• gingersoul said on Oct 18, 2007....

  LJ......I.Completely.Agree.With.You....

  I am so fed up with all these people (mostly women...i know, i know) who go so over the top and histerical about their f***g wedding day...like they deserve anything for some Divine Law...

  They spend money thay dont even have..indebitating thmselves and their families for years and for what? For stupid vanity and for chasing the dream of the Perfect Day....

  Wake up, ladies...use that money to open a saving account......you will need it when you divorce.....

   

• kruuyai said on Oct 18, 2007....

  $27,000 on flowers?  How the hell many flowers did she have?  My whole wedding including the dress, the invitations, the meal, the music.... everything... cost a grand total of $1,000.

• gingersoul said on Oct 18, 2007....

  Kruu .. the only flowers at my wedding have been my bouquet and a composition in the middle of the only dinner able.....

  Some people is abso-fucking-lutely crazy!

• lioneljay said on Oct 18, 2007....

  Ginger, I have never been a fan of the spend-it-all-on-a-humongous-wedding philosophy either. I simply don't get the appeal of such affairs.
  
  Kruu, my wedding was probably many years before yours, but if I recall correctly our total budget was not much different from yours. Simple and with taste. We spent money on a terrific small brass combo for church music and then for a fabulous hazelnut torte made by a great bakery instead of a cardboard cake with overly precious decorations.
  
  And ginger, I hear your second point but last I checked, my divorce fund still isn't quite big enough. Gotta keep saving I guess. ;)
  

• kruuyai said on Oct 18, 2007....

  LJ:  My wedding was in 1982.  For that price tag (which was even small for the times), I got a beautiful and unusual dress, a wedding on the terrace overlooking Lake Michigan at an Italian Renaissance style decorative arts museum, an afternoon reception in a lodge at a park on the Milwaukee river with lunch (indoor and outdoor seating) and a nice cake.  We had a guitarist and vocalist at the ceremony, but no music at the reception, because neither I nor my husband were dancers, but many people told us it was the most enjoyable wedding they'd been to, because you could actually carry on a conversation with people
  
  ginger:  The flowers I picked (to match my bridesmaids' gowns) were aliums, which consist of a cluster of purple flowers on thick stalks that look like celery sticks.  They're part of the onion family. The night before the wedding, the florist called and said, "Um, we have a problem with your flowers... they smell like onions."  I told them not to worry about it, because the wedding was going to be outdoors.  Little did I suspect that bumblebees have a nose for onions.  More than once, that bouquet got tossed...and not into the waiting arms of hopeful brides-to-be, but to the ground to get the bees away from me!
  

• slirpuff said on Oct 18, 2007....

  One day does not a marriage or life make.

  If I was her husband, I'd be running and fast...

• lioneljay said on Oct 18, 2007....

  Slirpuff, she'd probably sue his ass too. 

• kruuyai said on Oct 18, 2007....

  I imagine the husband was in on the lawsuit, too.

• Eilan said on Oct 18, 2007....

  Dayum!
  
  My best friend from high school spent $1000's on flowers and borrowed her wedding dress.  I though that was kinda amusing.
  

• gingersoul said on Oct 18, 2007....

  LJ......darn......i will keep waiting then.....LOL...

• wombat said on Oct 18, 2007....

  I agree--huge, expensive weddings are a waste of money.  I had one fairly nice one but it didn't cost much.  (My dress cost $80---but it was very pretty.)
   
  This marriage--we "ran up to the court house" on a Friday and got married.  Had to ask two people hanging around to be witnesses!
   
  Flowers?  The best ones were the ones he brought home for no reason at all on down the line.

• BlueHotRage said on Oct 18, 2007....

  One more reason why I sorely hope I never get married:  Bridezillas.
   
  *shudder*
   
  They can give the very idea of marriage the type of self-centered, chemical-trash stink not unlike what teenage girls spray on themselves, mistakenly thinking it's "perfume"...
   
  And, yes, that's the best analogy I can come up with right now.

• Fallyn said on Oct 30, 2007....

  if i ever get married  i don't think my day would be perfect without SOMETHING going wrong.
  
  i desperately want something really funny to happen at my wedding.
  
  i think an imperfect wedding and freaking out about it is a sign that a bride can't handle real life.
  
  i would just want it to be a super happy day.
  
  my mom is SOOOOOO good at doing wedding planning.....
  but she won't become a professional at it because she's scared to death of screwing up someone's wedding and getting yelled at.
  

• UncleCharlie said on Oct 30, 2007....

  LJ, Speaking of brides, I followed another thread in which you referred to yours as a Cubs fan. Others commented that she must be a masochist. Here's your perfect anniversary gift: www.cubbyblues.com My wife didn't spend a fortune on her wedding or the flowers, but when the florist didn't show (they showed up an hour late because they went to the wrong church), she stood her ground in the back of that church and wouldn't step one foot down the aisle without her bouquet--even though the minister was pleading with her because he had to go to another wedding. As soon as she had the flowers in her hand, she smiled and cued the organist. I stood at the alter waiting there the whole time. It was beautiful.

• Fallyn said on Oct 31, 2007....

  I'm gonna just have dogwood flowers off a tree for my wedding...guess if i'm gonna do that it'll have to be within a two week window here....or they won't be blooming.
  
  

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