Two big marriage milestones for the Dose Girls this year. Lisa and her hubby celebrated the big 20 years in April, and my hubby and I recently celebrated 15 years of wedded bliss. Thinking about our anniversaries got us both talking about our weddings, receptions and honeymoons.
Honestly, way back when we both got married and each had an amazing honeymoon, we imagined that we would travel like that all the time. Little did we both know that our respective honeymoons would be the last big vacation we had for well, ever. Thank God we enjoyed it, right?!
So when thinking about this scenario as a possible Would You Rather, we could not help but think of it from the perspective of two people who last traveled alone with their hubbies decades ago. Meaning we were selfish in our answers and allowed everyone else to suffer. Sorry. Not sorry.
Imagine this…
Your wedding reception. Full of everyone you love in the world wishing for your absolute happiness. You and your new spouse are so busy rushing around greeting everyone that you never even get a chance to sample the delicious menu you agonized over for months while planning your big day.
You leave the reception to begin your honeymoon, feeling nothing but bliss and the satisfaction of knowing that everyone who came to celebrate with you had the time of their lives.
I mean, until about 6 hours after they left at which point they all began what would turn out to be at least 72 hours of pure misery. The shellfish sounded like such a good idea at the time, amIright?
You and your mate discover after you return from your magical honeymoon that every single guest at your wedding got food poisoning. Yep. Every single one. You two were spared, thankfully, because you never got to eat. But all the people who came to wish you a lifetime of happiness spent days praying to the porcelain God.
OR
Wedding and reception went off without a hitch. Everyone in attendance agreed it was the best event they had ever been to. And you knew they were not just saying that. You could really tell it was amazing. All the planning, effort, money, time, etc. had been worth it, and you and your mate head off on your honeymoon feeling on top of the world!
You arrive at your dream honeymoon location. It is everything you imagined. Rose petals on the bed, chocolate covered strawberries waiting for you, and plush, hotel robes that you can lounge in for hours.
Dinner that first night is amazing. You both eat until you can barely walk back to your room. So much good food. Skipping all that food at your reception doesn’t seem so bad anymore, since it freed up your stomachs for all the honeymoon food.
Cut to about 4:00 a.m. when it turns out that the amazing dinner was not so amazing after all.
You and your new mate then spend the next 72 hours wishing you had skipped the shrimp. And every other part of the meal, for that matter.
What a way to spend your honeymoon, huh? Your life together can only go up from here, right?
So, would you rather have every one of your guests get food poisoning at your wedding (but you and your spouse are totally fine) or have you and your spouse get food poisoning on your honeymoon (but everyone who attended your wedding is totally fine)?
Oh, we are you guys. And stop calling me Shirley.
Be honest and tell us your answer in the comments. And by the way, don’t try the whole “well, this would never happen to me because I would never serve shellfish or I don’t eat shrimp”. Whatever you did serve or whatever you did eat is what made all your guests or you and your spouse sick. The end.
Oh god, I have to admit this one is too hard to choose and the one thing I hate is throwing up and feel like Jerry Seinfeld in the classic black and white cookie episode, where every time I have ended up throwing up (not many times to be honest) I feel like the streak has ended. So, not sure which I would pick this morning and am pleading the fifth on this one!!
Although you KNOW how we feel about pleading the 5th on a WYR…we are going to let you off the hook for this one because of the awesome Seinfeld reference. Well done! 😀
I would take the food poisoning myself. That’s just how I was raised. 😉
I can’t wait for the commenter who says one or the other of these scenarios happened at her wedding!
Your mamma raised you right, Robin. Our mammas raised us like we live in a barn, because we’d totally pick to skip the food poisoning ourselves. 😀
I’d take one for the team-and the grandmas and grandpas, etc.-and get it ourselves on the honeymoon. Which would suck!
BTW, my husband and I both did get food poisoning from those giant turkey legs at Disney with a 7-month-old in tow. We never told the tale because his company sent us there as a reward and my husband didn’t want anyone from his company to know that the the trip was miserable!
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! That’s so awful, Katy!! And with a baby, too?! That was not the happiest place on earth if you are getting a dose of E.coli! And you couldn’t even tell your sad story because it was a reward. THAT’S A DOUBLE WHAMMY!! GAH!
Ok so I am probably the only one who will say this - but as someone who has had my fair share of food poisoning, I am gonna have to go with option a and let my guests enjoy 72 hours of it! Gah - am horrible…now I need to go spend the rest of my day praying for forgiveness…
Come sit over here with us, Shashi, because that’s what we’d pick, too! We’ll be the ones having fun in the sun and not retching. 😀
I would have to take the food poisoning myself…I don’t think I could bare the thought of all those people being so sick. I would feel horrible.
Oh, you’ll still feel horrible, Michelle…because you just gave yourself food poisoning! We, on the other hand, will be sitting by the pool feeling just awful as we order another daiquiri from the cabana boy.
LOL! Ok so, I’m going with option A. But if it’s any consolation to my guests, I’m feeling REALLY bad about it. I know it doesn’t look like I’m feeling bad as I post all my awesome honeymoon photos to the internet, but I am. In at least one beach-side selfie I would def be making a sad face…
PS- Happy Anniversaries!!!
Thanks, Charlotte! We’re with you! I think we could manage a sad selfie! We’d even try to make sure it looked overcast and not at all sunny and beautiful when we took the photo. Good call!
Welcome back! Even though my husband and I have experienced a double dose of the flu/food poisoning while on vacation and sharing ONE hotel bathroom so I know just how horrible that can be, I’d take the bullet for my guests. I would feel pretty awful wishing food poisoning on 100 or so of my closest friends while I blissed away in paradise. But then again, I bet you’d get a refund from the caterers so you could throw another party to make it up to your guests… If they would attend.
Oh, NO!! You’ve lived the nightmare and you would do it again for your friends and family. You are a better woman than we are, Mo! (But the refund on the catering costs does sound tempting, doesn’t it?)
Both of these sound TERRIBLE! Although,if everyone at your wedding got food poisoning, you’d better be complaining! If you get food poisoning during your honeymoon, you’d better get some stuff comped!
You’re right! We better be getting some good free stuff for this nightmare, Echo! That might cushion the blow a little bit.
Honestly I’m a vomit-phobic. The real kind. And Janine quoting a Seinfeld episode? That’s me.
I’d still choose the honeymoon, though. It’s the thought of our wedding - in which many old people and very young kids were there. That doesn’t sound safe, to be honest. And one or two of my guests were fighting cancer at the time. They’re fine now, but I just couldn’t bear that one.
Taking one for the team here!
You are a good woman…maybe it will eventually rub off on us. It’s every elderly person and toddler for himself at our wedding! We just bought a cute new swimsuit for the beach. It would be a shame to never take it out of the suitcase!
If I ever got married, it would ve a very small wedding, so my guest might just have to take one for the team, and they would be happy I had such a great honeymoon, I’m sure.
Our sentiments exactly. (Unless we were part of your very small wedding in which case…WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!) 😀
To be a fake or to be a bitch…that is the question. Hmmm! If there weren’t any kids at the wedding, then I would go with the selfish answer and have a barf free honeymoon with my love. But if there were children who would get sick because of me, I would feel awful. And the caterer would get a HUGE blog post written about their error!!
I have an idea…just ban kids from the festivities and you are home clear enjoying your honeymoon! YAY!!:D
What an awful choice! I’m going to have to go w/ sparing my guests because w/ my family and friends I’d never hear the end of it, and I’d much rather have the “woe is me” story…which they’d never hear the end of as well. Happy anniversaries!
Huh…that is a very interesting way of thinking of it, Liz! It might be useful to have a great “woe is me” story. And think of the blog post you could get out of it!! We might have to reconsider now…NAH! 😀
Oh, option A. Here’s the thing- I am on my HONEYMOON. Probably somewhere tropical, with my hottie hubby, sipping on delicious fruity drinks with those cute umbrella’s. 72 hours of ralphing during a once in a lifetime trip? No thank you. Besides, if all the guests get 72 hr food poisoning, they’ll probably get a couple days off of work to stay home AND possibly lose weight, given all the prayin’ to the porcelain god. So really, they should thank me. 😉
Girl, you are speaking our language! You make some excellent points! We’ll send a margarita over to your cabana!
I’d probably take one for the team. I’d hate to think about everyone at my wedding getting sick!
You are way nicer than us, Jennifer! (but we already knew that!)
I’ll let the guests get sick if I’m on my honeymoon! Sorry guys!
We’re with you, Amber! Pass the sunscreen!
Oh I’m a shellfish I mean selfish kind of gal. Let the others get ill. I’m not there to have to clean up or to feel horridly guilty so while the news would have an impact on me it wouldn’t be nearly as bad as having to suffer the cramps and nausea and all the other delights of food poisoning myself. So! Bring on the ill guests and the innocently deliriously happy honeymoon. Bon appetit!
We think just alike, Kelly! See, we were meant to be sisters!! 😀
I would have to do it on my honeymoon its the first time we can put that through sickness and health to the test. I don’t like being sick around everyone
You are not kidding around putting the “in sickness” part to the test right out of the gate, Kita. Bold move! 😀
I’ve had food poisoning and would do anything not to repeat it. Sorry guests!
We like the way you think, Patti! We’re with you!
I’m not that good of a person so I’m going with everyone at my wedding. It was in Key West so maybe they were able to extend their stay and at least suffer in paradise?? I know. I’m still going straight to hell.
Well if you are, then so are we because that’s exactly what we’d do, Allie! We can sweat it out together (but at least we won’t be retching! 😀 )
So, I actually kinda got food poisoning (or at the very least a very unhappy GI tract) on the honeymoon portion of my lengthy South America trip. Sam and I had booked a stay at a lovely resort on the coast of Peru (and by far one of the nicest places we stayed on that trip) as a treat to ourselves after numerous hostels. A few hours into the trip my stomach started to feel….off. And I proceeded to spend the rest of the time there (and a lengthy bus ride to our next destination) with a VERY unhappy tummy. Having survived that, I still think I would rather have dealt with that than have all of our guests leave our wedding with the same.
Aw! After having actually experienced this horror, you’d *still* pick it again over having your guests ill? You are a saint, Bev!
I am an awful, terrible, horrific person so my quests would have to take it. Wouldn’t they want to “take one for me”, after all they came to celebrate with me because they love me and who would wish that on the bride and groom. No? I know, it’s still bullshit and I am still a terrible person and going to hell, but it is the truth.
oops, there’s more… I would be raising all kinds of Hell with the caterers on their behalf and send some kind of thank you memento/gift card with the refund to each guest.
Well, we are awful too, because that’s just what we would do, Mac! Our guests would want us to have a good honeymoon, right? SURE they would! (and you are right, we’d probably get a refund for the catering for them!!)
Umm…I will do everything in my power to not puke and I definitely don’t want to be in a hotel room with someone who is deathly ill so I’m going to say the guests are going to have a miserable couple of days.
The poor things. But rest assured, your guest will have our guests to commiserate with because they’d have food poisoning, too! 😀
OMG, I can’t answer this question! Can’t we simply reduce the medical emergency to indigestion? In which case I would choose to have it on my honeymoon. I’ve gots Alka Seltzer, yo.
Sorry, not an option! It’s the full enchilada when you are dealing with a Would You Rather. (and in this case, enchiladas may have played a significant role.)
OMG, this is too funny! I feel bad for my guests but I will have to pick option A. Yes I would feel really bad!
I’d feel really bad too, Kris. But I feel liked we’d get over it once we put our cute new swimsuits on, right? 😀
I would feel really bad about it, but I would have to choose Option A - because you said to view it from that totally selfish, young newlywed point of view.
Exactly, Lisa! (or a totally selfish, old newlywed point of view. Either way!)
There is absolutely no way I would have all our guests get sick. Nope. No freaking WAY.
I would puke and be sick for weeks, if it meant they didn’t get sick. I’m getting sick just thinking about the possibility of all those precious people that went so SO out of their way to celebrate the big day with us…
NO!! Please don’t make them get sick!!
*You must have the power to do so…14 years later. lol*
I am going to bed now- and I have a good feeling I will be having a nightmare about this very thing.
Geesh.
Thanks a lot girls.
LOL
Nooooooo!! We don’t want a Would You Rather to give you nightmares, Chris! That’s reserved for Pinterest! Don’t think about it any more! La La La La Forget you ever read this. We insist!! 😀
I will try to leave a comment again, and pray it works this time!
I would have to go with hubby and I being sick because I can’t wish food poisoning on all my guests (they’d never forgive me!).
We’re so sorry you’ve been having trouble commenting, Julie! GAH! It’s times like these we wish we were better techies! We’re trying to figure it out!
We *knew* you’d pick the food poisoning for yourself, Julie. There was never any question in our minds! You are just. that. sweet!
Actually went through the food poisoning scenerio on the honeymoon.
Not. at. all. fun.
Nope.
The husband was sick that first night something fierce, leaving me wondering if I needed to try to drive us both home the next day or not as I huddled on the floor beneath a bath towel, trying to catch a few minutes of sleep between his being sick.
He was pretty much not himself the whole trip. All those fun nighties? Never even came out.
No WAY!!!! You had the nightmare happen to you! GAH!! How hideous!! Aw, man. That’s the PITS! We’re so sorry!
We hope you were able to travel again sometime soon after that to make up for it!