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.....
Can't you ever get your mind out of the hellmouth?
Buffy ,'Touched'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 13, 2005 5:53:48 am PDT #9365 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2005 5:53:57 am PDT #9366 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.)
flea - Jul 13, 2005 5:54:15 am PDT #9367 of 10001
information libertarian
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.)
Jessica - Jul 13, 2005 5:54:37 am PDT #9368 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
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.
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2005 5:56:28 am PDT #9369 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2005 5:57:40 am PDT #9370 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
My academic department took me out to dinner (at a great place - the Montgomery Inn at the Boathouse)
Yum yum YUM.
Jessica - Jul 13, 2005 5:58:51 am PDT #9371 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
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.
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2005 5:59:54 am PDT #9372 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Okay, and now Jess. Clearly Buffista weddings are superior.
juliana - Jul 13, 2005 6:01:20 am PDT #9373 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
We had 1 attendant each, my MiL made the bouquets, my shower was a lingerie one, and it was "girl's night out" instead of a bachelorette (didn't stop me from getting drunk, but we didn't do any of the cringe-inducing things. Just dinner and dancing). The only stress involved was my mother being CRAXY, but that was induced by her less-than-stellar home life and the recent death of a friend. No one was expected to spend *anything* except gas to get to the two locations. I just wanted my peeps near me, and that I got. It was good.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2005 6:02:26 am PDT #9374 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I liked the two times I was a bridesmaid. Of course, it didn't cost me anything other than my plane ticket to Vancouver for the one (which, really, same cost as if I wasn't the chief bridesmaid). I'm still agog at the whole expense incurring thing. If it weren't for the interweb, I wouldn't know that it was standard for it to cost the maids money. At least the groomsmen get lapdances, you know?