I guess this is the ultimate stage of my slow road to the a mental institution...
I have found myself lately fantasizing about wedding venues, picking my colors...
today I went as far as registering an account at theknot.com (how embarassing!)
what is the big deal?
well... I am not even dating!!!!!
someone please DAVE ME FROM MYSELF!!!! :scared:
Quote from: stellinacadente
someone please DAVE ME FROM MYSELF!!!! :scared:
Who is "DAVE"? ;)
Ye see??? How completely mental I have gone???
:mrgreen:
Just a hint: don't choose isabelline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelline_%28animal_colour%29). :mrgreen:
I don't know if I can 'Dave' you, but I can tell you to relax, have a nice hot bath and crack open a bottle. Then start saving the air fare for a visit to me and MrsH and Cap'n B in sunny (well.....) Herefordshire. ;D
I figured stelli meant either you or DaveL! ;)
I don't think there's any real harm in putting you ducks in a row if you'd like to do so. Just think of all the time it'll save when and if you do decide to tie the knot somewhere down the road. Daydreaming can be fun, as long as you don't stress out over it. What the heck!
@Swato that color is the most horrifying shade I have ever seen :D
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on August 23, 2010, 11:57:53 AM
I don't know if I can 'Dave' you, but I can tell you to relax, have a nice hot bath and crack open a bottle.
I live in"dry country",USA no alcohol allowed here...why do you think I am going mental :mrgreen:
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on August 23, 2010, 11:57:53 AM
Then start saving the air fare for a visit to me and MrsH and Cap'n B in sunny (well.....) Herefordshire. ;D
awwww... should have said something while I was in London for the whole month of May ;)
Quote from: Opsanus tau on August 23, 2010, 04:01:33 PM
I figured stelli meant either you or DaveL! ;)
I don't think there's any real harm in putting you ducks in a row if you'd like to do so. Just think of all the time it'll save when and if you do decide to tie the knot somewhere down the road. Daydreaming can be fun, as long as you don't stress out over it. What the heck!
yes...Opsa... daring to dream again is the challenge everyone faces after bad experience :) just not to this exent! :mrgreen:
Day dream away!
Quote from: Swatopluk on August 23, 2010, 08:38:33 AM
Just a hint: don't choose isabelline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelline_%28animal_colour%29). :mrgreen:
I actually like that color. I wouldn't wear it, but it's still a nice color.
I had no idea you were in the UK, Stelli. Next time.
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on August 23, 2010, 05:32:43 PM
Day dream away!
Quote from: Swatopluk on August 23, 2010, 08:38:33 AM
Just a hint: don't choose isabelline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelline_%28animal_colour%29). :mrgreen:
I actually like that color. I wouldn't wear it, but it's still a nice color.
Well, I mentioned it because of the name and of course because of the back-story :mrgreen:
Quote from: stellinacadente on August 23, 2010, 04:54:26 PM
... should have said something while I was in London for the whole month of May ;)
............and you didn't visit me? Are you mad?
What I want to know is... what colors, etc. stelli actually might prefer.
What about the venue? Perhaps a place like the ice hotel in Norway? ;)
St Andrews Church, Moreton-on-Lugg. Lovely Norman Church, plenty of parking, village hall next door for the booze-up.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on August 24, 2010, 12:48:01 AM
Quote from: stellinacadente on August 23, 2010, 04:54:26 PM
... should have said something while I was in London for the whole month of May ;)
............and you didn't visit me? Are you mad?
Begging your forgiveness on this instance... it was a very challenging time and ended it up evven worse... but that is a different sotry :)
Next time ok?
Quote from: Opsanus tau on August 24, 2010, 05:44:49 PM
What I want to know is... what colors, etc. stelli actually might prefer.
that is a very difficult question :D ...
per se, I would love to have gold and a deep shade of burgundy as my colors
BUT
I also would like to have a bouquet of sunflowwers, fiery red and purple fresias...which do not really fit...
planning a dream wedding is a pain in the....:D
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on August 24, 2010, 06:50:26 PM
What about the venue? Perhaps a place like the ice hotel in Norway? ;)
I actually chose an hotel in Long Island, NY but I am kinda having second thoughts on it...maybe I should go for a wedding in the City... :D
One word of advice: Don't do the catering yourself. ;)
(actually, I enjoyed catering my own wedding, but it's a bit funny to be greeting guests in an apron ;D)
I think that sunflowers and purple freesia would go great with gold and burgundy, especially if you're talking brocades. Those are fine tapestry colors. It would be super for a fall wedding.
Ok I thought you guys would talk me out of it... but since you want to play along with my madness :mrgreen:
here are a couple of ideas
wedding gown1 http://www.theknot.com/wedding-dress/kenneth-pool/delacroix?ctx=-1:-1:-1:-1&src=res&keep=-1 (http://www.theknot.com/wedding-dress/kenneth-pool/delacroix?ctx=-1:-1:-1:-1&src=res&keep=-1)
2http://www.theknot.com/wedding-dress/lazaro/3000?ctx=-1:-1:-1:-1&src=res&keep=-1 (http://www.theknot.com/wedding-dress/lazaro/3000?ctx=-1:-1:-1:-1&src=res&keep=-1)
3 http://www.theknot.com/wedding-dress/alfred-angelo/1516?ctx=-1:-1:-1:-1&src=-1&keep=-1 (http://www.theknot.com/wedding-dress/alfred-angelo/1516?ctx=-1:-1:-1:-1&src=-1&keep=-1)
the following are for my daughter (the flower girl!!! :D)
option 1-for wedding gown 3 http://www.theknot.com/flower-girl-dress/sweetie-pie-collection/230?ctx=-1:-1:-1:-1&src=res&keep=-1 (http://www.theknot.com/flower-girl-dress/sweetie-pie-collection/230?ctx=-1:-1:-1:-1&src=res&keep=-1)
option 2 -for wedding gown 3
for wedding gown #1,2 http://www.theknot.com/flower-girl-dress/sweetie-pie-collection/162?ctx=-1:-1:-1:-1&src=res&keep=-1 (http://www.theknot.com/flower-girl-dress/sweetie-pie-collection/162?ctx=-1:-1:-1:-1&src=res&keep=-1)
stay tuned for bouquet, cake and color arrangements...
I had thought of a summer wedding to be honest, but when Opsa mentioned Fall... my heart went to it...since fall is my favorite season and I love the colors of harvest...
oh yeah... maybe I should probably need to start dating LOL
Quote from: Aggie on August 25, 2010, 06:25:20 AM
One word of advice: Don't do the catering yourself. ;)
NOT in a million years :D... the first time was HORRIBLE (I wouldn't even define it as a wedding, but a mere formality...)
This time around is going to be BIG and posh and luxurious and dreamy :D
(only the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true- Cinderella )
:donatello: :ROFL:
Did you guys got freaked out by choices of gowns???
:help:
:mrgreen:
Alas, I could not view them (you must be a member to see the pics?). I wanted to post a nice black velvet as an option, but I didn't like anything I saw.
I wore a black velvet minidress and my veil (which I made myself) to my reception at d.c.space- a post-punk nightclub. The toast, given by our best friend, a lesbian bartender went thusly: "AuugggggGGHHH!" Ahh, the 80's. Kooky times.
I can heartily recommend this site for all your wedding planning inspiration:
http://wedinator.com/ (http://wedinator.com/)
:devil2:
OMG!
(http://wedinator.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/f5e6362e-3065-4de5-94b0-dace1f79de1c.jpg)
I'm speechless!!!!11!
:o :o :o
Classy ;D
A friend is a professional seamstress and every so often sends a really spectacular dress from here (http://www.uglydress.com/). :)
I particularly like the Klingon wedding.
(http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/uglydress_2112_13041165)
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/uglydress_2112_13041165
Damn you, Lindorm - I'm pointlessly surfing that site for an hour, now!
Quote from: Aggie on September 05, 2010, 04:22:12 PM
Damn you, Lindorm - I'm pointlessly surfing that site for an hour, now!
... Ah, my plans are nearing their frutition...
....cackle, glee, cackle....
:devil: ;)
Quote from: Lindorm on September 06, 2010, 02:52:45 PM
Quote from: Aggie on September 05, 2010, 04:22:12 PM
Damn you, Lindorm - I'm pointlessly surfing that site for an hour, now!
... Ah, my plans are nearing their frutition...
....cackle, glee, cackle....
:devil: ;)
If you seek the website of total addiction: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
The Klingons have got to be the weirdest. It's so damned weird I admire them, actually.
On request, I once made a monkey bride and groom cake topper for a good friend who loves monkeys. I used Sculpey. I tried to avoid goofiness and give them a sense of decorum. The bride was very relieved that they weren't hurling poo. They were both white-furred monkeys in white wedding outfits. They now live on their mantle piece.
The monkey cake toppers sound like a very fun and cute idea -and so much more personal than the traditional he-in-tux, she-in-white-lace ones. I and Darlica have a few cake toppers (though not wedding ones) on our consciences, too -a ruined castle with a marzipan dragon and a half-eaten knight and another one with a small marzipan metro train on a cookie crumb and chocolate railway, for example.
It's fun to play with the food! :mrgreen:
For beautiful cakes (Sunday) and terrible wrecks (Monday to Saturday): http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/
Wedding cakes are of course a main staple in both categories.
At a Hungarian wedding, most groups attending bring a cake. After the main cake has been cut and distributed, the waiters bring out all these guests' cakes and they get sliced and passed round. The food courses are served at intervals of about an hour, with dancing and socialising in between, and the cakes come in the middle between two meat courses.
The main wedding-cake is brought in with fireworks on top; when these have gone out it is sliced by the couple in the usual way.
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/cake-1.jpg)
Are you sure that's a wedding cake, and not a fire-spitting Dalek?
:dalek:
This:
(http://www.creaturespace.co.uk/images/dalekcake.jpg)
http://www.creaturespace.co.uk/images/dalekcake.jpg
is a Dalek.
The daleks here (http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/10/guest-blogger-great-white-snark.html) on the other hand are clearly not genuine.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on September 07, 2010, 08:42:08 PMOn request, I once made a monkey bride and groom cake topper for a good friend who loves monkeys. I used Sculpey. I tried to avoid goofiness and give them a sense of decorum. The bride was very relieved that they weren't hurling poo. They were both white-furred monkeys in white wedding outfits. They now live on their mantle piece.
I found some exquisite singerie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singerie) inspiration pieces when I was doing animal sculptures; your cake topper sounds quite fun!
Afraid to click the link - that's not lingerie for simians, is it? :o
No :) link is safe!
I've seen some exquisite, finely detailed simian "dolls" dressed in Marie Antoinette finery; how their prehensile toes fit into/around those little kitten-heeled satin pumps was just one small part of the charm.
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:GwrO9IlCvuTjWM:http://www.specialist-gifts.com/ekmps/shops/mickdanny/images/katherines-collection-2010-alabaster-managerie.jpg&t=1)
This is as close as I can find in google images.
Charming! Thank you adding for the word singerie to my vocabulary! :-*
Wao... you guys got really wild while I was looking :D
Will post new links (that work) to gowns soon I hope :)
Meanwhile... the Klingon wedding is such an trashy and intriguing idea :mrgreen:
I read the other day that people are even doing Shakespeare in Klingon (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/26/AR2010092602805.html).
Quote from: Opsanus tau on September 30, 2010, 06:51:20 PM
I read the other day that people are even doing Shakespeare in Klingon (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/26/AR2010092602805.html).
Oh...dear... lord....
whatever happened to a nice tradistional weddingg??? ;D
Like mine? :mrgreen:
First I had to hold a black screen in front of my face when walking in to keep the ghosts from getting jealous ('cos I'm too handsome ::)). Then my mother-in-law traded her daughter for a wooden duck. I didn't say a word during the ceremony, but got to have a snack and do a shot, and there were live chickens under the altar (not sacrificed, in case you are wondering). Afterwards, the private family part of the ceremony - we poured some shots for our parents, I piggybacked the bride around the room and my parents threw dates and chestnuts at us to see how many sons and daughters we'd have - 13 total.
Yes, traditional weddings are very beautiful and sedate, aren't they? ;)
Quote from: Aggie on October 01, 2010, 05:09:31 AM
Like mine? :mrgreen:
First I had to hold a black screen in front of my face when walking in to keep the ghosts from getting jealous ('cos I'm too handsome ::)). Then my mother-in-law traded her daughter for a wooden duck. I didn't say a word during the ceremony, but got to have a snack and do a shot, and there were live chickens under the altar (not sacrificed, in case you are wondering). Afterwards, the private family part of the ceremony - we poured some shots for our parents, I piggybacked the bride around the room and my parents threw dates and chestnuts at us to see how many sons and daughters we'd have - 13 total.
Yes, traditional weddings are very beautiful and sedate, aren't they? ;)
:bwa: what tradition is that??? :)
Korean - here are some random web photos, but not of us (although some are quite likely at the same venue - we had those dancers):
(http://a.abcnews.com/images/WN/abc_wedding3_080704_ssh.jpg)
(http://thenot.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/20078916373057326.jpg)
(http://www.korean-arts.com/images/DS004_wood2_4x6.jpg)
(http://www.stephensandersonphotography.com/publish/_assets/48c96c50-3235.jpg)
We are pursuing a non-traditional western divorce (i.e. no lawyers or screaming matches) at the moment. ;) :P ::)
Rolling on floor laughing, but not at your divorce. Just at your answer to traditional weddings. Fantastic. I'll bet those traditions date back to way before the western ones.
Quote from: Aggie on October 01, 2010, 01:40:26 PM
We are pursuing a non-traditional western divorce (i.e. no lawyers or screaming matches) at the moment. ;) :P ::)
I had a semi-traditional western one (divorce that is).... no lawyers , but lots and lots of screaming matches... thinking back it was was to hire the lawyer instead :D
Quote from: Opsanus tau on October 01, 2010, 04:10:11 PM
Rolling on floor laughing, but not at your divorce. Just at your answer to traditional weddings. Fantastic. I'll bet those traditions date back to way before the western ones.
It was a lot of fun, and I'm glad I got to experience it. Think of it as extreme tourism, maybe.... ;D
Anyways, I got married twice already - the mistake was that it was the same bride both times. But it does save on divorce costs. :ROFL:
:ROFL:
I'd hate to see what a Klingon divorce looks like! :o
[NerdMode]
If it has something to do with the succession of command in Klingon ships it may be a bloody and definite affair...
[/NerdMode]
;)