A TWOO?? LOL!!! That is hilarious!! I've heard it all now!

Why do they pay so much for these limo Navigators and Hummers and then have no FOOD!
Why is thread 2 pages long? Why are tears in my eyes from laughing so hard? Why did I come home from work and log on to see if any more ghettoness was posted!!! Mamabuda yours takes the cake. Woo.

Okay:

My friend from college had a very beautiful wedding. It was an AFrican Wedding (attire and traditions). Well all was well, but then it got ghetto.

AT the reception the bride and groom were served. Mind you there were no hors d'ourves. Well everyone was patient, then after about half an hour folx got suspicious. When her maid of honor inquired as to when (at least) the wedding party would be served, she said they weren't eating. Only the bride and groom were. WHAT? I was hot. I have never heard of this before.

Okay, I'm done.

BTW, two-o is a word...if you're GHETTOOOOOOOOOOOO http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

Nupe4life, An MC & Nike Sandals!! ROTFLOL!! Fo' real, doe, you don't understand how uncomfortable some of those shoes are!! LOL http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Now as for me, I love weddings. I love attending them, I love being in them as a bridesmaid and I loved being a bride (and I am not the kind of person that likes being the center of attention or enjoys dressing up.) However, I have seen some things that will make you go hummmmmm:

1. The weddings that are 2 - 3 hours late getting started because the bride is still getting her "hur did" or because they are still sewing the bridesmaids dresses. I know some folks still believe in 'fashionably late', but come on!!

2. The wedding where the ceremony and the reception were held in the same room and 45 minutes after the wedding was supposed to start the bride (in her dress, tennis shoes and rollers) and her mother comes in with large chafing dishes of greens, fried chicken, etc. for the reception. We had to smell it the entire ceremony.

3. Choreographed bridal party entrances--nuff said!

4. I wasn't there, but I heard about a wedding where the groomsmen and the groom wore hats (I think derbys) during the wedding and had to be told by the minister to take them off.

5. And the most ghetto of all....At one wedding I attending the bride's sister (and maid of honor) gave a "toast" to the couple and after wishing them well and saying how much she liked her new brother in law, proceeded to tell him, in no uncertain terms, what she would do to him if he 'messed up'. It was obvious that she was not joking. I was scared for him. The bride was nodding her head throughout the entire thing!! LOL

How 'bout a bride who came down the aisle with a microphone in her hand singing Monica's "For you I will"? Now that's ghetto!

that DEFINITELY sounds like a wedding my ghettofabulous miami folks would throw....LMBAO

I've been to a wedding like that. Lawd.

Eclipse - I think we've been to a few of the same weddings. The groomsmen with the derbys (tilted to the side like true playas)
and the choregraphed entrances...Woo.

Reading all these posts, make me realize that I have been to other ghetto affairs. Okay get this peeps, one of my grandmother's god daughters got married the summer of '99. I love this women to death, she's like an aunt to me. But let me just say that she's almost 50 years old and has been married 5 times. She had a wedding like she was a 20 something bride getting married for the first time. Can we say that she was a little too old and have been around the block too many times for this. And instead of gifts for her and the bride, they asked from their dear friends and family members food for the reception. I SWEAR TO GOD! I am not making this up. I know you guys are like, N4L you have got to be lying. I'm not. I guess I know too many ghetto people. I repeat, INSTEAD OF WEDDING GIFTS, THEY ASKED FOR FOOD FOR THE RECEPTION! I hate going to weddings where you know they trying to have a royal wedding on a food stamp budget. People let's get it together. Either you're gonna have a very small and cheap wedding and a nice reception, or a large wedding and a small reception for family and friends. Don't try to be big time when you know you can't.

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a twoo....

whoa that is deep.

nothing is as ghetto as someone stating in their vows:

"you finna be my wife for the rest of my life"

yes i am proud to say i participated in many ghetto weddings....and will in the future, i make a fantastic MC. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/tongue.gif

from the pimp stuts by the groom down the aisle to the gold teeth and bumpin' stretch limos to the reverend praising the lord for an hour and a half before he gets on with the wedding.

but let me tell you what takes the cake...

*i am about to get ghettoified*

what the the favorite dance at all weddings???

the electric slide, of course

now whenever the dj puts on one of those songs you can do the electric slide, too. why does everybody bumrush the floor...old people included. then you always have that one old man dressed like dolomite from back in the days...we'll call him "sugar daddy" that follows you around saying "hey there girl, i can do that too, see!"

then of course getting back to the electic slide...can i tell you there are about 1913 different versions of the electric slide. i swear i can't keep up.


but do you really really really want to know what takes the cake????

sitting in the pew at church and watching a flower girl about the size of a gorilla (Alpha's no pun intended) pelt flowers down the aisle. i swear this little girl was 10 but bigger than me and i stand a cool 5'7.
(it must be something in the water because kids now and days are big as hell)


should i be ashamed...i think not! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

proud of my ghetto ancestry...

MaMaBuddha
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you too can be ghetto.....


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Hoooo Y'all have truly had me cracking up on here!! I have not laughed this hard on GreekChat since the thread "You know you go to a Black church when..." Matter of fact, I may have to look that one up again. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Say what you will though, ghetto or not, at least folks are trying to do the right thing by getting married and not just shackin'!

Hey, have any of you see the pictures that are making the rounds with the bride in the Red dress with white fur for trim and the groom in the white tails and red bow tie and cummerbund? They were toooo funny. There was one picture of them toasting each other with those huge champagne glasses that you could win at an amusement park back in the day and folks would display in their houses. I wish I had saved them!!

One more:

MaMabuddah here's competition for your flower girl story. I went to a wedding where the ring bearer was 16 and stood over 6'3. Why did he even agree to do that? Anyway, when he walked down the aisle the entire church was in tears from laughing so hard!

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I'm at work crying I'm laughing so hard.

Eclipse: I've seen those wedding pictures and they are HILARIOUS.

Ok yall, I have two examples of a ghetto weddings that I had attended within a span of a month.

Wedding #1 The wedding was suppose to start at 3:30, the groom showed up at the church at 3:30 with a t-shirt and shorts on. The wedding programs were suppose to be handed out when we walked in, yall the hostesses passed them out while were already seated. I don't know why all of a sudden the new craze is to have mime dancers at weddings all of a sudden. Anyway while the wedding ceremony was going on the preacher told the groom do you take baby girl to be your wife. Come on now, baby girl. The ceremony was backwords with the preacher telling them about jumping the broom at the beginning of the ceremony.

The reception was another story. They decided to do the toast while people were still getting their food and they cut the cake while people were still eating and or were on the dance floor.

Wedding #2 I knew this wedding was going to be ghetto when the church was built next to a liquer store. From what I heard from one of the groomsmen, the bridesmaids were mad because they couldn't dip and twirl down the aisle. You could tell that the two families didn't congregate with each other. Some of the bride's relatives looked like wannabe pimps and some of the female relatives had on prom dresses.

Please don't ask about the reception, lets just say ghetto.

Not to be funny, but is it commonplace during a reception, if the bride and/or groom is a Greek, to have while the music is playing, a mini step-show/fraternity-sorority jam? Lemme elaborate.

Last year, at wedding #1, the bride was a Delta. B-U-T-ful wedding ceremony. It was cloudy, but it didn't rain on us--yes, it was outdoors. At the reception, the bride and her sorors sang their Delta song and while the music was playing, particularly during the all-too-popular "Atomic Dog", the place turned into a Greek stroll free-for-all. Deltas, Alphas, and Ques, was just doing their thang, yall. Even I got a little neo flashback http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif. But IMHO it was a great wedding.

At wedding #2 last year, the groom was a Que. Him and his bruhs put on a miniature Que step show, which was pretty good until they were riffing on a rival frat by making a graphic pornographic "gesture" in regards to their sexual orientation, a bridesmaid had to come to the floor and "thank" them for their wonderful performance.

While I thought both weddings were off the hook, is stuff like that commonplace with Greeks?

Rain Man

By the way yall, the two weddings I was talking about were both greek weddings, and we went through are share of the mini stepshows during the reception