If it makes Nikki feel any better, νίκα ("nika") is an imperative form of νικάω ("nikaō," to conquer or to win) in Ancient Greek. And I suppose as a proper noun, Nika would be the Doric form of Nike, the goddess of victory, so you're like, um, a Spartan victory.
My name is Kenny G. It means "not the goddamn saxophone player".
Seriously, though, my first name is derived from Old English words meaning "happy" or "prosperous" and "guard". And apparently my middle name is of Celtic/Gaelic origin and means "handsome". My last name apparently doesn't mean anything, and the suffix on my name means that I was named for my father who was named for his father and I won't be inflicting the name on a fourth.
If the pressure is too much, you can call on me. I'm a warrior and stuff.
The guy's name means "Tip of the Spear" and you have nothing to say about that? Really?
*sigh*
My given name and family name could be translated as "Perfect/Complete Sheltering Date Palm". Sheltering in the sense of offering shade, and perfect/complete in the sense of a circle, which is perfect and has no beginning and no end.
I could list the meaning of my middle names, but I only know about seven of them.
Here's something I've never said about myself on here: I object to and abstain from social networking sites. Just felt that was something I should get out there.
Um, Kroms, isn't it pronounced more like "naka"? At least that's how it's pronounced in the Khaliji dialect. Which reminds me of this really funny story about a Japanese ambassador sent to King Saud ...
"nyaka" is the noun, "nak-ha" did it to her (also? It means "flavour"). I think you're coming in between.
Cute trivia: "nika telltale" also sounds like, "Do her, Telltale!"
My screen name is a portmanteau of "shweet" and "coo" and means "awesome", but I chose it because it was an in joke.
My real name could mean "famous, bright, strong-as-iron warrior" if you rearranged the words a bit and put the noun at the end. Or "famous, bright warrior blacksmith", which is a bit cooler.
Hmm, that's a totally new one on me. Well, just doing a cursory google search seems to reveal many Hispanic women named Jovama. Checking behind the name reveals no such spelling, but it does turn up Jovana, a Serbian and Macedonian female form of John. On a hunch, I try looking up "Ivama" and sure enough, it comes up as a Hispanic name. My supposition would be that when Slavic names were appropriated by Spanish speakers, their "n"s were switched to "m"s, hence your name, Jovama is from Jovana, and means "Yahweh(God) is gracious".
Good effort. From what I remember my dad telling me it's from some obscure dead language/dialect (possibly translated differently/weirdly) from around where Serbia is, maybe a little more eastern though. The meaning does have to something to do with god.
I know my first name comes from Hebrew and means "God is my judge". Any guesses as to what it is?
I also have two middle names (Lee James) as does my brother but at least his middle names are based on family members (our father, Michael and paternal grandfather, Reynolds - which he now doesn't use 'cos he doesn't like it!) unlike my seemingly random ones. Though actually my parents had decided on just the one middle name (James) my maternal grandfather said to them that they could name me whatever they like, he was going to call me Lee. So my parents added Lee to my name but that grandfather never did call me that!
I never understood the use of middle names, or simply middle initials. We only have first and last names. There was a time when you would also receive the name of your godmother and -father, but they were never used other than on official papers, and I don't think that practice is still around. Even my wife, four years younger than me, only has her first and last name on official documents.
I never understood the use of middle names, or simply middle initials. We only have first and last names. There was a time when you would also receive the name of your godmother and -father, but they were never used other than on official papers, and I don't think that practice is still around. Even my wife, four years younger than me, only has her first and last name on official documents.
In France, it's not considered "middle names", you can just get more than one first name. The order is irrelevant and you're allowed to use any of them. So if you hate one of them you can use one of the other ones.
My parents just got lazy and gave their own names to all their kids. I'm the only girl so I'm the only one who has Catherine as my middle name/ one of my first names, but all of my brothers' middle names/ alternate first names are Philippe.
I find it silly. Personally I don't even consider that it's really my name, whenever asked on formal documents I just say I don't have a middle name.
I never understood the use of middle names, or simply middle initials. We only have first and last names. There was a time when you would also receive the name of your godmother and -father, but they were never used other than on official papers, and I don't think that practice is still around. Even my wife, four years younger than me, only has her first and last name on official documents.
I got the idea, or at least here, those middle names are for avoid confusions, especially when you live in a place where some last names which are downright common. My last name is Contreras, which is common in Chile as you can get. So, there's the possibility of maybe another person which is called Ximena Contreras in this country, and then you use the middle names for diferenciate (And reduce the possibility of find ANOTHER person called exactly Ximena Lucía Contreras).
I think too is a some sort residual of that long tradition of about 200 years ago of give to some people the longest name you can think of. At least in Spanish. For example, Javiera Carrera, which is considered the mother of my country, her full name was Francisca Javiera Eudoxia Rudecinda Carmen de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo . Francisca was her first name, and "de la Carrera" her last name (Verdugo is the last name of her Mother. In Spanish* we have the last name of our mothers in the name too). Everything in the middle was her "Middle names".
* I don't know in other languages, but in Spanish is in that way. I'm still confused why in English I can't use the Last Name of my mom, but I guess for Spanish speaking people, Mothers, or the mother's family side, are important enough for that. I guess!
* I don't know in other languages, but in Spanish is in that way. I'm still confused why in English I can't use the Last Name of my mom, but I guess for Spanish speaking people, Mothers, or the mother's family side, are important enough for that. I guess!
Well, it's only different for one generation, since the next generation doesn't keep both names from both parents, but the father's father's name and the mother's father's name.
In France when you declare a child's birth, you can decide if you want their last names to be the father's, the mother's or both (in whichever order you want).
Double names are usually considered complicated though, so people often stop at just the first one.
I think it also comes from wanting to distinguish people more, by the way. Just like it's less likely that there will be another Ximena Contreras with Lucia as her middle name, it's probably less likely to have another Ximena Contreras (Your Mom's Name) as well.
In France when you declare a child's birth, you can decide if you want their last names to be the father's, the mother's or both (in whichever order you want).
Double names are usually considered complicated though, so people often stop at just the first one.[
I think it also comes from wanting to distinguish people more, by the way. Just like it's less likely that there will be another Ximena Contreras with Lucia as her middle name, it's probably less likely to have another Ximena Contreras (Your Mom's Name) as well.
In Chile the Middle name is optional but you still need a second last name, but you can choose the order of those last names. The only problem goes if you choose to change the order of the last names, you have to do it with all your childrens. My parents have a friend who, technically, was the last one with his last name, in Chile at least (Mostly because he has only daughters). Now he's waiting for one his daughters "marry" with someone which a really common last name and start to blackmailing him.
Ussually, we use Name - Father's Last Name - Mother's Last Name, and it's not that common to use the middle name, unless your first name is María, or you have those kind of compound names like José María, José Miguel, María José (I'm pretty sure there's one without José. But I can't think in one now), or you really get unlucky and you have a really common combinations of last names. Except if it's something like official documents and bank contracts, where the full name is the rule (By law).
It's downright unncommon anyway to find somebody without a Middle Name in my generation. Out of all my classmates in School, just one person didn't have a middle name. Sometimes they use the middle name to put a some sort of totally weird or really uncommon name. It's some sort of normal to hear English Names, Mapuche names or names based in TV series if your parents are geek enough. There's some cases which are dramatic, like, when Brazilian Star Xuxa were famous, and little girls start to had Xuxa as their middle name. And, Xuxa in Chile (Or at least the pronounciation) is a swearword.
"nyaka" is the noun, "nak-ha" did it to her (also? It means "flavour"). I think you're coming in between.
Cute trivia: "nika telltale" also sounds like, "Do her, Telltale!"
Writing things out in Roman letters is just making me more confused, but I'll take your word for it. (Are you saying it's noon, yah, kalf, and kalf and the aspirant "h"?) We also don't use that word for "flavor", but ta'am.
Anyhoo, my middle names are actually patronymics, basically a listing of my genealogy, so my brother and I have the exact same middle names. Like in Chile, we also have many common names so listing at least two middle names on official documents help to distinguish one person from another ... although I still have two cousins with the exact same four names. One is about twenty years older than the other one, but still.
I think last names were to distinguish people, too. I mean last names tend to be something like a first name (sometimes along with "son of"), a job or a place. It's easy to see how they could have come from distinguishing between John, the son of Matthew, and Jon, the baker. Or something.
My last name wasn't common enough for me to require a middle name even before I got married and got an almost unique name (only my husband and I have that last name. And we have different first names). So I'm not too worried about being confused with someone else.
Also, the date of birth, location of birth and parent's names are usually required for documents where no confusion should be possible. For instance, in my livret de famille ("family booklet". Given to people when they get married or have a child, whichever comes first) it lists both our full names and places + dates of birth, then the same for each of our parents.
Well, our family name is our tribe's name actually, which is basically named after the founder of our tribe so it's like being name Johnson but not exactly. It's more like being name Johnan in the sense that the ending is similar to the ending of national names, like American or Chilean or that kind of thing. There's another version of our name that means "Children of So-and-So", but it's not usually used when referring to an individual but the tribe as a whole.
Also, they didn't have birth certificates thousands of years ago when our naming convention got started
Nah. The Spanish Actual Naming Convention is a simplificated version of the old one. My both last names come from a guy who decided change his last name from "son of" to "from that place". In my case my full name with those standarts will be: Ximena Lucía de Contreras y Collantes, translated to Ximena Lucía of Contreras and Collantes.
Now, for naming conventions, you should see Islandic ones. For example, if I were daughter of a guy named John, my name would be Ximena Johnsdottir, which mean Daughter of John. If I had a son and I named him, John, his name would be John Ximenason, which mean Son of Ximena. They have some actual last names like English Naming convention (Scheving I think is pretty common), but this way of naming people is still pretty popular. You can find guys named Stephan Stephanson for example, which mean Stephan son of Stephan =P.
If I ever had kids, I'd love to name my daughter, "Shemse" and my son "Beder" since they mean Sun and Moon, but, again, I already have cousins with those names, and they look really weird written in Roman characters.
If I ever had kids, I'd love to name my daughter, "Shemse" and my son "Beder" since they mean Sun and Moon, but, again, I already have cousins with those names, and they look really weird written in Roman characters.
It's not that awful. My mom is also named Ximena, and the only problem I had in fact is even my youngest cousin (And one of my nieces, that spoiled brat*) call me Ximenita, which mean Little Ximena. It's like Tommy for Tom, except is also has a cutesy meaning as well. But it's not like that just started recently...
* She doesn't even call me Aunt! And that's because she's an spoiled brat! I'm pretty sure she doesn't realize I'm her mom's cousin or something. I mean, she seemly forgot my mom is her granma's sister! Annnddddd... because technically I'm not her aunt (By law). So, I cannot complain
People have such huge families...
I have 3 brothers, but only one (female) cousin who lives in Puerto Rico so I've seen her only a few times, and never for very long. I have no grandmothers although I have two grandfathers, and just one uncle & aunt on my dad's side (my cousin's parents, who are divorced), and an aunt on my mom's side, who is single.
Hum, and my mom's dad has a brother, who is married, so I have a great-aunt and great-uncle.
... And that's it! What with everyone having huge families? It just feels weird when I hear people talk about they want a small wedding with only close relatives, so 100 people... I had so much trouble finding 15 or so people to invite xD
Writing things out in Roman letters is just making me more confused, but I'll take your word for it. (Are you saying it's noon, yah, kalf, and kalf and the aspirant "h"?) We also don't use that word for "flavor", but ta'am.
"Ta'am" is Classical. Everyone uses Ta'am. If you pick up a packet of juice on your next trip to the market, it should say "Be ta'am al Farawla" or "Bi nakiha al farawla".
So it's like this:
In Leb/Jordan/Syria, the degrading way to say intercourse is :ناكها
And obviously this is flavour: نكهة
And this is the classical and Gulf way to say it: طعم
While the extra Alef in 'intercourse' makes the spelling different, it sounds exactly the same in non-gulf slang. Try saying it in Lebanese or Jordanian dialect and you'll sort of see why I laughed at "Nika Telltale".
... And that's it! What with everyone having huge families? It just feels weird when I hear people talk about they want a small wedding with only close relatives, so 100 people... I had so much trouble finding 15 or so people to invite xD
This is ridiculous, even by Arabic standards, but a friend of mine has ten sisters and seventeen brothers. I personally have 2 uncles, 3 aunts on my mum's side (excluding my mum + 1 deceased aunt, which brings their total to 7), and 2 aunts, 5 uncles (excluding my dad + 1 deceased uncle, bringing the total to 9) on my dad's side. They all have a bunch of kids. Even so, this is pretty normal for an Arabic family.
My kids won't have that luxury (man, big families, if close, are so great). I have a brother and a sister. It's probably good in the long run, but I'm going to miss those big meet-ups every weekend when I'm older.
... And that's it! What with everyone having huge families? It just feels weird when I hear people talk about they want a small wedding with only close relatives, so 100 people... I had so much trouble finding 15 or so people to invite xD
You can still invite Close Friends, and Close Friends of the Groom, and close friends of your parents. In fact I was invited to a Small Wedding and, don't trying to say it's not nice and all, why didn't they, instead of invite me, invite a close friend or something? I mean, I'm not really friend of my cousin (Who was getting married) and, if it's because you have to invite someone from the Family, with my parents is enough! Looks like my family is a pack of 4 people and if you invite my parents you have to invite me and my sister (Ah?). In fact, there's another wedding I didn't go because my parents believed the same and told to the couple my sis and I couldn't go for College reasons (Which is partially true =P) and they were the whole wedding answering why we didn't go. The lesson was: Don't try to understand them, just go.
So, in a way, small family means more room for friends. Even if your family wants to make you more room for your friends.
About weddings: I'm sick to not know what the *** I'm eating in a wedding, so, if I ever get married, I wanna have an Argentinian Barbecue (AND play Fizzball, that it's a bit more difficult).
I gets ya now, Kroms, although I would still write that as "neka" in English. And I'm Arab on one side, Catholic on the other. If I'm ever married no one is going to know about it until after the fact. -_-'
Well, I invited close friends. I just don't have that many of them.
All family invitations were for the ceremony only and specified as not compulsory. Wouldn't want people there who didn't want to be there.
My parents and two of my brothers came, so did my mom's father and sister.
On his side, his parents came, his brother didn't.
The rest was friends. And their guests.
I totally agree with not inviting people if you don't want to. It feels silly to have your wedding become a chore rather than a great day.
We had first planned to have a specific meal, but in the end we decided to eat in a restaurant so everyone could order what they wanted. It was awesome. (That was after the ceremony, so the families weren't there.)
Then we went to play bowling, pool and arcade games. It was awesome.
Here, one of the pictures taken after the ceremony, with everyone except for one of my best friends, who took the picture. (Just to give you an idea of how many people were there).
I guess my point is just, I can't imagine managing to find 100 people to invite, or how that can be considered a "small" wedding lol.
I remember when I joined facebook with a "married" status, people kept writing on my wall "you're married? Why wasn't I invited?" after they found/added me. Well, maybe because I haven't talked to you in five, ten or fifteen years? Why the hell would I invite you?
Well, I have "close" cousins who are actually third and fourth cousins, and if I got married I'd be expected to invite even the "distant" relatives who probably would show up since it's an excuse to buy a fancy dress and party all night.
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Brilliant Fame
Battle Worthy
Tip of the Spear
...so, you know. No pressure.
If the pressure is too much, you can call on me. I'm a warrior and stuff.
Hedged (or Hay) Valley - Boring
The Rosy Meadow - Gay
(In Welsh) Fire - That's better!
Seriously, though, my first name is derived from Old English words meaning "happy" or "prosperous" and "guard". And apparently my middle name is of Celtic/Gaelic origin and means "handsome". My last name apparently doesn't mean anything, and the suffix on my name means that I was named for my father who was named for his father and I won't be inflicting the name on a fourth.
The guy's name means "Tip of the Spear" and you have nothing to say about that? Really?
*sigh*
My given name and family name could be translated as "Perfect/Complete Sheltering Date Palm". Sheltering in the sense of offering shade, and perfect/complete in the sense of a circle, which is perfect and has no beginning and no end.
I could list the meaning of my middle names, but I only know about seven of them.
Merciful my behind, that name has given me lots of grief over the years, especially in high school.
My last name is the abbreviation of New York State, which is a pain when I try to google it (yes, I google my own name and I'm not ashamed of that!)
Are we all becoming Facebook friends? Who is insane enough to add me?
"nyaka" is the noun, "nak-ha" did it to her (also? It means "flavour"). I think you're coming in between.
Cute trivia: "nika telltale" also sounds like, "Do her, Telltale!"
of horses
My real name could mean "famous, bright, strong-as-iron warrior" if you rearranged the words a bit and put the noun at the end. Or "famous, bright warrior blacksmith", which is a bit cooler.
Good effort. From what I remember my dad telling me it's from some obscure dead language/dialect (possibly translated differently/weirdly) from around where Serbia is, maybe a little more eastern though. The meaning does have to something to do with god.
What? I like the whole spear, not just the tip. And as a warrior, I've had lots plunged into me.
I got better.
I also have two middle names (Lee James) as does my brother but at least his middle names are based on family members (our father, Michael and paternal grandfather, Reynolds - which he now doesn't use 'cos he doesn't like it!) unlike my seemingly random ones. Though actually my parents had decided on just the one middle name (James) my maternal grandfather said to them that they could name me whatever they like, he was going to call me Lee. So my parents added Lee to my name but that grandfather never did call me that!
In France, it's not considered "middle names", you can just get more than one first name. The order is irrelevant and you're allowed to use any of them. So if you hate one of them you can use one of the other ones.
My parents just got lazy and gave their own names to all their kids. I'm the only girl so I'm the only one who has Catherine as my middle name/ one of my first names, but all of my brothers' middle names/ alternate first names are Philippe.
I find it silly. Personally I don't even consider that it's really my name, whenever asked on formal documents I just say I don't have a middle name.
Correct. Suppose it is a well known Hebrew name, for obvious reasons!
I got the idea, or at least here, those middle names are for avoid confusions, especially when you live in a place where some last names which are downright common. My last name is Contreras, which is common in Chile as you can get. So, there's the possibility of maybe another person which is called Ximena Contreras in this country, and then you use the middle names for diferenciate (And reduce the possibility of find ANOTHER person called exactly Ximena Lucía Contreras).
I think too is a some sort residual of that long tradition of about 200 years ago of give to some people the longest name you can think of. At least in Spanish. For example, Javiera Carrera, which is considered the mother of my country, her full name was Francisca Javiera Eudoxia Rudecinda Carmen de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo . Francisca was her first name, and "de la Carrera" her last name (Verdugo is the last name of her Mother. In Spanish* we have the last name of our mothers in the name too). Everything in the middle was her "Middle names".
* I don't know in other languages, but in Spanish is in that way. I'm still confused why in English I can't use the Last Name of my mom, but I guess for Spanish speaking people, Mothers, or the mother's family side, are important enough for that. I guess!
Well, it's only different for one generation, since the next generation doesn't keep both names from both parents, but the father's father's name and the mother's father's name.
In France when you declare a child's birth, you can decide if you want their last names to be the father's, the mother's or both (in whichever order you want).
Double names are usually considered complicated though, so people often stop at just the first one.
I think it also comes from wanting to distinguish people more, by the way. Just like it's less likely that there will be another Ximena Contreras with Lucia as her middle name, it's probably less likely to have another Ximena Contreras (Your Mom's Name) as well.
In Chile the Middle name is optional but you still need a second last name, but you can choose the order of those last names. The only problem goes if you choose to change the order of the last names, you have to do it with all your childrens. My parents have a friend who, technically, was the last one with his last name, in Chile at least (Mostly because he has only daughters). Now he's waiting for one his daughters "marry" with someone which a really common last name and start to blackmailing him.
Ussually, we use Name - Father's Last Name - Mother's Last Name, and it's not that common to use the middle name, unless your first name is María, or you have those kind of compound names like José María, José Miguel, María José (I'm pretty sure there's one without José. But I can't think in one now), or you really get unlucky and you have a really common combinations of last names. Except if it's something like official documents and bank contracts, where the full name is the rule (By law).
It's downright unncommon anyway to find somebody without a Middle Name in my generation. Out of all my classmates in School, just one person didn't have a middle name. Sometimes they use the middle name to put a some sort of totally weird or really uncommon name. It's some sort of normal to hear English Names, Mapuche names or names based in TV series if your parents are geek enough. There's some cases which are dramatic, like, when Brazilian Star Xuxa were famous, and little girls start to had Xuxa as their middle name. And, Xuxa in Chile (Or at least the pronounciation) is a swearword.
Writing things out in Roman letters is just making me more confused, but I'll take your word for it. (Are you saying it's noon, yah, kalf, and kalf and the aspirant "h"?) We also don't use that word for "flavor", but ta'am.
Anyhoo, my middle names are actually patronymics, basically a listing of my genealogy, so my brother and I have the exact same middle names. Like in Chile, we also have many common names so listing at least two middle names on official documents help to distinguish one person from another ... although I still have two cousins with the exact same four names. One is about twenty years older than the other one, but still.
My last name wasn't common enough for me to require a middle name even before I got married and got an almost unique name (only my husband and I have that last name. And we have different first names). So I'm not too worried about being confused with someone else.
Also, the date of birth, location of birth and parent's names are usually required for documents where no confusion should be possible. For instance, in my livret de famille ("family booklet". Given to people when they get married or have a child, whichever comes first) it lists both our full names and places + dates of birth, then the same for each of our parents.
Also, they didn't have birth certificates thousands of years ago when our naming convention got started
When the conventions were started, there were probably also a lot less people and therefore less possible confusion.
Now, for naming conventions, you should see Islandic ones. For example, if I were daughter of a guy named John, my name would be Ximena Johnsdottir, which mean Daughter of John. If I had a son and I named him, John, his name would be John Ximenason, which mean Son of Ximena. They have some actual last names like English Naming convention (Scheving I think is pretty common), but this way of naming people is still pretty popular. You can find guys named Stephan Stephanson for example, which mean Stephan son of Stephan =P.
It's not that awful. My mom is also named Ximena, and the only problem I had in fact is even my youngest cousin (And one of my nieces, that spoiled brat*) call me Ximenita, which mean Little Ximena. It's like Tommy for Tom, except is also has a cutesy meaning as well. But it's not like that just started recently...
* She doesn't even call me Aunt! And that's because she's an spoiled brat! I'm pretty sure she doesn't realize I'm her mom's cousin or something. I mean, she seemly forgot my mom is her granma's sister! Annnddddd... because technically I'm not her aunt (By law). So, I cannot complain
I have 3 brothers, but only one (female) cousin who lives in Puerto Rico so I've seen her only a few times, and never for very long. I have no grandmothers although I have two grandfathers, and just one uncle & aunt on my dad's side (my cousin's parents, who are divorced), and an aunt on my mom's side, who is single.
Hum, and my mom's dad has a brother, who is married, so I have a great-aunt and great-uncle.
... And that's it! What with everyone having huge families?
"Ta'am" is Classical. Everyone uses Ta'am. If you pick up a packet of juice on your next trip to the market, it should say "Be ta'am al Farawla" or "Bi nakiha al farawla".
So it's like this:
While the extra Alef in 'intercourse' makes the spelling different, it sounds exactly the same in non-gulf slang. Try saying it in Lebanese or Jordanian dialect and you'll sort of see why I laughed at "Nika Telltale".
This is ridiculous, even by Arabic standards, but a friend of mine has ten sisters and seventeen brothers. I personally have 2 uncles, 3 aunts on my mum's side (excluding my mum + 1 deceased aunt, which brings their total to 7), and 2 aunts, 5 uncles (excluding my dad + 1 deceased uncle, bringing the total to 9) on my dad's side. They all have a bunch of kids. Even so, this is pretty normal for an Arabic family.
My kids won't have that luxury (man, big families, if close, are so great). I have a brother and a sister. It's probably good in the long run, but I'm going to miss those big meet-ups every weekend when I'm older.
Someday. It's on the list.
You can still invite Close Friends, and Close Friends of the Groom, and close friends of your parents. In fact I was invited to a Small Wedding and, don't trying to say it's not nice and all, why didn't they, instead of invite me, invite a close friend or something? I mean, I'm not really friend of my cousin (Who was getting married) and, if it's because you have to invite someone from the Family, with my parents is enough! Looks like my family is a pack of 4 people and if you invite my parents you have to invite me and my sister (Ah?). In fact, there's another wedding I didn't go because my parents believed the same and told to the couple my sis and I couldn't go for College reasons (Which is partially true =P) and they were the whole wedding answering why we didn't go. The lesson was: Don't try to understand them, just go.
So, in a way, small family means more room for friends. Even if your family wants to make you more room for your friends.
About weddings: I'm sick to not know what the *** I'm eating in a wedding, so, if I ever get married, I wanna have an Argentinian Barbecue (AND play Fizzball, that it's a bit more difficult).
All family invitations were for the ceremony only and specified as not compulsory. Wouldn't want people there who didn't want to be there.
My parents and two of my brothers came, so did my mom's father and sister.
On his side, his parents came, his brother didn't.
The rest was friends. And their guests.
I totally agree with not inviting people if you don't want to. It feels silly to have your wedding become a chore rather than a great day.
We had first planned to have a specific meal, but in the end we decided to eat in a restaurant so everyone could order what they wanted. It was awesome. (That was after the ceremony, so the families weren't there.)
Then we went to play bowling, pool and arcade games. It was awesome.
Here, one of the pictures taken after the ceremony, with everyone except for one of my best friends, who took the picture. (Just to give you an idea of how many people were there).
I guess my point is just, I can't imagine managing to find 100 people to invite, or how that can be considered a "small" wedding lol.
I remember when I joined facebook with a "married" status, people kept writing on my wall "you're married? Why wasn't I invited?" after they found/added me. Well, maybe because I haven't talked to you in five, ten or fifteen years? Why the hell would I invite you?