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Originally posted by purse junkie
I believe I ran into this issue a couple years back when I consulted Miss Manners' Weddings for a delicate etiquette issue (can I tell people who invite their small children to my wedding to screw off?), and she was very unhappy with the idea of people using toasts, etc. to joke, even rather gently, about the bride/groom because of the mortification potential.
I have heard a few "Wow, has s/he been around the block a lot!" toasts, which did not go over well with naive relatives who took the assumption of nonvirginity as a horrid insult.
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I know an idiot who made several poorly veiled references to taking various drugs at Dead shows with the groom in front of the bride's family, despite the fact that bride's brother and father were both superconservative midwestern lifelong military men, dressed in uniform. The groom turned purple and nearly killed the best man. I think it actually fucked up their friendship pretty badly.
I had a Catholic wedding because I was born a member of that ridiculous cult, but I eliminated the mass and all other silly observances that most Catholics rudely put their guests through. Some of my meddling relatives were peeved, but I told them if they had a problem, they could raise it with my atheist father in law who paid for the wedding and is 6'4 and wrestled and played rugby in college. Seemed to shut them up.
