Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 30, 2015

Rat, would you go if they had an open bar?

This is one of those rare occasions when honesty really is the best policy.

Why did the invitation envelope change color in the 3rd frame?

Forget not super romantic, he’s not super sociable.

I don’t think I’ve ever even seen the groom wear a tux. Why would a guest be required to?

Either way, Rat would ruin the wedding with a drunken toast.

Same here, including both of mine.

At one of my brother’s weddings I traded places with him in the reception line so he could escape the crap for a bit. Most of the guests didn’t notice nor know the difference. We were amused. The bride was not.Please note I said “one of his weddings”

That’s why he’s alone

Evidently, Rat believes that it is very important to promptly Reject Snobby Vapid Parties   invitations. Who knew he was such a stickler for etiquette?

I used to work at a restaurant. 2 weddings every weekend. It was like going to the zoo. The fun parts were the fights. Especially the 2 brother in laws fighting in the cake!

Fighting in the cake, Needa? Must’ve been interesting. Speaking of interesting, I just musta clicked on something, and this interesting video hove into view:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0DOmKRyEPg&feature=youtu.be

I married my Carioca wife in Rio, wearing a tux, as I insisted all the wedding party males do. My father owned one and my brother and I easily rented ours in the USA. My brother-in-law had to go to a costume shop to find a “smoking”, as they called it. That was over 40 years ago, so now it may be different there.

I’m with Rat here. If you want to have a stupidly expensive wedding, don’t make folks pay to attend. Keep the ceremony and party simple. Keep the food good. Keep the beer free. Keep the music good. It’s not hard. If you’re rich, go crazy. If you’re poor, make it fun. If you’re really poor, ask for help. I’ll help make it fun with you.

why have a wedding? some places are not even giving out marriage licenses, because of their “faith” and, what is more important, the wedding ceremony or the wedding reception?

2x in 2 days. kiss. keep it simple stupid. simple,cheap, fun, keep your priorities clear.

I have attended both formal and informal weddings, and certainly prefer the latter. Indeed, I find Rat’s complaints in panel 2 and conclusion in panel 3 honest, if a bit brutal. I guess that means I’m not “super romantic” either….

Never take melmac plates to a Greek wedding.

And if you’re lucky, they’ll try to get more money out of you while you’re there.

A friend said he would rather go to a funeral than a wedding. You have to get dressed up for both but with a funeral you don’t have to take a gift.

That’s an understatement!

Not a fan of marriage myself. It’s just a piece of paper to me.

xxx

My husband and I had receptions for friends in different cities two years after we got married. We didn’t tell anybody at all when we actually got married so everyone thought they were going to a reception for a recent event.

BOOZE do they HAVE BOOZE!!!!!!Open bar and I am all in.Went to my cousin’s snobby wedding……full military as he was a Naval Academy clown. It was his family treatment of mine I was in an enraged state about.Talked to a cute girl…..“Who are you with…..”I answered….“The bride”“OH those kind of people…..” nose in the air she walked away.My dad a WWII vet was snubbed by the grooms father who was a decorated WWII vet…..desk jockey to some Admiral Nimitz so he got the medal without much danger. He told my dad the Merchant Marine service men were not real sailors. The Merchant Marine service lost more men than all the American fighting forces combined. Sail the damn Atlantic dodging Uboats in an unarmed ship full of ammo and explosives.We decided the food and the booze was there for the taking.We became pirates and had the most fun jabbing all the snobs we could.This same clown later resigned his commission in 75 because he got passed over for Admiral……he commanded a stinking missile cruiser in Hawaii for crying out loud and he quit because he did not get Admiral……I served in the dirt and mud and blood of Nam…..he sat on a ship eating fine dining off the coast. Get your tux and go Rat…..just check the booze.

Never had a bad time at a wedding, with tux or without. The closest I got to a no fun nuptials was when a close friend married a woman whose family was evangelical and teetotalers. Her dad paid for no alcohol whatsoever. The toast was NA sparkling something-or-other. BUT the restaurant at which the reception was held had a full bar. So I and all the groom’s other friends simply walked over to the bar and bought our own. Our friend told us later that his new father-in-law was angry that we had done so. My reaction, as I recall, was “F$%^ him!” We were not even young adults. Some of us had grown children at the time. All owned our own homes. Spending our own money, and he has a problem??!!! The sanctimonious a-hole.

Unless it’s for himself, then he complains a lot if you don’t spend half your yearly salary on him.