Wedding Crashers - Is that possible?

Pinky · #1 02-20-2006, 12:58 PM

Just saw the movie. Was pretty good. But do people actually crash weddings? The logistics seem too incredible to pull off. Where would you sit during the service? The tables at the reception are usually reserved tables too. Thoughts?

4_2_it · #2 02-20-2006, 01:00 PM

There is a reason most movies are referred to as something known as "fiction".

roundmound · #3 02-20-2006, 01:04 PM

This exact same thread was posted about 2 days ago. Search for it but long story short:
If you dress the part, sit in the back and get the waitstaff to bring you a couple extra chairs you will be able to crash a decent sized reception.

sushijerk · #4 02-20-2006, 01:05 PM

Maybe you can succesfully crash more the gigantic weddings if your game is good. However, two random white guys crashing any type of Asian wedding is pretty much next to impossible.

ScottyP431 · #5 02-20-2006, 02:38 PM

I remember in high school our economics teacher made us watch these like john stossel videos about stuff like do stadiums help local economies and what not. there was one on "freeriding" that had him follow 4 guys who lived on less than 200 dollars of income a year or something insane like that. Amongst their other hi-jinx like returning things after using them, bringing bugs into restaurants and planting them in the food etc, they crashed a wedding.

HitHard69 · #6 02-20-2006, 04:22 PM

When I was younger...15ish... I played on a travel baseball team and we would routinely go out of town for a tournament and stay in hotels. Everyone brought a nice shirt and tie, because if there was a wedding reception at the hotel, we could get in and get free booze at the bar. Just skip the ceremony and hit up the reception... So much easier.

trapsetter · #7 02-20-2006, 04:43 PM

The post-reception, pre-dinner cocktail gathering is crashable for a big wedding (more than 150).

There's no point in crashing the reception itself. All risk and its boring anyway. Why bother?

Impossible to crash a sit down dinner with seating assignments, i dont care how big the wedding is. All the seats are accounted for, and I've never been to a wedding where the bride and groom don't personally go around to every table and greet their guests, so even if you pull off getting a seat at a table, you're cooked when they show up to say hello. You'd have a better chance of admitting to the bride and groom that you're an outsider and just trying to charm your way in. Of all the things to do in life, is this worth the effort?

Great movie, but not all that practical.

pshreck · #8 02-20-2006, 04:53 PM

If the wedding has 200+ people, then yes I think you could crash it. There are lots of 'random friends' of the bride and groom at large weddings like this, pretending to be one, and not being too much in the open about it, should be doable. As for doing virtually any of the stuff they did in the movie, like pretending to be family members and sitting at the 'main tables', that would never happen.

surfinillini · #9 02-20-2006, 04:54 PM

good movie though

MicroBob · #10 02-20-2006, 04:57 PM

In any wedding of a decent size there are always people there who you or bride are like, "I thought they were on your side."
"I don't know them. I thought they were on YOUR side."

When I got married there were people on my side that I didn't really know at all (family friends from wherever, somebody's date, whatever).
My wedding had a significant number of people though.

I haven't seen the movie and don't know about crashing...but I can't imagine it would be that hard.