I’m planning my wedding right now, and it’s been a fight with my mom about what the wedding should be. She wants the theme to be “mommy’s princess” (I’m a 36 year old goddamn woman) with me in an over-the-top cupcake dress, sparkles everywhere, and a sitdown formal dinner. Basically, she wants an EVENT that will…

To expand on your point: if a wedding is about anything beyond celebrating the beginning of a marriage, it’s about celebrating the family and community that confirms and supports that marriage, especially T-Rex sisters.

I’d have been fine with the Dino. Pretty sure the wife would as well - but my mother-in-law would have freaked the hell out.

My main thought was, in 60 years when the husbands are dead and the sisters are living together in an old folks home, they have this memory that they can laugh over.  

Yeah, the comments on this story are... something. It’s really weird to me how some folks appear to be laboring under the delusion that this was a complete surprise to the bride... according to the linked article, the sister got the bride’s OK months before the wedding.

Now that I’m planning my own nontraditional wedding I’m finding a shocking number of people who claim to believe that if you don’t follow tradition you must not be serious about your marriage and you’re being disrespectful (to whom? Unclear).

I agree!

Maybe the sisters understand each other and have a bond that makes it possible that the dinosaur isn’t trying to be the center of attention but knows it would bring even more joy.

This is the correct response-in my view anyway. 

Yes, this. My brothers would have done something like this as a surprise if they hadn’t had the fear of Mom in them. And I would probably have laughed it off like I laughed off the way they set the getaway car on fire (sort of). At one of their weddings, in a monumental act of self-sacrifice and discipline I stopped…

I wrote this elsewhere, but even as a not entirely traditional person, I really only cared about the ceremony. I wouldn’t have cared if my sister wore this for photos or during the reception or interrupted our first dance or whatever. But to me the ceremony is the only part of the wedding that is actually important,…

Can you imagine trying to catch the bouquet with those tiny arms? No wonder they died out

Weddings are absolutely ridiculous. I appreciate it’s someone taking the piss out of them. My sister would know what I was doing and tell me if I could or couldn’t. As for my friends, they know the type of person I am and cannot be trusted with this kind of freedom. 

Correct: It is NOT your wedding and since that is what THE BRIDE reportedly wrote on her Facebook page, it sounds like it was not in any way a middle finger to her.

Disagree. People will actually mean it when they say, “Yes, I’d love to see your wedding photos.”

He’s already selling t-shirts? Am I the only one who thinks THAT is fucked up?

The greater Sacramento area, not that I’m missing much.

I relate to this on a cellular level. 

The entire city of Phoenix

Colorado. The entire state. Moved to Oregon after leaving an abusive relationship in Denver and then ended up having to move back to Colorado years later (albeit to a town nearly six hours away from Denver) for work. I didn’t realize how much the abuse had tainted the entire state for me and I ended up thinking about…