5 People Who Will Definitely Be at Your Wedding

If you're having or attending a wedding with more than say, seventy five or a hundred guests, I can guarantee you there will be at least ten specific archetypes in attendance. I have attended many weddings and have always found these people among the guests. It doesn't matter the ethnicity, the economic standing, or the location. If you have a wedding with more than seventy five people present, you can bet the wedding kitty these types will be among them.

The Made Guy (or his non-Sicilian counterpart.) I have never been to a wedding where there wasn't at least one man there who was totally, as it were, "mobbed up." Sometimes he's an older man who's very polished, but you know he could make a few calls and get you a huge discount on the meal. Sometimes it's a thin guy in his thirties who gives a really vague description of his job but who has a suit worth more than your wedding gown. But he's there. And you really want to make sure he has a good time.

The over-dressed woman. I am the first to admit I have no fashion sense, so I shouldn't pick on this poor woman, but she's always at weddings. If it's an spring mid-morning wedding, she will come in a sequined evening dress. If it's an afternoon reception in a ballroom at a small town hotel, she will come in a sequined evening dress, strapless. If it's a night reception, she will still manage to wear something that is just that fifty to seventy five percent amped up from what everyone else has on. And her hair and makeup will always be casual. Because that's how she rolls.

The inappropriate cousin. No wedding would be complete without the cousin who takes the joke, or the open bar, too far. Sometimes, inappropriate cousin can be funny, either the kind of funny you laugh with or the kind you laugh at. But by the time he's set the first table cloth on fire showing his table mates his new "trick", the emphasis on the "in" of inappropriate really becomes key. This doesn't have to be a first cousin, it doesn't even have to be your cousin. But you know he's someone's cousin, and chances are, that person won't be standing up to claim him anytime soon.