Re: Lessons you have learnt from other weddings...
Forget about additional family guests, I’ve seen people crashing other peoples weddings. We noticed that in my younger brothers nuptials when we were watching his wedding movie – we were like “Who the frick are they supposed to be!”. It was basically a group of 7-8 girls, all dressed in replica outfits who stood out like a sore thumb. We even asked the brides side and they couldn’t recognise them either
The other great one is where you’ve heard about or seen aunties that take food home with them??? I’m not talking wedding favours, I’m talking shopping bags being filled with rice and curry!!! (What the heck?)
Speaking of wedding favours, alot of them went missing prior to handing them out to our guests at my bro's wedding. We basically ran short and reckon the cousins we left in charge of handing them out actually took a substantial number home with them. The whole point of trusting our cousins with the favours was to avoid a scenario just like this - we didn't want to leave them out on the tables in advance, fearing they would just go missing, which they did anyway! If you can't trust family then who can you trust?
I also really really hate people with a vengeance who flick out their mobiles to film or take pics of the bride and groom without permission and especially when those pics/films make their way on to youtube/flickr/picasa. It just seems people blatantly disregard any requests for people not to film, even when explicitly stated in the wedding card.