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DaOld Man:
Congrats!!

tommy:
People live and have jobs just to take advantage of people who want a nice wedding and all the stuff that goes with it. People are sitting around waiting and hoping someone will call them just to over charge you on every possible thing they can while you're on your "happy day".

You don't need to get ripped off to be married and have a happy life.

shmokes:
If there's ONE thing you can save money on, it's the veil.  My wife saw the price of veil's at the dress store and was like, "---fudgesicle--- that, I could do that."  (Bear in mind that my wife has ZERO sewing skills).  Rather than spending $300 on a veil she went to the fabric store, bought the material (like $7 of fabric  . . . it's called tulle).  She cut it out, and voila, she not only had a veil, but she had a veil that was prettier than any of the ones at the store.  So easy.  She also made the ring pillow, which turned out beautiful.  Seriously, though, if you haven't already wasted your money on a veil, make it.  It's easy.  Come to think of it, you could probably just do a google search "make your own veil" or something and you'd find instructions.

For the pillow, just find some brocade fabric of the right color.   Sew a couple squares of it together, stuff it, and then put a stitch right through the center of it to put a dimple in the middle of it.  We sewed a rope to the center to tie the rings to.  A ribbon would also work.  Simple.  Remember to turn it inside out when you're sewing the sides together and then just leave enough of an opening to turn it back right-side-out and stuff the thing, so most of your seam will be hidden.  Including some pics of my hot wife with her veil  over her head (with my cute flower-girl nieces), as well as one with it back the way it was for most of the party.  Also found a pic of my nephew (ring bearer) holding the ring pillow.  We actually have some close-up shots of the ring-pillow but I can't find any in digital form so this is the best I can do.  Trust me, though, look for brocade fabric.  It can be difficult to find, but it's worth it.  Perfect for a ring pillow.

BTW, what do you mean by a gypsy theme?  That dress (which is an awesome choice, btw) doesn't seem to fit the bill.  Between the two, I'd go with a theme that complements the dress rather than the other way around.  I wouldn't be surprised if ten years down the road you have no interest whatsoever in gypsies and wonder what on earth made you decide to revolve your wedding around them, or pirates, or superheroes or any other thing that has or will catch your fancy at any given time in your life.  I don't mean at all to rain on your parade, and I don't see anything wrong with having a fun theme for a wedding if that's what you're into.  But if you were really into it, it just seems that your wife would have chosen a dress that was more gypsy-ee, you know?  If your hearts aren't totally into the theme, I'd consider ditching it.

edit: spelling

shmokes:

--- Quote from: tommy on January 26, 2008, 01:50:30 am ---People live and have jobs just to take advantage of people who want a nice wedding and all the stuff that goes with it. People are sitting around waiting and hoping someone will call them just to over charge you on every possible thing they can while you're on your "happy day".

You don't need to get ripped off to be married and have a happy life.

--- End quote ---

My wedding was far and away the best party I've ever been to.  I wouldn't for one second consider trading it to get my money back.  It started at 6:00 and ended at midnight and I was really sad when midnight rolled around and it was over.  Most people cannot afford to throw parties like that (including me), and there are few occasions that are important enough to convince a person to throw a party like that.  I say go all out.

But . . . do it on your own terms.  Do not . . . hold on . . . DO NOT have a wedding line.  Don't do it.  My wife and I toyed with the idea of not having a wedding line, and we weren't sure how it would work, but in the end we decided to ditch the line.  We figured, guests hate walking through the wedding line, and the bride and groom and their parents and bride's maids, etc., hate standing in the wedding line, awkwardly shaking a bunch of hands . . . if everybody hates it, why should we do it?  We were right.  We even enlisted the help of my youngest brother to keep an eye on the door and let us know when new guests arrived so we could be sure to go greet them.  This step turned out to be totally unnecessary, as whenever guests arrived the first thing they did was scan the room for the bride and groom (we were fairly conspicuous) and come congratulate us.  The wedding line will just waste a bunch of your night doing something tedious.  It's (hopefully) the only wedding night you'll ever have.  For god's sake, don't waste a good portion of it doing something that everybody, including the guests, find to be a tedious bore.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: shmokes on January 26, 2008, 06:42:07 pm ---But . . . do it on your own terms.  Do not . . . hold on . . . DO NOT have a wedding line.  Don't do it.  My wife and I toyed with the idea of not having a wedding line, and we weren't sure how it would work, but in the end we decided to ditch the line.

... whenever guests arrived the first thing they did was scan the room for the bride and groom (we were fairly conspicuous) and come congratulate us.
--- End quote ---
It depends on the party size and if people all arrive at sort of the same time. On my wedding something like 250 people came to congratulate. We didn't have a line, but one sort of inevitably evolved anyway. Although indeed many people will just wait by the bar or something till the couple is free.

I was at another wedding where they said that all guest should sit at their table and the couple would go around and meet everybody at their table. That worked pretty well in that every guest gets some time with the couple without people waiting in line. It did feel a bit weird that they went around collecting their presents.

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