Mastercard Wedding!

[Merlin the Magician]

Master Card Wedding

You gotta love this guy.....

This is a true story about a recent wedding that took place at
Clemson University. It was in the localnewspaper and even Jay Leno talked about it on television.It was a huge wedding with about 300 guests.

After the wedding at the reception, the groom got up on stage with a
microphone to talk to the crowd. He said he wanted to thank everyone
for coming, many from long distances, to supportthem at their wedding. He especially wanted to thank the bride's and his family and to thank his new father-in-law for providing such a lavish reception.

As a token of his deep appreciation he said he wanted to give
everyone a special gift just from him. So taped to the bottom of everyone's chair, including the wedding party, was a manila envelope. He said this was his gift to everyone, and asked them to open their envelope.

Inside each manila envelope was an 8x10 glossy of his bride having
sex with the best man. The groom had gotten suspicious of them weeks
earlier and had hired a private detective to tail them.

After just standing there, just watching the guests' reactions for a
couple of minutes, he turned to the best man and said, "F---you!". Then
he turned to his bride and said, "F--- you!". Then he turned to the
dumbfounded crowd and said, "I'm outta here." He had the marriage annulled first thing in the morning.

While most people would have cancelled the wedding immediately after
finding out about the affair, this guy goes through with the charade,
as if nothing were wrong. His revenge...making the bride's parents pay over $32,000 for a 300 guestwedding and reception, and best of all, trashing the bride's and best man's reputations in front of 300 friends and family members.

This guy has balls the size of church bells. Do you think we might
get a MasterCard "priceless"commercial out of this?

Elegant wedding reception for 300 family member and
friends......................................&#036 ;32,000.

Wedding photographs commemorating the

occasion.......................................... $3,000.

Deluxe two week honeymoon accommodations

in Maui.............................................. $8,500.

The look on everyone's face when they see the 8x10 glossy of the
bride humping the bestman..........Priceless.

[PDJ]

[LUKE]

I first heard this story in 1996 when it was supposed to have happened in Cork.Maybe Gearoid could shed some light on the subject.

[trudij]

Think I've heard about this before too - still funny though !!!!!

[BrianH]

Yes, yet another urban legend, which, as you say, has been around for some time. The Jay Leno bit is a more modern addition. There have always been these legends - and, I guess, always will be because people want them to be true - and they resurface from time to time but the internet has led to them spreading much more quickly.

[MarkEE]

Check this out.....


Link

[Kathy]

That really is priceless Markee!

[BrianH]

From yesterday's Guardian:

One wedding invitation - yours for £10m

Patrick Barkham
Thursday October 21, 2004
The Guardian

It might be the happiest day of their lives but for many guests it is an onerous obligation: a morning in church, an afternoon of mother-in-law jokes and an evening dodging giant aunts and pervy uncles on the dance floor.
Now a reluctant wedding guest has decided to auction on eBay an unwanted invitation to share a friend's matrimonial bliss.

Offering people the chance to attend the reception, featuring a sit-down meal in a four-star restaurant and an "evening **** up" with a free bus back to your bed-and-breakfast, the anonymous seller promises "a good £150 worth of entertainment if you time it right".

Despite warning users that the bride's dad may perform karaoke, her best mate "works in a chippy in Colchester" and her aunt wears DKNY tracksuits and quaffs Pineapple Bacardi Breezers, the invitation has attracted a flurry of bids.

By last night, bids had risen from £200 to £10m for the invitation, which features "pink feather trimming" and apparently plays Ricky Martin's Livin' La Vida Loca when you open it. eBay warned that the invitation was attracting hoax bidding and advised the Scottish-based seller to take steps to avoid this by using the site's pre-approved bidder system.

The seller said the groom was a "mate" he used to know well until he began dating the girl he is now going to marry. The seller fell out with the couple after insulting his friend's bride-to-be and claimed he had not spoken to them for two years until they "stupidly" invited him to share their special day. "No one will know you're not me except the groom," he promised.

The seller later said he had been contacted by three other people wanting to get out of attending the same wedding and could now offer five tickets to the event, the equivalent of "£400 worth of free booze, good food".

The cruel joke could be an expensive one for the seller: eBay could demand that he pay the 1.75% commission the company takes from sellers on the site - even if he does not receive the money from hoax bidders.

But if the seller is worried that interest in the invitation is out of control - or if he suffers pangs of conscience - it appears he has given himself a way out. He claimed his friend's bride-to-be was so horrible "they might not get married, so I reserve the right to cancel the bidding".

[trudij]