It was fun, and the aunts really didn't care.
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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 - Mar 28, 2006 9:28:59 am PST #6747 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2006 9:29:18 am PST #6748 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Take the lunch, Jesse.
Most of the Jamaican-influenced weddings I've been to involved happy jolly bumping and grinding on the dancefloor, so the garter thing was hardly isolated in tone, and by the time all was said and done, less raunchy that some of the less ritualised stuff going on.
Allyson - Mar 28, 2006 9:31:52 am PST #6749 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
No, it was here. You crave an omelet as a cheese conveyance.
Oh dear. The lack of cheese has caused the brain fever.
Allyson, what are you detoxing from, and why, and how? I have the strong impression that I missed something.
I am detoxing from Too Much Coffee, which is giving me bellyaches, too much sugar, and too much bread.
I'm at odds with the dairy thing. My dairy tends to be low fat/fat free. But it's just ten days, so WHATEV.
It's like dietary bootcamp, where I'm getting all the crappy food habits out of my system, and once I'm broken down, I'll rebuild with a few things like honey, my usual Splenda sweetener, black tea, fat free milk, low fat cheese, and just a serving of either good healthy cereal or whole wheat bread.
And then I'll make oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips, as god intended.
DXMachina - Mar 28, 2006 9:31:54 am PST #6750 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I have been to more than one wedding that had both bouquet and garter toss, but no garter putting on. I was a wee horrified when I saw it the first time.
I refused to do the garter toss at my wedding. I'd never heard of it before, and was completely dumbfounded that they wanted me to do something so stupid.
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2006 9:35:51 am PST #6751 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
An hour or so ago my sister was walking down the road on a call with me when a stranger stopped her to ask her for directions. Her response was "Can't you see I'm on the phone???"
I have no idea why that cracks me up so.
kat perez - Mar 28, 2006 9:37:46 am PST #6752 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
I apparently have never seen the entire garter toss ritual played out because I'm just reading for the first time here today about the whole "put the garter on the woman who caught the bouquet." I must say that I was already sufficiently freaked out about the groom being all up under the dress in mixed company, but this other thing. Does the garter-catcher get all up under the dress of the bouquet catcher? Cause ew.
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2006 9:39:01 am PST #6753 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the groom being all up under the dress in mixed company
How are you defining "mixed"?
the garter-catcher get all up under the dress of the bouquet catcher?
Durn skippy.
bon bon - Mar 28, 2006 9:39:15 am PST #6754 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
It was fun, and the aunts really didn't care.
Yeah, better the fun than CD fascism.
Trudy Booth - Mar 28, 2006 9:40:25 am PST #6755 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Does the garter-catcher get all up under the dress of the bouquet catcher? Cause ew.
To exclaimations of "every inch above the knee is more good luck!" and the like.
msbelle - Mar 28, 2006 9:42:05 am PST #6756 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
well it is nice that your aunts are so easy going. The fact remains that people should know better.
A general thing that KILLS me at weddings/receptions is how people not involved with the planning at all get all "well when are they doing this? It simply can;t be a wedding without this." Newsflash, there is not a mandatory order of services for a wedding OR reception. If you were a planner on the wedding you would know what was going on. you weren't, you don't, shuddup.