8."It was at a Mormon church, and for some reason, Mormon churches have indoor basketball courts in them. Half of the court was a wedding reception, and the other half was a pickup basketball game played by strangers who wouldn't leave. The ball hit the food table a couple of times."


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/people-dishing-absolute-worst-weddings-221603670.html

I have been to worse weddings as a caterer. At one wedding the minister's wife found her husband with a bridesmaid and chased him with a knife in her hand all around the reception.

laperla not logged in Wrote:
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> I have been to worse weddings as a caterer. At
> one wedding the minister's wife found her husband
> with a bridesmaid and chased him with a knife in
> her hand all around the reception.

I have it on good word that it was actually EOD posing as a protestant minister-pastor...

Actually, that was EOD posing as a protestant minister - pastor

LOL
How classy! If they are lucky, the smell of BO from the basketball players will linger for the entire reception!

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> LOL
> How classy! If they are lucky, the smell of BO
> from the basketball players will linger for the
> entire reception!

Do lds baptismal fonts include showers?

I'm thinking of an after-reception initiation send-off...



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Sounds like someone went to a Mormon reception, saw the basketball court, and extrapolated a story.

While church basketball is held sacrosanct by the priesthood, it doesn't supercede the holiest of holy cultural hall wedding reception.

I suppose it is possible that the bride and groom are big hoop fans and wanted a theme wedding, in which case they're extraordinarily fortunate to be Mormons.

    I have every reason to believe that at some point in time, Deseret Books sold Celestial-themed wedding reception basketball hoop ornaments . . .

I'm going to write my local area representative and recommend that the veil in the temple be reconfigured into a ring and net that one must drop through. A very large man in glowing white baggy shorts and high-tops can catch people lovingly in his arms as they fall into the CK.

Mormon god so loves the basketball that he gave ample space in his buildings, and he dresses accordingly.

That was my thought too. However, maybe there was some basketball going on while they were setting up and decorating for the reception.

In other parts of the U.S., there are private halls that cater to the wedding reception crowd…

No, I’m not kidding or lying!!!

You have your reception at home (as my brother and his wife did,) or in a backyard, or a park, or you reserve a pavilion at a park. I'm at a loss as to why you would have a reception in a cultural hall/basketball court, but that's Mormon culture for you.

for some poo folk, this is understandable, + your friends are likely ward members, so not very much travel or bad directions.

Practical, but not 'stylish' in non-mo society.


also, what if both bride & groom (& their families) want to 'marry up'? Won't they want to out-d$ each other? where would that end?


Let's ask Mittens Romney where his reception was held (Michigan)

That way they can invite almost the entire ward and the kids can run around like rabid racoons.
The mother of the bride (who probably is pregnant) can recruit her RS pals to man all the stations.
There is lots of parking.
Plus, they can hang decorations from the hoops.
Be sure and look on the wall by the gifts to see the quilt someone made for them with a picture of the temple that they had printed on the fabric.

You have to remember, summer, that in Mormondom weddings/receptions occur all the time.

When I was a wee child, my bishop father had to attend them virtually every weekend, often more than once per weekend. He always gave the same gift, which he must have bought in bulk. Nor was he unique in that regard.

People simply didn't have the time and resources to go to all the nuptials to which they were invited unless those events were local, fast, and cheap. And anyway, the "real" wedding had already taken place behind the temple walls.

I remember most receptions being held in the "recreation" hall. I know of one couple who shopped around and found a much nicer ward for their reception. I don't know if they had to pay to use it. When I married, my Mom had a job working for the church so she paid for us to have our reception at a new place, The Candlelight Inn. Pretty nice, not too expensive as I recall.

On a recent visit to SLC I found the Candlelight Inn no longer exists. It was a ways out on Highland Drive. I can't remember when I last attended a Mormon reception--decades?

The local ward's cultural hall is carpeted over to serve as an extension of the chapel. Probably not much basketball these days.

The church spends its money on temples, not ward activities.

Some years ago with my wife I was invited to a wedding reception in Orem. We drove down from Salt Lake and located the church building identified additionally by wedding bows strung along the walkway to the door. As we entered several children rushed up to seize the wedding gift we had brought and scurred off with it to the the mass of gifts in a side room. There was a long line of people snaking down the hallway and through the door into the "cultural hall" where the bride and groom and families waited for the perfuntory shaking of hands with guests.

It was a long wait but eventually we arrived at the door to discover looking in that we knew none of the people in the reception line, including the bride and groom. Scrambling to find the invite we discovered that we were at the right wardhouse but were a week early.

Have you ever tried to recover a wedding gift from a bunch of jobsworthy children tasked with gathering those gifts and protecting them with their very lives?

We returned the following week to the same ward house to be met with the same decorated walkway and, I swear, the same children snatching the gift that they carried off like plunder to the gift room treasury. The line, the wait, and the gym decor was the same. The only thing different was the faces of the reception line. With the passing of time those faces have dimmed such that I cannot even recall whose wedding it was.

What a great story!

That's a description of every reception I attended too.

Cookie cutter weddings. Cookie cutter temples.

There was a stage in my life when all the dozens of kids of my old BYU college roommates were getting married. I was getting an invitation every week or so for a while. Sheesh.

Lolololol

    I'm sure older mormons are as appalled by this "map" as I was!!


https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/15w83xi/average_money_spent_on_weddings_in_us_states/


    When my TBM daughter remarried (for 'time' only...), the wedding was officiated by the bishop in the chapel, then we all moved into the cultural baseball court for the reception, so I know inexpensive weddings are still a thing in Utah, despite the map saying $16,000 is the average.

    I've lost track of how many times I've been married, and yes, it did get more expensive as the price of a gallon of gas kept rising!

>     I've lost track of how many times I've
> been married. . .

Not to worry. I've kept count.

You're at seven, not counting the common law ones.

When I was married, in the temple, the reception was in the ward gym. I think I remember a cost of around $15 to use the ward gymnasium.

All my kid's receptions were in the ward gym. All my friends, in the gym. All funeral dinners were in the ward gym.

I can only remember one time when the reception wasn't in the local ward gym.

Along the moridor, this was common practice.