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Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved
- franze 1y agoI once fell asleep at an outdoor rave, I woke up during an outdoor baptism.
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- prmoustache 1y agoIn many parts of the world it is expected that random strangers would attend the ceremony, reception and party. At the very least stranger to the bride and their respective nuclear families but not necessarily to all attendees.
- drcongo 1y agoI once did the Holloway Road pub crawl in London with a friend. At the final boozer, the end of level boss of the crawl, there was karaoke going in the back room so we put our names down and 10 minutes later we were up on stage singing Queen's Don't Stop Me Now incredibly badly. Mid-song, I noticed a massive pile of wedding presents under a table near the stage and realised we were at a stranger's wedding reception. The only thing we could do was to style it out and finish the song.
- blarg1 1y agoI was going to my cousins wedding, and accidentally went in the wrong building hosting a different wedding party, and a bunch of people near the entrance looked like slightly off doppelgangers of my cousins and uncles. Like I walked in on an alternate reality.
- alexpotato 1y agoHad a similar experience at a dining hall in college: - Walk into crowded dining hall - See a big round 8 seater table with only a backpack at one seat - Only available seat so I place my tray with food down in the opposite seat - Pretty girl ends up sitting at that first seat. Kind of cool (especially since this is an engineering campus) - her 6 other friends sit down at the table - I didn't know what to do so silently and VERY awkwardly finished my meal as they were all joking around and having a great time - Got up and left once I was done - I should add: at no point did anyone ask me who I was or make any comments towards me Today me would totally have either excused myself and joked about it or made small talk with the "I am totally a the wrong table" as an opener
- Aurornis 1y agoWhat a classy move to quietly ride it out and avoid doing anything to distract from the ceremony.
- FerretFred 1y agoYeah! He didn't want to appear rude by just walking out, so he stayed it's been all over the local TV News - he looks a tall guy so yes, he'd definitely be noticed making a sneaky exit!
- saghm 1y agoThat being said, it seems like he might be better at blending in than he gives himself credit for: >You can’t exactly stand up and walk out of a wedding mid-ceremony, so I just had to commit to this act and spent the next 20 minutes awkwardly sitting there trying to be as inconspicuous as my 6ft 2 ass could be And yet, no one actually seemed to notice him other than the photographer (who presumably didn't know most of the guests beforehand), and the bride and groom only found out he was there because the photographer took a number of pictures with him.
- a3w 1y ago"Wrong wedding <leaves>" could have removed the tension of most weddings?
- Aurornis 1y agoThe article clearly explains it: He rushed in, the ceremony started, and then he realized he was at the wrong wedding. Once the ceremony starts, you stay quiet. Getting up and leaving from aisle seat while the wedding party is coming down the aisle would have been a jerk move.
- espine 1y ago[dead]
- antonymoose 1y agoThis reads almost like a scene from the IT Crowd.
- DonHopkins 1y agoOr Harold and Maude obsessed with weddings instead of funerals.
- uncircle 1y ago“The Work Outing”, the episode with a vaguely similar plot which made me cry with laughter the first time I saw it, is available for free on Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cj490uNht4o&pp=ygUVaXQgY3Jvd2QgZnVsbCBlcGlzb2Rl https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cj490uNht4o&pp=ygUVaXQgY3Jvd2Q...
- tezza 1y agothis happened to my mother-in-law, where she was the crasher. in North London there is a large Turkish centre that hosts Turkish weddings. She was invited to a wedding there. Traditionally, the bride and groom stand in the centre of the room and then family members lineup next to them all in a procession. As you enter the room to reach the bride and groom, you must shake the hands in turn of all of the people in the procession. When my mother-in-law eventually got to the bride and groom, they realised that the bride and groom were strangers. The accurate wedding was taking place upstairs at the same time. There are multiple wedding venues in that particular Turkish Centre.
- foobarian 1y agoYou just reminded me how awesome the wedding scenes were in the Diriliş: Ertuğrul TV show. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlaVdEv74NU&ab_channel=TRTDramaEnglish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlaVdEv74NU&ab_channel=TRTDr...
- macintux 1y agoMany years ago I took a look at my high school senior yearbook for the first time since I’d graduated. I spotted a note from a girl asking me to call her after graduation. I didn’t remember the name (first name only), and the phone number was from a different town 20-30 miles from my high school. Unfortunately I don’t believe I still have the yearbook, so it shall forever remain a mystery. I literally had, and have, no clue.
- potatototoo99 1y agoSomething like this has also happened to me when in holiday in Spain. I was looking around nice buildings open to the public, and entered one that I later found out happened to be a university. Walking around I entered one very well decorated hall, also because it started to rain and had to wait somewhere until it passed. To my horror, more people started coming in as well and I realized I was in for some sort of book or thesis presentation on the subject of Spanish language on the Balearic islands. I barely speak Castilian Spanish (the more common one) and it was instead in Catalan Spanish, so I didn't understand a word, but stayed for the 1-2 hours it took, clapped, and skipped the handshakes/signing part of it.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoCouldn't you just leave? Like what if you had genuinely been there intentionally but had an emergency at home? People understand
- timthorn 1y agoDoug Englebart and Ted Nelson came to give a lecture at my university when I was a student. I was busy in the lab and engrossed in my work, and realised the time 5 minutes after the talk was due to begin. I was too embarrassed to walk in late, so to my eternal regret I didn't go. I'm more comfortable with that sort of situation now, but I can appreciate the desire not to make a scene.
- detourdog 1y agoI'm sorry you missed it. I'm also sorry I missed it.
- paulddraper 1y agoYes of course but most don’t think that
- sixothree 1y agoI attended a funeral for the family member of a friend of mine. After the funeral we all were to convene at his sister's house. Because of the crowds I parked half a block away and found myself in a group of similarly dressed people walking towards what I remembered to be her house. After maybe 5 minutes of not recognizing anyone, someone simply says "who are you", and after explaining my relation to the deceased, my error became apparent.
- cynicalsecurity 1y agoThere was an even crazier story when someone was fired from Apple, but still kept coming to the office to work on their project for free for like half a year before someone noticed.
- Hemospectrum 1y agoAre you perhaps referring to this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33229793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33229793
- Gualdrapo 1y agoOr the stories about Musk firing people for the smallest nuissance, and then their immediate superior sending the "fired" person to another department the day after - next time Musk would see that person and not remember he "fired" them
- mschuster91 1y ago[flagged]
- close04 1y agoI think the losses you’re thinking of are more than made up by the gains coming from the employees being afraid they can be fired at any moment.
- jakelazaroff 1y agoI think employees being afraid they can be fired at any moment also creates a loss of productivity.
- hnlmorg 1y agoIt’s really disappointing to read someone describing that kind of toxic working environment as a “gain”.
- Rygian 1y agoYou may be referring to Catalan language. I'm not aware of any "Catalan variant" of Spanish.
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- dddgghhbbfblk 1y agoWhile "Catalan Spanish" is certainly a nonstandard term, when contrasted against "Castilian Spanish" it does make some sense: it's the Romance variant that developed in the Catalonia part of Spain, vs the one that developed in Castile.
- Rygian 1y agoI see the point. But it hangs on a thin string. One more stretch and you'd get "west-side Spanish" for Portuguese, or some sort of "gaelic Spanish" for Occitan.
- pvaldes 1y agoObviously Catalonia is a part of Spain, they are Spanish, while Portugal and France are different countries.
- rkomorn 1y agoFWIW, I think some Catalans have a very different opinion.
- jvican 1y agoRegardless of how they might feel, they're still Spanish (hold a Spanish passport), so it's a true fact. I also take issue with you claiming that all Catalans feel this way, that's largely untrue. That being said, both terms "Castilian Spanish" and "Catalan Spanish" sound weird to me. Source: I'm both a Catalan and Spanish speaker. In my languages, they're both referred as "Castellano" o "Catalan". I'd appreciate that people referred to these languages either as Catalan or Spanish, no need for unnecessary qualifiers. (Spanish is, unlike English, a completely centralized language. No need to make geographical distinctions.)
- madaxe_again 1y agoI am something of a professional gatecrasher, which is a skill I picked up from a friend many years ago. Interesting event happening as you’re walking past? Just walk on in, look like you belong, see where it goes. That or carry around a hi vis vest - they fold up tiny and can live in a jacket pocket unnoticeably, and they will allow you access anywhere. Occasionally I’ve had to doodle “STEWARD” or similar on the back. Back in the pocket once you’re in, or you’ll be rigging lighting or serving drinks. Through this I have ended up with friends, work, and anecdotes galore. I’ve also been chucked out of a few things but that’s definitely the minority - most of the time when people are like “so are you with the royal brigadiers…?” I’ll just say “no, I’m gatecrashing”, and they assume I’m joking until they realise I’m not, but by that point we’re already on our fourth round.
- tern 1y agoLet's hear some stories!
- pavel_lishin 1y ago> That or carry around a hi vis vest - they fold up tiny and can live in a jacket pocket unnoticeably, and they will allow you access anywhere. Probably won't work as well at a wedding.
- analog31 1y agoTuxedo works fine for a wedding. I'm a wedding musician, so I'm often in a tux, and nobody questions it.
- Tade0 1y agoI'm not sure I understand this correctly but did they mean just the wedding and not the wedding reception? In my corner of the world it's still fairly normal to have people attempt to crash a wedding reception and it's typically the role of the best man to bribe them with offerings like a shot of vodka or treats. I have a distinct memory of my friend's father in law, a man close to 2m tall, walking forward, vodka bottle in one hand, shot glass in the other, while the uninvited guest, with just a shot glass, walking backwards towards the gate to the venue where the reception was held. On the flip side one night over a decade ago I was out on a walk with my SO when we overheard some rowdy people. We wanted to avoid them, but they caught up to us and it turned out that this was an after-party after their wedding reception. They invited us to join them to enjoy the leftovers with everyone.
- js2 1y agoYes, just the ceremony, not the reception. He left as soon as he could (after being held up for the group photo) to attend the wedding he was supposed to be at.
- Simon_ORourke 1y agoThe guy made an honest mistake - like that time I mistakenly stayed in the bar across the street from one wedding venue (that I had been invited to) and then tried to mingle with the crowd once they came out.
- gdw2 1y agoI woke up one morning in college and thought I had overslept. I threw on clothes and ran from my dorm to my class. I walked in two minutes late and grabbed an open seat on the front row, right in front of the teacher. I didn't recognize anyone and soon realize that I hadn't overslept and was just an hour early. I was too embarrassed to get up and walk out so I sat through the class.
- boothby 1y agoA student once arrived, disheveled and with 20 minutes left, to a midterm. I gave him a stern look and a copy of the exam. While I was grading the exam, I discovered with slight horror that he'd showed up to the first of two classes that I was teaching back to back in the same room -- he was enrolled in the second, and had arrived 30 minutes early. Horror turned to joy as I failed to find a single error on his exam. We had a good laugh as I returned his exam; he was justifiably proud and only slightly embarrassed.
- positr0n 1y agoThat happened to me when I was a student. Crammed all night, napped, and slept in. The adrenaline from rushing to class somehow made me both ace the test and be the first to turn it in. Funny enough that was my last day attending, I decided I wanted to switch majors and dropped it the next week. I always wondered what the professor thought haha.
- mythrwy 1y agoI had a roommate back in college that was a devoutly religious catholic. We went out drinking one Saturday night and he started talking about church (I was and still am irreligious). He convinced me to go with him to mass the next morning. Next morning we get up, get dressed, drive to the church and walk in all hung over. I hadn't ever been in a catholic church before but it was a huge crowd already seated and there were no seats in the back. The priest was up front speaking. So we walk through the pews looking for a seat and get all the way to the front before we find one. Everyone is staring at us. We sit down. The priest said a few words and I think there was a prayer and like 5 minutes after we sat down everyone got up to leave. It was daylight savings time change and we hadn't adjusted our clocks being drunk college students. That was my one experience attending mass.
- LadyCailin 1y agoSomething similar happened to me in college. I got to my class late, and there was only one seat left, in the middle of the row in the large auditorium, so I had to make a big commotion getting to it. I finally sit down and pull out my notes, only to realize that whatever this substitute teacher was talking about was totally Greek to me. After a while, it dawned on me - I wasn’t late for class, I was super early! Since I made such a commotion getting to the seat, and since I didn’t want to do that again, I just sat there and pretended to take notes. My class was the one after, and I left the room when everyone else did, went to the bathroom, then came back, just so no one would notice that I was going to the much more junior class right after. :D
- dctoedt 1y agoIn the Episcopal Church (of the U.S.), and doubtless in others, my understanding has always been that wedding ceremonies are just as open to the public as any other church service. [0] (In contrast, the reception would be a private event.) [0] https://www.episcopalchurch.org/glossary/celebration-and-blessing-of-a-marriage https://www.episcopalchurch.org/glossary/celebration-and-ble...
- lmm 1y agoMy wedding was at a relatively famous shrine; I'm sure we're in a few tourists' holiday photos.
- timthorn 1y agoIn the UK, all legal wedding ceremonies must be public to allow objections to be raised, with notice published to a formal schedule ahead of time.
- grndn 1y agoTwo separate Sherlock Holmes stories have a "stranger at a public wedding ceremony" as a plot point!
- bigstrat2003 1y agoSame is true for the Catholic Church. Weddings and funerals are both open to the public if anyone in the community should wish to attend.
- pif 1y agoWhen my father left us, a cousine of mine (from my mother's sise) got confused and parked a couple blocks away. She entered the house where people were mourning, and she realised the people she didn't recognise had to be from my father's side. Then she approached the casket and leapt forward exclaiming "I'll miss you, Uncle", only to find a lady laying inside.
- mathattack 1y agoI thought “whoops, wrong wedding” was a little anti-climactic.
- russdill 1y agoIt's a cute just so story. Maybe not super interesting, but a fun read
- kranner 1y agoMy uncle turned up drunk for my wedding reception. He’d got the venue wrong and had already spent an hour at a different wedding reception eating and drinking, easy to do at Indian weddings with a huge number of guests. But that’s only half the story. He’d got the date wrong too, and had already done the whole thing the night before.
- IG_Semmelweiss 1y ago3 times was a charm for him. I hope you actually got wedding gift , as unlikely as it sounds!
- quadragenarian 1y agoSo the night before, was he at the wrong venue as well?
- kranner 1y agoYes, I believe the same venue that he first went to on the second night, so the wrong one.
- BLKNSLVR 1y agoThree wedding receptions in two days. Not many people would have done that even when actually invited to all three. Hardcore!
- nowittyusername 1y agoSeinfeld episode if I ever seen one, something something Kramer with some side shenanigans...
- apparent 1y agoWhen I was an intern years ago I went to an event at a hotel in LA. I didn't know what room the event was in, so I approached the concierge, described the event I was there for, and he immediately whisked me to an upper floor, where I began to talk with the other guests. It took about 10 minutes for me to realize that while the people there were also interns, and we were in the same field, they were from a particular company, whereas my event was for an industry group. They had just been flown in from all over the country, so it didn't seem odd to them to see a new face (we were all new faces). I eventually realized the error and quietly excused myself to look for the industry group meeting (which sadly lacked the delicious catered food and open bar that the first event had). Fortunately I made my exit before the higher-ups had arrived, as they would have quickly realized I was in the wrong place.
- GillianBates 1y agoYikes she's a big one