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Hi Guys,

Bit of a strange one this. I have been invited to my friends wedding. He recently moved about 3 hours away. I have know him about 7 years. Know him well, been on holiday with him a few times. However, we don't have any mutual fiends. We met in college and just remained friends afterwards. I haven't even met his fiance as she lives where he has moved to.

I would like to go to his wedding, however, I won't know anyone else. Apart from his parents who I've met a couple of times. I'm worried it will be awkward.

If I decide not to go, what do I say to him?
 
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You could ask if his future wife has any suitable unattached pals that you could sit beside? ;)
 
Go have fun make some new friends, I went to a friends wedding a couple of years ago, didn't know anyone there but the bride and her family as I went to college with Her brother and became friends with the whole family...I had a great time, chatted with lots of different people, got very drunk, and got very lost on the grounds of the castle where the wedding reception was held...top day/night had a really great time
 
Just go - it will be fine. It's a wedding. People will be generally in a good mood, and mostly drunk. You'll meet lots of people.

If not, take your camera and have a practice at some portraits, and \ or actually take some shots and if they turn out ok give them as an alternative album.
 
Chill.....go have some fun be the grooms cool mate nobody knows....this is what life is all about! making connections with others.

In the words of Murray Walker...

go Go GO!
 
Best wedding I ever went to was one in Scotland where we only knew the B&G.

Boy, do they know how to have a party up there!

If you know no one you don't have to live to everyone's expectations except your mate!

Get your RSVP back or post it on here, I guess there would be takers!
 
He didn't have to ask you to go to his wedding. He did because he wants you there to share an important day in his life.
That's what friendship is about.
Go and have fun!
 
go - leave the camera behind you don't want to experience the wedding through the view finder and it gets in the way when throwing shapes on the dance floor - there'll be loads of people in the same situation and some of them will be unattached, female, and possibly good looking... wheres the downside ?

on the other hand in terms of what do you say if you decide not to go, options include

already have a commitment - wish i could get out of mate but its my gran's 82nd birthday and we're throwing a suprise party for her...
poverty - sorry mate I can't afford the fuel/train ticket
work - i'd love to but my boss says i have to work as theres an important contract coming up , or
honesty - sorry mate, you know me I'm a bit shy and I won't know anyone..
 
I Have just read this, is this an April fools Joke ?

Man up

Go or Don't go simples
 
MWHCVT said:
Go have fun make some new friends, I went to a friends wedding a couple of years ago, didn't know anyone there but the bride and her family as I went to college with Her brother and became friends with the whole family...I had a great time, chatted with lots of different people, got very drunk, and got very lost on the grounds of the castle where the wedding reception was held...t
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fell down drunk on the lawn outside the reception, woke up freezing cold and covered in dew at 4am, staggered in to the hotel lobby and threw up in a bin by the reception desk...
 
Go. Seating plans are always carefully thought out and they'll sit you with people that you will fit in with.
 
big soft moose said:
fell down drunk on the lawn outside the reception, woke up freezing cold and covered in dew at 4am, staggered in to the hotel lobby and threw up in a bin by the reception desk...
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That sounds somewhat like what one of my brother in laws did at my other sisters wedding, though you missed the stage of going for a swim in the ornamental fountain in front of the hotel lol
 
Last time I went to a wedding ,I got blind drunk ,even had a few dances ,think I fell asleep in the corner for a bit ,stuffed myself with food when I woke up ,and ended up in bed with a right cracker and had sex a couple of times . Can't beat going to your own wedding IMHO :wave:
 
MWHCVT said:
That sounds somewhat like what one of my brother in laws did at my other sisters wedding, though you missed the stage of going for a swim in the ornamental fountain in front of the hotel lol
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My mate gary got so drunk at one wedding that he passed out in the reception venue room and spent the night behind a sofa - he was unceronmoniuosly ejjected at 6am by the cleaners - at the same wedding I decided to sleep in my car and so i culdnt be done for drunk in charge came up with the cunning wheeze of hiding the keys... trouble was the next morning when i couldnt find them again (They where in the spare wheel well it transpired).

That was a wedding where we didnt know anyone and the brides very posh friends werent interested in our lechery (we were the only freinds of the groom present) so we subsituted alcohol for conversation
 
the black fox said:
Last time I went to a wedding ,I got blind drunk ,even had a few dances ,think I fell asleep in the corner for a bit ,stuffed myself with food when I woke up ,and ended up in bed with a right cracker and had sex a couple of times . Can't beat going to your own wedding IMHO :wave:
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How did your new wife feel about that when she found out ;)
 
big soft moose said:
My mate gary got so drunk at one wedding that he passed out in the reception venue room and spent the night behind a sofa - he was unceronmoniuosly ejjected at 6am by the cleaners - at the same wedding I decided to sleep in my car and so i culdnt be done for drunk in charge came up with the cunning wheeze of hiding the keys... trouble was the next morning when i couldnt find them again (They where in the spare wheel well it transpired).

That was a wedding where we didnt know anyone and the brides very posh friends werent interested in our lechery (we were the only freinds of the groom present) so we subsituted alcohol for conversation
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I'd have loved to sit an watch you rip your car apart the next day looking for the keys :lol: :lol:

Sleeping in a car is no fun, done it once, will never do it again...I was in the grounds of Knebworth House for an event and to save breaking down all the sound rig we decide to sleep on site, God I ached all the next day :(
 
Actully I sleep in mine quite a bit - mainly when after insanely early starts for sunrises etc - Ford Focus estate FTW (at the wedding in question I was driving a punto - less comfortable)
 
big soft moose said:
Actully I sleep in mine quite a bit - mainly when after insanely early starts for sunrises etc - Ford Focus estate FTW (at the wedding in question I was driving a punto - less comfortable)
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Yeah really I should have slept on the back but couldn't face moving all the spare kit from the back of the car
 
I hate being invited to weddings. It writes off a whole day when I could be doing something I wanted to do!

fabs said:
Did you get an invite to the stag do?
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Gggrrr!!!! It's an invitation, not an invite. Invite is a verb!!


Steve.
 
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Steve Smith said:
I hate being invited to weddings. It writes off a whole day when I could be doing something I wanted to do!



Gggrrr!!!! It's an invitation, not an invite. Invite is a verb!!


Steve.
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Well, if we're going to be pedantic.....

You could either be doing something you want to do, or could have been doing something you wanted to do; but not the way you put it. :p
 
There are always plenty of single or divorced women at weddings, alcohol, music, dancing, hotel rooms, just go and enjoy yourself.
 
I did wonder about the wording of that... and changed it before posting!


Steve.
 
Gary Coyle said:
But theyre always heavily outnumbered by big fat ugly munters out for the kill.
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So take a couple of paper bags with you and drink a lot first
 
doublem1 said:
Hi Guys,

Bit of a strange one this. I have been invited to my friends wedding. He recently moved about 3 hours away. I have know him about 7 years. Know him well, been on holiday with him a few times. However, we don't have any mutual fiends. We met in college and just remained friends afterwards. I haven't even met his fiance as she lives where he has moved to.

I would like to go to his wedding, however, I won't know anyone else. Apart from his parents who I've met a couple of times. I'm worried it will be awkward.

If I decide not to go, what do I say to him?
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I would go :)

A few years ago i was in a similar situation, a friend i know invited me to his wedding i met his wife for the first time the day before the wedding and it was probably the most enjoyable wedding i have been too. I didn't know anyone there but it didn't matter.

From the other side of things a work friend will be travelling to my wedding in June and he hasn't met my fiance yet and won't know anyone else there

To be honest i don't think it matters that you don't have any mutual friends, just go and enjoy the party :)
 
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