Ghetto Wedding Stories

[Rain Man]

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 . 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

[casualty08]

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

[AKA2D '91]

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...

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!

I won't have to worry, cause folks know I don't play that...

[Discogoddess]

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!

[Southern Cook]

Originally posted by Discogoddess:
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![/B]

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

[Japera1920]

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.

[AKA2D '91]

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!

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....

TRUST ME!

[onesavvydiva]

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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.
...
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!

[Discogoddess]

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)!

[OOHLALA]

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.

[novella000]

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!!!!

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by OOHLALA:
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.

NOW, that's ghetto!

LET ME ADD...
a bridesmaid has her beeper placed in her cleavage....LOL I was told this actually happened...OHMIGOSH!

[nikki25]

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.... ...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.


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

[Eclipse]

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/

[MIDWESTDIVA]

Eclipse,

I am speechless.