| 05/30/02
Love your site, but I wanted to relate
my own prank at my brother's wedding.
My brother decided that no one was
going to decorate his truck (yeah, right). His plan was
to park it in a hidden location, known only to him and
the mother of the bride (who would help him get back
from hiding it), early on his wedding day.
Our simple solution to this problem
was to steal his battery the day before!
He thought he had us beat, because he
had a spare battery. He didn't have a spare coil wire
though!
We filled the truck with balloons,
tied a long string of cans to the bumper, wrapped it in
toilet paper, and covered it in shaving cream writing.
It was great!
Here comes the caution part...Someone
wrote on the windshield, as many people do at weddings.
When my brother tried to clear the windshield with
wipers so that he could see to drive safely, of course
it just smeared. He decided to drive the 2 miles to his
new in-laws' house and wash the truck.
On the way there, he had difficulty
seeing the road, weaved out of his lane, and caused
another car to leave the road to avoid him. The other
car was totaled, and the passenger was seriously
injured. Please tell everyone to keep the windshield
clear!
Thanks |
| 03/06/02 "I
have on video my best friend on her wedding day
leaving to go to
the church. She did not realize that
she had four flat
tires until she tryed to pull out.
lololol. You
should have seen her face!!!
Here's a
picture of her car...
I wish you
could put the video on your web-site.
Classic
footage. I forget to tell you that I
originally was
going to remove the valve stems to let,
the air out;
however, I was not able to get them out.
I had to think
and act quickly. I pulled out my
pocket knife and
poked a hole in each of the sidewalls
of her tires. You
should have seen her face when she
discovered that
her tires were slashed and ruined."
Shirley
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| When I was best man
at a friends wedding last Summer I tied the inside door handles
together with rope and then climbed out through the hatchback.
The car was thoroughly decorated on the outside but the fun
began when each tried to open their door and couldn't move it
more than a quarter inch. When one pulls the other door slams
shut. Loud noises were said to chase away evil spirits,
and during the ceremony, the guests would make noises to keep
the spirits away. Today, it's traditional that the bridal party
honk their car horns while leaving the ceremony.
The best man at my friends wedding rigged the horn to sound
every time the brake was pressed, they drove half way down the
road until they realized what was going on and had to return to
fix it.
Popcorn on the engine block of their car. When the car warms
up, a variety of interesting noises occur...
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08/20/2001
Looking over the wedding pranks played reminded me of a few
I've been in on and some that I know happened at weddings I
attended. Of course there was the cars filled with blown up
condoms and full of shaving cream on the windows.
I was at a wedding once when I was a kid and when the
wedding was going on in the church a bunch of guys removed
the back seats of the cars in the wedding party and hid them
in a nearby home. Everyone had to squeeze into the front
seats to ride to the reception.
| 03/06/2001
"Fill the car with popcorn (use an air
popper so you don't have to use any oil and
there no staining)" Willene
Depending on where the car is parked...jack
each end of the car up, and put jack stands
under it, adjusted so that when the car is
lowered, the tires *look* like they're on the
ground. And put sand (or similar non-traction
stuff) under the tires so...He starts the car,
tries to drive off, and spins his wheels. He
looks under the wheels, clears the and tries
again. Still no luck.. |
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AFTER OUR FRIENDS said
their wedding vows and walked out of the church, they were
disappointed to find that their car had not been decorated with
the usual "Just Married" signs and paraphernalia. Disappointed
wasn't the word to describe the priest who had just married
them. He happened to drive a car that was very similar to the
one belonging to the bride and groom!
--Contributed to "Life In These United States" by Curtis Johnson
The tying of old shoes on going-away vehicles is a Hindu
custom of good luck.
| 02/02/99
Just thought I'd share a little past memory of my
own wedding. We were married
in a large formal church. It was french/gothic in
style, with large fabulous lights hanging down and
tons of oak and wood and stained glass all around.
It was just awesome. After our wedding, my reception
was at my sister's house, just down the street...a
convenient set-up, right? Well, after the ceremony,
we were having our photos taken and doing all the
things you do at that time. The reception was a
little bit later, so everyone could have a chance to
get ready for it - a home reception is a very big
deal.
Well, afterwards, we were admiring the inside of
the church and just having a private moment, and we
noticed that everybody had left the church. We
looked outside, everybody's cars were gone.
EVERYBODY! So, there was nobody to drive us, the
newly married couple, down the road to our own
reception. So, off we started walking. Now, knowing
my sister, this was her idea of a prank - letting us
walk home. Being the youngest of a large family, and
of 5 sisters, I think this was their idea of
"getting back at me for anything I may have done as
a child".. well, off we started our little stroll -
my husband in his tuxedo, and I in my dress, flowers
and fancy shoes.
Didn't get very far however, as my girlfriend
came late - just in time to drive us, in her tiny
little 2 seater car - crammed as we were, vail
waving in the wind, feet out the window, it turned
out to be the perfect day after all! That was over
23 years ago!
A note was placed on the gas cap of the getaway
car saying, "Congratulate this couple, they've just
been married." For many weeks, all of the gas
station attendants who served them would either
congratulate them, or just come back with a sly grin
on their faces. If your friend doesn't normally pump
his own gas, this might be a good one. |
11/30/01 My sister in law
got married, and we Vaseline the license plates on the car, she
had to drive home across the US and the plates were covered in
dirt and bugs, and she got pulled over by a police man that saw
her "blacked out" license plates. Also, if you get a pound of
rice and cut slices in the bag on the top, then put it over the
sun visors, the first bump they hit, they get a pound of
rice. My poor sister found rice until the day they sold the
car.--Ivan |
There are, of course, some hysterically funny things you can do to their car/house/what have you. And some are incredibly simple. Back in the 60's when my folks got married my mom's parents gave them a VW bug as a wedding present. The car was light enough that a small group of guys lifted the back of the car up and set it on cinder blocks so the wheels were just off the ground when they tried to drive off. Corny? Yes. Effective? Yes. They still mention it occasionally.
Wendy
Also, the best man saved a couple of the condoms and stuck them on top of the visors of the car so that when the bride pulled down the visor to `check her hair`, boom! (you might, however, put some extra consideration into this idea...).Andrew
Tell me what you think about the site, or about a wedding prank...
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What can you do in the car?
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We spread glitter all over the inside of the car.
Cheryl Miller
Fill with balloons.
Don't hand out all the rice. Turn the sun visors
up, and put some rice up there.
Have fake feet hanging out the back windows as
tho the couple is going at it.
You know that ad with the guy drying his pants by
hanging them out the car window? Pants, underwear,
bra... (thanks for the idea CJ!) For my
brother's wedding my partner in crime and I bought
an economy size box of condoms and blew them up for
balloons. The trick here is to
find a volunteer that doesn't fear latex poisoning.
We filled the car
entirely with our balloons and even saved one to tie
to thier antenne.
We also slipped some extras in every crevis we could
find.
| 08/20/2001
Looking over the wedding pranks
played reminded me of a few I've
been in on and some that I know
happened at weddings I attended. Of
course there was the cars filled
with blown up condoms and full of
shaving cream on the windows.
I was at a wedding once when I was a
kid and when the wedding was going
on in the church a bunch of guys
removed the back seats of the cars
in the wedding party and hid them in
a nearby home. Everyone had to
squeeze into the front seats to ride
to the reception.
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"Since we already knew he hated this car, we figured he wouldn't mind
too much if we rigged it to blow...
For weeks before we'd been collecting chad (the little pieces of paper that come out of a hole puncher, and aren't you glad you now know the word for it?) and awaiting our opportunity. One day, he left his sunroof open a half inch. We went to work. We happened to know that on this particular model it was possible to reach the "QuikRelease(TM)" catch from the outside, so we removed the sunroof, reached in and unlocked the car doors. It was but the work of moments to fill the air vents with chad, direct them all at the driver, and turn the fan to full (obviously, it didn't run until the key was turned). Locking the doors, replacing the sunroof and looking innocent was almost as easy. We were fortunate to be in the area when the driver returned, to shower himself with irritating bits of paper.
We did it again, later that day.
In an amusing postscript, six months later, when the weather turned cold and the car's heater was used for the first time, another small shower of chad scattered over the car interior - it seems some of our paper had worked its way inside the ventilation system, and is probably there to this day. One would occasionally flutter out onto the seat right up until the car was sold."
Mark
7/20/2000 "At one of my uncles wedding we totally
trashed his car the usual stuff, toilet paper,
condums, etc... but then we put sardines under the
hood and filled the back seat with balloons while
one of his friends hid underneath waiting for them
to get in. When my uncle and his wife were about
thirty minutes into their drive. He popped up out of
the backseat and started a conversation with them.
It scared the daylights out of my uncle who then
threw his buddy out of the car and left him on the
side of the freeway. Fortunately we were smart and
had cars following them to come by and pick him up."
For my brother's wedding my partner in
crime and I bought an economy size box of condoms
and blew them up for balloons. The trick here is to
find a volunteer that doesn't fear latex poisoning.
We filled the car
entirely with our balloons and even saved one to tie
to thier antenne.
We also slipped some extras in every crevis we could
find Paul Miller's sister-in-law and her
husband, Jerrod and Susan Maxfield, were married on
8/31/91. Their friends decorated the inside of their
car with Silly String in the middle of the summer at
Phoenix, Arizona, in 123 degree heat. Can you
imagine what the temperature was inside the car?
The Silly String baked on the dash and the steering
wheel. They had to wait till it cooled off and used
an ice scraper to scrape the stuff off.
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04/18/02
When my older brother got married he and
his new wife were to leave for
their honeymoon directly from the
reception. During that reception,
myself and two of the groomsmen PACKED
the inside of his car (through
the sunroof) with those small saucer
shaped pieces of styrofoam used as
packing material. For years afterwards a
piece would fall out from under
the dash or from under one of the seats.
JIM K.
Stick a potato(e) up the exhaust pipe -
when the car starts - it does, with a
BANG! (This is harmless to the car - may
cause serious injury to people standing
behind the car when it starts (be sure
to warn people - get them out of the
way!)). |
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| What do you use to
write on the car?
Shoe polish, only write on the glass or it will eat
the paint.
At my niece's wedding I repeatedly put on red
lipstick and kissed the car all over. The only problem
was when they rolled the window down. Cheryl Miller
A couple of good car decorating ideas that I used
included, before using shaving cream to write on the
windows, write the words with vaseline, it will take a
while to clean the window off. Also you can put a couple
of sardines on the engine block, within two blocks the
smell will start. It is best to give them a letter to be
opened after they have left the lot, also give them air
fresheners for a gift, they will need it.
Michael Bouchard
Grease pencils on the window,
available at any art supply store. Shorty 3/10/2000
So what all can you write on the couple's car?
Feet in different positions!
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At my brother and sister in laws
wedding, they thought they had the car
"protected". My brother drove a very nice red
Barretta, you know, with tinted windows, big
stereo, and a viper alarm system. No one could
get within a foot without setting it off! Yea
right. On of their good friends, knowing how
touch the system was, very lightly wrote with
spray cool ship all over the windows and draped
streamers all over the whole car, with out the
alarm going off. The best part was, I was there
taking pictures and them went back into the
church, snuck in behind them in the receiving
line and told them the car was trashed and I
have pictures. I thought my brother was going to
faint!! Russell 1/23/2000 |
[Here are some of the standard things to write in shaving cream on the car:]
"TO BED OR BUST" [This was on mine when I got married]
"SHE GOT HIM TODAY - HE'LL GET HER TONIGHT"
"JUST LIVING TOGETHER" Howard
9/7/2000 "If it's cool enough outside, I've used
whipped cream. Also, there is new paint made for windows
or use Tempra paint.(NOTE - Tempra paint is moderately
difficult to remove.)" Susan
7/6/2000 "Depending on how hot it is, Cheez Whiz works
pretty good. I also heard (I haven't tried this yet)
that using marshmellows to spell out letters works good,
too. Just lick one end and stick them on the car. In the
winter the marshmellows freeze to the car--in the summer
they melt. Oh yeah--chocolate syrup is a lot of fun,
too. Pour a thin line on the wiper blades and when they
wipers are turned on it get's smeared everywhere."
Penni
8/7/2000 "One good prank is to put bannana peels on
the windshild and then smear it around, after it dries
it is almost impossible to remove." Wolfe
10/12/2000 "Use oreo's. Just twist them in half and
stick them to the windows." Chris |
Pranks for the Memories. |
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