I mean seriously, I'm pretty sure the bride and bridegroom would notice if two guys they have never seen crashed their wedding parties. All the other guests would probably be asking questions too.
Of course here in australia, birthday parties (generally 21st ones) are generally gatecrashed..but they usually wind up in riots and people getting killed. Certainly nothing like this film.
Come to think of it, it is a little strange for them to be going out of their way to be talking to the hosts of the wedding. I would think that they could pull it off if they made sure to avoid contact with the couple getting married or the parents. You would think that Christopher Walken and his wife would know who they invited to the wedding.
But either way, it's a low risk/high reward situation. You could go uncaught and get a free meal and free booze and get to bang hot women, or you could get caught and get asked to leave.
In real life, it's EXTREMELY difficult to crash a wedding. At least in America. A lot of people hire security for the reception and there is usually an invitation given. I'm sure some people have been successful at it, but I can't imagine anyone being that good at it. The closest I ever came to crashing a wedding was when I was attending a wedding in a hotel and noticed another wedding scheduled in a nearby reception hall. A couple of friends and I joked about it for a moment, as we were already dressed up and in the hotel for a legimitate wedding, but they had guys checking invites at the front of the ballroom. We could have mingled with some of that wedding's guests at the hotel's bar though, but the women we saw were butt ugly.
shareYou're right in one respect, but it's not entirely impossible considering the what these two characters do for a living in the town they live in.
Being arbirtration attorneys affords them a multitude of social connections and associations that extend beyond the 6 Degree of separation. The both of them would probably be 2 to 3 degrees apart from any of the people at any wedding they attend, including the bride and groom, and their extended family.
Where your observation holds true is that this film doesn't play up to their professions as it relates to their ability to schmooze and BS their way into the inner-circles at a wedding party. They make it look like anyone with an attitude and an inventive story can finagle their way into a bride's maid's panties.
"Where's your spark now?"
Would real-life wedding crashers be able to get away with it? Hard to say. But the fun of this movie is watching them get away with it, at least to the degree that they needed to to make the plot move.
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