another wedding thread...bridesmaids questions

[amanda6035]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

OMG, I bet you like have a really nice rock too!!!!!111

Um, if you pay attention to KSUViolet's post - she asked what you were doing if you were engaged, or what you had done if you were married, so I'm a little confused as to where your snarkiness for this post is coming from. After all, all I did was answer her questions.



***edit****oh shame, you deleted it.

[GeekyPenguin]

The Conservinator keeps hinting, but I just won't say yes until I know that Ann Coulter, Zippy Zamboni, Harry Baals, and Dale Terry all have the date free.

[CutiePie2000]

I read this book on my vacation to Cuba (yes, it's legal for me to go there) and I was LMAO:





2 different covers for 2 different countries...

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Damn. If I ever get married, I was intending on asking the H&A to be my bridesmaids. I would have paid for your beer and everything.

In keeping with the actual thread, I've never been a bridesmaid.

You know we're all in.

I have been a bridesmaid twice, once when I was 3, and at my brother's wedding. I got kicked out my sister's wedding party! Go me!

Now I know you all want to hear the eviction story so let me tell away. I'm really not bitter, I think this story is hilarious.
My sister got engaged and became a bridezilla. Not long after she got the rock, we went up to David's Bridal, she found a beautiful dress, decided it was the one and that was it. The woman at the store told her not to look anymore because she'd just keep finding more and more dresses she liked.
Well, she kept looking anyway, and found two more dresses she wanted. At this point it was getting out of hand...I travelled with her to go see dress 3, the one she wore at her wedding (thank god!) but I told her what everyone else was thinking-you cannot have three dresses, you already have a dress, you need to stick with the one you have.

She went crying crocodile tears to my mother, said how mean I was (!) and that I wasn't a bridesmaid anymore. Suited me fine, less effort for me.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally Posted by centaur532

You know we're all in.

Damn, we have perps!

[ADqtPiMel]

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

Damn, we have perps!

Seriously, wtf.

I'm having six bridesmaids (two biological sisters, three sorority sisters and a high school friend) and they all paid for their own dresses. I told them to just wear shoes and jewelry they already own and to do their own hair.

And to the person complaining about having the wedding outside of DC - it is SO EXPENSIVE to hold an event in DC. Most people I know who get married around here do it outside of the city. Makes me glad to be getting married in Ohio (even though I hate that place with a passion) - it's literally half the price I would pay here for the same thing.

[deadbear80]

I was the one complaining about having the wedding in DC...and also I think I made a point of saying that something close and accessible (like Alexandria) was a totally fine and viable option...there are also closer places in Fairfax County and in Maryland that are great too. And not terribly expensive. I realize DC proper is expensive. But no offense, this girl could've afforded that!
What I was really complaining about was the absurdity of doing the wedding 3 hours from DC in an inaccessible place (only accessible by car--a cab ride would've cost millions!) where the closest airports are in the DC area. Meaning that all of us from out of town had to pay for rental cars. None of us were 25 at the time (so add to that $25 extra dollars per day per driver) and even more for 2 of us to be able to drive the car. The 3 of us that shared our car ended up paying for only 1 of us to be a driver and so she got stuck driving. There were about 20-30 of us who went to college with this girl who came from out of town and all of us had to pay for freaking rental cars and extra drivers. I think for those 3 days, the 3 of us who shared the car spent at least $150 a piece. And we got the cheapest car we could. I think a little more. Add to that a hotel room and air fare and oh yeah, a gift...I spent nearly $600 to attend this wedding. And I wasn't even in the bridal party! I was in school at the time (as were a lot of us) and had just come off of a year of Americorps service...so I didn't have a lot of cash.
This girl was a good college friend and I wanted to go--but she also made a point of telling us that this place wasn't an expensive place to be as a guest since the rooms were 'reasonable' and car rental wasn't too bad. Yeah right. What's her idea of expensive? My friend in the bridal party spent at least $800 on this wedding (I think a little more) since she had to pay for a dress and shoes. I'm sorry--when most of your friends are in grad school or don't have a lot of money, making your wedding in a place where they would spend this much on a wedding is ridiculous. I know a few people who didn't go because it was too cost-prohibitive. One friend, after saying she'd come, once she saw how much she'd have to spend told the bride that she was sorry but it just wasn't financially possible with grad school was told by the bride "this really isn't expensive at all--and you got a scholarship for grad school--don't you have savings or something?". Needless to say they aren't friends anymore. The friend in grad school had a scholarship, yes, but it didn't cover everything and she was working a job to pay for things.
Many friends (including the bride from this wedding) went to a wedding for another friend from DC about 6 months later. It was in Potomac, Maryland. I spent the same amount of time in the area for her wedding, spent the same amount on a gift, and took a cab with friends both ways to the hotel (where the wedding was also held). How much did we spend? About half of the other wedding. I was a bridesmaid in this wedding--and I spend $450 total for everything including my dress and shoes. I remember bride from wedding #1 making a comment that more people from college seemed to be at this wedding. No one had the heart to look over and say "Look honey, 2 of us could come here for the price of 1 person going to yours!"