Church says no to Halloween wedding with "fun gothic" tunes

Church officials also wouldn't accommodate the couple's plans to wear costumes during the ceremony. The bride planned to wear a black cocktail dress with a black veil and carry a flower bouquet adorned with miniature skulls, while the groom would don dark slacks, a pirate shirt and a top hat. (LoHud.com)

Comments

[MidtownCoog]

Get of the phone and get dressed, we're meeting Grandma at Olive Garden in 30 minutes.

[johnjohn]

Rev Gargano says "Imagine a historic grand place like that being used for a costume party," about the church.

Isn't that what they do every Sunday?

[Soo]

Why a church? If that's your bent, then find an old cemetery or abandoned house and get permission to get married on the lawns there. Or a roller-coaster park.

[Navy Chief]

@johnjohn - The CATHOLIC Church, perhaps; not all, by any means.

[MidtownCoog]

Soo must not be reading ;-0

They turned DOWN the priet's offer to marry them in the cemetary.

[American Veteran]

This is different than mumbling about a dead thing hanging on a fixture on a wall in a church how?

And why is the head mumbler's dress always black?

[LimeGreenLizard]

OMG! (Oh my goth!)

[steveO]

A real goth couple wouldn't get married in a church to begin with. As I type this, it occurs to me that maybe they are untraGoth and going for the irony...

[Sheila]

What is "causal clothing"? Is that anything like "casual"? If that church doesn't go for Halloween weddings, find another location and quit whining.

[Dick Tater]

There is so much I want to say about this story, but I'm recovering from a bout with the H1NI virus contracted from a Jewess who came uninvited to my farm to inquire if her charity could glean my orchards. She was sniveling and sneezing the entire time. And, yes, I recognize the irony of catching swine flu from a Jew.

[johnjohn]

Sure hope it is not terminal Dick.

[sometimesilie]

If only the Jewess had had a dog there would have been a perfect storm.

[Phranqlin]

I thought the minister was being fairly accomodating by offering to marry the couple in the church's cemetary.

And yeah, I'm thinking they're poseur goths. True goths would have asked to hold the ceremony in the graveyard in the first place.

[Charles]

Occasionally you can find an abandoned church building not owned by a religious institution. I have seen one turned into a bar. That would be an appropriate venue. But not a working church. Or they could have had it in a hotel ballroom decorated like a gothic church. A reformed church would not be very gothic, they tend to be rather spare on the decoration for historical and religious reasons.

[Soo]

I didn't read--not enough time. People are just stupid sometimes. If they turned down a reasonable request, then I don't feel bad laughing at them. Churches are supposed to be revered, respectable places. You wanna show your ass, go somewhere else.

Either way, they're lame.

[Handy Dandy]

As soon as I hear that a top hat is involved, I've heard all I need to know.

Burn the witches.

[Handy Dandy]

...and I bet he works at Blockbuster.