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'MasterCard Wedding' example #2:
Email contributed by Edward E., April 5, 1999:
Below is a true story about a recent wedding that took place at Clemson.
Subject: Revenge
This was a huge wedding with about 300 guests. After the wedding at the reception, the groom got up on stage at the microphone to talk to the crowd. He said that he wanted to thank everyone for coming, many from long distances, to support them at their wedding.
He especially wanted to thank the bride's and groom's families for coming and to thank his new father-in-law for providing such a fabulous reception. To thank everyone for coming and bringing gifts and everything, he said he wanted to give everyone a special gift from just him. So taped to the bottom of everyone's chair was a manila envelope including the wedding party. He said that was his gift to everyone, and told everyone to open the envelopes. Inside each manila envelope was a 8X10 picture of his best man having sex with the bride. (He had gotten suspicious of the two of them and hired a private detective to trail them weeks prior to the wedding.)
After he stood there and watched the people's reactions for a couple of minutes, he turned to the best man and said "flump you," he turned to the bride and said "flump you," and then he turned to the dumbfounded crowd and said "I'm out of here." He had the marriage annulled first thing that Monday morning. While most of us would have broken off the engagement immediately after finding out about the affair, this guy goes through with it anyway as if nothing is wrong.
His revenge:
1) Making the bride's parents pay $32,000 for a 300 guest wedding and reception.
2) Letting everyone know exactly what did happen.
3) And best of all, trashing the bride's and best man's reputations in front of all of their friends, their entire families i.e. their parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, nieces and nephews, etc.
This guy has balls the size of church bells. This is his world, we just live in it.
Analysis: This apocryphal tale has undergone some interesting revisions since it first erupted in the summer of 1985. There are two basic versions: one has the bride interrupting the wedding ceremony to reveal that the groom slept with the maid of honor; the other has the groom interrupting to announce that the bride slept with the best man.
In The Mexican Pet (W.W. Norton: 1986), Jan Harold Brunvand reports receiving a flurry of word-of-mouth variants beginning in August 1985, as well as one print version entitled "The Bothered Bride" by a columnist for the Pioneer Press and Dispatch of St. Paul, Minnesota, and another, "Bride's Wedding Shocker," from the tabloid newspaper Weekly World News in December of that same year.
The story continued to circulate on into the '90s, meriting a write-up by Chicago Tribune reporter Cheryl Lavin (correctly pegging the tale as an urban legend) in November 1990 and turning up on Internet message boards in early 1995 as a "true story" that happened at Clemson University. The main difference between the Internet version and previous tellings is the groom's alleged use of photographs of the bride and best man caught in flagrante delicto to inform the wedding guests of their indiscretion. An extended version dating from 2001 features the "Priceless" tag line from the well-known series of MasterCard TV commercials and continues to circulate to this day. The story is now popularly known as "MasterCard Wedding."
Also known as: "Clemson Wedding" or "Wedding Revenge."
Last updated 06/18/11
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The Bothered Bride
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Email contributed by Edward E., April 5, 1999:
Below is a true story about a recent wedding that took place at Clemson.
Subject: Revenge
This was a huge wedding with about 300 guests. After the wedding at the reception, the groom got up on stage at the microphone to talk to the crowd. He said that he wanted to thank everyone for coming, many from long distances, to support them at their wedding.
He especially wanted to thank the bride's and groom's families for coming and to thank his new father-in-law for providing such a fabulous reception. To thank everyone for coming and bringing gifts and everything, he said he wanted to give everyone a special gift from just him. So taped to the bottom of everyone's chair was a manila envelope including the wedding party. He said that was his gift to everyone, and told everyone to open the envelopes. Inside each manila envelope was a 8X10 picture of his best man having sex with the bride. (He had gotten suspicious of the two of them and hired a private detective to trail them weeks prior to the wedding.)
After he stood there and watched the people's reactions for a couple of minutes, he turned to the best man and said "flump you," he turned to the bride and said "flump you," and then he turned to the dumbfounded crowd and said "I'm out of here." He had the marriage annulled first thing that Monday morning. While most of us would have broken off the engagement immediately after finding out about the affair, this guy goes through with it anyway as if nothing is wrong.
His revenge:
1) Making the bride's parents pay $32,000 for a 300 guest wedding and reception.
2) Letting everyone know exactly what did happen.
3) And best of all, trashing the bride's and best man's reputations in front of all of their friends, their entire families i.e. their parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, nieces and nephews, etc.
This guy has balls the size of church bells. This is his world, we just live in it.
Analysis: This apocryphal tale has undergone some interesting revisions since it first erupted in the summer of 1985. There are two basic versions: one has the bride interrupting the wedding ceremony to reveal that the groom slept with the maid of honor; the other has the groom interrupting to announce that the bride slept with the best man.
In The Mexican Pet (W.W. Norton: 1986), Jan Harold Brunvand reports receiving a flurry of word-of-mouth variants beginning in August 1985, as well as one print version entitled "The Bothered Bride" by a columnist for the Pioneer Press and Dispatch of St. Paul, Minnesota, and another, "Bride's Wedding Shocker," from the tabloid newspaper Weekly World News in December of that same year.
The story continued to circulate on into the '90s, meriting a write-up by Chicago Tribune reporter Cheryl Lavin (correctly pegging the tale as an urban legend) in November 1990 and turning up on Internet message boards in early 1995 as a "true story" that happened at Clemson University. The main difference between the Internet version and previous tellings is the groom's alleged use of photographs of the bride and best man caught in flagrante delicto to inform the wedding guests of their indiscretion. An extended version dating from 2001 features the "Priceless" tag line from the well-known series of MasterCard TV commercials and continues to circulate to this day. The story is now popularly known as "MasterCard Wedding."
Also known as: "Clemson Wedding" or "Wedding Revenge."
Last updated 06/18/11
Word-of-Mouth Variants
The Bridegroom's Revenge
The Bothered Bride
Related Articles
Funny Stories - Urban Legends with a Punch Line
The Wedding Processional -- The Order of Walking Up the Aisle During a Wedd...
Old Bulgarian Wedding Customs - Wedding Customs in Old Country Bulgaria
Writing a Great Best Man Toast - Tips on Toasting the Bride and Groom
The Wedding Team - Wedd
