I'm so jealous of that gift basket, Tracie. You got a free facial peel, YSL mascara, various full size GOOD products. I'm shameless in my love for free shit, but most of it is useless. I'm always elbowing elderly folks for cheese cubes at random art openings.
I guess what confuses me about strapless being pretty much the only option, besides the fact that strapless is nor flattering on a lot of women, is what if you get married in a church? At the church my family belongs to, women have to wear hats or scarves or other headcoverings, and there is no way in hell that wearing a strapless dress would ever be ok. I know people get married in lots of different places now, but still, there's a lot of church weddings.
@Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: I can't say definitively, but I think that's just one of them, and there's a second one for the other side. The middle covers the breast and each "wing" cups up each side. Ugh, prom flashbacks...
@mysterygirl: Yup, definitely only one boob per sticky thing! I attempted to wear them for junior prom, but the left one (I remember it too well, apparently) came unstuck during the car ride there. Hilarity ensued.
@killedbyllamas: Oh no! I had the opposite problem-- mine stuck too well, leading to extreme pain and thoughts of "maybe I should just wear this one forever" as I tried to remove them in the bathroom at the after-party.
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I am so glad that I have my grandma's wedding dress for when I get married. Aside from not wanting to explain the tattoos to the family, I just don't want to be that self-conscious about shit.
1942 off-white satin with full-length button-down sleeves, a princess neckline, and 2-foot train (and the loop inside the skirt so you can hold it up and dance) for the win. Just have to have it altered because grandma was at least a triple-D and I'm . . . not.
@caffeine72: My grandmother got married in 1948 in a gorgeous magenta suit. I would kill to come anywhere near fitting in that suit - I'd have gotten married in it, totally. Alas, I have 6 inches in height and a couple of inches of ribcage on her. Same with my mom's wedding dress (which was VERY 70s)
@RainyKate: Grandma got married in 1951 in a navy velvet suit. My anorexic aunt wore it to Grandma and Grandaddy's 50th Anniversary party. No way any one other than her (or a preteen) could have fit into it.
@BlondeGoddess: Seriously! A wedding celebration that you supposedly don't really want to have but are just doing cause your parents want you to is still a wedding. Even if you mock the other people who do it, and the products associated with it, you are still a woman who is getting married and who is buying all the attendant items such as dress, flowers, catering, music, etc that everyone else is. It's the same old shit, even if you talk about anal sex in your posts. And there could not BE a tackier time to get married- right after gay people's right to marry has been struck down again! Nice! Belly up to that straights-only lunch counter!
@annieo: the fact of the matter is that while i'm not excited about the planning of my wedding event, i'm excited about getting married because it actually means a lot to me. and it means a lot to gay people who want to get married. if straight people who sympathize with the plight of gay people all boycotted marriage, then it takes away the importance of the institution for both gay and straight people, and to me, that's not the proper way to approach it.
when people write off marriage as a "straights-only lunch counter," makes it exactly that. and that's actually what people who oppose gay marriage want. so i think that you're idea of tact is a bit...tacky.
When (if) I get married (scary), I'm so fucking wearing a veil. It'll be long. It will have that blusher thing that will go over my face. It will represent my virginity (HA). I will wear a gauzy white hymen on my head. It'll be epic.
Amen to the hatred of strapless and sleeveless gowns. I DO NOT want to look at my photographs 10 years from now and not be able focus on anything else but my flabby upper arms. I solved that problem by just buying an amazing tea-length bridesmaid's dress (with cute little sleeves) in my favorite color and calling that my wedding dress. TAKE THAT, Wedding-Industrial-Complex!!
This was my wedding dress. It's everything I said I didn't want, but when I saw the bolero it was love at first sight.
It bothers me that the wedding industry is all "your day is all about you!" but they offer so few actual choices. If the day is really supposed to be that special, shouldn't you offer some variety of merchandise to choose from?
@schweppes: I mean I find it a bit startling ... but more importantly, I (and my VPL) feel vindicated that our erstwhile S.M. shares my general opposition to walking around with a semipermanent wedgie for the sake of fashion.
@Ailatan: Seriously I agree with you there. Some of my friends wear thongs ALL THE TIME. I can see it for certain outfits, I guess, but ALL THE TIME? WTF? I'd rather just...not...wear...underwear...? No, I'd just rather wear normal underwear that doesn't go up my ass, thanks.
@SisterRay73: I find that a good one doesn't feel up your ass at all- you dont even know it is there. (I like hanky panky and cosabella) You think just not wearing underwear is ok, until you get your period in a thong and think "wow, I am so fucking glad that I had this on and didnt just immediately stain my pants!"
I love the Friends episode where Julia Roberts makes Chandler wear her thong, and then Joey sees him in the bathroom stall and goes: someone's flossing!
I don't want my underwear and the word 'flossing' anywhere near each other.
If you want a dress with subtantial straps or even sleeves, go online to the Mormon dress shops. Google mormon, formal, dress and you will find websites with lovely modest gowns with sleeves and covered shoulders. My nieces inherited all the boobs in our family, and they found bridal/bridesmaid dresses that allow them to wear a normal bra and thus enjoy the day.
I swear, I am near-heathen, but I will get marred in a Morman dress.
I know your pain, as a designer, it drives me absolutely bonkers that so few options are available from mainstream designers/lines. however, I'm sure you would get quite a kick out of these: [www.latterdaybride.com]
they call them "modest" wedding gowns, but really, its just that none of them are sleeveless - and most of them aren't half bad. maybe the LDS isn't completely crazy.
@fabulousmiriam: Some of those prom dresses aren't half-bad either. When I went to my prom, I was disgusted by my lack of options - they were all sparkly and plunging necklines - that my mother made me one.
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[www.etsy.com]
That's the feather piece and the 4th pic down is the veil.
My bridesmaids all wore these guys:
[www.etsy.com]
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1942 off-white satin with full-length button-down sleeves, a princess neckline, and 2-foot train (and the loop inside the skirt so you can hold it up and dance) for the win. Just have to have it altered because grandma was at least a triple-D and I'm . . . not.
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when people write off marriage as a "straights-only lunch counter," makes it exactly that. and that's actually what people who oppose gay marriage want. so i think that you're idea of tact is a bit...tacky.
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It bothers me that the wedding industry is all "your day is all about you!" but they offer so few actual choices. If the day is really supposed to be that special, shouldn't you offer some variety of merchandise to choose from?
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Also, thongs and low cut jeans don't mix, people.
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I love the Friends episode where Julia Roberts makes Chandler wear her thong, and then Joey sees him in the bathroom stall and goes: someone's flossing!
I don't want my underwear and the word 'flossing' anywhere near each other.
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I swear, I am near-heathen, but I will get marred in a Morman dress.
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they call them "modest" wedding gowns, but really, its just that none of them are sleeveless - and most of them aren't half bad. maybe the LDS isn't completely crazy.
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