Going to the wedding of a relative or an old family friend isn’t a weird thing. For most of us, attending the occasional wedding is just part of life, and the worst thing about it is having to buy a gift and then spend a few hours with a bunch of people you don’t know (or don’t like.)
However, when friends your own age start getting married, that makes for an interesting and new situation. It’s weird for quite a number of reasons, especially when you haven’t even graduated college yet.
15. To bring a date or not?
If you bring a date, you don’t have to feel lame and single. However, the pool of possible hook-ups attending the wedding might be very good, and you don’t want to miss out on that.
14. The fact that the couple is going on their honeymoon over spring break just seems weird.
Get married on Saturday and then return to class a week from Monday? That’s not the natural order of things.
13. You start to think that the legal age to marry should be raised.
You can get married at 18 and drink at 21. In reality, it should be the other way around.
12. Older folks at the wedding start asking if you’re seeing anyone.
No matter how many times you get asked this question over the course of the event, you still have to smile and act totally charming, like it’s not really uncomfortable to have to answer.
11. It just seems way too early for this to start happening.
Your friends aren’t supposed to start getting married until you actually feel like a proper adult.
10. You have to be careful who you try to hook up with at the reception.
Your conquest tonight might end up being your classmate when the new semester starts. And when that happens, it’s going to be hard to avoid him or her.
9. You have to try and behave yourself in front of all the parents.
You can go totally wild at the reception, but the parents of the happy couple are going to be watching and judging… God forbid they’re friends of your parents, because then you can bet your folks will definitely hear about what you get up to.
8. So like…are they going to have kids now?
No, no, that’s just too insane to think about.
7. You can’t help but picture the couple having sex, and that’s just wrong.
Gross. Put that out of your mind.
6. Two words: open bar.
Okay, the fact that there’s going to be an open bar isn’t weird on its own. Knowing what you and your friends are going to do to it just makes you feel prematurely guilty.
5. The reception is definitely going to be a drunken shit show.
Hopefully you don’t embarrass yourself too badly.
4. The fact that you bought them a beer pong table for their wedding gift.
Hey, it was on their registry!
3. You can’t picture your friend “settling down.”
You’ve seen the bride stumbling out of the bar, on her way to the back of a cab. You’ve accidentally walked in on the groom when he was with another girl in his dorm room. And now they’re getting married. What a trip.
2. You can’t imagine “settling down” at this age either.
Even getting married 10 years from now still seems like it would be too early.
1. Most of the guests are people you’ve seen with puke on their face.
And now they’re all dressed up, acting like grown ups, and attending an actual wedding.