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that's what i'm saying though, the fruit doesn't exactly go with the tropical idea. and yeah, lv isn't really tropical, but i guess that's why it ranked as a ghetto wedding.

shelley j
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Originally Posted by alphaiota

stereotypical of african americans.

shelley j
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am I the only one who has a problem with this statement?

wht do you mean that's so stereotypical of AAs? That statement is just plain ignorant!

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Originally Posted by soft&beautiful

am I the only one who has a problem with this statement?

wht do you mean that's so stereotypical of AAs? That statement is just plain ignorant!

Yes this statement is ignorant and I would love for the person who made this statement to please explain! You can not categorize this one person's idiotic wedding and her style as stereotypical for ALL African-Americans! This was HER choice not MY CHOICE! The majority of African-Americans have traditional and/or ELEGANT weddings...this one just didn't reach the mold in our eyes but in hers (even though it was a hot mess) she thought it was elegant in her standards (which could be very low)

I think she was trying to say that it plays into the negative stereotype of African-Americans. Historically, in an attempt of racism and mockery, we've been portrayed as chicken & watermelon eating coons. Regardless, watermelon is a fruit that lots of people eat (not me) so I don't see a problem with it being at a wedding, just like strawberries or grapes.

Maid of Honor: So, where'd you end up getting your wedding dress?
Bride: Oh, it just happened to fall out of the back of a LV truck.:p

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Originally Posted by AKA2D '91

Ghetto Weddings, II
This is the column on Juvenile's recent wedding:

Mr. & Mrs. Juvenile
Rapper weds nurse in a ceremony worth the wait
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Chris Rose

A local music millionaire recently got married; maybe you heard about it.

The bride was more than two hours late and her dress was valued in the range of a sporty SUV and the wedding guests were cut from the recording industry elite.

No, it wasn't Britney's Studio City backyard ceremony, where the guests dined on ribs and chicken fingers and listened to a boom box before donning jogging sweats and hitting an Irish pub to celebrate the Big Day.

No, this was the wedding of Juvenile -- aka Terius Gray -- an equally flamboyant and controversial Louisiana music success story, whose wedding earlier this month ranks up there with our most colorful hitching tales.

Since most of what this paper has recorded of Juvie's life over the past few years has been more about rap sheets than rap music, it's nice to report a love story for your enjoyment.

Assuming that he's not going to place a wedding announcement in the Living section, I offer one here as a token of our appreciation for this well-publicized prodigy of the Magnolia housing project, whose infectious 1999 hit, "Back That Azz Up," provided a poignant counter-balance to the cheesy Boy Band music of that period and helped make the recording label Cash Money Records a household name and industry playa.

First of all, the bride, Shadonna Jones -- a nurse from St. Louis -- was more than 2½ hours late for the scheduled 6 p.m. ceremony at the Victory Fellowship church on Airline Drive.

She hadn't even showered by 6:30 and then came the Hollywood-style makeup, hair and dress routine. This took a very long time. Said local bridal designer Linda Lee: "We practically had to sew her into the dress. She said she wanted it tight, so we made it tight. When we were finished, she looked like she was painted into it."

Lee added: "And she's got booty," which one should hope, given Juvie's signature hit.

At the church, the groom, decked out in a gold suit, and his posse -- he calls them his "regulators" -- did that tap the shoes, check the wrist thing for a while and then got a little nervous.

"For the first hour, we were, you know: Women -- they can be slow," said Juvie's manager, Aubrey Francis. "Then we kept getting reports: They're on their way, they're on their way, they're on their way." All this sounds like the weather forecasters on TV talking about a hurricane, and a rumor went up that the bride actually arrived at the church but then turned back for some finishing touches, lending new meaning to the term "contraflow."

In fact, she was still getting ready.

Hard to say how the several hundred guests in the church managed to keep their patience about them, but Juvenile and backstage pals took care of business: They ordered in from Popeyes to hold them over until the reception.

Said Francis: "I guess if we'd known it was going to take so long, we would have ordered for everyone."

Once the wedding was under way, with both bride and groom standing at the altar, the presiding minister, Bishop Darryl Brister from the Beacon Light International Baptist Cathedral, lent a contemporary edge to the proceedings.

"He said there was so much bling on the altar that he could hardly see," one spectator told me and yes, he used the term "bling."

Juvie and Shadonna's necks and fingers shone like a vast sea of icicles on a glistening Wisconsin winter morning -- to say nothing of Juvie's diamond-encrusted walking stick, by NYC's reigning hip-hop accessorizer, Jacob the Jeweler, and the 10,000 stones, beads and crystals that Lee attached to Shadonna's Demetrios-designed silk gown.

It was a fitting look to receive an altar visit by R&B superstar Brian McKnight, who appeared from the wings to serenade the bride.

Nice touch.

At the reception at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner, guests were required to be patient once again. The wedding party and closest associates went to a separate dining room to eat, not to return to the general festivities for another hour or two.

And anyone expecting a ghetto-fabulous reception would have been disappointed: Guests were treated instead to a tableau of tables drenched in flowers and ice sculptures and fine silver for a sit-down dinner of filet mignon followed by a chocolate fondue fountain.

Very tony indeed. The crowd content was sparse on the rappers and gangsta types from Juvie's notorious past. Said manager Francis: "There were more executives than artists. Lots of lawyer types."

How far we have traveled.

The party rocked until the wee hours, as weddings do. So begins the next stage in the life of Juvenile. And it begins with the present that he offered his bride as a gift and a token to their future: 25 acres of land near LaPlace, upon which they will build their home.

. . . . . . .

Columnist Chris Rose can be reached at chris.rose@timespicayune

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Alright! I never considered that the groom and bride might exchange gifts. That's great - like the dowry of old I guess.

It is an interesting choice of accent (the LV logo) and putting it on the cake was kinda crazy looking however I guess I don't really think that the dress was all that bad b/c brides are wearing all sorts of colors nowadays, including dresses that are not even white. They are wearing ivy, champagne, a blue strip here, a red strip there so whatever. I was in David's Bridal the other day to try on a bridesmaids dress and there were even gold bride's dresses. If you're not going to do the all white dress, I think you're kind of straying from tradition anyway so (shrug).

My gfriend who got married last year always says that she hopes that people put 12 times as much energy, focus and time into their relationship and they do planning the wedding b/c the marriage is only the relationship, only now you're stuck basically. Not the most romantic but I think she has a point.

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Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

Rosa Parks did not refuse to give up her seat for this. Mary McLeod Bethune did not start Bethune Cookman College for this.

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http://pic11.picturetrail.com/VOL368.../145887366.jpg PAY ATTENTION to the TOP of the cake.:eek: :(

I got these yesterday

:eek: :confused: :eek: :confused: :eek: :confused:

I'm speechless....

Ok, I'm back. What in the hayle!?!? There is no damn icing on the cake. I can't tell if they're fruit cakes or just regular yellow cake that are unfinished. I'm just blinded by the shiny silver dress. I'm all for a casual wedding, but I say damn. Please do better than the JC Penny's Junior's section. WOW!

ETA: The boyfriend pointed out that from the looks of her teeth it is quite possible that the dentist is no longer permitting her to have sweets. Hense the un-iced cakes.

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Originally Posted by Marie

:eek: :confused: :eek: :confused: :eek: :confused:

I'm speechless....
Please do better than the JC Penny's Junior's section. WOW!

I said that is clearly Rave couture.

I thought these pics were hilarious!
Thanks for making me smile on such a crappy day for me :D

If they like it...I can't!

POUND cakes?

The bugs and gnats have first dibbs on the cake. :o

Thank you CT4, I just made a scene here at work from looking at these picture. Please tell me where these were posted because this is a hot mess!!!

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Originally Posted by DSTinguished1

Thank you CT4, I just made a scene here at work from looking at these picture. Please tell me where these were posted because this is a hot mess!!!

I got them in a forward yesterday from a Soror. There are like 2 or 3 other pics but they were just taken from different angles of the bride, groom, and their kids. If you want them, I can e-mail them to you. :)

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Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

The Bride
http://pic11.picturetrail.com/VOL368.../185279370.jpg

The Vows
http://pic11.picturetrail.com/VOL368.../185279315.jpg

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Dayummmmmmm!! Dem' Teef!!
Ole' girl look like she just got out of the womens correctional facility....
I'll give her -5 points for the creative outfit...

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Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

Ole' girl look like she just got out of the womens correctional facility....

That's what a friend of mine said.

I like how you all are ignoring the "O-Dog" tattoo on the bride's bicep. :D

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Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

That's what a friend of mine said.

I like how you all are ignoring the "O-Dog" tattoo on the bride's bicep. :D

I just saw that:p

:rolleyes:
Straight coonfoolery to the infinite power. As people have said, folks didn't get maimed or killed for this.

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Originally Posted by Steeltrap

:rolleyes:
Straight coonfoolery to the infinite power.

Hee heee....she said "Coonfoolery" http://www.siyclone.com/forum//style...efault/hud.gif

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Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

The Wedding Cakes ~ my favorite
http://pic11.picturetrail.com/VOL368.../185279333.jpg

That reminds me, I'm out of cherry kool-aide!

[QUOTE=CrimsonTide4]
The Bride and The Groomsmen
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Don't you mean the bride and the prison guards?:p

^^^ They do have her hemmed up, don't they?

I'm just mad that it looks like she got a stab wound on her leg during the garter ceremony. Maybe that was the best leg to show because the left leg has exit wounds from the bullets from the last prison riot.

But seriously, is there some tradition about garters on the right leg only?

The did TRY to class it up by having an all white wedding and the bride wearing a tiara. Too bad it didn't work, though. :cool:

The bride KNOWS that she has too much gut to be wearing that outfit.
The groom could have at least bought a new shirt for the wedding.
The uniced pound cakes had me DYING.
I hope they had music because the guests looked bored as heck.

That's all.

Coonfoolery indeed

CTFU @ those cakes!!! WTF!!!!!

On a positive note, she has some nice french tips on her nails and toes....lol

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Originally Posted by mccoyred

The groom could have at least bought a new shirt for the wedding.

Groom and groomsmen/prison guards have on matching shirts.:o :p Down to the white wifebeater underneath.:o :o

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Originally Posted by mccoyred

The groom could have at least bought a new shirt for the wedding.

Did you notice that his shirt is the same shirt the bride's escorts had on? He and the groomsmen/escorts all were co-hor-di-nating...

Are those jelly cakes? :confused:

saved by the bell

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Whew! I almost bought that same skirt this summer..never would have thought to see it here! http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/happy057.gif

It would be really nice if the bride's tub top actually fit and if she smiled without opening her mouth.

Okay the lemon and pineapple upside down cakes look busted but oddly enough I would like a piece.

The kids are the best dressed out of all of the adults, how ironic.

i wish she would've put a tooth in, at least for her wedding:(

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Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

I like how you all are ignoring the "O-Dog" tattoo on the bride's bicep. :D

...and how she what looks like the name "Raheem" tattooed on the wrist of the opposite arm of the "O-Dog" tat. I wonder if O-Dog and Raheem is the same person. Maybe one of the two is the groom...???

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Originally Posted by StarFish106

http://pic11.picturetrail.com/VOL368.../185279370.jpg

Whew! I almost bought that same skirt this summer..never would have thought to see it here! http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/happy057.gif

Oh hell no.

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Originally Posted by Exquisite5 (Post 863145)

Question: I am planning my wedding and I've found a place that I really like that takes care of everything. I only have one reservation, their food is buffet style.

I really don't like this, I have only been to one wedding with a buffet and found it much less elegant than those with wait service. However, this wedding itself was just soo...uggghhh, so I don't know if I was just disliking everything about the wedding/reception, or I really don't find buffet to tasteful.

What do you think-honestly? What is your perception of buffet/wait staff wedding? Do buffets say I'm trying to cut costs and I can't really afford this place?

I am sincerely asking, like I said I have only been to one buffet reception and it should be written up in this thread for reasons having nothing to do with the buffet.

You probably posted this long ago, but buffets actually cost MORE than seated meals (when speaking in terms of food prices). If they only offer buffets, don't worry. It doesn't amke you look tacky. This is what you need to do:

1. Dress up your buffet. Don't just have the food up there. Place a floral arrangement and some themed props around the food (a la if it's a fall wedding, place pumpkins on the table, or perhaps a fill a horn of plenty with dinner rolls).

2. Move people quickly. Have entertainment and direct people to the beffet as soon as they walk in from the cocktail hour and find their table.

3. Enjoy your day...you'll be having too much fun to realize the buffet...you'll be focused on your new HUSBAND!!!

YOu know...I was going to defend those folks for being poor and having the best wedding they could afford...then I noticed the tube tope and tiara....and the wifebeaters.

By the time I got to the cake I was done!

I think I was done after the very first picture....:eek: :mad:

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Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4 (Post 1316364)

The Garter Ceremony
http://pic11.picturetrail.com/VOL368.../185279328.jpg

Happy Friday!:D

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Originally Posted by StarFish106 (Post 1316648)

http://pic11.picturetrail.com/VOL368.../185279370.jpg

Whew! I almost bought that same skirt this summer..never would have thought to see it here! http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/happy057.gif

Was that a curling iron burn on her leg???:eek: Did she even shave her legs that day!!!:eek: