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I've done something semi embarassing - AGAIN!
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This one might actually get me props though....
So tonight was one of the weddings I mentioned in a thread a while back, this one of my best friend.
Having not been to a wedding since I was 5 (20 years ago), I was caught of guard by what apparently is a common tradition at modern weddings: the passing of the garter.
For those who are like I was and have no idea what this is, here is how it goes: right before the bouquet is thrown, the groom takes a garter off the leg of the bride. Then the bouquet is thrown. Then the groom throws the garter he removed from the bride to the single guys same way the bouquet is thrown.
Yours truly catches it.
So I'm laughing, enjoying the moment thinking what a cool way to get the guys in the act and figure that part is over and start to return to my seat. Then the DJ calls me back. I'm lost as to why, I'm even more confused when they have the girl who caught the bouquet sitting in a chair just as when the groom removed the garter from the bride.
Completely caught off guard by this, and trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do, I falsely conclude that I'm supposed to REMOVE a garter from this girl just as the groom had done from the bride......
So with everyone watching, I start to feel up the leg of this strange girl, trying to find the garter, not finding it on her right leg, I switch to the left, this is when she screams "What the hell are you doing?"
That's when it clicks in my head that I'm supposed to put the garter ON the girl (I'd been holding it the whole time). So I did, but I clearly had frightened/upset the girl. I felt so bad I kind of hid for a few minuets afterward. Finally when I calmed down, I tried to find her to apologize, but apparently she had left. I told the bride to tell her I was sorry next time they talked.
I have to say I really like the garter idea, I just wish they would put that in all movies that have weddings scenes so socially inept guys like me will know what the hell is going on!
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What, me worry?
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There exists on Facebook a picture of me removing an invisible garter with my teeth. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to post here, though.
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I had to look up what a garter was.
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l
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that is funny. I literally laughed aloud.
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You'd think they'd have asked "do you know how this goes?" before leading you to some girl you'd never met and having you feel up her thigh. Poor planning in this case makes for a poor (but forgivable) performance on your part.
Did the bride and groom humiliate each other by smooshing cake in each others' faces? I HATE that stupid "custom."
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Story on the same subject, though not nearly as embarrassing.
It was my first wedding, a while back. I, along with all of the other single guys, was told to come up to the front. I did so. I saw my cousin kneeling in front of his wife, my now cousin-in-law, with his hand up her dress. I'm uncomfortable at this point, especially since I have no idea what's going on. I then see him reach his head up her dress, and after some time, come out with her garter, and I'm surprised I even know what it is. Then I see him close his eyes, turn around, and throw it towards the crowd of males. I now realized what was happening, and couldn't possibly imagine myself touching my cousin's wife's garter. And of course, it lands in front of me. Though luckily, after only a moment of everyone staring at me, assuming I would pick it up, someone else dives for it.
Yours tops mine though, and I can online imagine your embarrassment.
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this isn't anything new. in both my brother's weddings, 18 and 16 years ago; they did this. and i've been in 3 since then, and been to 6 others, and they all did this (those 9 since the mid 90s until 3 years ago).
maybe it is a regional thing?
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What surprises me most is that you only found it semi embarassing. Hats off!
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Something similar when I was about 17. My family went to a wedding, I inadvertently caught the damn thing and didn't know what to do with it. I was quickly informed by someone what to do, saw the girl sitting in a chair waiting, so I went over, got down on my knee and proceeded to place the garter on her leg. Being the garter neophyte I was, I pictured in my mind exactly where I thought the garter should go, that is, how far up. It's probably not remarkable at all that the girl and I had varying concepts of of that magic spot, and even less remarkable that my ideal was much farther north than hers. There was a bit of panic on her part, she stopped me in time and a bit of embarrassment ensued, and I agree, there should be some kind of garter training ritual for this kind of stuff.
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For me, the hottie who caught the bouquet came over to me and was thoroughly insistent on me catching the garter, because she wanted me to put it on her.
I did, and I did, and as I did, she was like "that's not far enough, keep going".. the whole time her father was maybe 15 feet away. I think I got to the "top of the leg".
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I did, and I did, and as I did, she was like "that's not far enough, keep going".. the whole time her father was maybe 15 feet away. I think I got to the "top of the leg".
Did they, in fact, go all the way up?
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Originally Posted by Mac User #001
Yours tops mine though, and I can online imagine your embarrassment.
i think its time for me to test this "online imagining" after ices story.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
Did they, in fact, go all the way up?
who are they?
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Originally Posted by IceEnclosure
who are they?
The legs.
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They did. But the garter only went to the top of one leg.
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Originally Posted by IceEnclosure
I did, and I did, and as I did, she was like "that's not far enough, keep going".. the whole time her father was maybe 15 feet away. I think I got to the "top of the leg".
Come on, that can't be how this ended
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Hilarrrrrious story...
I didn't know about that either, though. I thought, "Girl catches bouquet, guy catches garter, laughs, and that's all."
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I got set-up to do the same thing as iM@k. It was the first wedding I was ever to, and I was 18.
I put the garter belt up the girl's leg so fast the DJ made me do it twice.
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Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth
I put the garter belt up the girl's leg so fast the DJ made me do it twice.
Which draws a parallel to your sex life.
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That's embarrassing! I feel bad for you, it must have been a real awkward situation.
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Originally Posted by sek929
Which draws a parallel to your sex life.
Yes, I always get called back for an encore.
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What's the saying?
Measure twice, bang once?
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Originally Posted by sek929
What's the saying?
Measure twice, bang once?
Are we talking about sex or roofing?
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Usually I do my roofing BEFORE sex.
Get it?
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But if you do it after, you don't have to worry about all of that pillow talk and cuddling.
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You beat that joke with a hammer.
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Hey, at least I'm not a joke account.
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I was referring to sek. Don't postjack me.
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Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth
I was referring to sek. Don't postjack me.
How about prejacking?
Or was the whole point that there wasn’t time for that?
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I haven't been to a wedding where they actually did that in a long time. I thought it was phased out.
At my sister's first wedding, the girl who caught the bouquet was about 7 so the garter-catcher wrapped it around her ankle. He was kind of embarrassed.
We didn't do this at my wedding. I had a scatter bouquet to toss, it broke into 7 pieces and went everywhere so more people could have "bride's luck."
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Come on, that can't be how this ended
-t
it turned out to be a great time.
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I've filmed about 60 weddings, and never once seen the garter put back on a leg. Weird.
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