We went to a wedding the other day that was held in a Holiday Inn, on a Sunday.
A couple of days before it, we were all asked to bring some music if we'd like some played, "Or we'll just put a couple of our favourites on repeat if you're not that bothered". They appeared to be only a couple of millimeters from telling us to bring our own booze.

However, by 10pm I was downing shots with the groom and his mates, and it all went rather swimmingly.

Which was nice.

It was 13C at 6am this morning, and tomorrow's Friday - that pleases me.

Altalt: YM, obviously.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 8:34, 3 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

The own music thing's not a bad idea, better than having to listten to some cunt of a dj.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 8:38, Reply)

or, you know, give the DJ a playlist.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 8:44, Reply)

Pay an overpricex gimp to stick shit cds on? Or lisren to what you and your mtes want?
No contest.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 8:59, Reply)

guests are there to enjoy themselves
Not to handle the entertainment.

Jeez, why don't you go and get a voucher for Pizza Express.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:03, Reply)

Putting a cd on is hardly organising the Olympic Opening ceremony.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:08, Reply)

Hiring a band is the only correct answer

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:04, Reply)

Did you hire Devo to play 'Mongoloid' at yours in celebration of you and your woman's condition?

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:06, Reply)

Good idea.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:09, Reply)

Well oddly this is what we thought.
Mrs V and I initially thought they were only asking us (people often ask us to do the party tunes for some reason), but as it was they'd asked everyone, which meant that everyone had a vested interest in the music.

Which worked very well.

There's a DJ at one of our local pubs who - sadly on a Monday - will play any 45 you bring along. A similar idea - shame it's a Monday, that's all.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 8:44, Reply)

...'play any 45'...
Do people still have those?
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:06, Reply)

I've got some 78's at home

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:08, Reply)

I think that's part of the deal. It's a very, erm ... hip ... place.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:08, Reply)

Vinyl
How very quaint.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:13, Reply)

Quaint?! It's retro-chic.
Go-od ... I bet you don't even have an iPhone 9 ...
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:17, Reply)

Retro-chic? iPhones?
Pah!! I'm so retro I have a Nokia 3310
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:19, Reply)

That is pretty retro actually.
I seem to remember someone on QOTFW singing their praises, saying they'd run over theirs, dropped it in a sink full of washing up, and had paint spilled on it or something, and it still worked, and while it doesn't support kitten videos, it's battery lasts a week.

Bloody povvo.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:21, Reply)

After the nuclear holocaust the only things left will be cockroaches and Nokia 3310s

(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:27, Reply)

You have shit, pikey friends

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 8:48, Reply)

I know. Which reminds me - ever seen one of their graves?
There are some magnificent ones. VERY expensive - and all boxing gloves, and photographic likeness carved into the headstone, and bright, colourful stone rosaries adorning them.

No expense spared - very tasteful; very classy.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 8:56, Reply)

In death as in life
Pure class
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 9:02, Reply)