I'm going to email the news website and complain about the crappy reporting.
Good. Crappy reporting will only encourage more monkeys to go nuts.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
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.
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2005 7:27:13 am PDT #9462 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jesse - Jul 13, 2005 7:27:35 am PDT #9463 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Unless she already has RSVP's.
She said three months out, right? Anyway. I spent too much time last month trying to calm down a hyperventilating bride because of the people who had told her parents they "wouldn't miss it!" about her September wedding. We were trying to explain that that did not necessarily mean they were actually going to be able to make it. I don't think it ever took.
amych - Jul 13, 2005 7:27:56 am PDT #9464 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
One thing I noticed at all my relatives weddings -- no accomidations were made for vegetarians.
This? Sucks for any social gathering, not just weddings. For that matter, it sucks even if there are no vegetarians invited. Also bad is providing one sad little token plate of veg food that's immediately eaten by the omnivores.
Vortex - Jul 13, 2005 7:29:23 am PDT #9465 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Is she taking into account the fact that not everyone will go? Just a thought.
Even with that taken into account, she’s looking at 175. they’re inviting over 200
Vortex, so... what does she want you to do about it?
I’m a problem solver. I’ve told her that she needs to move the time to 2PM, and serve heavy hors d’oeuvres. That way, you get rid of the sit-down tables (you have a few scattered around for older people, and those who just want to sit), but the majority is standing, so you have tons more room.
-t - Jul 13, 2005 7:29:31 am PDT #9466 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Part of our catering challenge was having plenty of vegetarian options. You do have to ask for them specifically, in my experience. Though that's probably affected by geography.
Jesse - Jul 13, 2005 7:32:05 am PDT #9467 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In non-wedding news, I screwed up something at my other job, kind of, but it's only a crisis because my boss waited so long to even ask me to do it and then never followed up. So I think he's getting in trouble, and that makes me laugh. I am the worst employee ever.
shrift - Jul 13, 2005 7:32:37 am PDT #9468 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
What on earth is a makeup test?
Going to get makeup done before the actual wedding so we can find someone who doesn't make us look like we fell face-first back into the '80s.
How about "Hire a stripper and both the bride and I will kill you in a fun and entertaining way. For us. For you, maybe not so fun."
Heh. Currently, I'm thinking of including: "No presents, no strippers, no suck for a buck, and no genitalia. Of any kind."
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2005 7:35:57 am PDT #9469 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Argh. The chance that the weather will cooperate for the shuttle launch today has been lowered to 40%.
Nilly - Jul 13, 2005 7:35:58 am PDT #9470 of 10001
Swouncing
she was a little surprised that anyone would want to spend a week after the wedding with their family and friends.
One thing I never do, however, is schedule a "sheva brakhot" on the first evening after the wedding. Even if it means I can't have one for a couple who wants me to have one. On the first night after the wedding, I assume, the couple really doesn't want to see anybody else.
Plus, there's a whole part of "new face" - a new person who wasn't at the wedding itself should be present, so it gives opportunities for people who couldn't attend the wedding itself, for some reason, to take part in the celebrations.
Also, from the numbers you're throwing around - it seems like the weddings you describe are so much smaller than the ones here. Vortex' numbers, for example (200 guests), will be considered here a very small wedding. The average is 300-400 guests. It's not considered "big" before around 700 guests. The smallest wedding I've ever attended was 50 guests, and when I tell it to people here, they don't believe me that it could be that small.
Hil R. - Jul 13, 2005 7:36:48 am PDT #9471 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
But it really is a lot of fun, and you don't feel as much pressure at the wedding to socialize with everyone because you have like six more nights of "receptions."
The other thing I like about the organization of Orthodox weddings is that, with all the pre-ceremony stuff (there's a word for that, right? I can't remember it now), there's much more allowance for people to get there late and not miss the actual wedding ceremony.
The last wedding I went to, it was a buffet with two carving stations (one beef of some sort, one poultry of some sort) and then a huge table of Israeli foods, almost all of which were vegetarian. There wasn't any hot vegetarian food, but there were a whole ton of different salads and vegetables and stuff like that.