Here's a new one for ya...getting married at recess on the playground...

[Bang!Zoom!]

Kid comes home today from school, and tells me she's invited to *another* wedding at lunch tomorrow.

"What, Wedding?"

 

"Ya Ma, kids get married on the playground, bridesmaids and everything.."

 

Huh?  Has anyone else ever heard of this "5th grade marriage" ceremony before?

I'm so flustered, we never got invitations, I don't know if we're to send a gift, card..what..... 

 

Does anyone know the etiquette of these things?

[Mom-ninja.]

cute

[4kiddies]

I remember doing this when I was a kid in elementary school...I also remember walking around pretending I was pregnant ;)  Since I didn't get married until I was 25 and didn't have my first child until I was almost 28 I don't think there was any harm in playing it.

[Bang!Zoom!]

I guess the deal is, is "if you get married on the playground" then you *have to* go to the dance together at the end of the year.

 

I asked her, "So, like...do you guys have playground lawyers if they want to get divorced or what?"

I have never ever heard of this before...boy the things we are learning this year.

 

Cupcakes and assimilation.

[Corraleno]

LOL, I did that in 3rd grade! It was even a "double wedding" — I married a cute little boy with freckles named Johnny, and my BFF Cindy married a tall quiet boy named Peter. It was totally innocent, we never kissed or anything, but we did "like" each other and he even gave me a plastic ring from a bubblegum machine.  I forgot all about that!

[Mrs Mungo]

We got married all the time on the playground :)

 

Cute stuff. No gifts required.

Same here. This was actually more common in my school in like K-third grade. It didn't come with any actual ties.

[jillian]

I did this as a kid. It was fun.

[AndyJoy]

LOL! I'm surprised the boys that age would go along with it! When I was 8 I performed a backyard wedding ceremony for my sister and the neighbor boy who were both 6. She had a lovely bouquet of wildflowers and a clover ring. The older neighbor boy was 8 and too embarrassed to play the part of minister so he was the best man.

[AndyJoy]

duplicate

[AndyJoy]

duplicate

[HRAAB]

No way would we have done that.  The nuns would have shut that down very quickly.  :laugh:

[Farrar]

So popular when I was a kid.  So definitely not a new one to me.  In retrospect, it's hilarious.  Like, I can remember myself at that age doing it.  But I can't for the life of me remember why...

[lavender's green]

My best friend married my cousin in fifth grade, and I got to be the bridesmaid!  She divorced him that night because he and I had swim practice and his paper wedding ring got destroyed in the pool.  :lol:

[PrairieSong]

When she was six, one of our daughters married her four-year-old cousin in Grandma's basement. We have the wedding photos to prove it. There was a mini priest and everything. Later, a girl at four-year-old's preschool wanted to marry him but he adamantly refused. He was sure he was already married, for real.

[Jayne J]

It happened all the time on the playground when I was younger, like 1st and 2nd grade. I was always a bridesmaid, never a bride. Sigh. :LOL:

[Word Nerd]

LOL! I'm surprised the boys that age would go along with it! When I was 8 I performed a backyard wedding ceremony for my sister and the neighbor boy who were both 6. She had a lovely bouquet of wildflowers and a clover ring. The older neighbor boy was 8 and too embarrassed to play the part of minister so he was the best man.

Who says we needed willing boys? I married two different girlfriends the same day. :)

[NicAnn]

Middle of the week lunchtime wedding? How tacky!

 

 

;)

 

Fwiw, we got married a lot. Never at school that I remember, but to kids in the neighborhood. One of the boys is doing quite well for himself these days.

[Ipsey]

Amazing!

How did I forget about this? Yes, Iremember playground weddings. How funny! :)

So sweet. 

[TechWife]

I remember performing ceremonies to wed the neighboring pets to each other - complete with attire. 

 

[Stars]

I gave my son the same name as the boy I married on the playground in first grade.  (No, I wasn't actually naming my son for him.  I just mean I apparently have pleasant associations with the experience.)

[Cammie]

As the daughter of the local minister - I performed all playground weddings at my school!  (Always the preacher...never the bride!)

[AndyJoy]

I asked her, "So, like...do you guys have playground lawyers if they want to get divorced or what?"

 

I was the "playground lawyer" in 6th grade.  I never handled any divorces, though.  Just contracts for bets and other agreements.  :laugh:   The one I remember most clearly was a bet over whether Michael Jordan would return to basketball after he retired in 1993.  There was $50 or a shiny Bulls jacket at stake in that case.

[Shamzanne]

I remember a wedding in fourth grade between Kelsey and Bobby. I was so flattered that Kelsey asked me to be the Maid of Honor. We even talked the very elderly playground supervisor into being the organist! If I remember correctly, we planned it for weeks on end.

[abdesigns]

My seven year old has been married to the same little girl since he was five. They got married in the church parking lot.  Sadly, I only found out about it after, so I missed the whole thing.

[Kathryn]

I can't imagine fifth-grade boys agreeing to that. I remember playground weddings from much younger.

[Joanne]

My oldest is divorced from a board member's dd. They married when I lived in AZ.

 

We (me and the mom) joked that the dire predictions had come true: both ap parented kids were still nursing when they married.

 

I moved away (taking the bride's husband). The family came to my wedding to Adrian. Apparently it was "awkward" to be ruinited and the young couple divorced. My xdil has not unfriended me on FB so there has been little drama.

[goldberry]

DD's experience was the playground as a little microcosm (macro??) of reality. There were weddings, parties, fashion shows...DD was heartbroken one time she planned a church service and no one came!

[Dmmetler]

My DD was planning to marry Chase in Kindergarten. Apparently, they shared a common interest in building things and destroying them with the toy dinosaurs. Since her class had 17 girls and 6 boys, I imagine Chase was willing to put up with a "fiancee" in order to have someone to play with.

 

 

[tex-mex]

Recently, while teaching at a school, I had a student come up to me and show me her binder.  It was full of drawings of a wedding.  Turns out she planned on marrying a boy in our classroom.  I got a kick out of her meticulous planning. 

 

Weeks later, I overheard the two students talking to each other over the "budget" of the wedding and how out of control her plans were for the ceremony and reception.  After all of this time as an observer, I could NOT resist and had to butt in and then kindly tell the boy to consider going on to college as his bride-to-be's nuptials were going to cost him an arm and a leg.  He shook his head in deep thought and said he needed a six-figure income with her $$ taste. :lol:  :lol: :lol:  

[NoseInABook]

ROFL! We did it all of the time in elementary school. My best friend seemed to be a smidge trampy, marrying a new boy every week... I could never find a boy I liked enough to marry in our grade so after the wedding ceremonies, I often sang tragic songs on the swings such as All By Myself. Yep, I was a bizarre kid.

[Word Nerd]

It was more fun to play Star Wars on the playground.

[Tmhearn]

Did anyone else have a "Mock Wedding" as an actual school sanctioned activity? Or is that just because I grew up in Louisiana? Ha ha ha!

 

We had a mock wedding as part of Home Economics class in Middle School. The bride an groom were selected, the the attendants were chosen. We wore appropriate attire and had a ceremony in the gym. A small reception was held afterwards.

 

Anyone else???