Mastercard Wedding

Received this by email the other day. Great story, funny too. But it's been going around for years and it's just an urban legend. For some reason the authors seem to think that saying it actually appeared on Jay Leno's show makes it more believable. Suppose the fact it's still circulating since 1985 means that it does.

For anyone who feels they've been invited to too many weddings lately have a laugh. This is actually true. It was in a local newspaper in South Carolina and even Jay Leno mentioned it on the Tonight Show.

This is a true story about a recent wedding that took place at Clemson University. It was a huge wedding with about 300 guests.

After the wedding, at the reception, the groom got up on stage at the microphone to talk to the crowd. He said that he wanted to thank everyone for coming, many from long distances, to support them at their wedding. He especially wanted to thank the bride's and groom's families for coming and to thank his new father-in-law for providing such a fabulous reception.

To thank everyone for coming, bringing gifts and everything, he said he wanted to give everyone a special gift just from him. So taped to the bottom of everyone's chair, including the wedding party, was a manila envelope.

He said that this was his gift and told everyone to open their envelopes.

Inside each envelope was an 8x10 photo of his best man having sex... with the bride. He had gotten suspicious of the two of them and hired a private detective to trail them weeks prior to the wedding.

After he stood there and watched the people's reactions for a couple of minutes, he turned to the best man and said, "F*CK you!" He turned to his bride and said, "F*CK you!" Then he turned to the dumbfounded crowd and said, "I'm out of here!"

He had the marriage annulled the first thing that Monday morning. While most of us would have broken off the engagement immediately after finding out about the affair, this guy goes through with it anyway, as if nothing was wrong.

His revenge:

1) Making the bride's parents pay over $32,000 for 300 guests for a wedding and reception.

2) Letting everyone know exactly what did happen. And, best of all...

3) Trashing the bride's and best man's reputations in front of all of their friends and their entire families.

This guy has balls the size of church bells. Do you think we might see one of those MasterCard "Priceless" commercials out of this? Huh?

Elegant wedding for 300 family and guests -- $32,000
Photographers for the wedding -- $3,000 Deluxe
Honeymoon accommodations in Maui for 2 weeks -- $8,500
The look on everyone's faces after seeing a photo of
the Bride and Best Man having sex -- Priceless!!!

Source: Urban Legends "Mastercard Wedding" page

Hoaxes and Urban Legends

I often receive emails that are hoaxes or urban legends. It may not always go down well with those that sent the email to me, but I always try to reply and let them know it's a hoax.

Some of these hoaxes and urban legends are funny stories and good for a laugh, but some are just plain misleading. I don't know why, but it's always bugged me and I don't understand who would invent such complete fabrications. And these stories circulate the internet for years and years, and people change dates to make them seem new or more credible.

So I decided that when I receive one of these emails now, I'm going to post it here to "out" them.

If ever you're interested in checking a story is real or not, just type some key words from the beginning of the email along with the word hoax. You'll usually get some hits if it is from these credible (in my opinion) sites:

Hoax Slayer
Snopes
Urban Legends

My experience - if it sounds like a hoax or urban legend, it probably is.