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Tacky Weddings

Do you ever go to a wedding and judge everything about it? Suddenly you’re an event planner, criticizing everything, knowing you could have done it better. You look at the stringed popcorn hanging from the walls, or the cocktail weenies served with miniature toothpick flags that say ‘Eat me!’, or the pet goat acting as ring bearer and think: how tacky.

We attended a wedding in Solvang over the weekend and maybe you can tell me just what the coordinator (if they even had one) was thinking.

First we arrived near the groom parent’s house where a team of valet guys swiped our cars and we were golfcarted up the hill…

On the way I noticed they had set up a tent or two in the backyard. Tents! As if, we were going to some campfire hoe-down.

And as we waited for the ceremony to begin, I was so bored, what with the 200+ people, the catered refreshments, the live band, and the view of nothing but rocks.

During the ceremony all I could think about was how these two poor people were getting married in his parent’s driveway. I mean honestly! Who does that?

And whose idea was it to have indoor furniture outside? How inappropriate is that? Never mind the fact that someone had set the coffee table on fire. Barbarians!

Well, the reception was no better, what with those 30-foot long centerpieces constantly getting in the way.

Apples and pomegranates all over the table. You’re probably wondering if that fruit was real. Oh yeah, they were real. And they were spectacular.

And all the interruptions during dinner! Hula dancers? Really? I’m trying eat here, people!

Also? We peasants weren’t allowed to use the bathroom inside the house. No, we had to use the porta pottys.

I know! Gross, right?

And who can’t be bothered to make a tiered wedding cake? I swear this country is going to hell in a hand basket.

Boy, talk about low-class. I don’t know, what do you think? Am I being too harsh?

frilly pink panties

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  • http://www.ihatemymessageboard.com Tracy

    Wait?
    What?
    Confused?
    OMG!!
    Um, if I totally misread the pictures because I don’t have my glasses on and it really was super tacky and my Mister Magoo ass can’t tell, please do me the fellow blogger courtesy of erasing this comment.
    WOOOOOOOOT! I knew I was right to make dessert for dinner tonight even though it’s Thursday!!!

  • http://maniaravings.com Jaffer

    What a lovely wedding ! I am sure you had a nice time – I just couldn’t be bothered by reading the text between the pictures.

  • http://redbirdacres.blogspot.com/ Sparky

    I like the porta-potty. Fancy Schmancy. :)

  • http://mightymfamily.blogspot.com Mighty M

    Man, what a bummer. I hope you didn’t get them a nice gift. ;-)

  • http://www.annsrants.com AnnsRants

    Truly those people are tasteless. I mean obviously.
    Don’t they know those cakes should be stacked? And they need WAY WAY more frosting.
    Poor souls. They know not how to wed.

  • http://www.amomonspin.com A Mom on Spin

    I am going to a wedding on Saturday, and it better not be as tacky as that one!

  • http://it-really-is-all-about-me.blogspot.com/ Roxane

    Psshhh what a bunch of bums!

  • http://pinkporches.blogspot.com/ Lisa

    Kinda reminds me of a pig roast wedding I went to once. There was no tacky porta-potty. We had to pee in the woods. I lost my shoes. Man that was an awesome wedding. I wouldn’t have changed a thing.
    Smiles,
    Lisa

  • http://www.thethriftyhome.com Jennifer

    Those are the nicest porta potties I have ever seen.

  • http://www.sowonderfulsomarvelous.com Michelle

    Dear Margaret,
    You need new friends. I mean, CLEARLY they didn’t get the memo that they were to have a reception in a VFW hall, complete with pink balloon arch and paper table cloths just as God & nature had intended. I am sorry you had to suffer through that travesty of a wedding.
    Michelle
    PS. I am TOTALLY going to Solvang now (as if the pastries didn’t seal that deal)

  • http://diaryofamadbathroom.blogspot.com DG at Diaryofamadbathroom

    What kind of joint was that? Not a piece of chaw nor spitoon to be found. What a gip.

  • http://hiddenmahala.com Mahala

    Oh. Ma. Gawd. What a bunch of HEATHERNS!!!! *grin*

  • http://www.strokeofliving.blogspot.com Dale Ottley

    Geez, people can have whatever type of wedding they want. And if you’ve ever had an event at your house, you’d know that sometimes people treat your bathroom like it’s a public facility, so the porta potties were a very smart idea. So what the cakes were not stacked. I’ve been invited to hundreds of weddings and they are all the same BO-RING!! This one raged against the goads being non traditional. Good for them.
    Yes, this criticism was way harsh. I hope the newlyweds don’t get wind of this post, they might be devastated.
    Oh, Okay you are being humorous – you got me good. I know you had a lovely time celebrating amour with your friends.

  • http://peelinganorangewithascrewdriver.blogspot.com Dawn

    Good thing I’m never invited to THAT kind of wedding…Sheesh. I’d have to bring a gallon of hand sanitizer.

  • http://parkinglotmamas.blogspot.com Lori King

    What? No mints in a box? No birdseed?
    Love, love, love your humor! You really had me going there.

  • http://www.yayastuff.blogspot.com Yaya

    Oh that cake looks so good!!!!!!!

  • http://www.pricillaspeaks.blogspot.com Pricilla

    I want that cake.
    Now!
    Thank you

  • http://www.thefiftyfactor.com Joanna Jenkins

    You were really slumming it at that wedding :-)
    xo

  • amber

    It looks like the food would have been terrible. But, really what a beautiful wedding.

  • http://kateekat.blogspot.com/ Kathryn

    Honestly? Looked like a typical, very expensive So Cal wedding to me. We attended one very similar 6 years ago. Maybe they did it for the view? I doubt they did it to save money, but who knows?
    My wedding, typical “country” as inexpensive but nice as possible.

  • http://stimeyland.blogspot.com Stimey

    Wow. I’m really glad you made it through that horribly primitive wedding.

  • http://isk8jewel.blogspot.com Julie

    Wow – tough wedding. Hope you didn’t suffer too much. lol ;-)

  • http://www.growinguptownsendstyle.blogspot.com Chantel

    Wow..I never knew they made a Porta Potty that had running water and didn’t smell like poo.

  • http://www.dennisthevizsla.com Dennis the Vizsla

    Hmm … we still don’t have enough information to answer this question. Tell me, did they do the Macarena?

  • http://www.rebecca-feelmylove.blogspot.com Rebecca

    Wow! Amazing – I mean, tacky, horribly tacky!

  • http://www.knuckleheadhumor.com Knucklehead

    Actually the cake looks really good, but then, it’s CAKE.

  • Theresa

    You’d think that the parents could have spent a little money on the wedding? It’s not like you get married every day. Jeez!

  • http://www.peopleinthesun.com People in the Sun

    The only thing that could have saved this crap-fest was an avalanche. Who was the band? The Michael Jackson black-face Australians?
    Seriously, that was really cool. Great idea with the living room furniture, too.

  • http://diaryofabroke-assbabe.blogspot.com/ Broke-Ass Babe

    i think that maybe a dancing midget troupe would have gone over better than hula dancers….just throwing that out there.

  • http://www.redsolediary.com jennifer

    I just found your blog and am in LOVE…you take snarkiness to a new level. so excited. and very excited to meet you in Vegas next week!

  • http://leeunafoster.com/humorblog Leeuna

    Was this one of those Redneck Weddings? Totally tasteless. And the view of the mountains in the distance! Ewwww. Poor kids. :)
    (Seriously, this must have been breathtaking in real time. Very creative.)

  • http://upsidebackwards.wordpress.com Kate @ UpsideBackwards

    How beautiful. I have never been to a wedding that I didn’t think at some stage “oh, I wouldn’t have done *that*”. I expect plenty of people thought the same at mine, but I had a good time, and so did my husband, and we’re still married so it must have worked.
    Also, I’ve never been to a wedding like the one above! Wow, those porta-potties, who knew such elegance existed?

  • http://www.fracturedtoy.blogspot.com mannequin

    tsk, tsk, tsk.
    I see myself all too clearly now. Had you recanted the affair without photos, it definitely would have seemed a cheapo wedding.
    The power of MarriageTV.

  • http://www.plainolebob.blogspot.com bob byford

    Nanny,
    Man thet porta potty thing is biggeren
    our out house here, you are always a doin sumthin.
    BIG HUGS

  • http://idothings.info JD at I Do Things

    Ewww! Those interior shots of that porta-potty are making me gag.
    With JEALOUSY!
    OK, seriously, that “centerpiece”? Is out of control. Who came up with that one? It looks like a long string of kudzu, creeping its way along the table.
    OK, SERIOUSLY. I am quite jealous. Even of the table on fire.

  • http://livinginhighcotten.blogspot.com/ Tracy

    WOW – SO TACKY is right! HA HA HA! Seriously, GREAT pictures! Thanks for sharing! :o )

  • http://howtobecomeacatladywithoutthecats.blogspot.com CatLadyLarew

    What’s a wedding without setting the coffee table on fire? And porta-potties? Class act!

  • http://www.boondockramblings.com Lisa @ Boondock Ramblings

    Hold on a sec. No mud pit?
    You’re right. What a sad, sad affair that was!
    Did they make you drink out of those beautiful..er…I mean tacky glasses? Because that…that right there…is a crime against nature~!

  • Da Bean

    I’d like to taste that cake!!

  • http://Iwonderwye.blogspot.com Amy Gray Light

    Tacky, tacky, tacky. That poor couple should have gone to a justice of the peace. Or at least gotten hitched in the parking lot of IHOP, like that couple did last year. Well — it was noble of you to suffer through the ordeal.
    I went to a wedding like that once, and the funniest part was one side of the place were all WASPy, and the other straight out of ‘The Sopranos’ or “The Godfather” – and, she walked down the aisle to the tune on a sax! Other than that it was your normal affair…..

  • http://www.wherehotcomestodie.com Suzy

    That porta potty toilet seat and lid? In brown wood? That’s what I have because I HATE anything white in a bathroom. It reminds me of an operating room. My bathroom is full of artwork!

  • http://harlemshaterade.blogspot.com Harlem

    That wedding cake looks amazing.
    Check out my blog, I just got into this whole world!
    http://harlemshaterade.blogspot.com

  • http://www.outoftheextraordianary.blogspot.com Janet L. Nowlin

    Oh my goodness, not only were those fab photos of a gorgeous wedding, but your sarcasm has now made you one of my new best friends. I love your blog, and thanks for following mine!!

  • http://crib-notes.blogspot.com Winter

    Those pomegranates are totally fake. You can tell by how spherical they are.
    Don’t feel bad. They throw off lots of people.
    So the couple – were they on parole? Again?

  • http://www.injaynesworld.blogspot.com/ Jayne

    And I bet they served a bunch of that cheap Sonoma-wanna-be SY Valley wine, too, didn’t they? ;)

  • http://callithumpthunder.blogspot.com nanodance

    That port-a-potty is nicer than my bathroom. And that flaming coffee table is nicer than my flaming coffee table. I think that maybe you were a little too harsh on these people. Weddings are stressful, after all.

  • http://wmljshewbridge.blogspot.com/ Lorie Shewbridge

    OK, Margaret, I just have one question….. What the hell were YOU doing there?????
    Just kidding… I’m sure you were related or something. Looks like a lovely affair. And that is the most incredible portapotti I have EVER seen. It is nicer that the bathroom in my first apartment – which didn’t even have a sink, you had to use the kitchen sink!

  • http://www.geeneva.blogspot.com Geeneva

    Hilarious! I now know what my husband was talking about when he said he went in a porta potty that was nicer than most restaurants bathrooms…

  • http://analisfirstamendment.blogspot.com/ Anali

    What a cool wedding! From the cakes to the potty. Those people have style!

  • http://www.cheripryor.blogspot.com cheri

    I love Solvang….and I agree that has to be the worst wedding ever. So tasteless. Meh. (Sure wish I could have gone. lol!)

  • Lyn

    Those portapotties are very expensive and the best money can buy, so have some respect.
    The cakes look tasty, so why complain? The golf carts probably saved your feet, and the view was supposed to be the point of the location. The dancers are there for your entertainment and a lot of restaurants have live dancers and they are very popular. Martha Stewart Weddings magazine suggest fruit as a centerpiece, and I have seen it done very classy.
    The indoor furniture being used outdoors is once again for you. They care about your comfort. Maybe if you loosened up, you might have had fun. Only boring people get bored.
    I thought I was going to see a tacky wedding on here, instead I saw how rude you are. I hope nobody like you comes to my wedding.