The results are in! Prosecco won by a clear margin, and for this I thank you, dear and loyal readers. (You will see that 'Jizzwater' and 'Orange Squash in a Sodastream' got a few votes, which I find very comforting.)
Coming next: why does the man who runs the place we are having our wedding keep talking about 'toasts'? I do not see what that has to do with our carefully-crafted menu of Scampi-in-a-Basket and Knickerbocker Glory, 'washed down' with some nicely-chilled Liebfraumilch (which, I have just discovered, translates as "beloved lady's milk" - yes, beloved of a certain TYPE of lady in the early 1980s, perhaps).
And if it is the non-bread type toast, can we toast ourselves? And if so, when? And if we can't do it, who can? It is all very confusing!!!
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I've recently been braving the scary world of bridal magazines (I'm in the UK) and they have a whole list of who traditionally gives a toast and what points they usually cover! Good for you if you haven't encountered such lists yet :) I'm getting married next year and will certainly be making sure that I get to give a toast too, old-fashioned as it is!
I went to a wedding once at which the bride gave a speech after the others (Father, best man, groom) and concluded that "This is how my marriage is going to be: I'm wearing the best dress in the room and having the last word". They got divorced after a bit, but that was because the groom liked to go to gay S&M clubs, not because of the speech
I can recite an English wedding backwards, what with 90% of them being identical and what with having been to over 400 of them, but what do you do when you are a stranger in a land with its own customs and strangenesses? I TELL YOU WHAT YOU DO. You do EXACTLY WHAT YOU SHOULD ALSO BE DOING IN ENGLAND, Lucy: you do exactly what you want, as long as it doesn't frighten the horses (or the elderly relatives). (I will be publishing an excellent list of Wedding Tips when this is all done - look no further. but if you want wedding porn, I recommend http://www.snippetandink.com, which is all! just! So beautiful! and everything is! just ADORABLE!!! so cuuutteee!!! (yes it is American), but it also has good pictures in it.
Mr ME, I am utterly delighted by this story. Thank you for it.
Sounds good, I like wedding tips from people who don't have fantasies about super expensive chair covers! Will check out the link...
Will you need toast racks?
For my wedding I was given a set of irritating plastic things that were meant to put twee little messages into toast. Can't imagine why as a) I don't eat toast much and b) it would generally be consumed in the morning when no one has their eyes open enough to read 'I love you' 'my sweet' and 'I'm yours.' At least I hope not because any normal person would be obliged to choke the idiot who messaged all over their toast with a piece of stale crust.
However.
Possibly these message things can be purchased with rather more interesting and useful sayings in which case that might just be what he's on about.
just toast whoever, whenever you want to! you probably won't remember the next day.....
and will lanyone be giving you a neat little thing to hold your washing up liquid and sponge?????
P.S. Don't worry about the elderly relatives.
Liebfraumilch does NOT mean that...does it???!
Oh yes it does.
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