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So glad I got OUT of Las Vegas
Date: 2019-03-04 06:53 pm (UTC)My folks had to pick me up at the airport from the late flight in their rental car.
The groom's family was supposed to take everyone out for dinner - and did not wait for us, so only my sister went. They ALL got drunk as hell.
The groom & best man had a fist fight & groom/my sis spent the night in the emergency room. The best man ended up in jail for the weekend.
They all show up the next day, hung-over, for the 1pm ceremony at a cheap chapel with no shade - and the prior wedding party ran late. So an hour spent outdoors, in Las Vegas in July - 108 to 110 F and no shade or seating.
Then it turns out the chapel could hold 12 if everyone squished together - and there were 20-odd there. We had been sitting in the rental to keep my 90-year old g-ma healthy, so g-ma, mom & I stayed in the car.
Photos for the ceremony were done by one of the groom's friends - so everyone had to stand out in the sun again. [Since I never saw evidence of any pics, my guess is he screwed up somehow.]
By this point I had used all the [large] tube of 50-block sunscreen on self - and everyone else attending because NO ONE else brought sunscreen. I was the only one who wore a hat. I was in long sleeves/full coverage - dying in the heat. [I'm pale a.f.]
As the wedding group is getting into cars, someone bumps into me, knocking my prescription sunglasses to the asphalt and a car drives over them.
At the wedding dinner, they booked us for 20 reserved places at a bar - and 30 were there in the party by then. The catering guys never showed, but had called the bar to warn us.
The cake never showed and my sis only found out this about an hour later because the bar's kitchen staff lied that it was 'in the back' so the entire group wouldn't leave before spending money there.
Everyone got drunk again [except me, since I don't drink] - and I drove my mom, dad, g-ma back to our motel. There was another fight in the bar later that night - but my sister didn't want to talk about it.
...and the marriage did not last a year.