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PaleHawkWoman -> RE: a pregnant bride (5/2/2008 9:20:08 PM)
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It depends on the family. Years ago when I was a kid, one of my older cousins got married when she was about 6 months pregnant. Her father walked her down the ailse with an old shotgun he'd painted white and proceeded to point it at the groom with a warning that if the young man ever did his daughter wrong the next time he saw the shot gun it would be loaded. When the vows were said and the couple introduced by the preacher as man and wife, the father of the bride pointed the shot gun up in the air and pulled both triggers. A huge BOOM! shook the windows, caused hysteric screaming and a couple of folks to faint. A ton of confetti, packed into the gun by the father of the bride, shot up into the air and then fluttered down like snowflakes and sticking out of one of the barrels was a flag that said CONGRATULATIONS!
The mother of the bride proceeded to hit the father of the bride over the head with her purse and wished aloud that it was a skillet she was using instead. The preacher, who had darned near wet himself during the initial blast, called the father of the bride a couple of things you'd never expect to hear in church and offered to plant his boot firmly in the father of the bride's backside, and the bride stood there in shock, while the groom, who had also nearly wet himself, laughed his head off. While the father of the groom wondered who was going to be able to top this prank at the next wedding.
It took a good half-hour to forty-five minutes for things to calm down. The father of the bride had always been a joker whose life's ambition had pretty much always been to do stuff like that, and some folks said well it should have been expected unless you locked him up in the closet during the ceremony(which the bride and her mother said should have been done anyway). Folks relaxed and the reception was great, at least until a few on the groom's side- all a bunch of hard-core rednecks- got a bit drunk and somebody started a brawl in the church parking lot which the preacher broke up. Personally, I never knew clergymen could throw punches hard enough to lay drunken good-old-boys out but that one sure did.
I'd like to say this was just an odd occurance for my family, but I can't. So don't bemoan the "lack of decorum" of a bride with a belly out-to-there. There's worse things that could happen.
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