By Anonymous - 15/12/2012 08:52 - United States - Lakewood

Today, my brother paid the DJ $300 to ruin my wedding by playing the Imperial Death March as I walked down the aisle. FML
I agree, your life sucks 809
You deserved it 95

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looloothing 9

Shit, I'd pay money to go to a wedding where the bride marched down to that.

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I paid money to have a church organist play that as my recessional. That 'ruined' your wedding? We would never be friends. Your brother is awesome.

Just because you had something at your wedding doesn't mean everybody wants that.... It would have spoilt the wedding for her because the brother had no right to interfere with the music she would have carefully chosen.

I'd like to point out to some posters here that it's the task of the bride and groom to organise their wedding. The brother had no right to 'improve' the special day of his sister without her and her partner's permission.

Finally someone with sense and a brain... He had no right to ruin her day like that.. I'd also blast the dj all over the Internet for poor business..

Thank you. They have no right to do this if it is unplanned, seeing as it's not their day and they didn't fly this by anyone. People all say, "yea, but it's awesome so it didn't ruin it, stop being so whiny, OP, I would have loved that." It's awesome to you, maybe. But evidently OP doesn't like it so much. It's like me being a huge Beiber fan: it wouldn't justify me ruining your wedding with her songs, and it doesn't mean it'd be great. Same goes for some other stuff like Cannibal Corpse or The Residents Different tastes+Wrong place wrong time= Not cool.

perdix 29

#20, often grooms have hardly anything to do with planning a wedding. The bride and her family and friends take on the planning tasks. It was a shitty trick by the brother, but he was within his rights to contribute to the wedding.

Did everyone catch that "her"? Well played 51...well played.

No perdix, it was not "within his rights". It was a prank, and a shitty one meant to ruin one of the most important events in OP's life.

I think you guys are all taking the other commenters too seriously. I'm pretty sure they realize that the brother crossed the line, and their just joking because they like "Star Wars" and that score of music.

The brother has no rights. The groom on the other hand....

Maybe the brother and the groom planned for that to happen behind OP's back. Wouldn't that make sense too? Maybe the groom chipped in money to help her brother pay for the request. Maybe everyone else planned for that to happen and OP didn't know it! CONSPIRACY! Ok, maybe I got a little carried away with that, but in all honesty that's really shitty and OP doesn't deserve that.

pheebs314 17

I walked down the aisle to the Imperial Death March haha... :)

Imperial March. There's no "death" in there. This is directed to both you and OP.

I was hoping someone else would have pointed that out before I got here. Glad you did.

Good, I was being to think I was the only one who noticed that...

anitadoody 7

Ruin? That's the most hilarious wedding story I've heard!!! FYL for no sense of humour.

Weddings ARE meant to be humorous! That darn OP.

#97, weddings aren't ment to be humorous!

Yeah, it kind of sucks if that wasn't your choice. But this whole idea that your wedding has to be a completely *perfect* day and all of that nonsense is this Bridezilla invention. It was a prank. You're supposed to be focusing on the fact that you are tethering your life to someone else's in the ultimate form of commitment. Be worried about being married, not that your brother played a funny prank (which will be a great story in 20 years), or that the centrepieces for the tables weren't right or that the cake was halfway wonky. Also, what does your husband think? It's not 'Your Day', it's also HIS day. Your day as a couple. People will talk about it, but if you react like a spoiled brat, you'll look like you do: like a spoiled brat! Your wedding day is about bloody well getting married. The only way it can be 'ruined' is if your fiancé doesn't show up.

I agree with the point that it's the groom's day as well, but from all we know, he didn't agree to it - it was OP's brother's call, not her husband's. (Because if he did agree and didn;t tell her, well, I guess OP would specifically mention it in her FML, as it would add to the situation). And what is wrong with the idea that you wedding should be perfect? It is supposed to be one in a lifetime thing. I know it doesn't mean all that much nowadays, and okay, the dress and the ceremony and so on should be the most important part - but for many women it is still very important. She (and her husband) spent months, probably more than a year preparing this, so is it right to judge OP because she wanted it to be perfect? It'll be probably years before I'll be getting married, but I know already I'd like to have nice, traditional, small wedding - and sure as hell I'd like everything to be perfect. And I hope nobody'll be prettier than me on that day. Now, it's petty, I know - but wedding day is supposed to be perfect.

I don't see the spirit of love and marriage in a perfect day and pretty dress. If one of the most important days of your life can be ruined by one song, I'd be a little worried. As long as the groom shows up and we have our special moment at the alter, I wouldn't care what I looked liked or what happened around me. Weddings have become too commercialized.

I would bet the brother got the grooms permission because a professional dj wouldn't do that. If the OP cheaped out and didn't hire a real dj then YDI.

I kind of wondered that, too - how much was the DJ being paid? Because $300 can be a lot of money for someone being shafted.

I heard about one wedding where the bride's mother got drunk and started a brawl and the cops showed up.

My husband and I were introduced and walked into our reception to the Star Wars theme and our bridal party held up lightsabers for us to walk under.

Well on the bright side at least your wedding was original! Then again, to the people who are calling OP "whiney" it's great that you would like to play the Imperial Death March at your wedding as you walk down the aisle and by all means, do it, but the OP clearly didn't want it therefore the DJ had no right to play it. Imagine if you had organised for the Imperial Death March to play at your wedding and the DJ played the traditional wedding march because he thought it sounded better? FYL OP, you have every right to be upset.

TheDrifter 23

Perhaps the groom wanted it. Men get almost zero say in the wedding processes these days, it's become one big ego stroke for the bride. It's all about her and must be perfect, exactly as she had imagined it or she considers it ruined. It's entirely possible that the brother knew that her husband is a star wars fan and played the prank not only to annoy his sister, but to give his new brother in law a bit of representation in the wedding.

Now that would have been awesome on bride wars. Or a sitcom.