OT: Bridemaid Dress

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OT: Bridemaid Dress
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Mon, 08-11-2008 - 6:59pm

I got my bridesmaid dress today, it was shipped to me (another vent some other day). I just tried it on and it's 2 sizes to small. There is no way my big ol' booty is fitting in that dress. They are closed tomorrow, so I'm going to have and call them first thing on Wednesday. The wedding is 26 days away.


I have mention that I hate weddings.

Jenny


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Registered: 04-12-2007
Mon, 08-11-2008 - 8:56pm

I hate weddings, too, Jenny.

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Registered: 08-29-2006
Tue, 08-12-2008 - 1:40am

I feel your pain!!!!!!!!!

A few years ago I heard a stand up comedian say this:

"I have news for you. No one wants to go to your wedding." Then he expounded on all the reasons people hate going to weddings.

It was the first time I had ever heard anyone say this. I never knew other people felt like weddings were a pain in the neck.

I gained so much relief from this news as I have always been terrified of having to have a wedding for myself. Now I feel no pressure to have to have one. They are just not possible in my world. And now I know everyone would rather not attend any way.

My friend just got back from a wedding. The gossip that went around about the bride was just awful. I think weddings open a person up to a lot of gripping by the guests, etc.

Anyway, I hope you can get through this wedding with out too much doo doo and expense.

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Tue, 08-12-2008 - 7:47am
My sister & I have an unstable relationship to start with. She told me to be nice because they still have her dress, groom

Jenny

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Tue, 08-12-2008 - 7:56am

Yikes!

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Tue, 08-12-2008 - 8:15am

Just a thought.


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Tue, 08-12-2008 - 8:40am
You know I thought of that. I mention to my sister about 10 yrs ago, that I didn't want to be apart of her life. I just wanted notices of weddings, divorces, births and deaths. I was also thinking that we have this mutale friend that is like our 2nd sister (did that make sence), that would fit in the dress. She is a stick and I wonder how she doesn't blow away in the wind.

Jenny


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Registered: 01-05-2006
Tue, 08-12-2008 - 10:22am

Its not to late to make changes, sounds like your sister would not care one way or the other just so her wedding goes smoothly.



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Tue, 08-12-2008 - 3:02pm

What a dreadful shame, to think that everyone hates weddings and "no one wants to come to your wedding." At its best, a wedding is a celebration joined in by people who love the bride and groom, are happy they are together, and want to celebrate it.

Of course, the bride & groom can help by not making unreasonable demands of their guests and by being decent people to begin with. When they start thinking that getting married means that they get to make people do whatever they want because they're the center of the world, that does cause problems. The best weddings are the ones where the bride and groom want to have a *marriage*, not a *wedding day*, and their chief concern with the reception is that their guests enjoy themselves, not that they impress everyone with the perfection of their flowers/hair/gown/whatever.

I've been to many weddings and enjoyed almost all of them. If I don't want to go to a wedding because I don't like (or really know) the bride and groom, I just don't go - there's no law of etiquette that says I must go to someone's wedding. But I wouldn't have missed the delight of seeing my best friends get married, in settings that ranged from completely DIY parties at the firehouse hall to $50,000 celebrations. People told us for years afterward what a great time they had at our wedding, which was a modest reception for 70 of our close friends and family, in a great, fun setting that was easy for just about everyone to get to. I'd like to think that they weren't lying, if they brought it up 10 years later!

For the original poster, this sounds like a lousy situation, and I am very sorry that you have to put up with this.

Kelly

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Tue, 08-12-2008 - 7:19pm

Yes, I think a lot of people are burnt out on weddings.

I even heard of a couple who placed a full page add in a newspaper announcing that they will no longer attend any one's weddings due to exhaustion. Attending weddings are expensive.

Maybe couples should focus their marriages rather than the BIG DAY. The whole princess thing is tacky.

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Wed, 08-13-2008 - 8:52am

"Maybe couples should focus their marriages rather than the BIG DAY. "


Amen to that!

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