r/weddingshaming • u/SweetTaterette • 12d ago
Cringe My sister and I were the flower girls. We celebrated by dragging my sister around on the dance floor by her pantyhose…
Luckily the bride and groom (aunt and uncle) had a good sense of humor about it. Sorry for the potato quality it’s like a quadruple screenshot.
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u/writeleahwrite 12d ago
Is it even a wedding if you don’t invite the Slenderman
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u/wewakeful 12d ago
"Phantoms" photographed during a séance circa 1884. Note ectoplasmic material emanating from subject.
Photograph courtesy of the SweetTaterette Museum of Occult & Unquiet Antiquities.
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u/Big-University-1132 12d ago
Goddammit I just had major surgery a week ago! I can’t be laughing! Curse you! 😭
Seriously though the accuracy is perfection, this is hilarious, and I love it
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u/yr_momma 11d ago
Good luck in recovery and hope all goes smoothly! ☺️
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u/Big-University-1132 11d ago
Thank you! It’s gonna be a long one, but every day I get a little better
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u/lilyberry2 12d ago
this is hilarious and horrifying
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u/SassyCass8743 11d ago
So funny. My sister's and I were very much this type of kid and I can imagine us doing this or something similar.
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u/msmigraine 12d ago
If those pantyhose survived the ritual, they should use this as an ad ASAP
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u/Marguerite_Moonstone 12d ago
Wonder if you can sell the idea to Sheertex
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u/drownav18322 12d ago
Why do we all have memory’s of some long lost brown floored dimly lit family event? wtf is this building and why is it in every city?
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u/SquidTheRidiculous 12d ago
Most protestant church basements tend to source the same flooring it seems.
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u/coolranchbuttholes 11d ago
it's wild, it looks exactly like the places two of my uncles had their wedding receptions in the 90's
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u/themetahumancrusader 12d ago
This isn’t wedding shaming it’s hilarious
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u/SquidTheRidiculous 12d ago
Real. Nothing wrong with this as long as the kids behaved during the ceremony, first dance, etc. weddings are meant to be fun for everyone.
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u/SweetTaterette 12d ago
Apparently some people there were highly offended!
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u/Alternative_Year_340 11d ago
I hope they mellowed out. Weddings are a dime a dozen; having something outrageous happen is what’s memorable.
Like, does anyone even care who wins when the Jamaican bobsled team is running?
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u/terfnerfer 12d ago
My edible just hit and this is making me shake with laughter, good lord. The "photo you'd find on the floor of an abandoned house" vibes are off the charts.
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u/lalalindz22 12d ago
Please tell me you and your sisters still do this now, as adults.
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u/SweetTaterette 12d ago
Hahahaha my sister and I haven’t been to a wedding together for years but my cousin (who belongs to this same aunt/uncle) is getting married soon. Maybe it’s time for a re do
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u/cursetea 12d ago
I am so glad this is preserved on film thank you
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u/SweetTaterette 12d ago
My pleasure. Something from wedding shaming popped up on my feed last night and I suddenly remembered this photo and was so excited to share its insanity
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u/cursetea 12d ago
Looks like thousands of people love the insanity too 😂
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u/SweetTaterette 12d ago
Normally only like 3 people like one of my posts! I posted before bed and when I woke up this morning I had already forgotten about it until I got on Reddit and was excited to see!
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u/sandpiperinthesnow 10d ago
Shame? No way! This os definitely the best photo feom the entire wedding.
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u/Remarkable-Pen-8929 12d ago
If I ever get married I hope the children present create such wonderful shenanigans
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u/Ichaserabbits 12d ago
Thank God you put an explanation because I had no fucking earthly idea what I was looking at here lmao
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u/Carylynn0609 12d ago
My best memories are of the many family weddings, anniversaries, whatever the special day was, always at the local VFW hall, in the 70's. When my brothers had to wear a suit they would unbutton the jacket and run up and down the long hallway, trying to mimic all the cops and detectives in their big chase scenes from all the TV shows back then. Bonus if you had clicky shoes;)
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u/eulabadger 12d ago
This is exactly why we wanted kids at our wedding, they make it fun and memorable. A little under 15% of our wedding was kids. Maybe 25 kids?
I wouldn't trade my 2 year old cousin walking up to our sweetheart table during the meal to hand us 2 balloons for anything. Or my nephew doing his best to walk down the aisle. Or the adorable babies bopping with their little noise canceling headphones.
Too many people just have no sense of whimsy or fun.
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u/honeyandwhiskey 12d ago
I couldn’t pick between two of my friend’s adorable sons for ring bearers, so I had two ring bearers. Eight years later and my teammate from college and my old goth club buddy (the moms) are still friends and get their boys together for play dates. I couldn’t be happier with that outcome!
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u/full07britney 12d ago
My 2 year old godchild and her 5 year-old sister were our flower girls. When the 2 yr old got to the end of the aisle, she literally spiked the flower basket to the ground and took off running to her waiting grandparents. Hilarious then, hilarious now!
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u/spironoWHACKtone 12d ago
I’m pretty sure I only got a cupcake at my wedding because my 7 y/o cousin saved me one, those things were very popular and got DEVOURED by the guests within minutes. We also did a photo guestbook with Polaroid cameras, which were immediately commandeered by various children, and the photos they took are honestly pretty hysterical. It really wouldn’t have been the same without them.
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u/Future-Ad7266 12d ago
I’m so embarrassed that I wanted a child free wedding. Now that I have my own kids I understand how horribly inconsiderate that was to guests and how stupid it was. Adults behave way worse than kiddos.
Luckily some people ignored the no kids request and brought them anyways 😂
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u/TheRealJustCurious 7d ago
My son’s wedding this past summer? Our six grandchildren found the dress ups under the bride’s family home’s staircase. All of a sudden, they were on the dance floor with the most outrageous wigs, tutus, hats, scarves, the whole enchilada. The bride’s mother was laughing her head off and told me how adorable my grandchildren were and how happy she was that they were in attendance. So. Much. Fun! (The bride ordered a bounce house for them. We hardly saw them all night long.)
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u/Butterfly_of_chaos 12d ago
I find the idea of child-free weddings repulsive. A wedding is an event where families meet and merge, new friendships are made, and I don't understand the concept of banning children from this experience. Before I read it on the internet I didn't even know child-free weddings exist (I'm European).
Then, children also bring so much fun, and they also enjoy a good party. I mean, there's cake, there are other children, and the party even has a beautiful princess (= bride).
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u/short_cuppa_chai 11d ago
In my job, I sometimes have to do trainings on cross-cultural communication. One of the things we cover is the difference between surface culture and deep culture. The question of whether or not children belong at weddings is an example of deep culture and it can absolutely bring up uncomfortable feelings like you describe. I also think that weddings are events for the whole family and I have the same uncomfortable knee-jerk reaction when I encounter the idea of child-free weddings. It's because I have a cultural idea abour the function of weddings, and excluding an entire group of people from them runs contrary to my cultural expectation. Different cultures have different ideas about things, and I've learned to temper my knee-jerk response. But it's still there!
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u/Academic_Flatworm752 12d ago
Repulsive is a strong word for someone else’s choice that doesn’t affect you. And I’m saying that when my upcoming small wedding is going to be more kids than adults.
Everyone has their own reasons and motivations, and it doesn’t make them “repulsive.”
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u/SunMoonTruth 12d ago
They said the idea was repulsive, not the people.
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u/Academic_Flatworm752 12d ago
My comment doesn’t really make the distinction (see how I mention the choice being “repulsive” first?) so yours changes absolutely nothing about what I said…. 🤣
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u/Butterfly_of_chaos 12d ago
I'm not an English native speaker, the German term I was thinking about was "abstoßend", and I was indeed thinking a lot about what English term to use. I wanted to express a level of disgust, where I absolutely don't like something, as I find it weird in a very bad way, but not to that extent where I'd need a bucket to vomit into. So maybe "disgusting" would have fit better? Or do you have any better suggestions?
But yeah, it was about the idea, not the people. The people … I don't care about them, they can do, what they want, that's none of my business, but I don't think we would be close friends.
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u/clintonclonemachine 12d ago
May be more of a cultural difference than a word meaning. In the states at least, one doesnt find someone throwing a party their own own way a repulsive act, thats reserved for something actually gross or something that hurts someone. Wed use off-putting maybe, its much milder. Knowing you're german makes the repulsive word choice make a lot more sense.
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u/Butterfly_of_chaos 12d ago
There's of course a huge cultural difference involved. I'm also not German, but Austrian. But we're also a direct culture.
From what I see in the US children and adults seem to be treated like different species who need different habitats, which is not so much the case here. An event like a wedding is a great chance for a child to learn about the world, make new experiences and learn how to operate in different situations. Of course the adults also need to adapt a bit and provide some free space where the children also can relax and run around after the part where they had to sit still.
But on the other hand there are also not so many marriages here, as we aren't so much into marrying any more.
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u/clintonclonemachine 12d ago
Yeah, here my impression is that lpeople can be very protective and the adults would feel the need to be more "buttoned up" or on good behavior with them around. Idk i think thats more a recent thing. I remember liking when the adults were silly as a kid. Sorry for assuming you were german, my bad
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u/Butterfly_of_chaos 11d ago
No problem, how could you have known? Germany has ten times our population, so it also would have been ten times more likely me being German. ;-)
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u/crazypurple621 11d ago
Repulsive in English gives the connotation of "wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole". Words that maybe better describe this feeling in English are ridiculous, absurd, or possibly entitled.
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u/Puzzled_Air_5821 12d ago
I love this. You seem like great kids. This is the kind of stuff I would have pulled.
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u/rubyspicer 12d ago
Damn they don't make pantyhose like this anymore. You try that with pantyhose these days it'll break hard
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u/Deaths_Rifleman 12d ago
Was this some strange tradition in your family or just kids being kids?
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u/Equinephilosopher 11d ago
This would be one of the highlights of my reception, especially if I’m at a giggly stage of inebriation lol
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u/Okeydokey2u 12d ago
For a second I thought your sister was maybe the bride
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u/NecessaryCephalopod 12d ago
Ah, those were the days ❤️
My sister got married similar time period judging by the fashion. I was eight and they got video of me loudly swearing to myself as I tried to untie a balloon. There's a reason ppl don't like kids at weddings 😕
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u/Okeydokey2u 12d ago
No way, this is the reason I insisted on kids being invited to mine. They truly make it memorable. No one remembers shit from boring pintrest weddings. I would have this picture framed 😂
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u/NecessaryCephalopod 12d ago
You're a good egg.
Personally, I spent years wishing I hadn't been invited because of that footage...
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u/Equinephilosopher 11d ago
Don’t be too hard on yourself. Idk if your family has made you feel embarrassed for it, but you were just being a kid! You could have done soooo much worse. No property destruction, no injuries, no insults, no tantrums. A lot of people would just chuckle and move on if that happened at their wedding
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u/olagorie 12d ago
And this ladies and gentlemen is the reason why we SHOULD have children at weddings.
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u/cheesy_queer 7d ago
you should post this to r/photoshoprequests !!! I've seen some absolutely golden photoshop jobs on there and this def has potential lol
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u/ThatBarbGirl 12d ago
This is a wedding I'd actually want to attend. I absolutely love this. 10/10, no notes.
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u/Atwood412 6d ago
I miss these weddings. Baked chicken. Rigatoni in a fireball or social hall.
Screw drivers and fuzzy navels.
These were so much fun. I can’t remember the last time I went to a fun wedding.
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u/MyLastFuckingNerve 6d ago
See shit like this is why kids should absolutely be welcomed at weddings. I don't have kids and I don't really like kids that much, but my friends' little girl sauntering across the dance floor in giant novelty sunglasses, only to stop to peer over the giant sunglasses and stick her tongue out at my mother while she took her picture was just some A+ laughs.
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u/danigiggles24 12d ago
And this is why I had a child free wedding 😂 😂
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u/Woodsy_Walker 12d ago
Just imagine all the joy and laughter! The horror!
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u/danigiggles24 12d ago
There’s nothing wrong with a child free wedding. I enjoy kids, I have some of my own now but I wanted a night where adults could adult and not have to worry about watching their kiddos for a night. They could let loose and have fun. And everyone did!
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u/catjuggler 12d ago
Omg what if people looked at children instead of staring at the bride for 5 hours?
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u/Historical_Cook3366 11d ago
I think it's great to have kids at weddings. My daughters were flower girls in two weddings when they were kids. They looked so sweet and had a lot of fun dancing at the receptions.
But I wouldn't approve of that behavior at a wedding reception. That's obnoxious, obviously trying to get everyone's attention, not very respectful of your sister on the floor or anyone in the room. Were you drunk?
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u/SweetTaterette 11d ago
I posted it in weddingshaming as cringe because obviously it was problematic and wild. We were 4 or 5 years old in this so ummmmm no we were not drunk.
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u/Historical_Cook3366 10d ago
Well, I can only wonder if or when an adult put a stop to it!! Did that happen?
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u/tekka444 12d ago
This is terrifying 😂 looks like you're performing a ritual on some long limbed creature