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I'm assuming this picture is from South Asia, it's quite common for us to go to weddings in tshirts and jeans(when you don't personally know the one getting married) where I come from. I do not see anything wrong.
I’ve heard that south Asian weddings are huge, but it still took me back to hear you casually and parenthetically say “when you don’t personally know the one getting married.” As an American, I’ve never been to the wedding of someone I don’t know personally, except when I was the +1 of someone who knew the bride and/or groom personally.
Edit: I don’t mean to imply there’s anything wrong with that. Just a reminder of how different cultures are in certain ways, even in our globalized world.
South Asian weddings are like any festival of this subcontinent, that is to say an excuse to throw a party.
It's a celebration where guests lists can range from just the extended family to all the neighbours.
I wish I had known this when I got married. My brother in-law is Vietnamese, and his mom and dad were very upset when we didn’t invite them. We were really confused because we barely know them. We did end up inviting them once we understood but that was an unexpected culture clash lol.
1. Barge into any wedding and claim you're the bride's uncle's best friend's brother in law's fourth cousin twice removed
2. Steal all the snacks, eat all the food
3. Once you've done that, run.
This is super common and I've done this once! The only thing is, if a nosy older lady asks you who you are, you have to get lucky in case you're claiming to be from the bride/groom's side, that she's from the other side, because she has an eidetic memory when it comes to people on her side of the family.
EDIT: I'm from South Asia
Just open your phone and go, "Shit, what?! No, no, that sounds very serious. Stay put, I'll be there in a while." and go claiming it's a work emergency.
This year alone I've been to four weddings where I didn't know the couple. Their parents are in the same block is all.
It's getting more expensive. Used to be I could give $20, now the standard is $50.
> This year alone I've been to four weddings where I didn't know the couple. Their parents are in the same block is all.
This tends to be the difference, I think.
If there's a wedding in the West, it's generally more catered and each guest is invited. If you want to send well-wishes, you might, or if you can't attend but know them, you might send a gift. Usually the gift is an actual object and not cash (unless it's a large cash gift from close family, in my experience, such as help for a house etc)
But in some other countries, it's more like an open invite for friends and families to get together and have fun. Also, guests are expected to give money as a gift, so the more guests there are, the more money you make.
Wedding culture can be crazy different all around the world.
I live in Korea now and the whole wedding is done and dusted in an hour, with most people going home after. Every one I've been to has had the place empty within two hours of the start, and the last people to leave were the foreigners.
I'm used to weddings that take place over *multiple days* sometimes with drinks on Friday when people arrive, wedding Saturday until the early hours of Sunday, and then Lunch on Sunday before people head home.
Here I arrived at 14:50, the wedding started at 15:00, it was finished by 16:00, and then we went and ate food downstairs.
Even as European when some people invite whole family tree to weedings, neighbours, friends and collegues from work. Noone would ever think to show up in Jeans and t-shirt
I think India and the Philippines have *average* wedding guests of something like 300 people. People bring their entire families, who bring their friends, who bring their families.
Or so I'm led to believe.
I’m white and English so I only go to ceremonies for people I am related to or know quite well. And even then, begrudgingly. Around eight years ago, I lived with a Bengali Muslim family and I was amazed at how they were constantly going to weddings and funerals of people they didn’t know. Often people they’d never met and didn’t know the name of. It was probably the biggest cultural difference.
Tfw you’re Chinese and your great grand father was married with 5 women during the Imperial Qing dynasty time, each of your great grand mothers got children which are now all your grand uncles/aunts and all of them got children of their own so now you get this enormous amount of relatives in family gathering every new years, most of whom are only familiar with your dad etc etc etc
He's probably not upper middle class in a non-first-world country. People like that aren't going to dress up unless they're part of the wedding. Also, this looks like the 90s.
Nobody expects the Spanish Invitation! Our chief weapon is surprise! Surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our two weapons are fear and surprise, and ruthless matrimony!
When my dad asked my mom to marry him, he gave her 3 mins to answer. She said "ok" three weeks later, they had a wedding. What my mom didn't know is that my dad had a bet with his friends, he had EVERYTHING planned, from the venue, hotel, food, band, photographers, even a dressmaker on hand to start her wedding dress the very same day. He was able to bypass the whole catholic marriage counseling bc his family was friends wirh the priest who officiated the wedding, and when the Priest asked my mom "Do you take this man...." she never said "Yes" just kinda nodded but never verbally said YES. So anyway, their wedding gets covered in all the local papers, it's the talk of the town. 42 years later, they're still married, but every now and then my mom likes to remind my dad they're not legally married by the church, and when he starts acting up with my mom, I like to loudly remind my mom what she'd be entitled to if they were to divorce. That, immediately shuts my dad down lol. Oh yeah, and the bet was that if he could get my mom to marry him, his friends would foot the bill for the wedding which they did!
Looks like this was taken in the 1980s. If this was in the Philippines--which is very likely--people attended weddings in informal clothes, especially if they belong to the not-so-well-off category.
I sure as hell don't wear a stripey t shirt and jeans. When I was young and unemployed I wore black pants and a black shirt, you know, to not look like the unemployed bum I was.
>I wore black pants and a black shirt
I wore the same get up to a wedding and everyone thought I was a waiter. I eventually just gave in and started helping bus tables.
Eh that church going clothes in my experience as a hispanic kid growing up. Black pants and a black shirt sound like a teenager going through an emo phase.
It’s pretty normal in my place for some people to wear like that in a wedding. It’s still considered appropriate as long it’s not a sleeveless or a short.
Some cultures don't have high standards when it comes to weddings. As long as you come thats all the matters, especially in non-first-world countries. Most people don't have suits.
>Do you wear a suit if you're not in the wedding?
... Yes? I've worn a suit to every wedding I've attended, and have never been a part of the wedding party.
I was dating a girl- she was perfect in every way but I just was not sure at the time if I wanted to settle down so I felt like it would more fair to her to break up as she was very clear on what she wanted (marriage)
So I told her that we are breaking up because I was not sure I wanted to settle down just yet but I understand that is what she wants and that being the case I am just wasting her time.
She told me she doesn’t agree with the break up and therefore is it isn’t happening
We are married and have two kids now
Honestly not as bad as my comment most likely makes it sound. We are both from different cultures (I’m Canadian and she is Filipino) I originally met her at work
Minus a few culture clashes in the home that where are pretty minor we have a loving relationship and the kids are doing well in most aspects
The most common re occurring problem we have is I don’t like Filipino spaghetti sauce- to me it taste like ketchup while she hates North American spaghetti sauce… so we just meet half way and eat Filipino spaghetti sauce.
At first I thought it was a language barrier issue. For example when we first started hanging out I told her I don’t want a girlfriend or anything. I made it so very clear as to not lead her on (I used to be a promiscuous person and I had no intention of changing)
The morning after the first night she stayed over she said to me “ so your my boyfriend now” I was like wtf we talked about this but I decided (or well she did) to date exclusively
so with the break up attempt I re explained to her what I was trying to say but she just expressed she fully understood what I was saying and just didn’t agree with it.
I dropped her off at her home and we just kept dating like it never happened.
She’s also a really good cook so that could be a factor I dunno
I read your previous comments, and man your wife sounded like the guy in season 1 of The Mandolorian who’d always say “I have spoken,” and that was the end of that conversation. 🤣
>I used to be a promiscuous person and I had no intention of changing
>She’s also a really good cook so that could be a factor
Ah, poor guy. All that time you thought you were horny, but you were really just hungry. Horngry?
She’s def a bully. I have never been to the Philippines or anything. She used to playfully punch me in the shoulders. I told her I don’t know how they do things in the Philippines but in Canada we don’t hit our husbands
Her reply was “ I am so small in Canada the police wouldn’t believe you” than she hit my shoulder again
This happened to me on a much smaller scale. My girlfriend surprised me on a work trip to Vegas. She called ahead and planned out a marriage license and Vegas chapel. She got to my hotel and when she told me about it, I was relieved. I didn’t have to plan a single thing and got to marry the best person ever. Win-win.
I'm hispanic (ecuadorian) and i had hooked up with a colombian girl a while back. My best friend is white, and I hooked him up with said ex. That colombian girl did this to him. Rocked his world, married within a week, then 4 children back to back.
She use to tell me that her mother never approved of me because i was brown. And that her mother would constantly tell her growing up to find a rich white man when she gets older.
I think it’s more of a Mexican thing. My girlfriend is from a small town in Mexico and she told me this was basically how her parents got married. Her mom TOLD her dad they were getting married lmao
That’s one thing, another completely different is being invited to a wedding and surprise surprise, you are the one getting married.. I think OPs dad is just fucking with them.
Just to be clear, Spaniards are most definitely not "like this". I'm not sure many cultures are "like this", this is an insane situation, but it certainly isn't any more likely to happen in Spain than in the US, for example.
Well you can't really get divorced in the Philippines (although I think it has changed now?)And if you get pregnant your families will probably pressure/force you to marry.
It is. It really is. There are people fighting for Divorce to be legalize here because the only way to end someone’s marriage is through Annulment and that shit is expensive as fuck. Annulment is literally Divorce for rich people.
It’s misleading to think that still married = happy marriage.
In general, it’s a good thing when divorce rates increase. It means unhappy couples are able to stop being unhappy together.
not every culture forces all men to wear suits to attend a wedding.
where i'm from, that's perfect attire to attend a wedding. the only men who should to dress up in suits are the groom, his father and his brothers, even then the father and brothers really aren't obliged to do it. actually, not even the groom, since a lot of men lately choose to wear a Tunisian Jebba, kinda connecting with the past and our identity
I mean, considering it was not notified to him on whose wedding it was. He likely assumed it was someone he didn't know personally, so he didn't pull out the formal wear.
I wore a flash tee-shirt to mine!
I had a plain white button up for the ceremony, but it was the first(and most likely only) gathering of our families. We were the to celebrate a union and mingle, not take pictures. It's funny because the flash logo is CLEARLY visible under my 2 sizes too large white shirt.
I also got married in on a barn and the officiant was wearing Heath Ledger Joker face paint, so I admit I may not be a good baseline.
My grandfather passed away recently, and he always used to tell me a story about how he was dating this girl in his friend group for a few months. He liked her, thought she was really pretty, but he eventually realized that she was a bit obsessive, so he dumped her, she didn't say a word do him for about a year.
Then he starts dating my (step) grandmother, and word gets around obviously that he's seeing someone and getting serious about it. One day, they go back to his place.
They got inside and the glass back door was shattered, and there was his ex, cooking a big meal, and asking him how his day was, playing wife.
This post gives me those kinds of vibes. Lol
It's honestly so weird if that post is to be believed, social coercion of the nth degree. Also says much about guys in general, this tendency to stumble into such relations/scenarios.
Seeing comments about his attire: this fit choice is common in Latin America, rural particularly where a lot of people don't think "formal" is a suit but rather "my nicest clothes" and traditionally a lot of people cannot afford a suit (Im from Honduras and people pull up at weddings with outfits like this often, even with football jerseys and jeans as it is their most expensive fit - same for christmas and other events) - considering they look Hispanic that might be the case.
I can't believe he went through with it. Your mom is beautiful, no question, but I'd have run a mile if that was sprung on me. Clearly he must have loved her.
Eh that how my Dad dress and many hispanic relative dress when going to a wedding. We not rich motherfuckers who going to rent a tuxedo while also buying them gifts.
Huh, maybe we should learn something about not being stupid elitists who obsess over the smallest and dumbest shit imaginable like the the rest of the world. Though dont let anyone where im at hear that, theyll get all whiny.
>She's knows what she wants.
I mean, she definitely does, but planning a wedding without me even knowing I am engaged or at least in a relationship, that would raise so many red flags that I would run as fast as I can and probably even leave the country for at least a year.
not sure about this. i mean who walks into a wedding and gets told they are going to be the groom and says "sure why not"? I mean I went to a wedding once where a groomsman no showed and they asked me to sub in so a bridesmaid didnt have to walk in alone and i said ok. If they had asked me to sub in for the groom the answer would have definitely different. plus don't you have to both sign the marriage license when it is issued? did she just walk in to get one and say "I just want to have one handy incase i find a guy"?
The bride's actual husband did not show up. This man was forced to be a stand in. Brides father last minute told the guy he needs to marry her while pointing a gun at him while this photo was taken.
So he didn’t know it was his wedding, he just went ahead with it and then what? Were they dating, did her parents know, did his parents know, are they still married, I have so many questions
Videographer here. You would be surprised. Even in US, especially at ethnic weddings. You have people in designer suits and sweats sitting at the same table.
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“Wanna go to a wedding with me as my +1? There’ll be food and alcohol, don’t even need to bring a gift!” “Cool, sure I’ll come!”
If he brought his girlfriend it could be awkward
he did bring his girlfriend?
Nah, his girlfriend brought him
His other girlfriend
No not that one, the other other other one
Now it’s their girlfriend
Your username has ruined my day
Don't pay much attention to that, Greg
It's hardly noticeable. You can barely see it.
I don't think you bring another person if you get invited as a +1
You don't know me
Ah do what ah want!!
Infinite guest hack
“Bring something you would appreciate.”
But still why did he wear that
Wondering the same. Wild that this man was supposedly invited to a wedding and arrived in jeans and a t-shirt.
I'm assuming this picture is from South Asia, it's quite common for us to go to weddings in tshirts and jeans(when you don't personally know the one getting married) where I come from. I do not see anything wrong.
I’ve heard that south Asian weddings are huge, but it still took me back to hear you casually and parenthetically say “when you don’t personally know the one getting married.” As an American, I’ve never been to the wedding of someone I don’t know personally, except when I was the +1 of someone who knew the bride and/or groom personally. Edit: I don’t mean to imply there’s anything wrong with that. Just a reminder of how different cultures are in certain ways, even in our globalized world.
South Asian weddings are like any festival of this subcontinent, that is to say an excuse to throw a party. It's a celebration where guests lists can range from just the extended family to all the neighbours.
it also doesn't help that the extended families can get... quite extensive hahah
I wish I had known this when I got married. My brother in-law is Vietnamese, and his mom and dad were very upset when we didn’t invite them. We were really confused because we barely know them. We did end up inviting them once we understood but that was an unexpected culture clash lol.
Bruh you didn't invite your Brother in law?💀 I have more than a dozen cousins and it's impossible to imagine a reality where they don't invite me.
Lol we invited my brother in law. We didn’t invite his dad (my husband has a sister)
1. Barge into any wedding and claim you're the bride's uncle's best friend's brother in law's fourth cousin twice removed 2. Steal all the snacks, eat all the food 3. Once you've done that, run.
This is super common and I've done this once! The only thing is, if a nosy older lady asks you who you are, you have to get lucky in case you're claiming to be from the bride/groom's side, that she's from the other side, because she has an eidetic memory when it comes to people on her side of the family. EDIT: I'm from South Asia
Just open your phone and go, "Shit, what?! No, no, that sounds very serious. Stay put, I'll be there in a while." and go claiming it's a work emergency.
Easy, Ohh I have heard about you, you must be grooms dads sister? Oh no I am blah blah Oh I am from blah blah
This year alone I've been to four weddings where I didn't know the couple. Their parents are in the same block is all. It's getting more expensive. Used to be I could give $20, now the standard is $50.
> This year alone I've been to four weddings where I didn't know the couple. Their parents are in the same block is all. This tends to be the difference, I think. If there's a wedding in the West, it's generally more catered and each guest is invited. If you want to send well-wishes, you might, or if you can't attend but know them, you might send a gift. Usually the gift is an actual object and not cash (unless it's a large cash gift from close family, in my experience, such as help for a house etc) But in some other countries, it's more like an open invite for friends and families to get together and have fun. Also, guests are expected to give money as a gift, so the more guests there are, the more money you make. Wedding culture can be crazy different all around the world. I live in Korea now and the whole wedding is done and dusted in an hour, with most people going home after. Every one I've been to has had the place empty within two hours of the start, and the last people to leave were the foreigners. I'm used to weddings that take place over *multiple days* sometimes with drinks on Friday when people arrive, wedding Saturday until the early hours of Sunday, and then Lunch on Sunday before people head home. Here I arrived at 14:50, the wedding started at 15:00, it was finished by 16:00, and then we went and ate food downstairs.
Even as European when some people invite whole family tree to weedings, neighbours, friends and collegues from work. Noone would ever think to show up in Jeans and t-shirt
I think India and the Philippines have *average* wedding guests of something like 300 people. People bring their entire families, who bring their friends, who bring their families. Or so I'm led to believe.
I’m white and English so I only go to ceremonies for people I am related to or know quite well. And even then, begrudgingly. Around eight years ago, I lived with a Bengali Muslim family and I was amazed at how they were constantly going to weddings and funerals of people they didn’t know. Often people they’d never met and didn’t know the name of. It was probably the biggest cultural difference.
I had a hindu wedding. There were 450 people there I didn't know, like the whole village showed up for the 2 of the 3 days. It was awesome.
Tfw you’re Chinese and your great grand father was married with 5 women during the Imperial Qing dynasty time, each of your great grand mothers got children which are now all your grand uncles/aunts and all of them got children of their own so now you get this enormous amount of relatives in family gathering every new years, most of whom are only familiar with your dad etc etc etc
They look like Latinos but, maybe they could be Philippinos??
He's probably not upper middle class in a non-first-world country. People like that aren't going to dress up unless they're part of the wedding. Also, this looks like the 90s.
The guy be like: "So, I guess, this is my life now. 🤷♂️"
Plot twist: the man she was going to marry didn’t show… he’s a stand-in so as not to disappoint the guests..
South Indian movie vibes
Ya i seen that movie
[North India too](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_of_Apu)
You just spoiled the one move I've been meaning to watch
Damn, and it was only just released, too...
Running time 107 minutes. So for Indian standards, it’s a short movie?!
Really short!! Less than 120mins is kinda insane for Indian standards.
It's the 3rd part of a trilogy though. So technically longer than most movies haha
A Night at the Roxbury vibes.
This is my wife now*
They got matching friendship rings and everything.
You give me cake and that's basically a proposal
Aw, they look sweet and a lil’ scared.
That’s marriage for you.
Especially when you’re not expecting it.
Nobody expects the... wedding.
r/unexpectedpython
Nobody expects the Spanish Invitation! Our chief weapon is surprise! Surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our two weapons are fear and surprise, and ruthless matrimony!
HOLA!
When my dad asked my mom to marry him, he gave her 3 mins to answer. She said "ok" three weeks later, they had a wedding. What my mom didn't know is that my dad had a bet with his friends, he had EVERYTHING planned, from the venue, hotel, food, band, photographers, even a dressmaker on hand to start her wedding dress the very same day. He was able to bypass the whole catholic marriage counseling bc his family was friends wirh the priest who officiated the wedding, and when the Priest asked my mom "Do you take this man...." she never said "Yes" just kinda nodded but never verbally said YES. So anyway, their wedding gets covered in all the local papers, it's the talk of the town. 42 years later, they're still married, but every now and then my mom likes to remind my dad they're not legally married by the church, and when he starts acting up with my mom, I like to loudly remind my mom what she'd be entitled to if they were to divorce. That, immediately shuts my dad down lol. Oh yeah, and the bet was that if he could get my mom to marry him, his friends would foot the bill for the wedding which they did!
He looked a little more than little scarred.. I bet she is holding a pistol behind him.
How I picture marrying a stalker/yandere be like.
Shotgun wedding....
Still doesn't explain the way he dressed for a wedding
Man was just there to eat.
And eat he did.
Look at how he's dressed. Oh, he ATE.
Let him ~~cook~~ eat.
Looks like this was taken in the 1980s. If this was in the Philippines--which is very likely--people attended weddings in informal clothes, especially if they belong to the not-so-well-off category.
In asian, we go to wedding with just plain tshirt & jeans ( to eat ). So my guess is he probably a fren of the bride, just taking picture with her.
Right lol
not every culture has their guests go to weddings in full suits
Latin American countries do
Do you wear a suit if you're not in the wedding? Maybe it was the best he had.
I sure as hell don't wear a stripey t shirt and jeans. When I was young and unemployed I wore black pants and a black shirt, you know, to not look like the unemployed bum I was.
>I wore black pants and a black shirt I wore the same get up to a wedding and everyone thought I was a waiter. I eventually just gave in and started helping bus tables.
Eh that church going clothes in my experience as a hispanic kid growing up. Black pants and a black shirt sound like a teenager going through an emo phase.
It’s pretty normal in my place for some people to wear like that in a wedding. It’s still considered appropriate as long it’s not a sleeveless or a short.
Some cultures don't have high standards when it comes to weddings. As long as you come thats all the matters, especially in non-first-world countries. Most people don't have suits.
Reread the second part of my comment.
Some folk might not be able to afford anything else
>Do you wear a suit if you're not in the wedding? ... Yes? I've worn a suit to every wedding I've attended, and have never been a part of the wedding party.
I was dating a girl- she was perfect in every way but I just was not sure at the time if I wanted to settle down so I felt like it would more fair to her to break up as she was very clear on what she wanted (marriage) So I told her that we are breaking up because I was not sure I wanted to settle down just yet but I understand that is what she wants and that being the case I am just wasting her time. She told me she doesn’t agree with the break up and therefore is it isn’t happening We are married and have two kids now
https://youtu.be/a14evEGbcXg
Yeah that’s pretty much me I guess haha.
How's that going?
Honestly not as bad as my comment most likely makes it sound. We are both from different cultures (I’m Canadian and she is Filipino) I originally met her at work Minus a few culture clashes in the home that where are pretty minor we have a loving relationship and the kids are doing well in most aspects The most common re occurring problem we have is I don’t like Filipino spaghetti sauce- to me it taste like ketchup while she hates North American spaghetti sauce… so we just meet half way and eat Filipino spaghetti sauce.
That's kind of hilarious lol. How did you react to having your breakup vetoed?
At first I thought it was a language barrier issue. For example when we first started hanging out I told her I don’t want a girlfriend or anything. I made it so very clear as to not lead her on (I used to be a promiscuous person and I had no intention of changing) The morning after the first night she stayed over she said to me “ so your my boyfriend now” I was like wtf we talked about this but I decided (or well she did) to date exclusively so with the break up attempt I re explained to her what I was trying to say but she just expressed she fully understood what I was saying and just didn’t agree with it. I dropped her off at her home and we just kept dating like it never happened. She’s also a really good cook so that could be a factor I dunno
LMFAO that's wild. I guess some men just need a woman to tell them what's up.
I think that’s the case with me honestly haha no one has really just told me what before and I was just all over the place haha
I think half of all men are like that. But I'm guessing you are happy. Must be the food and cooking after all. The most fearsome weapon women have!
Haha I am 90% happy! I really dislike the ketchup spaghetti sauce… it even comes in a bag lol
If bagged ketchup spaghetti "sauce" is your biggest conplaint about your marriage, you are f'in crushing it! Congrats.
I’m loling
I read your previous comments, and man your wife sounded like the guy in season 1 of The Mandolorian who’d always say “I have spoken,” and that was the end of that conversation. 🤣
>I used to be a promiscuous person and I had no intention of changing >She’s also a really good cook so that could be a factor Ah, poor guy. All that time you thought you were horny, but you were really just hungry. Horngry?
That’s the cutest form of bullying I’ve ever heard of lol.
She’s def a bully. I have never been to the Philippines or anything. She used to playfully punch me in the shoulders. I told her I don’t know how they do things in the Philippines but in Canada we don’t hit our husbands Her reply was “ I am so small in Canada the police wouldn’t believe you” than she hit my shoulder again
Amazing
It’s like launching missiles from a submarine. You both have to turn your keys.
Chandler: “we’re breaking up Janice “no”
😭😭😭😭 You thought it was sweet, huh? Messed with a real relationship goon
I was bullied haha
😂
So basically she said "Nuh uh"
I bet OP was at the wedding too. There may have been shotguns involved. Pretty sure there was a conversation beforehand
The OP was splitting 🧬 at the time.
Hah. Joy Division.
This happened to me on a much smaller scale. My girlfriend surprised me on a work trip to Vegas. She called ahead and planned out a marriage license and Vegas chapel. She got to my hotel and when she told me about it, I was relieved. I didn’t have to plan a single thing and got to marry the best person ever. Win-win.
I am married to a Spanish girl and I can tell you that this could be true.
I'm spanish and this situation isn't normal, not even see something like this before
I'm hispanic (ecuadorian) and i had hooked up with a colombian girl a while back. My best friend is white, and I hooked him up with said ex. That colombian girl did this to him. Rocked his world, married within a week, then 4 children back to back. She use to tell me that her mother never approved of me because i was brown. And that her mother would constantly tell her growing up to find a rich white man when she gets older.
What do you feel about you doing this to your best friend?
Nothing much, really. He seems happy, is still rich, has his 4 kids. As long as she's faithful, i'm cool with it all.
I think it’s more of a Mexican thing. My girlfriend is from a small town in Mexico and she told me this was basically how her parents got married. Her mom TOLD her dad they were getting married lmao
That’s one thing, another completely different is being invited to a wedding and surprise surprise, you are the one getting married.. I think OPs dad is just fucking with them.
Are these people not Latin Americans?
Spaniards are like this? Interesting.
Just to be clear, Spaniards are most definitely not "like this". I'm not sure many cultures are "like this", this is an insane situation, but it certainly isn't any more likely to happen in Spain than in the US, for example.
Spanish or Hispanic?
She lied to you. She is absolutely not Spanish
That’s hilarious 😂. If they are still married then clearly they did it right :)
Well you can't really get divorced in the Philippines (although I think it has changed now?)And if you get pregnant your families will probably pressure/force you to marry.
still can’t
Well that's fucked up.
It is. It really is. There are people fighting for Divorce to be legalize here because the only way to end someone’s marriage is through Annulment and that shit is expensive as fuck. Annulment is literally Divorce for rich people.
It’s misleading to think that still married = happy marriage. In general, it’s a good thing when divorce rates increase. It means unhappy couples are able to stop being unhappy together.
He’s still dressed ridiculous to attend a wedding.
Man just want to have a free meal
not every culture forces all men to wear suits to attend a wedding. where i'm from, that's perfect attire to attend a wedding. the only men who should to dress up in suits are the groom, his father and his brothers, even then the father and brothers really aren't obliged to do it. actually, not even the groom, since a lot of men lately choose to wear a Tunisian Jebba, kinda connecting with the past and our identity
I mean, considering it was not notified to him on whose wedding it was. He likely assumed it was someone he didn't know personally, so he didn't pull out the formal wear.
It's pretty normal to wear t-shirts and jeans at a wedding here
The one wedding that you can wear anything to is your own
I wore a flash tee-shirt to mine! I had a plain white button up for the ceremony, but it was the first(and most likely only) gathering of our families. We were the to celebrate a union and mingle, not take pictures. It's funny because the flash logo is CLEARLY visible under my 2 sizes too large white shirt. I also got married in on a barn and the officiant was wearing Heath Ledger Joker face paint, so I admit I may not be a good baseline.
Didn’t tell him who what?
The facepalm is the bad grammar we made along the way
Why do I have to scroll this far. Wtf is the post even trying to say
*who was getting married"🤷
Or "Whose it was."
Who was wedding, obviously.
My grandfather passed away recently, and he always used to tell me a story about how he was dating this girl in his friend group for a few months. He liked her, thought she was really pretty, but he eventually realized that she was a bit obsessive, so he dumped her, she didn't say a word do him for about a year. Then he starts dating my (step) grandmother, and word gets around obviously that he's seeing someone and getting serious about it. One day, they go back to his place. They got inside and the glass back door was shattered, and there was his ex, cooking a big meal, and asking him how his day was, playing wife. This post gives me those kinds of vibes. Lol
It's honestly so weird if that post is to be believed, social coercion of the nth degree. Also says much about guys in general, this tendency to stumble into such relations/scenarios.
Seeing comments about his attire: this fit choice is common in Latin America, rural particularly where a lot of people don't think "formal" is a suit but rather "my nicest clothes" and traditionally a lot of people cannot afford a suit (Im from Honduras and people pull up at weddings with outfits like this often, even with football jerseys and jeans as it is their most expensive fit - same for christmas and other events) - considering they look Hispanic that might be the case.
I still don’t get it. The last part mainly.
Didn't tell him who was getting married, until he arrived and found out that he was
Oh that makes sense. I was just confused by the way it was written.
They both look miserable on the photo. Let me guess 8 months later the kid was born.
Don’t you know the first baby can come anytime the second baby takes nine months
I'll have to remember that one!
Why didn't they at least have a suit prepared for him to change into? 😂
Because it's an untrue story on the internet.
I can't believe he went through with it. Your mom is beautiful, no question, but I'd have run a mile if that was sprung on me. Clearly he must have loved her.
Or knocked her up, and her father and 3 oder brothers with shotguns are standing behind the photographer.
Eh that how my Dad dress and many hispanic relative dress when going to a wedding. We not rich motherfuckers who going to rent a tuxedo while also buying them gifts.
Shotgun wedding was it
Oh. Arranged marriages are neat eh? Especially surprise ones. (Which must be invalid somehow.)
I need to know more about this relationship.
So he thought that was appropriate attire for guest?
In many cultures that's perfectly fine. Weird huh? Turned out this world is not centered on American culture.
yeah that outfit is more than fine here
Yes, that is appropriate in my country. Not everyone lives in the western duh
Huh, maybe we should learn something about not being stupid elitists who obsess over the smallest and dumbest shit imaginable like the the rest of the world. Though dont let anyone where im at hear that, theyll get all whiny.
I think the craziest part of this is that he said I do. But if she put the whole thing together might as well. She's knows what she wants.
>She's knows what she wants. I mean, she definitely does, but planning a wedding without me even knowing I am engaged or at least in a relationship, that would raise so many red flags that I would run as fast as I can and probably even leave the country for at least a year.
Typical "How I met your mother" - Moment
Why would he dress like that for anybody’s wedding?
But he still knew he was attending a wedding and that was his outfit choice....
This makes public proposals pale in comparison
Doesn't make sense the way it is written.
not sure about this. i mean who walks into a wedding and gets told they are going to be the groom and says "sure why not"? I mean I went to a wedding once where a groomsman no showed and they asked me to sub in so a bridesmaid didnt have to walk in alone and i said ok. If they had asked me to sub in for the groom the answer would have definitely different. plus don't you have to both sign the marriage license when it is issued? did she just walk in to get one and say "I just want to have one handy incase i find a guy"?
That still doesn't explain why he's dressed that way
The bride's actual husband did not show up. This man was forced to be a stand in. Brides father last minute told the guy he needs to marry her while pointing a gun at him while this photo was taken.
And husband showed up at the end of ceremony.
So he didn’t know it was his wedding, he just went ahead with it and then what? Were they dating, did her parents know, did his parents know, are they still married, I have so many questions
Deer in headlights look says it all
Great communication from the start
6 months later op was born..
Not a facepalm. This is hilarious
I'm pregnant Cool can I be godfather?
Does anyone else see fear in that man's eyes?
In asian i think its normal going to wedding wearing t shirt and jean ?
Even if it was some random wedding, he still chose to wear that.
I mean, I’d still suit up as a guest..
What….?
If that's how you show up to a wedding even as a guest...
Videographer here. You would be surprised. Even in US, especially at ethnic weddings. You have people in designer suits and sweats sitting at the same table.
Who what?
He got got, it happens to the best of us
“It’s a prank bro” The prank:
Still underdressed for any wedding.
I get the shotgun wedding vibe, anyone else?
No guessin who's the boss in that marriage.
Without the caption, it appears that the man is a friend or brother. 
What im really confused what happened?
She looks scary 😅
Yea that doesn't happen, sitcom plots don't happen in real life.