Yeah, RainMan, it is common for members of greek-lettered organizations after they sing their hymn/song, to do their party walk thang...during the reception!

HOWEVER, I have NEVER seen other greeks stroll/party walk at the same time... http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif

From all of the weddings I have attended, it is only for the bride and/or groom's respective organization!

I know for my wedding, I wish some other sorority person would get on the floor "doing their thang" or doing their call....

THAT'S JUST DISRESPECTFUL!

I'd have to have them escorted....OUT! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

I won't have to worry, cause folks know I don't play that... http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

Another ghetto wedding episode....

The couple got married this past summer. They invited the whole church congregation to the wedding and allowed them to each bring a guest. With the bridal party included, only 30 http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif people were at the ceremony!!

At the reception (which was held at a rec center in the ghetto part of town)-you had to park ya car about 3 blocks away cause all the junk cars took the closer parking spots.
The decorations included the following:
1) Cafeteria tables (can we say CHEAP?!) nad metal fold out chairs
2) Plastic tablecloths (one ones that you can buy at the .99 store)
3) Confetti, Miniature Snickers bars and Agendas (yes, AGENDAS) served as the table decorations
4) Good ole' after Sunday service food was served, and they ran out of food when it was time to serve the last couple of tables
5) The DJ served up a MEGA-MIX at the reception-all the guests (the junior bridesmaids included) was "droppin it like it was HOT"
6) Neither the bride nor the grooms parents had any good words to say about the union of their children
7) (here's what KILLED ME) Only 8-YES 8 gifts were on the gift table....now, if there are like 30 people at the reception, then why didn't everyone bring a gift???
8) The guests were taking home the leftover bottles of champagne

Nuff said...that was a waste of time, money, and energy!!

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Peace and God Bless
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Let's just say that when I get married I will definitely make sure that there are no ghetto elements included.

Here's another story:

The couple had their reception at the church and had the dj play ghetto fabulous booty shake music. When we got into the hall, the food was not ready and the decorations weren't all put up yet. After hearing the music that was being played I left.

One more:

A couple of days before the wedding the bride's crazy, ghetto ex-boyfriend let it be known that the wedding wouldn't take place because he was going to come and break it up at the church. So, the bride had her male cousins acting as guards by all the doors of the church. It was crazy.

Oh yeah one more:

Why did the bride feel it necessary to include EVERY one of her and the groom's relatives in the bridal party? Why did the bridal party have to stand in the choir area and part of the outer aisles of the church because there was so many of them. Too funny!

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At most of the greek weddings I've been a part of, including my own, it is NOT custom to start strolling at any point in time. Now of course, the sweetheart song/hymn of the bride and/or groom's organization has been sung, but I find it so G-E-T-T-O to be hopping/strolling around your, what, WEDDING RECEPTION! Come on!

And being from Chicago, where the 'lectric slide and the new Casper slide are mandatory cultural dances, as is the bus stop, I cannot let these symbols of love and togetherness be called ghetto. They are tradition at every wedding, birthday party, fundraiser (yes, my chapter's big la-di-da event featured both the 'lectric slide and the Casper slide), graduation party-hell, even some baby showers get live with the slide around here!

I have so many ghetto wedding reflections, my mind can't focus on just a few. Suffice to say, my mother-in-law wore a white beaded dress to my wedding, that looked MYSTERIOUSLY bridal, then approached me after the ceremony to tell me that though she tried to outdo me and look better than me, she just couldn't do it!!!!!!!!!!!! Mmph, mmph, MMMMM!

LOL, no she didn't......These stories are too funny.

I have tears in my eyes. I was part of a real ghetto wedding. I should of know when I met my cousin soon to be wife. Well, to let it be know my cousin is a Kappa so I knew I was wearing a red dress. No complaints out of me because I agreed to it. But his soon to be wife had a matching nose ring along with her enagement(sp) ring. She had more weave than Mr. Ed but I knew this was the woman that he loved so I went along with it. I went with her to pick out the dresses because I am a woman of large build so I let it be know you are not going to have me looking like a fool.
The dresses were cool but she wanted us to wear red stockings with red shoes and white gloves and a DAMN TIARA (sp). What type of hot mess is that?

I called my cousin and told him I am not going out like that. He spoke to her and she call me yelling this is her day and I am going along with the program or be out!! Because my and cousin are I are close I bit my lip and went along.

Well the big day came along and the mother of the bride was no wear to be found. Mind you I look like a big candy stripe on the wrong holiday. The mother had a game of bowling to attend and showed in in her league uniform. Mind she was drunk.Her side of the family was like we think we are uppity. And the dirty looks started. My grandmother god rest her soul, told us to be ready. (Damn Nanny don't cut folks here) but she told us to hold our heads high and rise to the occasion.

My cousin LB's and chapter brothers were spinning their kanes after the announcement of man and wife. They began to toss them and one flew by my ear. Just in general I was too through with the church cememory. The reception was really nice.

My family clown me for days. But my cosuin and his wife stayed married as long as Pat stayed in the army. I do not gloat over break ups but I was so glad when he left her.

I will never again I will be part of a ghetto wedding.

P.S. that is not true about being in part of a ghetto wedding because my friend last year sucker me into one and her flowers were made from the supermarket and I had to pick up in my bride maid dress standing on a check out line and had to fine my way to the wedding and reception was at the church and the only music was play was gospel. She did not even have a first dance.

I have to DISAGREE with my Soror Discogoddess...

IMHO, it is NOT Ghetto for the bride "sisters" and/or groom's "brothers" to stroll around the dance floor, ESPECIALLY when they are the only ones on the dance floor!

That is THEIR time to do their THANG!

TRUST ME, I AM ONE OF THE MOST NON-GHETTO FOLKS OUT THERE! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

Cause when my reception rolls arounnd...
and we have taken our group picture and sang the hymn...
we gonna be some "soul stepping Sorors of AKA" for the ONE song I pick at that Country Club.... http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

TRUST ME! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

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The dresses were cool but she wanted us to wear red stockings with red shoes and white gloves and a DAMN TIARA (sp). What type of hot mess is that?
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Well the big day came along and the mother of the bride was no wear to be found. Mind you I look like a big candy stripe on the wrong holiday.
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My cousin LB's and chapter brothers were spinning their kanes after the announcement of man and wife. They began to toss them and one flew by my ear. Just in general I was too through with the church cememory. The reception was really nice.

This was TOOOO funny!!!! I am LMBAO, at you!!!! "Looking like a big candy stripe" LOL, LOL!!!!! Girl, that is too funny!!!

I am a "volumptious" woman myself, and I just would've told "CUZ", I couldn't do it...now they have pictures as evidence of that mess!!! Oh, that was the funniest post yet!

Soror AKA2D, we will have to agree to disagree, cuz I think stepping is
G-H-E-T-T-O at a wedding (proving once again that everyone Greek ain't cultured, IMHO). I mean, damn, can't people keep the occasion elegant, just for a day? After sorors sang the hymn to me, we skee-weed (which I learned later is SO NOT proper after singing the hymn in public), sat for a photo or two, then went back to the party. I'm glad my husband isn't Greek, cuz I would have had a fit if some bruhz had started stepping at my reception (which is what I usually see up here; most sorority members don't do that, at least the others I've seen)!!!! It wasn't that kind of party...though we had a FUNKY GOOD TIME (to all you JBs fans)!

Nothin' like a ghetto wedding story to get you day going....
How about a wedding where the minister was GRILLED UP... Gold ALL OF THE WAY accross the front on the top... All of the members of the wedding party had jerri curls or "kits" except on girl who had those "doo-doo" braids. And the colors were -- FUSCHIA, pale ORANGE and WHITE!!!!

NOW, that's ghetto! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif

LET ME ADD...
a bridesmaid has her beeper placed in her cleavage....LOL I was told this actually happened...OHMIGOSH! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif

Here are some more Clues to know if you are at a GHETTO WEDDING:
1. Your invitation arrived 4 days before the wedding
2. The programs weren't there yet. When they arrived, you had to beg the hostess to give you one.
3. The usher didn't know which side of the church was the Bride's or the Groom's.
4. The wedding started an hour after the time on the invitation.
5. There were visible safety pins in the bridesmaid's dresses.
6. The groomsman had his tux leg rolled up.
7. You smelled marijuana as the wedding party went down the aisle.
8. The bridesmaid answered a cellular phone during the ceremony.
9. The unity candles wouldn't light.
10. The preacher's beeper goes off.
11. The vocalist didn't know the words to the songs.
12. The parents of the Bride and Groom were under 30 years old.
13. The Bride's hair had grown 14 inches in a week.
14. A member of the wedding party was wearing sunglasses.
15. There were more than 40 people in the wedding party.
16. The mother of the Groom had her shoes off during the ceremony.
17. Her 8-year-old uncle gave the bride away.
18. The groom's ex was found hiding under a pew right before the preacher asked for "objections".
19. The happy couple already had kids; and most of them were in the wedding.
20. Music by Luther, Diana Ross and Lionel Richie was played at the reception.
21. The communion "wine" was Austin Spumanti.
22. The strippers from the bachelor party were in the audience.
23. The couple's first dance was to a song by "Puff Daddy".
24. The LECTRICK SLIDE (electric slide)was played at least five times. Now you have to watch out for the CHA-CHA Slide...
25. The wedding cake was from Sam's Club.
26. The lady serving the punch advised you to keep your cup.
27. Tuna fish and pimento cheese sandwiches were rationed.
28. You saw groomsmen making trips to 7-11 and KFC to restock the buffet.
29. At least one fight broke out (usually the bridesmaids fighting over the bouquet)
30. The best man made the toast and called the bride by the wrong name.
31. The DJ had an entourage of 8 or more people.
32. The photographer took 1,762,491 pictures (and none of them came out).

And finally... You've been to a ghetto wedding if:
33. the Bride and Groom rode off standing up in the limousine's sun roof.

This was truly the funniest post that I've read on Greekchat to date. I must extend my heartfelt congratulations to MaMaBuddha for her coverage of the most ghetto weddings of all time...and then ended with the tag, "you too can be ghetto".

It took me about a good hour and change to go through each post...and it was truly worth my time..each post allowed me to have this fascinating glimpse into the world of ghettodome..one that I hadn't experienced.

The weddings that I've been to have always been world class affairs...I can't say anything bad about them. Those weddings mostly involved family members whom planned well in advance to have an elegant affair. But I'm still young (24)..I may have the privelege (or in the words of MaMaBuddha)"[have] the pleasure" of attending a ghetto wedding once in my lifetime...but surely, I now have the "Ghetto Wedding" Indicators...so I will know what to look out for.... http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif ...a la` platinum and gold teeth(that had me LOL---whew), poorly stitched wedding gowns , fighting folk, and the overarching theme of "Champagne dreams with Coca-Cola money"

Thanks for the laughs, ya'll. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif


[This message has been edited by nikki25 (edited January 26, 2001).]

Bringing this one back to the top. If you haven't seen the ghetto-fabulous wedding pictures that I mentioned earlier in this thread, here is your opportunity.

I just have one question though, why did her (or his for that matter) friends let her go out like that and who is the buster who was probably all at the wedding talking 'bout "gurl, dis is NICE!! I ain't NEVA seent nothing like this before" and then put the pictures on the internet for the whole world to see??? (oopps, I guess that's two questions!)


http://sgezine.com/wedding/

Eclipse,

I am speechless. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif