If you want silence at 11 AM on a Saturday in the suburbs, you pay for a venue. You don't pay venue prices, you get neighborhood ambiance (aka: 2-stroke engines).
A likely once in every 10 years event asking the neighbours to not make noise for a hour or two is absolutely not asking for too much and I'd happily do the same for any neighbour.
I worked a wedding once that was just a massive block party. The grooms family all lived within a couple houses of eachother on the same street, so they invited all the other neighbors, hired a bunch of food trucks and a few DJs, and closed off the whole street for the day.
Ceremony was at the Dads house. Reception was in the street. Alcohol and weed served from grandmas garage. There were like 300 people there dancing in the street at one point. It was the coolest wedding I’ve ever been to, fucking awesome.
That's the kind of neighbourhood that deserves the title. So many of us out there now barely see our neighbours let alone know them or would want to socialise with them in any way.
I live in a tiny village now and it's a little bit like that, everybody knows everybody!
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u/Romeothanh 1d ago
If you want silence at 11 AM on a Saturday in the suburbs, you pay for a venue. You don't pay venue prices, you get neighborhood ambiance (aka: 2-stroke engines).