Telegraph Editorial
7 Types of Wedding Guests
The mildly creepy distant relative
The couple with their own wedding coming soon
The late night philosopher
There’s a moment that falls somewhere between the first bite of a canape and the last ballad to be played on the dancefloor at a wedding reception, where you’ll look around the assembled throng and think,‘are some of the people here hired actors?’
Because no matter where the happy couple decide to host their after party to the ceremony itself, the same characters will emerge, glass of warmed cava in hand, ready to fulfil what seems to be a partially rehearsed bit-part role in the Big Day.
Whether the setting is country house hotel, hipster gentrified former working men’s club, mock-Gothic castle or provincial hotel function room, there are a few types of person who, one must assume, do nothing other than attend wedding receptions from May to September; subsiding entirely on salmon en croute, Stilton and wedding cake marzipan. Their constitutions may be robust, but that doesn’t mean you want spend too long at the under-staffed bar with any of the following…
The new girlfriend of the bride’s father
The ‘provincial cool’ DJ
The confused and increasingly grudgeful bar staff
There’s a moment that falls somewhere between the first bite of a canape and the last ballad to be played on the dancefloor at a wedding reception, where you’ll look around the assembled throng and think,‘are some of the people here hired actors?’
Because no matter where the happy couple decide to host their after party to the ceremony itself, the same characters will emerge, glass of warmed cava in hand, ready to fulfil what seems to be a partially rehearsed bit-part role in the Big Day.
Whether the setting is country house hotel, hipster gentrified former working men’s club, mock-Gothic castle or provincial hotel function room, there are a few types of person who, one must assume, do nothing other than attend wedding receptions from May to September; subsiding entirely on salmon en croute, Stilton and wedding cake marzipan. Their constitutions may be robust, but that doesn’t mean you want spend too long at the under-staffed bar with any of the following…