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My gay best friend just asked me to marry him

Feb 3, 2013#1

Ravenpoe

And I said yes.

As the officiator, not the groom. That would be his longterm boyfriend.

I'm excited! But now I've got to get ordained. I hear the process is a grueling five minute slog.

Feb 3, 2013#2

CrimsonSoul

Yeah http://www.open-ministry.org/ Makes it sooo hard to sign up for

Grats on being the officiator though, I always wished I could marry someone

Feb 3, 2013#3

Cajungal

Yay!!! That is great news! Have fun with it.

Feb 3, 2013#4

Ravenpoe

I've just discovered I may be asked to wear a kilt. This could be a disaster, the last person to see my legs went blind in a matter of moments.

Feb 3, 2013#5

Bowielee

If you wear underwear with a kilt, you are a horrible person and should be beaten soundly with a shillelaugh.

Feb 3, 2013#6

Ravenpoe

Bowielee said:
If you wear underwear with a kilt, you are a horrible person and should be beaten soundly with a shillelaugh.

I'm sorry, but I have to insist on underwear. I'd be too tempted to impersonate sharon stone otherwise.

Feb 3, 2013#7

bhamv3

Ravenpoe said:
I'm sorry, but I have to insist on underwear. I'd be too tempted to impersonate sharon stone otherwise.

Feb 3, 2013#8

PatrThom

bhamv3 said:
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Groundskeeper Willie, indeed.

--Patrick

Feb 4, 2013#9

Frank

ABOMINATION!

SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE!

And all that other nonsense.

Seriously though, that's pretty rad. That's on my bucket list, be the person to marry two folk.

Feb 4, 2013#10

Dave

Good for you and good for them! I hope they have a great ceremony.

I also hope that someday a gay wedding proposal will garner the reaction of, "So?"

Feb 4, 2013#11

bhamv3

Dave said:
I also hope that someday a gay wedding proposal will garner the reaction of, "So?"

Amen to that.

Feb 4, 2013#12

Ravenpoe

Dave said:
I also hope that someday a gay wedding proposal will garner the reaction of, "So?"

Well, that would be kinda rude. Just shit all over their moment with indifference.

Feb 4, 2013#13

Dave

The fact you were asked to officiate is the only thing about this thread I think is thread-worthy. People have friends getting married all the time and nobody cares. Do I hope these friends have a great marriage and life together? Certainly! But the fact that you had to mention their sexual orientation means that it was germane to the conversation. It's that point that I hope goes away. Nobody would put "My straight best friend...".

Don't read too much into what I put. I'm trying to be light-hearted here, not shitting on their day.

Feb 4, 2013#14

dill616

This gives me an awesome idea. The General and I are both atheists and were going to have a secular Justice of the Peace do our ceremony. However, if we can get someone with the same credentials to do it, then why not?

You are awesome. Everyone is awesome. Let's have a group hug! :sohappy:

Feb 4, 2013#15

Dave

dill616 said:
This gives me an awesome idea. The General and I are both atheists and were going to have a secular Justice of the Peace do our ceremony. However, if we can get someone with the same credentials to do it, then why not?

You are awesome. Everyone is awesome. Let's have a group hug!

It's really easy to get someone ordained to be able to legally perform the ceremony. Were I you I would find a friend who is great on a microphone and ask them to do it. Make it fun!

Feb 4, 2013#16

blotsfan

Dave said:
The fact you were asked to officiate is the only thing about this thread I think is thread-worthy. People have friends getting married all the time and nobody cares. Do I hope these friends have a great marriage and life together? Certainly! But the fact that you had to mention their sexual orientation means that it was germane to the conversation. It's that point that I hope goes away. Nobody would put "My straight best friend...".

Don't read too much into what I put. I'm trying to be light-hearted here, not shitting on their day.

I'm pretty sure he just mentioned that his friend was gay to make the thread title be misleading.

Feb 4, 2013#17

Ravenpoe

The thread title was actually his idea. And I was being lighthearted too, I didn't actually think Dave was shitting on anyone.

I mean, it's not like his cat situation.

Feb 4, 2013#18

Dave

That was pissing! I fake pissed on that cat!

Feb 4, 2013#19

North_Ranger

...or so you say.

Feb 4, 2013#20

Ravenpoe

That was just to cover up the real shitting.

Feb 4, 2013#21

Dave

North_Ranger said:
...or so you say.

I may have been lying about lying. You never know how far down the rabbit hole my deception goes.

Feb 4, 2013#22

phil

I went to a friends wedding where another friend was the minister person. It was really nice because it made the whole thing a bit more personal. It made the whole ceremony just that much more touching and sweet.

The bride and groom then proceeded to use their vows to rick roll everyone. Lulz were had.

Feb 4, 2013#23

Chad Sexington

phil said:
The bride and groom then proceeded to use their vows to rick roll everyone. Lulz were had.

Bwahaha! Fantastic.

Feb 4, 2013#24

Covar

Don't forget to take your certificate down to the County Clerk's office!

I tried to convince my friend to let me marry him and his wife. They were going to have a small bridal party and I was going to miss the cut. They went with a minister instead though, the bastards. Made worse by the fact that neither are religious they just didn't want to upset the brides family, so they wanted a more traditional ceremony (so of course they go with a woman preacher </joke>).

[edit]I'm also pretty sure my Princess Bride impressions weren't helping my case.

Feb 4, 2013#25

Jax

Dave said:
The fact you were asked to officiate is the only thing about this thread I think is thread-worthy. People have friends getting married all the time and nobody cares. Do I hope these friends have a great marriage and life together? Certainly! But the fact that you had to mention their sexual orientation means that it was germane to the conversation. It's that point that I hope goes away. Nobody would put "My straight best friend...".

Don't read too much into what I put. I'm trying to be light-hearted here, not shitting on their day.

Even for open-minded people the sexual orientation should be put in there (especially since we know nothing about them). Not because there is a need to clarify this fact and put any kind of emphasis on it, but because the majority of people is still straight, so you would just assume they're talking about a male / femal couple. If here ever comes a time where there are as many homosexuals as straight people or even more, then yeah, I would see "My straight best friend" becoming a common phrase

Feb 4, 2013#26

Ravenpoe

You guys still miss the point, in that this is probably the only time I'll get to say my best friend asked me to marry him, and it be true.

That opportunity alone is half the reason I said yes. The other half is, you know, the friendship thing, but mostly I do things for the amusing conversation.

Feb 4, 2013#27

Jax

Ravenpoe said:
You guys still miss the point, in that this is probably the only time I'll get to say my best friend asked me to marry him, and it be true.

That opportunity alone is half the reason I said yes. The other half is, you know, the friendship thing, but mostly I do things for the amusing conversation.

No we got the point (congrats by the way! here's a brofist!), but since when has there ever been a thread containing any kind of hot political topic where it didn't devolve into a discussion thread?

Just doing my part

Feb 4, 2013#28

Adam

I got to be the MC at my friends' wedding. I had asked "How taboo can I be in my opening monologue?" ahead of time because I guess the one groom's parents was pretty old, conservative and not really in keeping with the whole "Hey, Gay is Okay" philosophy. They said "Clean".

So I basically started off with a list of all the words I wasn't allowed to say in my job as MC, with the dad staring very evilly at me the entire time while the rest of the room laughed. Awkward.

Feb 4, 2013#29

evilmike

dill616 said:
This gives me an awesome idea. The General and I are both atheists and were going to have a secular Justice of the Peace do our ceremony. However, if we can get someone with the same credentials to do it, then why not?

Does this mean you are asking Ravenpoe to marry you?

Feb 4, 2013#30

Ravenpoe

Adam said:
I got to be the MC at my friends' wedding. I had asked "How taboo can I be in my opening monologue?" ahead of time because I guess the one groom's parents was pretty old, conservative and not really in keeping with the whole "Hey, Gay is Okay" philosophy. They said "Clean".

So I basically started off with a list of all the words I wasn't allowed to say in my job as MC, with the dad staring very evilly at me the entire time while the rest of the room laughed. Awkward.

Well, I have found out that I'll be wearing Jedi Robes and a Yarmulke (I'm an orthodox Jedi) so someone is getting offended.

Feb 4, 2013#31

CrimsonSoul

dill616 said:
This gives me an awesome idea. The General and I are both atheists and were going to have a secular Justice of the Peace do our ceremony. However, if we can get someone with the same credentials to do it, then why not?

You are awesome. Everyone is awesome. Let's have a group hug!

Come to Texas, I'll marry you! I'm a "minister" it's official and everything!

Feb 4, 2013#32

Adam

Ravenpoe said:
Well, I have found out that I'll be wearing Jedi Robes and a Yarmulke (I'm an orthodox Jedi) so someone is getting offended.

May the schwartz be with you.

Feb 5, 2013#33

Bubble181

dill616 : get Dave to marry you two over Skype

Feb 5, 2013#34

dill616

I found this article on one of my favorite wedding websites, Off Beat Bride:

So you want to have a friend officiate…

Funny enough, I mentioned the idea to the General and we're considering asking his uncle, who is the self-proclaimed family smartass, doctor, and Awesome McAwesomesauce, if he'd officiate our ceremony!

Feb 5, 2013#35

North_Ranger

dill616 said:
I found this article on one of my favorite wedding websites, Off Beat Bride:

So you want to have a friend officiate…

Funny enough, I mentioned the idea to the General and we're considering asking his uncle, who is the self-proclaimed family smartass, doctor, and Awesome McAwesomesauce, if he'd officiate our ceremony!

"You wanna marry him? Good."
"You wanna marry her? Good."
"By the power invested in me by the Internet, I pronounce you wife and hubby. Now kiss the bride, fool. The chicken's getting cold."

That's how I'd do it

Feb 5, 2013#36

dill616

North_Ranger said:
"You wanna marry him? Good."
"You wanna marry her? Good."
"By the power invested in me by the Internet, I pronounce you wife and hubby. Now kiss the bride, fool. The chicken's getting cold."

That's how I'd do it

HIRED!

Feb 5, 2013#37

Chad Sexington

Man I can't wait to give a speech at a wedding. I'll be 4 whiskeys in, grin on my face, making book on when they'll be divorced.

Feb 5, 2013#38

Bowielee

Chad Sexington said:
Man I can't wait to give a speech at a wedding. I'll be 4 whiskeys in, grin on my face, making book on when they'll be divorced.

I usually hate to cross issues in threads, but this is an awfully cynical look at marriage for someone who's arguing that people are inherently good.

Feb 5, 2013#39

Chad Sexington

Bowielee said:
I usually hate to cross issues in threads, but this is an awfully cynical look at marriage for someone who's arguing that people are inherently good.

Curses I've been found out!

Feb 5, 2013#40

Ravenpoe

I was a groomsman at another friend's wedding. I felt it was my duty to let him know before the ceremony that my car was fully gassed. All he had to do was say the word, and we could go anywhere, be gone before they even saw he was missing.

Feb 5, 2013#41

bhamv3

Bowielee said:
I usually hate to cross issues in threads, but this is an awfully cynical look at marriage for someone who's arguing that people are inherently good.

Inherently good people can be bad at being married!

Plus being married might turn inherently good people into evil monsters. I've seen it happen, it's true.

Feb 5, 2013#42

Ravenpoe

Feb 5, 2013#43

LittleKagsin

My dad, who's awesome, actually did that speech at my wedding. He did the voice and everything.

I love my dad.

Feb 5, 2013#44

WasabiPoptart

Ravenpoe said:
I was a groomsman at another friend's wedding. I felt it was my duty to let him know before the ceremony that my car was fully gassed. All he had to do was say the word, and we could go anywhere, be gone before they even saw he was missing.

I did something similar when my best friend got married. I was maid-of-honor. We had a brand new Mercedes SLK 230 that a family friend let us use as the bridal car. Right before we went into the church I told her if she had any doubt in her mind about this to just say the word because we could take that car to Philadelphia airport, buy two tickets to anywhere on my credit card, and be on our way before anyone knew we were gone.

Feb 6, 2013#45

Ravenpoe

WasabiPoptart said:
I did something similar when my best friend got married. I was maid-of-honor. We had a brand new Mercedes SLK 230 that a family friend let us use as the bridal car. Right before we went into the church I told her if she had any doubt in her mind about this to just say the word because we could take that car to Philadelphia airport, buy two tickets to anywhere on my credit card, and be on our way before anyone knew we were gone.

They're divorced now, he really should have taken me up on the offer.

Feb 6, 2013#46

dill616

Ravenpoe said:
They're divorced now, he really should have taken me up on the offer.

That's different from being cynical about marriage. If you see that two people are getting married for the wrong reasons or shouldn't be married, then there's no reason not to offer. See any episode of Bridezillas for evidence. At their wedding, my best friend's husband had someone joke with him that the car was still out back. He turned to his best man and said, "It never crossed my mind. My feet are warm and this the happiest moment of my life." They now have a 2-year-old girl and a 3-month-old boy, who are both my godchildren.

Feb 6, 2013#47

Azurephoenix

I have a good friend that I was a best man for. I tried to warn him repeatedly that he was making a mistake. I even told him on the day of his wedding that if he didn't want to go through with it I would help him escape. He went through with it... and I was supportive and made an awesome best man speech. Then everything went to hell for him and he ended up getting divorced.

Four years later I got to be his best man again and gave an even better best man speech when he met and married the right lady. He did joke about the car having a full tank of gas though.

Feb 6, 2013#48

WasabiPoptart

Ravenpoe said:
They're divorced now, he really should have taken me up on the offer.

Same here.

Feb 6, 2013#49

jwhouk

dill616 said:
This gives me an awesome idea. The General and I are both atheists and were going to have a secular Justice of the Peace do our ceremony. However, if we can get someone with the same credentials to do it, then why not?

Bubble181 said:
dill616 : get Dave to marry you two over Skype

Actually, I'd be all for this.

Except instead of Dave doing it over Skype, have him actually attend the ceremony, and let all of us schlubs "durrrr" along on the Skype feed.

Feb 7, 2013#50

Bowielee

YES, a Halwedding!

I'll be the sassy gay friend who tells you what bitches the other bridesmaids are. Because if there's anything Hollywood has taught me, it's that gay best friends are sassy.

Feb 7, 2013#51

DarkAudit

"The word he's looking for is sassy. He better pray he don't find it"
-- Shirley Bennett, Greendale, CO

Feb 7, 2013#52

fade

Bowielee said:
YES, a Halwedding!

I'll be the sassy gay friend who tells you what bitches the other bridesmaids are. Because if there's anything Hollywood has taught me, it's that gay best friends are sassy.

Well, it's only because your people dress so fabulously.

Also the sassiness, I think, is a side-effect of your Youth Corrupting Field, or YCF.

Feb 7, 2013#53

dill616

Bowielee said:
YES, a Halwedding!

I'll be the sassy gay friend who tells you what bitches the other bridesmaids are. Because if there's anything Hollywood has taught me, it's that gay best friends are sassy.

Be prepared. I have a horde of sassy gay friends and ball-busting lesbian friends on the guest list! I showed the General a link on Star Wars themed weddings and now he's all excited to plan stuff. It is definitely going to be an offbeat atheist, feminist affair but I am NOT walking down the aisle to the Imperial March.

Feb 7, 2013#54

Shakey

dill616 said:
Be prepared. I have a horde of sassy gay friends and ball-busting lesbian friends on the guest list! I showed the General a link on Star Wars themed weddings and now he's all excited to plan stuff. It is definitely going to be an offbeat atheist, feminist affair but I am NOT walking down the aisle to the Imperial March.

I have a friend who had a star wars wedding. The groom was dressed as anakin during the ceremony, grooms men were storm troopers, ushers were imperial guard, and they walked to the front of the church under a jedi lightsaber arch. The bride and her side were all in traditional wedding dresses. When they came to the reception the groom was dressed as Vader. It was a pretty awesome wedding.

Feb 7, 2013#55

blotsfan

dill616 said:
I am NOT walking down the aisle to the Imperial March.

Isn't that usually for the grooms new mother in law anyways?

Feb 7, 2013#56

dill616

blotsfan said:
Isn't that usually for the grooms new mother in law anyways?

I am unsure of this custom. The General is actually going to walk me down the aisle because I am the only person who is giving myself away. Plus, it represents the beginning of our new lives as partners and equals in the relationship.

Feb 7, 2013#57

Ravenpoe

dill616 said:
I am unsure of this custom. The General is actually going to walk me down the aisle because I am the only person who is giving myself away. Plus, it represents the beginning of our new lives as partners and equals in the relationship.

You missed the joke, which is mother in law = evil empire

Feb 7, 2013#58

sixpackshaker

LittleKagsin said:
My dad, who's awesome, actually did that speech at my wedding. He did the voice and everything.

I love my dad.

So you come by it honestly.

Feb 7, 2013#59

LittleKagsin

sixpackshaker said:
So you come by it honestly.

Come by what? My awesome? Why yes, yes it is passed down from my father to me.

(I actually feel bad jumping to that conclusion and I would be so embarassed if you thought I was awesome.)

Feb 7, 2013#60

Charlie Don't Surf

I had a good friend featured on Offbeat Bride (lego cake toppers I believe) ((no, I'm not in any of the pictures))

Also I gave an awesome Best Man Speech before I left Tennessee

Feb 8, 2013#61

dill616

Ravenpoe said:
You missed the joke, which is mother in law = evil empire

Negatory on that one. I love the General's mother and can't wait for her to be my MIL. As for my mom, weeeeeeeellll, luckily she's planning on moving out of state after she retires (the same year we're getting married).

[DOUBLEPOST=1360328729][/DOUBLEPOST]Speaking on the Star Wars thing; there will be Star Wars aspects at our wedding as well as geeky things that I like. I'm not too big on the SW and want to keep it balanced. There will be bridal party pictures taken with the lightsaber collection. Trust in this.

Feb 8, 2013#62

North_Ranger

dill616 said:
There will be bridal party pictures taken with the lightsaber collection.

...

No, not gonna say anything

Feb 8, 2013#63

Just Me

Bowielee said:
I'll be the sassy gay friend who tells you what bitches the other bridesmaids are.

I read this as "sassy gal friend"...
Goddang, I need more coffee!

Feb 8, 2013#64

dill616

North_Ranger said:
...

No, not gonna say anything

Dirty mind! The General has the entire replica collection, which is more than enough for the wedding party.

Feb 8, 2013#65

Bowielee

Pssss, white lightsabers... LAME

Feb 8, 2013#66

Adam

Bowielee said:
Pssss, white lightsabers... LAME

Easier to render in video if the lightsabre placeholders are white.

Feb 8, 2013#67

dill616

Bowielee said:
Pssss, white lightsabers... LAME

The General's sabers come in all colors and shapes. I truly live in the lightsaber museum.

Feb 8, 2013#68

jwhouk

There's a joke there, but I refuse to even touch it.

Feb 8, 2013#69

Cheesy1

jwhouk said:
There's a joke there, but I refuse to even touch it.

. . . Sounds like Nick's prom night?

Feb 8, 2013#70

Cajungal

dill616 said:
The General's sabers come in all colors and shapes. I truly live in the lightsaber museum.

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