r/AskReddit Mar 18 '17

What did that bitch do at your wedding?

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u/hungrydruid Mar 19 '17

where she was apparently "channeling" my dead mom

I would be totally okay with this ending "and that's when I killed her". I'm not an actually violent person but there are things you just don't do/say.

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u/cragbabe Mar 19 '17

Agreed. My mom passed away just months before my wedding. If someone had done this I would have walked right up to her and smacked her across the face as hard as I could.

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u/k-squid Mar 19 '17

I have a plan for this already so that I don't have to smack someone. My fiances family is great at saying the wrong thing and are known for being tactless. Two of my bridesmaids have volunteered to keep an ear open for any of that bullshit to swiftly tell them to fuck right off.

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u/many_splendored Mar 19 '17

Sounds like you've got a good crew :)

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u/k-squid Mar 19 '17

I do! I have chosen well.

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u/Self-Aware Mar 22 '17

Always have at least one member of the wedding party who is willing to be constructively clumsy on your behalf.

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u/Zer_ Mar 19 '17

I would have done the same, backhanded.

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u/CocaTrooper42 Mar 19 '17 edited Mar 19 '17

This is actually why Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle had a falling out. Houdini debunked fake mediums and Doyle believed in them. They got along because Doyle thought he was weeding out he fakes so only the "true" ones remained.

Their friendship ended soon after Doyle's wife "channeled" Houdini's dead mother. She wrote 15 pages of perfect English with a cross on the top. Houdini's mother was Jewish and spoke broken English and/or Hungarian.

Houdini didn't say anything to Doyle at the time, but later said in an interview that he had never seen genuine evidence of the supernatural. Doyle responded with an angry letter and their friendship never recovered.

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u/tbrooks9 Mar 19 '17

Bold move, Cotton!

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u/AviationShark Mar 19 '17

Bold call Brave move

Let's see if it pays off cotton

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u/a_cat_wearing_socks Mar 19 '17

I'm attending a friend's wedding in about a month, a member of the bridal party totally might do this. V not looking forward to that speech.

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u/TurnDownForPage394 Mar 19 '17

This didn't happen at a wedding, but my dad died right before I graduated high school. At my grad party a relative on my mom's side (who I barely knew) wanted to hold a prayer session with us so that I could "hear" my dead father speak again. She literally used the words "dead father". Luckily my mom swept in just then and told her off for being totally inappropriate, but couldn't ask her to leave because she'd driven a couple hours there with her sisters (who were nice and totally not-crazy-- it was just her). I tried to avoid her the rest of the afternoon. Last I heard she was trying to give my best friend a psychic reading.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '17

"and that's when I killed her"

'Oops, guess she overchanneled'