clowns minds needed to help Plan wedding

[Baloo]

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

Some of you may have heard, and others may not have heard. I am getting married in February! The reason I am posting this here is that we plan on being wed as we enjoy life in full clown character. This is not as easy as it first sounded and I was hoping to get some ideas and maybe some of you would like to attend as clowns. We have thought of reserving the local hotel so that our wedding would be on Friday evening and on Saturday we could learn from each other, in a jam type format. The dates that we are looking at is leap year of course! Friday Feb. 29th 2008 and march 1st would be the Jam sessions. Please let me know if this may be something that you would be interested in, or if you have any ideas that would turn a boring wedding into a clown wedding. Thank you for any and all ideas.
Bump – A – Nose
Baloo I. Baphoon

[Lolly Plop]

Congrats on your upcoming wedding. Have the bride's flowers arranged in a toilet plunger. Use a new plunger for the occasion. I had wanted to do this for my niece when she was dating a plumber, but they broke up. Any florist or crafty person should be able to do this for you. If I didn't live so far away I would do it for ya. Would love to see pics of your clown wedding though.

[Hopscotch the clown]

Congratulations Baloo!!!
Best Clown Wishes to You Both
Hop

[Snugglesnort]

My Dad always said "Always remember: K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid" to me whenever I had big plans, and he has yet to be wrong about it. You can do a lot I mean A LOT of hilarious stuff as a clown or even better as a group of clowns in a wedding. Weddings are often hilarious anyways. There is pratically a hilarious-wedding-gone-wrong entertainment industry out there between, "Americas funniest videos" and shows like "The Real Wedding Crashers." Why? because weddings are taken seriously, They are formal, even if they are informal, and people don't do enough of them to really know what to do when things go wrong.

Use this and play it up. Go in clown makeup, but you don't have to have silly props, they only complicate things. Use what you would have already and modify them so they go wrong. Make a break away brides dress train that will catch on something and fall off as she goes up the isle. Get the ring bearer to do a coin vanish with the rings and then not be able to reproduce them until a paniced search ensues where it is found that it is already on the correct fingers... of the wrong person. It would be better if the rings are exactly alike. See if the organist or piano player could sponteneously modify the music into a distinct dance style of some sort: ragtime, rumba, tango, hip hop waltz whatever, and when he does, the entire wedding party breaks in to a dance except the bride and groom, or bride or groom and tells everyone to stop and yells at the musician to "play it right." every song... at some point. You can pantomime the vows as you say them. I just thought of this off the top of my head, and I bet you can think of lots more. Just remember if you think it is too much, it is probably either is right or just short. If you are going to go over the top anyways, do it all the way.

[Vivi-Ann]

... I would show up in the middle of the ceremony and interview the guests as a reporter - LOUDLY
or
... I would bring my ukelele and play along with the music - CREATIVELY
or
... I would have the world's longest handkerchief and sniffle and cry - CONSTANTLY

... anyhooo CONGRATS 2 Yoooo Baloooooo

[Dylan]

If you need custom made invitations, my wife makes them. Let me know what you want and we can make it however you want.

[Scruffy]

Just a couple of ideas:

Instead of a train on the dress. the bride could attach a toy train on a pull string to the back of the gown.


Take giant Styrofoam wreath forms and paint them gold. Use them as the wedding bands on the ring bearers pillow.

Have the minister deliver the ceremony in the same voice Peter Cook used as the Vicar in the movie "The Princess Bride".

I wouldn't mess with the actual ceremony Per See; After all it is a real wedding

Have a kazoo ensemble play the wedding march and the bridal chorus.

Have the groomsman deliver the groom to the front of the church Ala hannibal lechter.... As in strapped to a hand cart. Without the mask. "Come on guys, I was only kidding. I won't run off again. I promise..."

Just food for thought.
Scruffy

[Nettie Belle]

What a great idea. I would love to attend something like that, but it's a bit far for me. How about doing the ceremony backwards? Start with the kiss, and work backwards ~ just be sure that it's meaningful to you, and the clowning doesn't take away from the serial part.

I got married 5 years ago ... my second marriage as well as my husband's ... and my grandson, who was 6 at the time, was our ring bearer and he was at the front of the church and let a loud "gasser", then when a few people started to laugh quietly, he pointed to my soon-to-be husband, insinuating he was the one who let it out. My grandson is quite a comedien, isn't he? Anyway, it was only brief, and we had a very nice wedding otherwise. I told my grandson I was not happy about that, but I also told him that when HE gets married, I will probably be sitting in the front row wearing Depends ... and paybacks are THE PITS!!! I think I scared my grandson a little bit.

God bless you both and may you have a very clowningful wedding and marriage. Pictures, PLEASE!!!

[Darrell]

IMO, you should have your wedding and reception on the same day. Afterwards, say goodbye to everyone and go enjoy the honeymoon!

Darrell

[Huckleberry2]

I'd love to see pics of the "floral arrangements" CONGRADUATIONS to you both. If I was closer I'd be there for sure. Great idea. . . .I'm trying real hard to make marriage #2 last but if I do it again in clown would definitely be an option for me at least. . . . .