I was just as glad to not get a gift other than the hair and makeup professionally done -- I never would have paid for that myself, and it looked great.
Lydia: Its removal from Burma is a felony and when triggered it has the power to melt human eyeballs.
Giles: In that case I've severely underpriced it.
'Potential'
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 6:33:07 am PDT #9402 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Emily - Jul 13, 2005 6:33:47 am PDT #9403 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
The %&(@*$ games. I have a cordial loathing for enforced 'fun' and anything designed to embarrass the GoH.
Word. Word word word. Out of curiosity, Anne, have you ever done the 4MAT learning styles test?
Emily - Jul 13, 2005 6:34:48 am PDT #9404 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I've gotten quite nice bridesmaid gifts, as well - a nice necklace in one case, a little backpack and -- wait for it -- martini shaker! in another.
sarameg - Jul 13, 2005 6:37:29 am PDT #9405 of 10001
I think the most stressful parts of being the MoH turned out to be talking the bride down after a fight because the groom's friends took him out and got stinking drunk the night before the wedding and he fell asleep on the front lawn and dealing with the groom getting shirty with me when I made him wear a seatbelt and THEN I wouldn't let him smoke pot in the rental car (!)
I have issues with the groom still.
-t - Jul 13, 2005 6:38:58 am PDT #9406 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not only did I never have a bridal shower, I've never been to one. I did go to a "couple's shower" for the COO at DH's company (the same guy who is under investigation now!) and his wife when she was his fiance. I bought the gift that we gave jointly with another couple, they got the thank you note. Not a great experience.
THis is me trying to let go of the lingering suspicion that I treated my bridesmaids badly. It was over a year ago, they're all still speaking to me, I'm letting it go.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2005 6:39:26 am PDT #9407 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The most important thing I did as chief bridesmaid was to get violently sick the night before the wedding. It transported the bride into an uncanny calm a few hours ahead of schedule.
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2005 6:40:09 am PDT #9408 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
The FAC brides whose weddings I was in (3 or 4; I can't remember any more) gave crap bridesmaids gifts. I went shopping with one bride for the gifts, which were really ugly $10 rhinestone earrings from Claire's that we were expected to wear with the dresses.
Another bride made earrings from plastic beads -- and we were expected to wear them, too. And that was the extent of our gifts. That's the same bride who wrote these long, meaningful letters of appreciation to all of her bridesmaids EXCEPT me, who was her roommate at the time.
I really dislike those people.
Anne W. - Jul 13, 2005 6:41:10 am PDT #9409 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Out of curiosity, Anne, have you ever done the 4MAT learning styles test?
No, I haven't. To be perfectly honest, I'm not even sure I've heard about it (but my brain today is a big pile o' undercaffeinated sludge.)
Anne W. - Jul 13, 2005 6:42:25 am PDT #9410 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Best friend (the one with the best wedding I'd ever been to) gave her bridesmaids Levenger goodie bags.
JohnSweden - Jul 13, 2005 6:44:10 am PDT #9411 of 10001
I can't even.
I gave U2 tickets to my best man and his wife (that I stood in line for two days to get). I don't remember what I gave my buddy who was the usher. His wife, the minister, we gave an antique hurricane lamp. I wasn't as involved in the decision-making on that last, as the first.