For starters, I already said I was the maid of honor...after not seeing the bride 7 or so years, and not really being in touch beyond Christmas and birthday cards during that time. So fine, she asks me a year ago to be her maid of honor (at that time, she didn't have a date picked, so I couldn't very well lie and say I had a conflicting event.)
I'll just list the other oddities:
Benny Hill recessional music
Bridesmaids originally to have wrist corsages and not bouquets
the wedding had a theme -- cats and dogs. the favors were ceramic cats, the table decorations were made of fake ivy, dog biscuits, and cat toys. the cake had color-coordinated paw prints and a cat and dog topper. Birthday parties have themes. The theme of a wedding, outside of colors or a season, is the MARRIAGE for heavens sake.
The groomsman, AND THE GROOM changed into shorts and tshirts after pictures and during the dance. the bride and the bridesmaid were still in our dresses.
the unity candles (has any one ever seen a unity candle be executed flawlessly? fell over, lighting the table cloth on fire. I blew the flame out, and then had to turn both bouquets over to another bridesmaid during the vows so I could figure out a way get the tapers standing up again so they could light the stupid thing. After which, the tapers promptly fell over again.
the bridal party had our hair done at Cost Cutters...which was fine, they did a good job, but weddings are not a huge part of their business.
ok, reading this, it doesn't all seem so odd...maybe it's because I just lived through it, and had to assemble 100 6-page novels, I mean programs....
anyway. my other unusual wedding story is that my brother came to my sister's reception in a gorilla suit.
hermespal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
THERE you are, Diane! You ask for wedding disasters/bridezilla
stories, I dutifully serve one up, and NOTHING! ;-)
A few other near-disasters:
The absent-minded minister managed to lose my sister's rings just
before the ceremony. We had all of us elegantly dressed insiders
crawling around on the floor of the suite looking for them, found one
in the corner under a chair and the other under a radiator with five
minutes to go.
The other sister got married in Sonoma on a day it was a hundred and
ten in the shade and people were on the verge of passing out all over
the place. It was hell. Literally. And that marriage didn't last,
appropriately.
Oh, my cousin got married in Woodside under similar heat circumstances
and the groomsmen, poor bastards, were in MOURNING SUITS, complete
with tails, vest, cravat, shirt--and arranged on the steps to the
verandah of this house IN THE SUN--and they'd been out the night
before. I was watching one of them weaving (very pale and sweaty) and
just waiting for him to pitch over backwards into the bushes. He
didn't, but it was a close run thing.
Another friend is perpetually late to everything (her clock runs 35
minutes after the rest of the world) and she was, of course, 35
minutes late to her own wedding...
I'm trying to think of a bridezilla story...but most are just mishaps.
;-)
--- In [email protected], Diane Lochner
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> oh gawd. The Macarena was played at the Oddball Wedding I was in
last weekend. Thanks a lot for rekindling that....
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> Kate Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In
[email protected], Diane Lochner
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> > you are evil.
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> > areofilm <areofilm@> wrote: Allow me.
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> > Whatcha gonna do with all that junk?
> > All that junk inside that trunk?
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> > I'ma gonna get get get get you drunk.
> > Get you love drunk off my hump.
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> It could have been worse. It could have been the Macarena...
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