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OMG that list of dresses. Terrifying! Parasols?!

My wedding dress came with a butt bow; I had them cut it off. I don't understand the propensity of dress designers to ruin a perfectly good dress with huge bows.

Also, I want to come to your party, luna!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost
I haven't sold it or gave it away b/c my grandmother bought it for me. and she's passed away. :(

But I certainly can't imagine doing something like passing it on to a daughter; "Here's a dress I wore when I married someone who wasn't your father."

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I am not inviting her...

Of course you can come, Sara. I can't decide if it should be a weekend of events so there could be costume changes, or just the one night.

― luna (luna), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I just kinda felt bad about getting rid of mine, but it's not like Spencer will want it. I should probably get it cleaned and drop it off at Goodwill.

― luna (luna), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Costume changes, ha. Sadly, I'm more likely to fit into the bridesmaids dress than the wedding dress, although I suppose since I was pregnant, the waist would be awfully big. After having two kids, I suspect my hips and my wedding dress are never going to feel comfortable together again.

My wedding dress is hanging in the closet in its bag. I'd like it if J. were to wear it someday, but I think it's unlikely because she has Coolidge genes and is apt to be a lot taller than me - and have a long waist instead of a short one.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I wore my mum's wedding dress. It was awesomely plain and fitted me really well, also wedding dresses be expensive and I hate spending money on clothes. I used to use it for dressing up as a kid, and it was crumpled and messed up, but a bit of tailoring, a new lining and some industrial-strength pressing and it was good as new.

I keep wanting to start a "what do you look like in your wedding photos" thread on ILX, but I think I'll wait until we get back to the other place. Mostly because if I'm going to post more photos of me, I'd like them to be on the day I had my hair and make-up done by a professional.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

There is no way on earth I would ever post my wedding pictures - I had clown hair and the photographer sucked ass.

― luna (luna), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Having said that, of course, I love to look at other people's!

― luna (luna), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I would totally post mine (assuming I could get to a scanner)! My hair looked decent (done by a professional!) and I actually wore contact lenses. (I never wore contacts again after that day, btw).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I looked. . .not me. But not bad in the scheme of things I guess.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't have any of mine anymore. I wouldn't really care to see them anyhow.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I looked not me either. It was pre getting my eyebrows un-unruly. My hair was its natural colour. But there are some good photos there. Also, yeah, despite being the ungirliest girl ever, I really like looking at other people's wedding photos.

Thread'll just get hijacked by people wanting to go on about how marriage is the worst thing ever, won't it?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - I WOULD! You look so dapper in all photos, actually real formal occasion photos would be TEH AWESOME.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Thread'll just get hijacked by people wanting to go on about how marriage is the worst thing ever, won't it?

Oh, I was wondering where the words from my mouth went.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

See, ailsa, I wasn't all THAT dapper. I think I prefer the idealized memory of it to seeing photos and thinking, 'I wore WHAT? God forefend!'

― Michael White (Miguelito), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

well you're way more dapper than the average joe so I better your "not all that dapper" is still pretty damn good.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I had my bridesmaids wear black saris (one friend was from India and dressed the others). About $24 each, every body type looked good, and in the end they have a very long, very beautiful piece of fabric. I just wish I'd bought an extra for myself!

― patita (patita), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I let my sister (my mom said "oh your sister is your maid of honor") pick whatever she wanted to wear, and didn't have any other bridesmaids because it was all planned and executed within three weeks.

― luna (luna), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Mine was a quick one too and my sister was her maid of honor and her friends, bridesmaids as my ex-wife to be was French and didn't have many friends yet. She had a white dress that she found somehwere and fluffy, white boa feather stripper mules that she got from Carol Doda's shop. I wore a cream colored suit. My mom got me too high at the reception. It was all so long ago and so very cute.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

My mom got me too high at the reception.

I'm only working until 11 today. How much work will I actually get done? place bets now please.

I also brought in a king cake. sugar and coffee and coffee and sugar. .

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

What units is work measured in, anyway?

Yeah, Sam, and afterwards I had to go deal with my rather prudish in-laws. I can still speak French when stoned but I had the worst cottonmouth. Since my wife's sister and brother spoke a smattering of English they mingled with my friends and family well enough but their parents needed someone besides their kids to make them part of the festivities and translate for them. It was kind of hilarious, actually, but smacked of work a bit.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

What units is work measured in, anyway?

time not spent looking at Ilx?

You're reception actually sounds like it was kind of fun.

my eyes and nose are itchy, damn allergies.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

my sights are already trained on the long weekend ahead of us, partly to distract me from the possible bad news from the foundation repair estimate.

Michael, your reception sounds like it could be a movie!

― patita (patita), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

This is where I shall encourage Tep to start an ILM thread on the YouTube video he shared elsewhere this morning. He must.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

It was low-key but lots of fun. Buffet of French delicacies, champagne, a traditional pièce montée wedding cake (a croquembouche, really) and dancing. I went through about 800 champagne glasses 'cause I kept on having to do something and kept putting them down only to find they had subsequently disappeared. This has nothing whatsoever to do with my mom's pot, of course.

Isn't it early for allergies, Sam?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Somebody remix that Samwell song with Kyle's mom going "whatwhatWHAT?" plz thx.

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i need to hear about your house search, K.

I get no long weekend. :(

xpost - mold and cedar are high in TX right now.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Somebody remix that Samwell song with Kyle's mom going "whatwhatWHAT?" plz thx.

Oh hell yes.

Ned, I don't think I've EVER started an ILM thread!

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

HERE'S YOUR CHANCE

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to go back in time to Michael White's wedding reception.

And I want some King Cake! Yum. (Did you make it yourself Sam? Also - is it already that close to Lent? Whoa.)

I have a take home test to do over the weekend. BLAH.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

(Did you make it yourself Sam? Also - is it already that close to Lent? Whoa.)

HA!

In fact I shouldn't even call it a king cake as I bought it at the grocery store. oh the shame. I just wanted to bring something in this morning since my boss is letting me leave early. I've had three slices already and still no baby!

(yes it's almost lent. My aunt and uncle are leaving for NOLA in the morning. so jealous.)

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, what's a king cake? Is it like a cake served at epiphany?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

The king cakes I've had always have a delicious almond filling; I think the cake itself is kind of like a sweet yeast bread, isn't it? (It's been too long!) They were also decorated with purple sugar on top. Oh yeah, and there's a charm inside - is it a little plastic baby Sam? - that, if you get it, you are "king" for the day.

I hope I'm remembering that all right.

Usually served near Mardi Gras, I think.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, and you can get a kit to make one through the Baker's Catalog aka kingarthurflour.com. Highly recommended! (Maybe it's too late to do that this year - maybe *I* should go to the bakery...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

In Louisiana: any time from Twelfth Night to Mardi Gras -- they're traditionally cinnamon and on the dry side, but then they started making cream cheese and praline ones, and now they've got 40 flavors like everything else. Find the baby in your piece, and you have to buy the next one. (During a long Carnival season, offices go through a lot of king cakes.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Every time I read this thread I wind up hungry.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't even get me started -- I went grocery shopping last night and today is a flurry of kitchen activity with gusts of Coca-Cola.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

... well, and work.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i def. want a real king cake now. this ones way too sweet. it's got some sort of pecan-y filling and insanely sugary icing, then purple, yellow and green sugar pony beads on top. ack!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, that does sound too sweet. I just want the almond filling from the Baker's Catalog (I make no claims as to "real" or "not real"). Almond filling is almost as awesome as dark chocolate...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

'Cause in France you make galette des rois for epiphany (twelfth night). It's usually pâte feuilletée willed with frangipane. If you get the fève ( literally fava bean, but now they're made of porcelain. *) you're officially the king of the party and have to host next year's. It's said that the fava bean they used has its cultural origin in Saturnalia, the 'king' of many Roman feasts being elected by having the most beans depositied in his urn.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

You are all making me too hungry. Happily I am having Persian cuisine tonight. And Brazilian tomorrow. All is well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

willed with frangipane

Found poetry!

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

that page is in french!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, yeah. There is a link there to 'king cake, though.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

In Expiation, Sam. ;)

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

You know, sometimes I really hate people.

― luna (luna), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that who I think it is on that thread, lune?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha, and here I thought luna had a serious hatred of French!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Beats me.

Haha - no, if that was true Sara, I'd be disowned. It's bad enough that I don't like lobster.

― luna (luna), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

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