♫ Love and marriage ♫

♫ Love and marriage ♫

♫ Go together like a horse and carriage ♫

I feel bad that she was hurt and her wedding was ruined. That said, I never understood the traveling in a horse-drawn carriage to your wedding thing. Anyone you know and love won't see it because they are already in the church waiting. Sometimes weddings shouldn't be about the show so much as the taking of vows.

Which is nice.

No Irony tag?

cksewell: I feel bad that she was hurt and her wedding was ruined. That said, I never understood the traveling in a horse-drawn carriage to your wedding thing. Anyone you know and love won't see it because they are already in the church waiting. Sometimes weddings shouldn't be about the show so much as the taking of vows.

You've clearly never been married.

Wedding must be perfect, or she will make you pay for it for the rest of your life. Either by withholding sex, or a nasty divorce

/true story

DogsInBathtub: No Irony tag?


Is this Alanis Morrisette's fark handle?

slackux: cksewell: I feel bad that she was hurt and her wedding was ruined. That said, I never understood the traveling in a horse-drawn carriage to your wedding thing. Anyone you know and love won't see it because they are already in the church waiting. Sometimes weddings shouldn't be about the show so much as the taking of vows.

You've clearly never been married.

Wedding must be perfect, or she will make you pay for it for the rest of your life. Either by withholding sex, or a nasty divorce

/true story

I have been married but I didn't make a circus of it or feel the need to parade through town in a carriage for all to see. "Look at me! I am getting married."

It_Really_Does_Glisten: Which is nice.

Thank you.

Now why in the world would a horse be pulling my carriage bolts?

Nothing wrong with riding in a horse-drawn carriage to your wedding. It's a very nice and romantic thing to do.

However, horses are notoriously spooky animals, and will bolt and run away at almost anything, or nothing. Since this one not only ran away, but threw the driver and his assistant out, either he wasn't harnessed in properly and needed a heavier bit; or more likely he should have had someone at his head as well as a driver.

I've seen horses and carriages in iffy situations before, and wherever there was a question of safety, there were always three people to manage the horse at least, and usually someone to clear the route as well.

slackux: Wedding must be perfect, or she will make you pay for it for the rest of your life. Either by withholding sex, or a nasty divorce

Not all women are self indulgent attention whores.

This is the kind of thing that would happen to me, whenever I rode horses as a child I always got the one who misbehaved while everyone else trotted along in a nice line. However if by some chance I had a carriage and this happened to me, it would kind of be worth it for what in the future will be hilarious stories.

Sounds like a good ol' Nebraska shivaree.

slackux: Wedding must be perfect, or she will make you pay for it for the rest of your life. Either by withholding sex, or a nasty divorce

I stopped being attracted to little girls when I was fifteen.

Horses are a potentially lethal mix of large and stupid. How we've managed to keep them so long as transport/draft animals is beyond me.

And just for the hell of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6vAfr9StsY&feature=related

http://ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=LcrfxiuUcwA&feature=related

I have to laugh.

Bad Sarah Jessica Parker, bad!

She was cranky because she missed yoga class.



There, that's better.

Yeah. In Haiti.

theoutlaw: DogsInBathtub: No Irony tag?


Is this Alanis Morrisette's fark handle?

You live, you learn.

The Invisible Sky Wizard: Horses are a potentially lethal mix of large and stupid. How we've managed to keep them so long as transport/draft animals is beyond me.

And just for the hell of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6vAfr9StsY&feature=related

http://ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=LcrfxiuUcwA&feature=related

On the first video, the driver's attempt to calm down the horse is get down from it and start hitting it in the balls. Priceless

slackux: You've clearly never been married.

Wedding must be perfect, or she will make you pay for it for the rest of your life. Either by withholding sex, or a nasty divorce

/true story

I think your problem was marrying someone who felt the wedding was more important than the marriage. We didn't go overboard at all and neither of us wanted to be the center of attention the whole time at the wedding anyway.

cksewell: I feel bad that she was hurt and her wedding was ruined. That said, I never understood the traveling in a horse-drawn carriage to your wedding thing. Anyone you know and love won't see it because they are already in the church waiting. Sometimes weddings shouldn't be about the show so much as the taking of vows.

The show is what everyone will remember, the vows might not make it through the honeymoon.

UrsaMajor: .

The show is what everyone will remember, the vows might not make it through the honeymoon.

I wasn't supposed to do that with her sister?

And there should be a happy-ever-after for Miss Clarke too. The couple have rescheduled their wedding for January, and are planning a smaller, more intimate ceremony.

She explained: 'I had a life-changing experience. It put into perspective for me that all of the fancy things, the posh invites and parties are not important.

Translation: We don't have the money to do it again.

DogsInBathtub: theoutlaw: DogsInBathtub: No Irony tag?


Is this Alanis Morrisette's fark handle?

You live, you learn.

... what irony means?

Gyrfalcon: Nothing wrong with riding in a horse-drawn carriage to your wedding. It's a very nice and romantic thing to do.

And a horse's ass is a nice metaphor for the life you are heading for when you get married...

/if fiance wants a horsedrawn carriage, it's off...the terms 'trite' and 'derivative' come to mind

jackbooty: Now why in the world would a horse be pulling my carriage bolts?

You must also be an engineer. I was wondering why they had special carraige bolts just for weddings, and was about to check for an ASME spec.

theoutlaw: ... what irony means?

Seriously, bud, with all the retardedly-wrong uses the irony tag gets on this site, why not throw it on a joke about bringing luck to your marriage on your wedding day (like rain)? You know, to continue the tradition of tagging not ironic things with irony.

FTFA - Then the horse bolted - and instead of looking forward to the wedding that was three years in the planning, the 29-year-old began to fear she would never see her husband again.

Yeah...something about that part makes me think she was one of these women for whom playing Cinderella for a day was more important then the ceremony.

/Too bad about the spooked horse.

An omen?

Run, boy!
RUN!

One hell of an anniversary story though.

She looks like she's from the 80's.

BEST wedding story EVER!

Seriously, that's a great story to tell 5 years from now. You'd be a total hit at Christmas parties. Everyone has the typical: we went to the church, went to reception, honeymoon, blah, blah,blah. A horse pulling your carriage going apeshiat is awesome! Think about high school reunions.

I'd hit it

Too soon?

And, 35 MPH for 1.5 miles while pulling a cart? Shouldn't this horse be racing?

One of my college friends had a horse & carriage at her wedding. Two seconds after she'd settled in, the horse farted all over her. It went on for about 10-12 full seconds, sounded like the sky was being torn in half. She was trapped in the 8,000 square yards of fabric in her dress. Everyone in the wedding party was too preoccupied laughing their asses off to try to help her out. (Besides, it would've ruined our fun.)