My best friend just got married in Vegas on Saturday. And I'm never going back to Vegas if I can help it.

PanicAttack: While the pictures in the article are ridiculously tacky, I thought it would always be fun to have a halloween costume wedding reception and get married at the JOP instead.

My wife and I did that. We had some rather nice butterfly ballroom masques for myself and wife and groomsmen/bridesmaids, but wore normal suits / dresses apart from them - guests were encouraged to wear costume and a bunch of plainer masks were laid out for people who didn't. We stayed up the night before and did the hall over with tombstones, chains, skulls, a coffin, gargoyles, black roses, etc. It was a blast for the guests.

My wife contracted swine flue and the photographer was a coont who we literally met the night before when a family friend had to bow out, but overall people tell me it was a good time :D

Debby7813:
///be kind...

Best of luck with that.

We had a October Friday 13th wedding, and while the ceremony was traditional with lots of harvest themes, we had secret agents, zombies, and larp-weapons at the reception. Good times! A wedding is much more fun when the bride and groom enjoy themselves.

unicron702: Debby7813:
///be kind...

Best of luck with that.

aw, they look adorable.

ConConHead: A wedding is much more fun when the bride and groom enjoy themselves.

If a wedding needs to be themed to accomplish that don't get married.

as a necrophiliac, i was disappointed by this thread. and i should point out, i don't just fark her, i married her.

unicron702: ConConHead: A wedding is much more fun when the bride and groom enjoy themselves.

If a wedding needs to be themed to accomplish that don't get married.

I think I missed something here... are you saying everyone should enjoy the same kind of wedding? What does that even mean?

Since ceremonies don't plan themselves, someone has to make decisions about food, clothes, etc. For practical purposes, deciding "let's do Halloween" is no different than "let's be traditional".

minitrue noram: as a necrophiliac, i was disappointed by this thread. and i should point out, i don't just fark her, i married her.

so games of Fark,Marry,Kill are pretty short with you huh?

unicron702: ConConHead: A wedding is much more fun when the bride and groom enjoy themselves.

If a wedding needs to be themed to accomplish that don't get married.

My point is that the bride and groom should do what makes them happy. Not what makes HER happy or makes HIM happy or makes their PARENTS happy. If a theme is what makes you happy, who cares what anyone else thinks? Especially people on the internet...

My brother's getting married tomorrow at the Trop. The only theme is "the bride's mother got involved".

/Kind of an expensive fun here, but I probably would have never come back if not for the wedding. Slots at least used to tease you a little before sucking up an entire $20, now they have so-called penny slots with 80 lines and subwoofers and shiny at 350 coins a pull. Yeesh, why bother with pennies then?

Debby7813: My daughter got married last year on Halloween in that very same chapel. We saw some folks dressed up for the theme weddings, but they actually chose to go traditional.

You consider an unbuttoned collar shirt traditional?

Debby7813: ///be kind...

Ummmm... nevermind.

I got married on Halloween in 2007. The wedding was rather random, we got married in a 1930's National Guard armory by a Rabbi and neither of us are Jewish. Many guests dressed up and it was great fun. When we got to the hotel the guy at the desk asked us if we had really gotten married or if we were dressed for Halloween