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So, I was at A wedding Saturday night and....

Some Die Just To LiveSome Die Just To Live Posts: 97
edited July 2010 in The Porch
... before I go any further I'll give you a little back story to set up the ending. The groom is a very dedicated fan (I'll admit a bigger fan then I), countless shows, collectibles, bootlegs blah, blah, blah, you've heard this all before. So all those close to him, family and friends know this at the wedding, and he is given a choice. Now that he is married, he must choose between eternal love for Pearl Jam or eternal love for his wife. The MC pulls a CD out of his pocket, Pearl Jam's Ten, calls the groom forward, and tells him to break the CD (at this point I'm yelling "Its not worth it, don't do it"), the groom grabs the Cd and puts it in his pocket and walks away only to see his new beautiful wife looking at him. The groom goes into his pocket and decides to fold TEN in half. After the speeches I ran to the head table and said to him " I am so posting this on the Porch"! So here it is.

I think he made the right choice.
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  • FrankieGFrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    :lol::lol:

    That is good!

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  • T-Bone 82T-Bone 82 Posts: 420
    No man should ever have to make that choice! My wife is not a huge Pearl Jam fan, but I talked her in to "Just Breathe" as our wedding song.

    Good luck to your friend. He may need it.
    "Darkness comes in waves, tell me, why invite it to stay?"
  • theserialthrillatheserialthrilla Posts: 15,760
    if only you could get a new wife as cheaply as a cd
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  • Got_SomeGot_Some Posts: 77
    T-Bone 82 wrote:
    No man should ever have to make that choice! My wife is not a huge Pearl Jam fan, but I talked her in to "Just Breathe" as our wedding song.

    Good luck to your friend. He may need it.

    How'd that work out for you? That's what my fiancee and I have decided to use for our song.

    Did you play any other PJ/EV songs at your wedding? I've got a few ideas.
  • Grandmas JamGrandmas Jam Posts: 1,860
    what a dick of a dj, i would have folded him in half and put him in my pocket....who does that?! :x
    but on a brighter note, at least i will never allow those shananigans at my wedding....if i ever decide to get married :lol:
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  • Some Die Just To LiveSome Die Just To Live Posts: 97
    Side note, they did have "Just Breathe" as their first dance...
  • JukeeJukee Posts: 4,500
    :lol: awesome story.

    My husband wouldn't even let me use PJ as a wedding song, I think I may copy and paste this and e-mail it to him.
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  • PJ2720PJ2720 Posts: 1
    My wife and I have been going to PJ shows since we were 17 years old. When we got married we got a band who can just about play anything, so joking around I told the Music coordinator that some Pearl Jam would be sweet. We never went over the songs but they opened the wedding with Alive and ended the night with Evenflow. It was sick!!!!
  • ML162321ML162321 Posts: 15
    I'm sorry but the bride should not have expected that from her groom. I'm glad my fiance has come around to my Pearl Jam addiction. I'm walking down the aisle to Love Reign O'er Me, and our recessional will be a PJ cover of Can't Help Falling in Love. Our first dance won't be Pearl Jam, but the last song of the night will be YL. And at some point we'll play Weird Al's "My baby's in love with Eddie Vedder".

    Pearl Jam can be a happy, healthy part of a good relationship. And my future husband has great Pearl Jam karma - we got front row tickets to his first Eddie Vedder concert and his second Pearl Jam concert. And so far I've only made him go to one show per tour, and I've carried out the rest of my obsession solo. It's really no big deal :-)
  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,570
    edited July 2010
    First off...

    Congrats to the Bride and Groom!!!!
    Hope they are married for 70 years, and have lots and lots of babies....

    That said...

    I wouldnt have broken the CD...
    Not because of my Pearl Jam addiction.....FAR FROM IT!!!


    I wouldnt have broken the CD.....
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    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • Some Die Just To LiveSome Die Just To Live Posts: 97
    C'mon people your getting way to serious. It was meant as a joke and all in good fun.
  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,570
    Some Die Just To Live wrote:
    C'mon people your getting way to serious. It was meant as a joke and all in good fun.
    I realize that....Trust me....I realize that

    But if it were me....

    I wouldnt have broken the CD.....

    Let me explain...

    I understand perfectly that it was all in fun.....TRUST ME!!!!

    I understand EXACTLY what the bride was getting at......

    Its was probably hilarious.....


    But I wouldnt have broken the CD.....
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • Some Die Just To LiveSome Die Just To Live Posts: 97
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    Some Die Just To Live wrote:
    C'mon people your getting way to serious. It was meant as a joke and all in good fun.
    I realize that....Trust me....I realize that

    But if it were me....

    I wouldnt have broken the CD.....

    Thats cool but don't bash the bride, it was the MC who put him up to it. Not his wife.
  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,570
    Some Die Just To Live wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    Some Die Just To Live wrote:
    C'mon people your getting way to serious. It was meant as a joke and all in good fun.
    I realize that....Trust me....I realize that

    But if it were me....

    I wouldnt have broken the CD.....

    Thats cool but don't bash the bride, it was the MC who put him up to it. Not his wife.
    I am not bashing anyone.....

    I am sure it was a hilarious moment.......

    I could picture my future bride doing the same thing........

    Its all good....
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • Some Die Just To LiveSome Die Just To Live Posts: 97
    edited July 2010
    Its all good....

    I told my wife afterwards that I didn't think I could do it. She laughed, she said, Eddie would be upset.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,570
    I may have turned around and started breaking ALL the DJ'S CD's.....

    hehehehehehehehehe
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  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,123
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    I may have turned around and started breaking ALL the DJ'S CD's.....

    hehehehehehehehehe

    I'm with Speedy. There's also something to be said for eloping. (And I'm female, and we had a *very* small and simple wedding.)

    I understand that the comments were meant as a joke, but I do not understand the growing trend of humilating people at wedding receptions. This "tradition" needs to disappear quickly, preferably taking the chicken dance with it.
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  • FahkaFahka Posts: 3,187
    they made the poor guy choose? Marriage is officially bullshit :P
  • MASMAS Posts: 630
    I dont get it, how do you fold a cd in half?
  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    curmudgeoness wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    I may have turned around and started breaking ALL the DJ'S CD's.....

    hehehehehehehehehe

    I'm with Speedy. There's also something to be said for eloping. (And I'm female, and we had a *very* small and simple wedding.)

    I understand that the comments were meant as a joke, but I do not understand the growing trend of humilating people at wedding receptions. This "tradition" needs to disappear quickly, preferably taking the chicken dance with it.

    +1
    And the whole garter foolishness, throwing of bouquets, etc. How about two people get up there and exchange vows before their friends and family, and then have a fun party. Nobody's embarrassed, nothing to post on YouTube...
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  • T-Bone 82T-Bone 82 Posts: 420
    Got_Some wrote:
    T-Bone 82 wrote:
    No man should ever have to make that choice! My wife is not a huge Pearl Jam fan, but I talked her in to "Just Breathe" as our wedding song.

    Good luck to your friend. He may need it.

    How'd that work out for you? That's what my fiancee and I have decided to use for our song.

    Did you play any other PJ/EV songs at your wedding? I've got a few ideas.

    It worked out very well. It seemed like people liked it. Our wedding was in early March, so I think it was kind of the height of popularity for that song so I'm sure some people aside from the hardcore PJ fans (me, my brothers, and a few of my close friends) recognized it.

    The strings really make it a good wedding song. If it was just acoustic guitar I don't think it would work.
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  • LizardLizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    thanks for sharing.


    sadly----i got married before PJ was formed so no PJ at my wedding. :)
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    Grandmas Jam wrote:
    what a dick of a dj, i would have folded him in half and put him in my pocket....who does that?! :x
    but on a brighter note, at least i will never allow those shananigans at my wedding....if i ever decide to get married :lol:

    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • Mitch8415Mitch8415 Posts: 227
    "Given to Fly" closed my wedding dance down. :)
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  • ShawshankShawshank Posts: 1,018
    That's ok, Pearl Jam will still be there waiting for him, long after his wife has ditched him and taken everything he has. :lol::lol:
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    the mistake the guy did ,was to get married..history must give him a lesson...so many wars happen in the name of FREEDOM...!!!
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  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 96,021
    course he's gonna choose external love for the wife over pearl jam @ the wedding. but hours or day's later he will be back listening & seeing pearl jam live. guaranteed! :)
  • G ForceG Force Posts: 1,393
    I would have been fucking pissed if that happened at my wedding. I currently hate it when anybody talks to me about pearl jam as though I'm like a teeny bopping boy band follower. Get off my nuts! At least I have a passion for SOMETHING. That's a shitty position that they put him in. He probably made the right choice instead of making a scene but honestly... I would have been terribly upset if my wife didn't want me and all that comes with me.

    Currently... I almost never play pearl jam around other people just because I don't wanna hear the comments... but I still get them all the time as if I did play PJ all the time. Those that make the comments plant negative seeds about themselves in my mind. I usually find myself very judgmental about the crap other people like when anything is said about my love for PJ.
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    imagine the awkward silence if he chose the band
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • DURPDURP OhighO Posts: 2,180
    Wow just wow
    My butt itches!
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