Tacky events.....

A church hall! Horrors! Actually they sound like decent people with not a lot of money doing the best they could.

How pretentious, OP? It sounds like a simple, low-key wedding.

But that's the point. When you have limited means why over extend yourself doing something that comes off in a mediocre way? It's not like they saved a lot of money. It's as if someone gave you $6,000 and told you to put together something and you assembled the cheapest tackiest ideas you could think of. You couldn't even say they put the most effort into the food or the music or WTF ever. All of it was just crap.

They weren’t doing it to please you OP. You sound insufferable.

OP sounds elitist.

R5, no I'm not. But I'd certainly have done it differently. It's as if they were determined to do a traditional old-fashioned wedding but they had no taste. I mean. They mixed plastic Christmas decorations in with real floral arrangements. They served the buffet in those disposable aluminum foil pans you get at the supermarket. This from a professional caterer. And the food was inedible.

There is nothing tackier than a guy like OP putting on airs, but coming from a low-brow working-class family. Homemade gowns and bridesmaids dresses is kind of charming in this day and age, and if the result isn't very stylish. No booze at the reception - THE HORROR of it all!

It was like eating from a jar of gross, canned applesauce when, if you'd taken the time you could have the real stuff.

There's a special place in hell for people like OP. Where he will have to eat food served from aluminium foil pans for all eternity.

Honey, nobody shares your trauma. You're barking up the wrong tree. You ruined it with the terrible set up. You really don't know how to snark.

Wrong. Clearly there a re too many straight women on this thread. I have nothing against disposable aluminum supermarket pans, or church basements. Nothing at all. I have a problem with people wasting good money on tacky shit. Trying to be Princess Diana with polyester.

Tacky events are only fun to snark if the people have some money. My cousin threw a baby shower (my sister went), and it was hard to make fun of it because my cousins are very close and really love each other.

Now I feel perfectly justified in making fun of a 2-year old’s Bratz-themed birthday party (this happened years ago, obviously). That was an abomination.

This is Bratz:

Nothing about the OP's event evokes Princess Diana aspirational. What is OP's diagnosis?

[quote]Nothing about the OP's event evokes Princess Diana aspirational. What is OP's diagnosis?

It's not deep, R13:

At least they didn’t ask their friends and relatives to give them money to pay for it. You should be proud of them that they did it on their own.

R13, he's lacking in empathy, thinks someone else's wedding is about him, tries to trash it online. I would say pathological narcissist.

You sound bitter, OP - are you ever able to have fun? I hope things get better for you - seriously.

[quote]Trying to be Princess Diana with polyester.

Up yours, R11.

Ok. I’ll bite, OP: Every Addison and EmmaLeigh thinks she’s a princess and demands a bespoke wedding no matter how basic her taste or limited her budget. Taste is free yet incredibly scarce.

OP, what did you give as a wedding gift?

Classy Hooker looks

You get to be a bridesmaid, and you get to be a bridesmaid, and you get to be a bridesmaid, and everybody gets to be a bridesmaid.

OP -

So how is this thread going?

PS - your “gift” was tacky.

My ma gave her a set of sheets. Thanks, R21

The tackiest of the tacky are those that set out to let everyone around them know that they have found an event/person/item to be tacky.

"Hurry, look everyone - I wanted to call out that this thing is beneath my personal level of class." (Surely, if I do that, it will make ME seem even classier to those around me. )

It never works like that, though. You should just have fun. Don't worry about trying to impress others with your vast knowledge and mastery of class. Seriously. Let yourself enjoy stuff. Just have fun.

I had an aunt-by-marriage who came from a bad family, this family included junkies, convicts, even a gangster. The stupidest of my mother’s brothers thought she was a catch, anyway, and this was especially mysterious considering my uncle was a successful engineer with money from a decent family. And she looooved spending his money, and was basically that bawdy, slightly lurid bitch with the dye job and massive garish jewelry and tacky peacock-level clothing. And fat.

I actually didn’t mind her, she could be amusing in a low class way.

Then she died of cancer a few years ago, and I could not avoid going to the funeral.

Her siblings had published a little in memoriam trifold about her, enumerating her positive traits as they saw them and praising her character. It was in bullet point form over an image of her dog dressed up like an Ewok.

First item: “Amelia liked to buy in bulk.”

I had to run out of the room, that or just go ahead and laugh in their faces, which I am not yet mean enough to do.

No one will likely care when you die, R26. You seem like the type that we all secretly laugh at behind your back for being a DFA queen.

R26, maybe they were joking?

R25 you are irretrievably stupid.

BTW: This has nothing to do with money. You can have a shit ton of money and still be tacky and have no taste or sense of basic etiquette.

Ha ha. What is a “DFA queen”?

R28 "irretrievably stupid" huh? Mkay.

R29 DFA = Desperate for Attention

Bless your heart, OP and R26. Time to grow up, sweetie!

Yeah yeah. Her sister, who wrote the memoriam, was stealing her morphine pills before she died.

That’s who these people are. I’ll never regret laughing at them.

I guess it could be worse....

A tacky event is:

A cash grabbing “gender reveal party”.

An overblown wedding with a “bridezilla” and groom who request (even demand) cash gifts to finance an expensive honeymoon.

Any dinner or birthday party for which the host demand cash to pay for it.

A baby shower hosted by the “mother to be”.

That's your version of a tacky event, R34, and I don't disagree with your list, IMO, tacky is tasteless. And you can be a millionaire and have no taste, or you can be someone who lives from pay check to pay check and has good taste...and high standards.

Watch Judge Judy or the People's Court sometime, OP. There are regular cases where the bride was stuck with less than stellar food, decorations or services for the reception. Not much you can do at the time of the event (one family ran to the nearest Church's Fried Chicken just to have something for their guests). The "tackiness" may not have been planned.

You have issues with no bar at a reception? Who wants the liability these days.

At least there wasn't a cash bar!

Or a margarine fountain.

The world of heterosexuals is a sick and boring life.

No but there was a big bowl of "punch" on the table and the paper tablecloth was stained red and soggy from it...with plastic cups.

It’s funny, if OP had framed the complaints about this wedding a little bit differently, everybody would be in agreement. But I had the same reaction to the attitude as most others here. Recently saw a friends Instagram and he’s very successful but from a poor family and I found the elitism that he was giving off in some of his jokes and Memes representative of the low class background he was attempting to Mock

weddings are tacky in general and weird ritualistic straight crap.........I say skip the wedding and all the costs and use the money for more of a down payment on a house, at least a 2 wk honeymoon somewhere great, and a nice diamond ring for the bride. Go to a high ranking prestigious state supreme court judge and have a 3 minute ceremony, or something similiar, and have a classy announcement in the news paper, better yet, an announcement in the NY times and town and country.

Plastic cups, paper tablecloth, church halls, looks like the only pretentious are some of guests.

OP is venting because he never got a wedding of his own.

OP should become a wedding planner.

^^ but would be quickly fired, as he's bitter and cannot get along with different types of people.

Well smell the pretentiousness in you OP. Snotty, uppity homos like you are a disgrace.

OP you do realize you are related to these people don’t you?

You are one of them.

You went to a member of your family’s wedding.

OP, if they invited you to the wedding they were definitely without class. Or sense.

Possibly headless.

I have never been to a headless wedding, but I hear they are all the rage somewhere. Possibly somewhere near you.

Happiest wedding I went to had the reception at the VFW with the food provided by the family and some of the church ladies. It wasn’t fancy, but the mood was wonderful because the couple were genuinely in love and everyone was happy for them. OP would have hated it.