Ozzie's Weekend Poll #74 (the "almost summer for us" poll)

by ozziepost 11 Replies latest jw friends

  • ozziepost
    ozziepost

    G?day all,

    So owyergoin? Mrs Ozzie and I have been enjoying some farewell parties this weekend and we got to thinking about those weddings at the Kingdom Hall. Yep, those

    weddings! How many did you go to? Well, take your minds back to those times while we reminisce.

    This weekend?s poll question is???(drum roll)???

    What?s the worst thing about a Dub wedding?

    1. The talk!
    2. No confetti.
    3. The talk!
    4. Just like another meeting.
    5. The talk!
    6. Too long.
    7. The talk!
    8. Finding someone to be "responsible" for each part of the arrangements.
    9. The talk!
    10. Inviting guests to come to a "Hall"
    11. The talk!
    12. Sly comments from the sister elders.
    13. The talk!
    14. Other (please detail)

    OK that?s it. We?re looking forward to sharing those "fond" memories.

    Enjoy.

    Cheers, OzzieCheers 2

  • gumby
    gumby

    14. Other (please detail)

    The talk.

    Not only was listening to one boring after you have heard it a couple of times......but giving it was no fun either. I've given a few. Too much public instruction on how to do this and how not to do this. The instructor makes a couple feel as though they are in a marriage class rather than a marriage cerimony.

    btw.....what are you doing up so early oz? What time is it there? It's about 12:50AM in my neck of the woods.

    Gumby

  • Vivamus
    Vivamus

    Other! The worst thing ever happened (read, most embarrasing) was when the elder marched over the dancefloor, towards the DJ, demanding that the music should be changed. The song "I wanne have sex on the beach" was deemed inappropiate.

    Gawd, I felt mortified, I was just one soul in a vast crowd, but felt the thoughts of all those worldy people there thinking "how pathetic are these witnesses". I so wished not be there at that moment.

    -

    Blue Bubblegum Girl

  • ozziepost
    ozziepost

    Come on, Viv, I'm not surprised! After all, he was thinking of Scheveningen!!!!!

    Gumby, my friend, it's only 8:15pm here at the Australian Bethel!!WalkingExec 2

  • Gadget
    Gadget

    1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 13.

    The talk is so bad. And its worse if when you say you vows the elder breaks it down into little bits for your wife, but reads it all of in one go for you so you can't remember it....... And then at the wedding reception my dad decided the talk hadn't gone into enough detail, so decided to give it again but with more force as his father of the groom speech.

    And finding someone who would be in charge of each of the bits. And then the elders deciding a few weekd before hand that they are not happy with it, so they cancell it, THEN come to talk to me about it. We just about got it all back on track, but it took 3 bodies of elders, the co, and the bethel getting involved to sort it, then we were told to 'just wait on jehovah' to sort out the people who'd caused all the problems. Not the best way to start married life is it.

  • blondie
    blondie

    What?s the worst thing about a Dub wedding?

    1. The talk!
    2. No confetti.
    3. The talk!
    4. Just like another meeting.
    5. The talk!
    6. Too long.
    7. The talk!
    8. Finding someone to be "responsible" for each part of the arrangements.
    9. The talk!
    10. Inviting guests to come to a "Hall"
    11. The talk!
    12. Sly comments from the sister elders.
    13. The talk!
    14. Other (please detail)

    The music. The WTS deemed that only Kingdom melodies could be used no matter how innocuous a non-JW song was. Some brothers felt only the tapes/CDs could be used until they found out that trying to walk down aisle and end at a proper place in the song was nigh unto impossible. I went to one wedding about 20 years ago that had two women playing a piano and a flute duet (family members not JWs). The elder body got chewed out by the CO for that.

    The tradition of having the newly married couple turn around and face the audience and be introduced by the speaker, "And now I introduce you to Brother and Sister LastName. Now you may kiss the bride."

    Restrictions on decorating the KH. One MOB wanted to use candles and was told it was verboten. Then she tried using light ropes and was told it was too Xmas looking. They had the wedding switched to a secular facility.

    The restrictions on dresses. I have seen this one circumvented. One wedding the elders had only seen the dresses with the jackets on. As the bridal party came down the aisle in the dresses w/o the jacket, I thought the elders would choke. The dresses had spaghetti straps and cleavage about 2 inches deep and slits up past their knees (they had sewn them up for the elder viewing).

    Restrictions on the number in the bridal party.

    Blondie (eloping sounds good to me)

  • CC Ryder
    CC Ryder

    The Talk, definately. Gumby made a comment that was right on. It's more like a "marraige class". That's what Tink and I felt with our's. The Elder who did ours WAS a good friend of mine. He singled out Tink when it came to her "roles" as a good wife and really layed it on thick with the Psalms on a good capable wife, as if he was saying "...Now Nat, you better take good care of Craig..or else!!..."

    The Music was lousy too. In our area in Ct., It always turned into a talent show with everyone taking turns singing popular love songs that were currently out. There wasn't enough cotton around to stuff in my ears!

    CC

  • Princess
    Princess

    The inside of the KH is so ugly! The music is unbearable and the talk always has to mention Adam and Eve as if they were such a good example. Do we have to hear one more time how the wife is the weaker vessel? That is just infuriating to me!

    The good thing about our wedding was my dad got to give the talk. He made it personal and forced us to memorize the vows so he didn't have to chop them up like we were five or something. Sounded much better that way.

    If I was planning my wedding now, I'd still want my dad to give the talk but we'd change the venue for sure.

  • Undecided
    Undecided

    Surely you don't expect me to remember that far back. I remember being the one giving the marriage talk, but what I said I have no idea. I guess I told the bride to obey her husband and the husband to be a good loving JW. As fas as I know, all the ones I married are still living together. Those were the days... I remember singing in a quartet at one of my friends wedding. Haven't thought of that in years.

    Ken P.

  • copsec
    copsec

    The fact that so many songs got "nixed" at the receptions. Sure couldn't play any booty shaking tunes!!!!!!!!!!! I HATED JW receptions!!!

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