NO to inviting hundreds of guests!
- no parents or grandparents were at our wedding (not that they weren't invited.. just too elderly/unwell to travel.. but my parents totally "got it" that this was the wedding we wanted)
- I didn't do STDs
- I saved trees, stamps and time and emailed our invitations after we picked the resort
- my dress was custom made, calf length, halter and not at all pouffy
- I didn't go to a salon for an up do for my hair or wear a veil
- I only wore eye makeup and lipstick which I did myself
- I walked down the sand aisle in barefeet, and afterwards wore white flip flops
- my DH also had barefeet and wore a short sleeved short and no tie
- our best man wore shorts
- we played Bob Marley for our processional... from a CD plugged into a palm tree... and it skipped!
- we had bubbles and fans on our cover-less white chairs
- our rings were sitting in sand in a seashell
- in the near distance strangers watched in bathing suits
- we ended up with 2 guest videoing
- we didn't do a receiving line but rather everyone just ran around hugging
- I wore a Canucks garter and delighted DH with the surprise
- we cut our cake and drank champagne at about 11:30 in the morning
- our cake was a small 2 tier Jamaica rum spice cake decorated in chocolate seashells and looked like something I may have decorated myself (but it was delicious)
- our professional wedding photos were in barefeet on the beach and DH's pants got all wet and sandy (and he had to later wear them for dinner)
- everyone had free time then got into beach attire and went on a catamaran cruise the afternoon of the wedding
- during the cat cruise a cat from the Hedonism resort pulled up full of naked people who proceeded to do nasty things (see, good thing we didn't have children around! - we left shortly thereafter)
- I threw my bouquet off the side of the cat to the ladies who had already exited and were standing in the water
- we had our pro sunset beach photos in shorts and cover-ups with messy swam-in hair
- we made our guests have a second shower of the day to get dressed back up (somewhat) for dinner
- at our off resort dinner the staff set our palm tree placecard holders wrong and everyone just found their own and sat where ever
- we didn't fuss with decorating our thatched roof banquet area, but rather let the staff do whatever (and they made it nice with seashells and used my orange theme colour!)
- our guests had to pre-order their choices off the menu a week or so prior (we at least modified it to remove the prices)
- I didn't want to order more champagne because I don't really like the stuff, so we just had wine to do toasts
- we didn't do any formal speeches, but rather just said thank you to everyone for coming (thank our parents? why? they didn't pay or organize it) and a few guests just said a few words as they wished
- we stopped the steel drum band to play our first dance song from our iPods, connected to the beach bar downstairs. It didn't sound the greatest, and everyone was tired so we all soon left (which at least meant we could continue our "open bar" back at our AI resort)
- back at the resort we ended the day sitting on lounge chairs around a bonfire on the beach in our wedding clothes

That was fun. I think I'm going to keep this!

I'll join in too.

- Sunday night wedding (all of the saturdays in 2008 were booked at my chosen venue)
- toonie bar (with wine pour service during dinner)
- buying wholesale flowers and doing the bouquets and centrepieces myself
- buffet
- phone/email/wedsite RSVPs
- bought my dress at Bridal Fair sale
- out of town wedding, but most of our guests would have had to travel anyway
- people not invited to wedding invited to bridal shower
- having a groomsmaid (only two attendants each)
- no flowergirl or ring bearer
- fiance's parents dogs (and perhaps our own) as part of the ceremony
- two hours between ceremony and reception with board games available for people to play
- might open gifts at the ceremony just because everyone else will have to travel on Monday
- My uncles are tag team marrying us, one for the official stuff and the other for everything else
- my cousin is playing a digital piano for our ceremony music as we're not allowed to have amplified music

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- I finally just told my bridesmaids/groomsmaid to just go out and get dresses in a certain pallette (green for my side, black for his) that are short. I don't really care if they match, as long as they coordinate. We're giving each $150 towards their attire.

This is fun!

I am having a tacky wedding!

-cash bar with wine on tables
-uneven attendents
-styrofoam plates and plastic utensils
-buffet of fajitas
-i'm sure i'll get fahita slop on my dress
- no chairs, benches instead
- we can get our servers to be in texas attire at our venue if we desire

that is all i can think of for now... i'm sure there is much more

Perfect timing, a friend just said how relaxed I was about the wedding compared to other brides she's known. Tacky? Or just indifferent to wedding standards/expectations?

-it's out of town for us and half the guests, making them fly in from UK, Europe and US the weekend AFTER Labor Day
-no bridesmaids
=no showers or stagette
-no rehearsal dinner
-no decorations, no centrepieces, no favors, no chaircovers!
-cash bar!
-no chicken option at dinner - beef or eggplant cuz those are what tasted best
-no veil, no pearls (mother is appalled)
-sexy wedding dress instead of something bridal
-no white tiered cake, instead a sheet cake iced to look like a book since we love reading
AND we're going to serve it right after the ceremony, instead of the reception, so the members of the congregation can participate in a bit more of the celebration. Mom thinks this will make people "uncomfortable" not having cake at the reception...where there will be dessert anyway!

Hmm...can we do anything else unconventional?

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MY wedding,

Cash Bar- provided wine during dinner and non alcoholic beverages all night

Did not register.

No wedding cake, I made all my friends bake something and we had a sweet table instead

Hubby got so hammered he puked on himself and passed out in a field

Went to a hotel and partied with friends and family until 6 am- THEN grabbed my hubby and went to our bridal sweet, ate like pigs, showered and passed out.

I will tell you something.. we both had a fantastic time.. it was amazing, everyone loved it and had a great time.... I wish I could do it again!!

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that's how I want my wedding to be like...seriously.

~cash bar (FH works in the mountain bike industry...uh... yeah... NOT going to be open bar)

~we're having a Stag and Doe, which is apparently tacky out west (we're from Onterrible, where it's pretty common)

~only close friends and family will be invited to the sit down dinner

~no cake cutting, bouquet/garter tossing. No garter (tacky that thing is...)

~no flowergirl or ringbearer

~groomsmen and FH to have matching tuxedo downhill mountain biking jerseys, matching helmets and shoes...

~PHOTOS taken of them going down the mt in their attire (possibly the tuxes, then the jerseys)

~lots of time for photos in between ceremony and reception (we're going to go up top of Whistler)

~all sustainable: handmade seed paper (by ME, using paper from the actual recycling boxes) for programs, menus, table signs (using one of those customizable stamps); invitations also handmade paper and stamped

~RSVP by website! woo hoo!

~one of those ugly a$$ dual heart with tissue paper trim (choose your own colours!) cardboard deals -to be put on one of the gondolas (or we'll carry it around hahaha)

~guitar hero at the afterparty

~I wonder if having a rice krispie square castle cake would be too much?

~flower stuff will be from the garden, and trees, and midnight leaf obtaining from neighbourhood

(we're the type of people who used to take for sale signs from the front of a house and move it to a house two streets over when we were coming home from the club drunk)

Some of you don't belong in this thread - not tacky enough/not tacky at all. Some sound like very nice weddings & nice touches. I feel ripped off.

We are also having a cash bar. Punch at the cocktail, and 2 glasses of wine per persone for dinner.

As for the registry, well, we did do a small one for the hard core ones, but we didn't put it on the website and we told our parents that they could tell only if the person insisted twice that they didn't want to give money... how bad is that? LOL

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HA HA i LOVE IT!!!!
Friends of ours are actually doing this for their stag and doe at the end of April...i want to see how it goes and we may incorporate it into ours

Oh yes thats one more thing to add to my list im having a stag and doe which is tacky for some areas but in our area its the norn in fact ppl are ALREADY asking me when it is...For all our friends and family its basically another reason to party LOL

So here's my list. My wedding will be less than 25 people, which explains most of what I'm doing.

-My dress was a sale item (off the rack)

-Got my veil off ebay for less than $30 bucks.

-Bought the tiara online too...it also was less than $30.

-My invites are a DIY pack from Michaels

-No dancing

-No bar

-Wine and all the non-alcoholic stuff one can drink

-It's on a Thursday night!

-Flowers will be silk (Tacky?)

- I spent more on my shoes than I did on the veil and tiara combined? LOL

-No STD's

-No OOT guests

Basically as simple as it gets.

Cool idea for a post!

Hello, My name is Camillia Charest, and I am tacky in the following ways....

We are having a donation bar
I bought my bm dresses for 39.99 each
I have a B list!!!

Hi my name is Tiffany and my wedding will be kinda tacky. Maybe not to you WB ladies, but we have had some comments from FH's family about our choices...

-Our ceremony is on a Friday night at 7pm at the same hotel we are having the reception.
-My dress was bought off the rack and cost less than my FH's suit.
-My FH is wearing a suit and tie and not a tux.
-We are having a adults only ceremony and reception.
-We are only inviting one aunt and one uncle from both of our family's, so FH's godparents and my closest uncle and his wife, even though both our families include 7+ aunt/uncles.
-We won't have a photographer.
-My FH is getting a tattoo instead of a wedding band.
-Our BP consists of a MOH and a BM, none of which are siblings.
-My mom is walking me down the aisle.
-We're having an open bar and want our guests to get sh!tfaced!
-We're not doing boutonniers(sp) or corsages for the groom or for our parents.
-We're having a sit down meal even though the reception starts at 8pm.
-We didnt't do STDs and my wedding is in 4 months are my invites aren't finished yet! LOL!
-No cake.
-No garter or bouquet toss.
-Won't be registering, it's not about getting money, it's about the fact that we have EVERYTHING!!.

I think that's about it!

ETA: I forgot...my FSIL is a reader and she's wearing this

We're doing a B list too. I never realized that was considered tacky until I started coming on here!

Ditto for the lack of registry, STDs and bar
We are accommodating FH's 6 family members, and forcing my 80-odd to travel.
No rehearsal dinner.
No gift opening.
No MC at the reception.
2 very pregnant bridesmaids.

On the other hand, it could be worse check out this link

http://www.slideshare.net/blulaserboy/stillwater-wedding/

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MY wedding,

Cash Bar- provided wine during dinner and non alcoholic beverages all night

Did not register.

No wedding cake, I made all my friends bake something and we had a sweet table instead

Hubby got so hammered he puked on himself and passed out in a field

Went to a hotel and partied with friends and family until 6 am- THEN grabbed my hubby and went to our bridal sweet, ate like pigs, showered and passed out.

I will tell you something.. we both had a fantastic time.. it was amazing, everyone loved it and had a great time.... I wish I could do it again!!

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that's how I want my wedding to be like...seriously.

~cash bar (FH works in the mountain bike industry...uh... yeah... NOT going to be open bar)

~we're having a Stag and Doe, which is apparently tacky out west (we're from Onterrible, where it's pretty common)

~only close friends and family will be invited to the sit down dinner

~no cake cutting, bouquet/garter tossing. No garter (tacky that thing is...)

~no flowergirl or ringbearer

~groomsmen and FH to have matching tuxedo downhill mountain biking jerseys, matching helmets and shoes...

~PHOTOS taken of them going down the mt in their attire (possibly the tuxes, then the jerseys)

~lots of time for photos in between ceremony and reception (we're going to go up top of Whistler)

~all sustainable: handmade seed paper (by ME, using paper from the actual recycling boxes) for programs, menus, table signs (using one of those customizable stamps); invitations also handmade paper and stamped

~RSVP by website! woo hoo!

~one of those ugly a$$ dual heart with tissue paper trim (choose your own colours!) cardboard deals -to be put on one of the gondolas (or we'll carry it around hahaha)

~guitar hero at the afterparty

~I wonder if having a rice krispie square castle cake would be too much?

~flower stuff will be from the garden, and trees, and midnight leaf obtaining from neighbourhood

(we're the type of people who used to take for sale signs from the front of a house and move it to a house two streets over when we were coming home from the club drunk)

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When is your wedding, I would LOVE to see pictures. My DH is big into cycling - mountain and road. In fact today he's leaving for a 5 day cycling trip (some road & mountain) and his bachelor party was a cycling trip.

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