Okay I'm not a snob about spelling or grammar but....

[gradtchr]

Maybe there's a reason. I mean they could have a game planned for how many mistakes were there on the invite and the one who identifies the correct number gets a prize.

 

[momrek06]

It's where someone buys a hog and a family member cooks the entire thing in one of those smoking barrels and serves it.

WOW...realllllly...no way...I don't mean to be ignorant but the ENTIRE pig...you know...head and all... !!!! AND at a BRIDAL SHOWER!!!

Now that is something I have not seen here in the NorthEast!!! OR ever at a Bridal Shower....then someone slices the pig up and serves it right then and there....sorry, but this is just, well....

 

[gradtchr]

This is another question I have


Can anyone enlighten us?

I THINK it is a come and go type thing but I could be very very wrong. Is there a boat involved?

 

[momrek06]

Is there a boat involved?

 

[NC State]

This is another question I have


Can anyone enlighten us?

You float in during the time it's held, you eat, see her open the gift and then float out...

 

[NC State]

WOW...realllllly...no way...I don't mean to be ignorant but the ENTIRE pig...you know...head and all... !!!! AND at a BRIDAL SHOWER!!!

Now that is something I have not seen here in the NorthEast!!! OR ever at a Bridal Shower....then someone slices the pig up and serves it right then and there....sorry, but this is just, well....

Nope, we have the head cut off and he's split open down the middle and cleaned out. I hope this isn't up setting anyone but this really happens here it's no big deal.

 

[sajetto]

You float in during the time it's held, you eat, see her open the gift and then float out...

WOW, that's TACKY IMO!!!!

This makes me think of a thing one of my dear friends says..."do they wish to have your presence or presents?"


This is pretty much saying get in, leave the gift, and get out. I thought you were supposed to talk and enjoy yourself at a shower?

 

[momrek06]

Nope, we have the head cut off and he's split open down the middle and cleaned out. I hope this isn't up setting anyone but this really happens here it's no big deal.

Well, if that is the tradition then !!!!

Every state has their own traditions that makes them all unique!

 

[DisneyPhD]

FLOATING BRIDAL SHOWER

The only thing I can think of is you drink so much your eye balls float in your head and you have to float on over to the rest room to take care of the issue.

I believe the pig picking is not for the shower, but the actual wedding reception. Having family in NC I understand a pig picking, it isn't the strange part.

 

[Papa Deuce]

Nope, we have the head cut off and he's split open down the middle and cleaned out. I hope this isn't up setting anyone but this really happens here it's no big deal.

No way! You HAVE to have the head on...... and stuffed with a big apple in his mouth.... and you have to give him a name!

 

[momrek06]

You float in during the time it's held, you eat, see her open the gift and then float out...

Well actually, that probably means if you are busy, you could show up anytime between the scheduled hours of the shower!!! And no one would be offended!! Then give your gift, have something to eat and drink OR show up and if you have to EXIT early, it would be no problem....hey, I kinda like that idea...bearing in mind that IS how a FLOATING bridal shower works!!!

Or as DisneyPHD said....drink until you float away....(to the restroom)

Or as gradtchr said....you might just all go BOATING...


can you all tell I am so bored tonight

 

[MoniqueU]

Well they are registered at wal mart and having a pig picking, what do you expect?

 

[sajetto]

Well actually, that probably means if you are busy, you could show up anytime between the scheduled hours of the shower!!! And no one would be offended!! Then give your gift, have something to eat and drink OR show up and if you have to EXIT early, it would be no problem....hey, I kinda like that idea...bearing in mind that IS how a FLOATING bridal shower works!!!

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Okay, then. I've never heard of this concept so I guess I took too much offense to this concept. I would hope that at sometime during this shower all the gals would chat, poke fun, and the experienced ones would talk about married life.

 

[momrek06]

Well they are registered at wal mart and having a pig picking, what do you expect?

WOW...Wal-Mart is into Bridal Registry now....I had no idea....


Sajetto: Thank you for Posting this Thread because this is just too funny!!! I needed a few Saturday night laughs...

 

[sajetto]

Sajetto: Thank you for Posting this Thread because this is just too funny!!! I needed a few Saturday night laughs...

Glad someone is getting a few laughs! You know, it really is funny, I feel like I should come rolling in dressed as granny from the Beverly Hillbillies carrying a rifle and a bottle of moonshine...YEEE HAW!

 

[ilovepcot]

Okay, then. I've never heard of this concept so I guess I took too much offense to this concept. I would hope that at sometime during this shower all the gals would chat, poke fun, and the experienced ones would talk about married life.

This concept isn't new. For years it was called a "drop-in shower" and was very popular. They're especially nice if space is a problem.

And hey, what are you complaining about..."YOUR" invited!

 

[sajetto]

And hey, what are you complaining about..."YOUR" invited!

Darn tootin'! I feel like I'm going to one of the grandest events of the century!

 

[DVCLiz]

I attended a wedding once that was held at a picnic shelter. It was a covered pavillion, with about ten picnic tables on each side, and a sort of "aisle" down the middle. All of the guests sat at the picnic tables, either with our legs over the bench if we were on one side, or facing the bride and groom if on the other side. The bride came down the "aisle" between the rows of tables to the sounds of the Wedding March played on a boombox. When the wedding was over, those who were on the other sides of the tables flipped around and threw their legs over their benches, and we had ourselves a little wedding cake and punch right there under the pavillion.

It was very sweet, actually. The bride was our friend and waitress at our local lunch counter, and had seen our children born and raised (and had fed them many a grilled cheese sandwich.) So a few of us were invited and went. We did enjoy a cheerful (and private) game of "spot the tattoo on the mother of the bride" and I do believe there was to be a pig pickin' (there's not really a "g" at the end of that word at a REAL NC barbecue, btw) later on.

I believe they are still married, unlike the other couple from the lunch counter whose wedding we also attended. I think the groom got liquored up once and threatened to drive his (of course it's a pickup truck, what did you expect?) through the plate glass window at the front of the store, so the bride had to find another job pretty quickly.

May I just say that I was married in NC, had a lovely church wedding and a beautiful reception at the country club, so there are many ways to do it here, and they don't all require the apple in the pig's mouth....then again, she's still maried and I'm not, so maybe she was on to something after all.

 

[aprilgail2]

pig picking, floating showers, wal mart registries...where is jeff foxworthy when you need him????

 

[ilovepcot]

I attended a wedding once that was held at a picnic shelter. It was a covered pavillion, with about ten picnic tables on each side, and a sort of "aisle" down the middle. All of the guests sat at the picnic tables, either with our legs over the bench if we were on one side, or facing the bride and groom if on the other side. The bride came down the "aisle" between the rows of tables to the sounds of the Wedding March played on a boombox. When the wedding was over, those who were on the other sides of the tables flipped around and threw their legs over their benches, and we had ourselves a little wedding cake and punch right there under the pavillion.

It was very sweet, actually. The bride was our friend and waitress at our local lunch counter, and had seen our children born and raised (and had fed them many a grilled cheese sandwich.) So a few of us were invited and went. We did enjoy a cheerful (and private) game of "spot the tattoo on the mother of the bride" and I do believe there was to be a pig pickin' (there's not really a "g" at the end of that word at a REAL NC barbecue, btw) later on.

Wait a minute! Isn't this an episode from MY NAME IS EARL???