At 04:35 PM 6/18/2003 -0600, Kestrel wrote:

>comfortably dressed because the reception was a bbq :) The invitation also
>said something along the lines of  -We've been blessed with so much, so in
>lieu of gifts please make a donation to any of the charities below, or to a
>cause close to your hearts- wording is probably off, but I thought the way
>they did it was really cool.


Marti started off with that kind of thing -- reading all the brides'
magazines, looking at the expensive gowns, all that folderol, which she did
NOT get the taste for from ME!!!

However, after the initial blush, reality began to set in, and she came
home with a very nice $50 white dress from Cato Plus which worked
excellently well as a wedding dress.  The German-American Club rental
wasn't terribly much as these things go ($350 or something, to have it for
the entire day, including bartender, on-premises manager and his frau, and
access to the kitchen for her catering sister), the DJ was a friend who did
the gig as a present to them, and such as that.  So she considerably scaled
back her expectations, and I think had a better time for it.  Oh, yes, the
officiating official was a friend's father, a real estate lawyer/notary
public who loves to do weddings, has a very nice service he wrote himself
and which, of course, has variations to suit every bride & groom's taste,
and who charges a bottle of Scotch for his services!  

>Anyway -- it was *the* best wedding I've ever been to! *Everyone* thought
>so, and my friend and her new husband (a shy kinda guy) were relaxed and
>genuinely having fun. (which, near as I can tell, is not usually the case)

Overall, it was very nice.

>I do NOT get the entire wedding juggernaut thing... seems to me such a
>momentous event should be...well... not a circus.

Keys and I had a very inexpensive wedding, and we were later vindicated
when he came across one of those 'page a day' calendars that had various
"laws" on it.  This one is Thoms' law:  "The duration of the
marriage is
inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding."  We've borne that out.
Heeheehee.

>Did anyone else here see the Dr. Phil show with the woman who wanted to
>spend 48 thousand dollars on her wedding? (flying in dozens of a rare rose
>from God knows where... most expensive rose in the world)  Her fiance had
>like 2k in the bank, and she was wanting him to take out a loan to pay for
>this thing... Dr. Phil looked at him and said "You're going to
*love* me"
>and then basically asked if she was out of her mind  It was a riot :)

They're rerunning that one tomorrow in daytime here.  Heeheehee.  What is
this girl thinking, for crying out loud.  Good for Dr. Phil for
straightening her out -- if she really did listen, that is!  Sheesh!

Veloci--people is the craziest monkeys--raptor
 

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