Vortex, that is totally craxxy. And if you're looking at $500 already, I think you're totally justified in considering THAT your gift. You're giving this woman your time, your energy, your help in planning and carrying out this (insanely large) number of events, and a $500 investment in all of the above? That's your gift. You're done.
Thus have I spake, and I had a big ol' schmancy church wedding with a total wedding party (including myself and Hec) of 14, and we did it without the crazy drama and without sending all our attendants to the poorhouse. $150 apiece for a wine-tour bachelorette party? The fuck? My bachelorette party was my MOH and another friend taking me to a nice Italian restaurant to eat too much pasta, drink too much prosecco, and gossip about crazy family antics, total cost about $25 apiece. And it was lovely, and the universe didn't collapse because I didn't get an Event.
Has this bride always been like this, or is it just the wedding-planning that's making everything all craxy?
Also, new tag.
t just finished watching last night's Daily Show
Yeah, sumi, I think that's at the root of the not telling anyone. Watching
her son be so solicitous
had me ready to cry. I think she also is hoping that
Tommy will say he doesn't want the baby so she can stage a miscarriage or something. I don't know how else she's gonna dig herself out of it - get pregnant immediately and handwave the extremely long pregnancy?
I didn't even get one shower. Now I feel cheated.
I turn out to be a natural at making the ribbon bouquet, if you ever feel the need for one of those.....
Weddings = freaky.
My bro and future SIL are having one attendant-person each, who were told to wear whatever they want. SIL asked me if I minded not being a bridesmaid, and I told her that, on the contrary, the fact that I'm NOT makes me love her even more.
(However, my family is fulfilling the Bridezilla duties in her stead. Familyzilla. They're driving me fucking NUTS. Should I ever get married, I am SO eloping.)
My academic department took me out to dinner (at a great place - the Montgomery Inn at the Boathouse) and bought me camping gear at Wal-mart when I got married. I think that was the extent of my "shower"ing.
But then, I did have the kind of wedding where the bride and groom drove the 3-tiered cake 45 miles to the ceremony location in the back of their aged Toyota Corolla hatchback. (Note to future marriers - while it ended well, this was not a good idea for stress reasons alone. I had to compulsively recount stories fron Herodotus to keep from flipping out with worry. Ask Nutty, she was there.)
If we make you a wedding dress out of toilet paper will you feel better?
It couldn't hurt to try!
I will also accept consolation in the form of chocolate and cash.
Thus have I spake, and I had a big ol' schmancy church wedding with a total wedding party (including myself and Hec) of 14, and we did it without the crazy drama and without sending all our attendants to the poorhouse.
JZ, your wedding is a total anomaly in my pantheon of Weddings I Have Known And Like To Tell Stories About. I think you should teach brides how to do a wedding right and proper. If I had ever been in a wedding like yours, I might not have such a dim view of The Lost Art of Bridesmaiding.
Thus have I spake, and I had a big ol' schmancy church wedding with a total wedding party (including myself and Hec) of 14, and we did it without the crazy drama and without sending all our attendants to the poorhouse.
Except that our wedding party was 8 (3 attendants each), and there was no church, this is me.
Okay, and now Jess. Clearly Buffista weddings are superior.
