Will there be mentions of tea cups?

Not sure yet but probably.

Go for schmoop, but make it short, because odds are you will end up sobbing like a cranky small child, and most of your elegantly phrased vows will end up all soggy and snotty anyway.

Which I always like to watch, and it makes me cry at weddings too!

Also, make sure you stick some kleenex in your bodice. Not as stuffing, but so you can quickly wipe off the tears and blow your nose, before you walk back down the aisle and get your pics taken.

A couple of Kleenex, because a soggy tissue is not schmoop-enducing.

If you want more demand, you need to decrease the taxes for those in your target group so they have more spending.

As a UCLA Econ professor once told me, the rich will only buy so many refrigerators.

OTB? 'B' is bra but...

Glad you're well enough to be back at it, NoiseDesign!

Woke up to read that KPFA Morning Show staff is making a stand and had locked themselves in the studio. I woke up too late to catch it live and Democracy Now (a syndicated show) is on now so I don't know how things played out.

Gotta try to finish off that song today. Luckily someone from an online board is going to help me with drums. He does Windows and I'm Mac. I'm doing my stuff in Garage Band. So I'm not sure how to collaborate in a way that will work, technically.

Also, make sure you stick some kleenex in your bodice. Not as stuffing, but so you can quickly wipe off the tears and blow your nose, before you walk back down the aisle and get your pics taken.

I have a beautiful handkerchief for that purpose, and it is just going to be in our room at the inn, so no aisle to worry about. I think because it is just going to be the two of us and the JP, I can really say what I mean in the vows without worrying about what anyone else might think.

ION, one of my future mother-in-laws just e-mailed me to find out what room we are staying at in the inn. I am wondering if I should call the innkeeper to make sure no one has secretly booked any of the other rooms.

Aw, I think that's nice.

ETA: She probably is arranging a present, like a bottle of wine, or candles or flowers. (At least, I HOPE. Who would butt in on a bridal couples honeymoon?)

You only get married once...in a while. do what feels right to you. All I know about wedding prep is that my mother wigged the last time I heard 'gangster's paradise' and suggested it as a processional. But i used to think it would be "It's The End of The World As I know It"(but, at this rate, Mom, cynical or not, it's looking that way.)ETA: Although my favorite wedding article EVER was when David Simon hijacked "Vows". I wish I could see Charlotte York wrinkle her pretty little nose about that shit. But it was romantic, just not usual NYT-Vows romantic.

ION, one of my future mother-in-laws just e-mailed me to find out what room we are staying at in the inn. I am wondering if I should call the innkeeper to make sure no one has secretly booked any of the other rooms.

I would. My bro and SIL eloped, but SIL emailed her parents to say here's where we're getting married, and they showed up. My mother was a little pissed.

erikaj,I can imagine that's something that feels both good and bad. If there truly is nothing good there with the family, or if the bad outweighs the good, then it is a good thing you've managed to disengage. I imagine it's very hard to do. I'd bracket you but I don't know if that's your thing.

Continued good wishes on the run up to your elopement, sj.

Hubby and I had to provide false information on our honeymoon because his brother had plans to be disruptive. We told everyone we were going camping in a nearby national forest, then stayed home and parked the car a block away. His brother spent days combing the campgrounds for us.