Shit im 32, almost 33, and still dont have a passport lol. I have been to Mexico and Canada a ton though. I don't know how id feel with my ex wife asking for a passport for our 8 year old daughter. Not that she needs one to go to Canada or anything like that (We live on the border up north). We have both taken her out of country to these places many times without issues, but there is solace in knowing she can't just hop on a plane and take off out of country with her, so I'd be inclined not to get her one right now personally.

What the hell is a "vulgar laugh?"

yuuuuuuuuuuup

and the wedding was at some fancyass manor, too

it's not like a backyard wedding or anything (Her father is a doctor, her mom a psychologist, and she and her wife are well off - earn enough to qualify for a mortgage for a ~500k house and have no student loans)

I disagree. I just applied for one for our 18 month old. While we are planning to leave the country soon, I’d get one anyway so he has some formal form of photo ID. If his birth certificate were to get lost, or somehow I needed to verify his name/birthright etc, it’s a good thing to have.

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They probably eyeballed the amount of food laid out, looked at the number of guests, and thought there was guaranteed more servings of everything, because otherwise there'd only be enough for like a 1/4 plate of food per person.

Why wouldn’t I prepare the rest of the meal? I said don’t go chill on the couch in another room when you’ve got something on the stove, but I guess you needed an easy way to try and insult me for no reason.

You need enough to feed people, enough that nobody is hungry, and enough to soak up the copious amounts of booze being consumed. Too much and you run the risk of food coma-ing the party.

One of my cousins went all out on food, tons of stations, lots of rich food, and nobody could get up to dance, and the drinking was subdued to hell, spent 3 hours in my bed clutching my gut and my wife was hoping she'd just throw up. Next day reporting from all sources was heartburn, indigestion, etc..

It's a good day when you've still got a place to air out no matter how much smoke.

I really doubt they managed to pile up 4 plates worth of food onto one, though. It sounds like the rations were planned out for basically 1/4 of a plate of food per guest (1/2 plate if we're being generous), and the guests just took normal or a bit over.

Now I have the theme of Denver the Last Dinosaur running through my head.

Good times.

Congrats on the wedding, op. It’ll all work out. Actually, try to spend as little as possible on the wedding, save it for a house or add it to your retirement fund or go on a fucking extravagant trip. Weddings are stressful, spend as little as possible on the one day of stress.

The fact that you melted metal means you left that alone for way too long, and if you’d monitored it, or at least set a timer to check it after a few minutes as one should do for anything on the stove, you’d have noticed there was no water well before it got so bad.

The one wedding we attended like that was a legit nightmare. Everybody was dealing with indigestion and the afterparty was effectively people finding chairs and panting heavily.

We had more than enough food but people were running back to their tables for food cause everybody was dancing.

Thats my point, you have to keep track somehow, you can’t just throw something on the stove and walk away.

How do you not wipe your ass? How would there be dingle berries after laxative induced diarrhea?

That sounds like absolute hell!

Exactly! You have to keep track somehow

We live in Alaska and got them for our kids when they were younger than 5. Never know when a cool opportunity arises and you don't want to be stuck, not able to travel or take advantage because of this.

Yes, but he would only have made that reference because he felt they would know it.

Also, he's to old for that show—even if he fathered her at 16.

OP literally nevery indicated that the family has to pay, she said they offered, are only paying half, and her family is also paying half. Did you even read the post?

I dislike nouvelle cuisine myself but i feel that i cna reclassify the wedding meal as a snack and if i'm hungry after I'll get something (I know food in italy is relatively expensive compared to the US) That's my answer to people who complain about vegan wedding meals as well. I really hope your future father-in-law was just making a sincere but basically gruffly humorous complaint (I often do that,) and not making a threat.

Why couldn’t they just get the kid a state ID? I’d be sussed out too honestly.

I had a backyard wedding, and probably a 10 minute ceremony like you just mentioned. Tons of food, alcohol and music. It seemed like everyone had a blast and stayed pretty late. We had people there till midnight.

I would have doped him up on catnip, and grabbed a hair dryer. Cats enjoy warmth and the catnip would have mellowed him right out

Lame