Theme For a Wedding - whatever Goes

It seemed for a long time that weddings followed one theme: costly and Extravagant. Brides were choosing pearl-encrusted nightmares for dresses and for cakes - I'm guessing so that people would believe that the bride stemmed from old Medici stock and she was just wearing the Renaissance-era dress left her by her great-great-great-great auntie in the palace.

We're looking a lot more diversity in terms of weddings these days - and not just from the Renaissance crowd - whether it be the ones who unquestionably reigned while that period of time or the ones who dress up in costumes, eat turkey legs, and adopt titles for themselves such as "Keeper of the King's Wood."

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I've unquestionably been to any costume weddings, and I have to say - they're a pain in the ass. If you aren't say, going to Star Wars fan conventions or spending the weekend knee-deep in amateur jousting competitions, you have to rent some tired costume that looks as if it stinks even if it doesn't in reality stink. The whole time you're at the wedding, you're wondering when you meet people if you should apologize for your garb or posture, Schwarzenegger-like, in it. And really, if you're meeting the kind of person who says, "Nice representation of the Deep Space Nine uniform," are you unquestionably going to be All That Proud?

Also, you have to reconsider travel time when you're on your way to a theme wedding. While it's one thing to retain your friend dressed in Goth Garb as the Minion to the Prince of Darkness, you have to wonder: who the hell is going to pick me up if my car breaks down on the Interstate?

Good question. Because if I were passing you by, I'd just throw a dinky Holy Water and speed up. And by speed up, I mean break records.

The majority of theme weddings I have seen have a Star Wars theme. Most of those rely on the original Trilogy for their creative, er, force, with the brides being Princess Leias (at least one in a gold bikini) and the grooms showing up as Han Solo. I did see one once where the husband-to-be sported a Luke Skywalker outfit (sick) and an additional one where the groom was Darth Vader (slightly less sick, but sick nonetheless). The groomsmen are regularly dressed as storm troopers and the bridesmaids as slightly masculine random and nameless Jedi, because, after all, the girl who dresses as Princess Leia for her wedding is all about the boys, and by boys, I don't mean men.

I have unquestionably been to a compel Themed wedding of a join who were just delighted about their honeymoon on the Orient Express. Sadly, I did not understand the invitation, and showed up dressed as an engineer in his 30s rather than as a mysterious person about to board a train in the Glamorous 1930s. My outfit of overalls and striped hat, perfect with bandana and work boots, caused what I still reconsider to be an undue estimate of hilarity while the champagne toasts.

And when you think about it, that's what a theme wedding is. The extreme in selfishness put on by people who forget that hosting guests - even if it is for Your special Day - means making your guests comfortable. All in all, people you don't want to buy a mediocre vase for, let alone an whole set of salad plates.

Nevertheless, you will get invited to at least one theme wedding in your lifetime. Statistically, you can't avoid it. whether it's Dr. Who, Harry Potter, or Just An Old Broad Having One Last Fling Before the Biological Clock Goes Ding-Ding, all weddings supervene a theme.

Here's my rule for getting straight through theme weddings:

Dark suit. Black shoes, Black belt. White shirt with French cuffs and a spread collar. A tie that in some way hearkens to the theme of the wedding, but not in a cartoon-y way - such as fleur de lis for a Marie Antoinette wedding, stripes for a preppy wedding, or paisleys for a Shotgun Wedding.

Cufflinks.

The thing about cufflinks is that you can pay homage to any theme on the planet. Superhero theme? They have those, from Batman to Flash Gordon. Hillbilly theme? choose Nascar. Pirate theme? choose a pair of skull and bones that you can flash discreetly or wantonly-your choice.

Theme For a Wedding - whatever Goes

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