Should I carry at my daughter's wedding?

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mark3885

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In a few weeks, my daughter is getting married . The wedding and reception are in a large city, downtown ,parking is in a local parking ramp and not connected to the reception area. I'm not sure I want to tell my daughter that I will carry and encourage my law abiding friends to carry or do I just wait until she asks or finds out on her own.
 
I wouldn't unless you dislike the groom! Seriously, I'm assuming CC, but I'd check local ordinances, unless already known.
 
I would, I did a wedding a few months ago and there was a guy their had one, you never can tell when trouble will hit. If you can conceal it well why not just don't tell nobody.
 
Many were carrying at my wedding. It was at my home. Most of my family and some friends of my wife carry as well. Non issue.

@mojoman, what are you carrying with the recall in full swing? I'm toting a Springfield Champion.
 
My XDm .45 4.5 now which is full size but I'm learning to carry it @ 3:00 and I can conceal it pretty good, almost as good as my XDs .45. I went today and rented the Glock 19 and 26 which I shoot well but I think that I shoot the 19 better, I like the 26 because I can conceal it better I don't think that will be an issue though. The wife and I are heading down to Oregon tomorrow so I will be carrying my XDm. The wedding I did was an out door wedding, the guy had a pretty large space.
 
Let me give you possibly the perfect answer assuming it is legal to carry at the wedding and reception.OK READY-----If you want to:yes4: Now for real,this is your daughters day PERIOD.WILL it be a problem for her if you do?I think it might be since your asking.That is not how you want your daughter thinking of you at the end of the day(just my 2cents my friend).That being said I understand the protection thing.could you possibly conceal where she wouldn't notice,leg maybe with smaller gun I know not optimal but just suggestion. Either way good luck and CONGRATS
 
mojoman said:
My XDm .45 4.5 now which is full size but I'm learning to carry it @ 3:00 and I can conceal it pretty good, almost as good as my XDs .45. I went today and rented the Glock 19 and 26 which I shoot well but I think that I shoot the 19 better, I like the 26 because I can conceal it better I don't think that will be an issue though. The wife and I are heading down to Oregon tomorrow so I will be carrying my XDm. The wedding I did was an out door wedding, the guy had a pretty large space.
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Mine was also outdoors as well. 98 degrees. Over 50 friends and guests. It was supposed to be a 6 person wedding, then my wife got involved...

That evening a storm went through that blew everything away we had put up, huge reception area portable tent/canopies and canopies in the front lawn. All the leftover food, decorations...everything got blown into the woods. Knocked-over one of my trees and blocked neighbor's driveway. We were sitting in the reception tent and some were dancing after dark to wind-down. And the storm blew-in in less than 5 minutes after the gust front. My wife's son and I tried to hold onto some supports, but they were ripped from our hands. A surreal sight, watching everything blown across the lawn and into the night sky. Had to get my roof replaced. We were without power for over 11 hours.

At least Thor waited 'til evening to unleash his anger, not being on the guest list. This was a wedding to be truly remembered. My brother couldn't get to his home for fallen trees, and had to call my dad to look at a map to navigate open roadways. I didn't know about this for weeks. Ahhh. Love!

@mark3885, congratulations on the wedding. I bet you are a proud father!

EDIT: Hindsight, one of the guests should have been responsible for up to the minute WX outlook. It was supposed to be hot/humid.
 
If you can do so legally, then do so. ONe never knows when trouble of the worst kind will interrupt your day. If you knew in advance that something bad would likely happen, you may change your venue or something. That is the whole idea behind carrying...so that with no notice, no expectation, when you least expect it, you are still ready to protect your family and yourself.
 
Like someone posted earlier, ONLY if it won't detract from HER day. You can always get all your buddies to carry.

QUESTION: Open bar? Consider consequences appropriately. Designated driver and designated carrier! :wink:
 
I carried at my daughter's wedding this summer. If you're talking CCW, no one will know, just the way it's supposed to be.
 
I don't know what the law says in your state, but here, carrying a gun means no bubbly (or any other booze) at the reception.
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In Arizona, one may carry in a place selling booze if the one that carries is not drinking. If the Bride know Dad and would know you would carry. My little girl (41 y.o.) has her own Glock and carries. But as said before, what does she say about HER day. I would not want to spoil it for her. But being in a big city down town maybe you should CC and no one would know unless you had to use. Maybe a wedding gift would be a Glock for her and a show of your target skills for his well being. Let us know when you become a grand parent. Cigars all around.
 
You don't give much detail as to why you are asking this question. I have to assume that you carrying is somehow not perceived well by your daughter. Do you usually carry openly or concealed? Will you be dancing closely with her and if it is concealed, when she notices it during the dance will she be upset?

Do your friends carry openly or concealed? Would they get upset if you asked them to carry concealed only? Are you able to have a reception with alcohol and be carrying in the state that you live in? If not, is alcohol important to your daughter at her wedding?

Will she be more upset if trouble happens and no one has a means to protect people at her wedding? Do you expect trouble?

Are you able to get some of your friends to stand guard to the entrance to the reception hall who are CC, therefore you can respect her wishes of no one carrying in the reception hall?

These are questions, if I were you that I would run through my mind first before making that decision and possibly putting a wedge between your daughter and you.
 
How about... ask the bride? If she knows you carry, she either assumes you will and doesn't care, or has already asked you not to. If she asked you not to, you're screwed if she finds out, so if you must, try ankle carry.

It could, of course, make a wedding infinitely more interesting: Link Removed
 
If it were me... I would carry if it was legal in your area to do so. What she doesn't know, won't hurt her as you do not have to tell her that you are carrying. If she asks, of course you don't want to lie to her and you can tell her at that time but I am pretty sure she will be preoccupied with the fact that she is getting married to even think about whether you are carrying or not.
 
All I can say is that I am so thankful that my wife of 25 years and I made the decision before we got married not to have kids. It wasn't a selfish thing, like no Honey, we couldn't keep partying 'til we puke if we have kids. It wasn't a financial thing, like no Baby Cakes, I ain't spending money to send a bunch of rug-rats through college just so they can live in the basement hoping for the windfall that comes from our early demise. No, the reason was simple.....

There was no internet when we got married. No way could we have made the monumental decisions like should we carry or not at our daughter's wedding unless we could first run it by about 52,000 total strangers for advice!

Sorry. I thought this might be a good thread just to explain our Planned non-Parenthood. Shwew! I've been holding that in for a long time! Now y'all can give me (us) the belated advice on whether or not to have kids that I (we) would have asked for back when Al Gore was still screamin' about global cooling and the New Ice Age! LOL

Good luck at the wedding no matter what everyone else decides for you, OP!
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