<![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> seriously, WHAT is the male equivalent of these events? a magician's convention? you can pick up a fine looking tux and learn to how make money appear from behind people's ears - just try not to find a wife with that skill nailed down.

dirtyfashion

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Period blood? Looked more like Hawaiian Punch to me...

mariospants

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> This stuff makes me quake for my bride-friends. Basically all of the ladies in my circles (except my two BFFs, bless!) are getting married in the next two years, even the lesbians.

As a newly single bitch I plan to take advantage of the open bars. And of the groomsmen.

quangonaut

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> slut i was just out w/friends one is getting married blah, blah, blah and here is your goddamn medal (*) thanks for the laugh.

whyknot

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I never dreamed there would be free hooch at these wedding showcase things! I just might go to one now, but I'mma call and check first.

okay12345

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @majortom1981: But it's Disney. DISNEY!!! All things crass and commercial. Oh wait, this is about American weddings... Nevermind.

panther61

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @dayglo: phew.

amy amnesia

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> So get this: I am being educated to become an "Event Specialist". Now when I tell this to most people, they smile and say "Ah, a wedding planner! How sweet!" It pisses me off because everyone just immediately assumes that because I am a middle-class, white female and because I dress nice (what some could think to be 'preppy' I just think it to be comfortable and affordable!) that all I want to do is plan dreamy weddings for people. They forget that there are tons of corporate meetings, large conventions and charity benefits that are planned by event specialist/meeting professionals/event coordinators. And just let me say quickly-I am as anti-wedding as any other commentee on here so imagine what the constant references to wedding bells and white dresses do to me!
Now I'm all worked up--I need some anal and wedding cake.

miller.rebekah33

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Whatevs..i know it's not considered cool, but I lurve weddings and am having a big phatty destination one in Jamaica with 150 of my closest friends and family and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. Just a big messy weekend long party where I happen to get married. Yes I'm blowing some cash but when else can I get all those people in one place except at my funeral?

thetokenblack

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @amy amnesia: No, you're not.

dayglo

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @lewbers: My honeymoon was in Disneyland and it was wonderful. <3

I think the "wedding" at the court house in Vegas, cost about $60.

dayglo

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I cut and pasted the last paragraph and emailed it to all my friends who aren't sold on this blog, as an example of the sheer genius of Jezebel.

Also, I get why you included the photo and I think you did the right thing. Sure it's vulgar, but I think it serves a purpose on more than one level and was not used gratuitously.

Ellabella

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ccchild: Chances are, YES! we decided to get married with like, 7 people in attendance, and my grandmother had offered to give us money for a reception but since we declined, said we could use it on whatever we wanted!
HONEYMOON!

BraidMyHair

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @TeenageGangDeb: no, it means we're best friends.

Hoaxe

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I also plan to elope (with cake. I refuse to do without cake.) but I love this stuff. Are they doing a Chicago one? Excuse me while I Google.....

rubalicious

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> "At one table, a group of women were giving out promotional T-shirts and boxers for whatever service they provide. [Wedding dress design. -Ed.] We tried to get one, but they only had XS available. It turns out that wedding showcases are just as confusing when it comes to the expectations of body image as, well, anything else in life, really. All the dresses on the racks were size 0 as well."

^^I chuckled at this because at comic book conventions all the freebie t-shirts, hats, boxers, etc are XL. I think there's some meaning to that...

Sunshineyness

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Word on the Anal thing...

Erica

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I'm all for people doing what they want with their money, but you may as well buy lotto tickets as spend huge amounts of scratch on a wedding.

The whole idea of such a fevered production just seems pointlessly stupid and cruelly wasteful. However, I'm so competitive, I want to have the most stupidest wedding of all. Like maybe a "Left Behind" wedding. Or to have my beloved show up to post my bail (for trespassing during dumpster diving) only to find he's signed a Quaker wedding licence, as a bunch of anonymous attendees sing "Never gonna give you up."

snatchtastic

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> My wife is a professional photog herself, so we spent as much time interviewing photographers as all the rest put together. We also spent half our budget. Our philosophy: long after the cake and food are eaten, the champagne drunk, the flowers faded and died, the guests have gone home (and some of them no longer even speaking to you)... the one thing you'll always is the memories, and the photographs help you keep those.

Mind you, we did keep it sane. Our To Do list had exactly six things on it: Venue, Menu, Music, Flowers, Cake and Dress. All the rest is just ridiculous frippery.

theczardictates

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Dear Slut Machine,

I would totally marry you, if you and I were both lesbians, and it was legal. And I wasn't already married. You are so awesome.

Love,
Anna

Anyway, I got married almost five years ago, and we had a small wedding, and was a little bit on the kooky side. It was what we called a "Chinese Luau." The decorations came from Oriental Trading, everyone wore Hawaiian shirts, and we had mai tais and Chinese food from the place down the road. It was so much fun.

In the end, our wedding cost about $3000, because my mom insisted on getting a real photographer. It still seems like a lot of money to me, but it really was a great day. I'd say it was worth it, although anything more than that... probably not so much.

Anna

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @onthecornerofparkerandwoolf:
I sooo might use that one day!

marytheicecube

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Crunchy Stars: awesome. can't beat the online.

J.D.Regent

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> When I was in college, my roommates and I were trying to see if it was possible to go a month living only on freebies. We weren't allowed to spend money on food so we ate a ton of samples at Wild Oats, pandered for food at fast-food restaurants that were getting ready to close (we told them we'd like to eat whatever they were going to throw away) and crashed various catered affairs on campus. By far, my favorite was crashing the wedding showcases at the Holiday Inn. People were so seeerious. It was scary. We were as obnoxious as could be, asking for black roses, penis toppers for the cake and dresses with space in the middle for our illegitimate babies on the way. The food was good though.

ULookinAtMyJunk is the Hate Mitigator

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> This just makes me want to go to a wedding show. Period pee and all.

sarahmazing

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> difference between nyc and the rest of the world: i asked my fiance's mother how much a cheap wedding would be, and she said $40k.

i know it's ridiculous because i've been watching a lot of wedding shows and, for instance, my future mother in law thinks she's getting a great deal with $125 a table for flowers, yet brides everywhere else pay like $30 a table and are done with it. but at the same time, that's what her friends do and she feels like she has to live up to it. i wanted to have a dj bec it would be cheaper, but we're having a band and there's no arguing with her.

in some ways i'm glad she's being like this bec i do want to have a nice wedding. but then i think wow, what an absolute waste.

superdee

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> There is no more accurate comparison than weddings to buttsecks.

ohgoodness

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ccchild: try it. My parents gave us a budget but my dad told us that if we wanted to get married in the backyard we could pocket the rest of the money. It was a thought for a while!

hugslut

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ineffable.me: We had one - it was worth every penny.

ScotchPlaid

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> damn. i knew i should have gone to this thing. i'm getting married in a few months and i was kinda interested, but my cynical self thought it would be lame. lesson learned.

superdee

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Yeah, I've kind of always known I'll never have a $35,000 wedding (and not just because I find it so hard to buy into the idea of eternal monogamy). For one thing, I find it hard to justify spending that kind of money on one frigging day when it takes me a year to earn that much, and that's pre-taxes.

And for another, my parents told me early on that they'd either pay for my education or for my wedding, and they couldn't bless a wedding before I graduated. I guess that means I'm getting a cake from Costco and having the reception in their backyard...

freudian_slip

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> "But my motto in life is never say never, because I always said I'd never have anal sex, and well, now sometimes I do. "

that was HILARIOUS!

maxypunx

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I totally would've gone for that bite that fell on the table too. People are so fricken uptight.

Btw, does the strap on that massage table say Glaring Men? If so, how ironic.

LahFawnDuh

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Harriet Miers, State Bar of Texas: They have a plus-size bridal section online. I got mine with a coupon for about $40. It was a cheapo dress, but I can't see paying more than $50 for something I'll never wear again (I could have bought a normal dress, but A. I wanted bridal white and B. I am not a dress wearer).

Crunchy Stars

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @emandem: Oh my God I've actually seen that episode. The guy is ugly and crazy and flipped his shit in a candy store. I felt so bad for his wife, she could do so much better.

And, has anyone ever seen "say yes to the dress"? I'm kind of a masochist and it gives me a migrane but I still watch it. It's super fucked up.

But not as fucked up as "Buff Brides." That shit is awful.

Hellothere!

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Harriet Miers, State Bar of Texas: Debs, surprisingly, are also still very much around. They took over a space at the mall near my parents' house where a Petites Sophisticate, August Max Woman and Casual Corner all were. And they haven't changed much since I was in one last...

bellethellama

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @GotNickel: I"m not anti-wedding, but this is the part I don't understand - it seems like so often it's way more for the parents than the people actually getting married, and sorry, but that's wrong. They had their chance to get married wherever they want. But have a great trip!

I went to a friend's destination wedding in Costa Rica and I have to say, I know it ws a pain in the ass to plan cause I used to overhear a zillion converstions, but it was really beautiful and fun and now whenever I see her there is always someone who was at the wedding and we bond over that. No idea how much it cost and don't want to know.

lustylady

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Crunchy Stars: I didn't know they still had Fashion Bugs. I thought they went the way of Deb.

J.D.Regent

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> That is some rigoddamndiculous shit. I got married for less than $1,200, my dj was my bff's computer and my honeymoon was spent driving my inlaws around Mississippi in my hand-me-down 1991 Chevy Astro mini-van. I still managed to look pretty, have a fecking great party with my pals and I'm still happily married.

My parents would have shat themselves laughing if I'd asked for more than that.

mancunian star

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Yeah, I'm having a wedding for 25 people for $500 and we're splurging on a few things. I can't believe some of you actually believe that $4,000 is a low budget for a flippin' party. I wouldn't spend more than $500 on the biggest kegger I'd ever throw, let alone four grand. Redonkulous. I'm totally excited that for $500, I get to wear a wedding-white dress (Fashion Bug), eat ossum cake and catered munchies (grocery store), and get drunk (microbrew) in front of my grandparents with the man I've been boning for five years already. Where the hell does one spend five thousand dollars?!

Crunchy Stars

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I live in Orlando, and see these freaks all the time, the only people in a theme park or a club wearing tuxs and dresses that have mouse ears attached. I don't know if I can imagine a tackier wedding. To know they got screwed that badly on the bill warms my cold heart.

emptee_head

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Oh this whole post was glorious, and it only made me love you more

re: period blood, gross, and yet all too common.

HoneyLush

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @TheGintheCity: This is a fabulous book. I fell for the Apache Wedding Prayer hook, line and sinker for my own wedding.

LoSpaz

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @CandiedViolet: You're not mature enough to wed if that's your theme. Yikes!

Usedtobealice

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I have a theory-the more money spent on the wedding, the shorter the marriage.

MahvelousDahling

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @CandiedViolet: Oh no. Tell me that is NOT TRUE.

I DJ weddings. The pressure people put on themselves/others, and the debt they put themselves into for one fucking day beggars belief. Stupidest thing ever. A low budget (and I mean low - under $1500 or even less) wedding is possible, and can be lovely and fun. They usually are MORE fun because nobody is so STRESSED! Get a grip!

ItchykooParker

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @catness: I guess it depends on the photog. My friend who is quite good has it down to a science. Says he makes more now than pre-digital (pre-historic) times. I know, he also gets lot of orders from guests since the trend of sharing the proofs online has become de rigueur.

CandiedViolet

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Am I the only person on this site who Likes butt sex?

Sheesh.

amy amnesia

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @PrettyBitch: @PrettyBitch: By which I meant, any money they chose to save for my future would be better spent on my education than some party.

We've also come to the agreement that, like most of my education, my wedding is on my own dime, should I decide to have one.

PrettyBitch

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @TeenageGangDeb: Um, no. Open bars are the only time I ever really feel close to Jesus.

rocknrollunicorn

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @EJXD2: But do you really trust any research conducted by a man named...Bumpass?

Titania

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> That last line is utter brilliance, Slut Machine.

Flackette reminds everyone to Vote!

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I want to go to a wedding show. Free cake samples!

sequined

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @brookidy: I am totally down with urine-soaked head beatings in the name of STOP PISSING ON THE GODDAMNED SEATS.

If you have no aim, suck it up and sit the fuck down. Was your butt that clean to begin with?

rocknrollunicorn

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ineffable.me: I thought that exact thing when I read this. I also read "David Kirsch" as "David Kouresh" (I don't know how to correctly spell his name, sorry.)

Kinda funny.

ItchykooParker

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> In 4 days, I will celebrate my first anniversary... The wedding was beautiful and wonderful for $10k, but as someone has already stated, I would NEVER do it again!

My husband and I wanted to have a destination wedding with immediate family only. I thought this would be good news for my parents, as it would have been soooo much less expensive. Imagine my surprise when my mom and I discussed it and she began to CRY! She wanted me to have a BIG wedding with LOTS of guests! Crazy, right?

My husband and I went along with it, but we intend to celebrate (renew) our vows on the beach in Jamaica for an anniversary at some point!

GotNickel

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @TeenageGangDeb:
Lol agree! But with food too.

rantersparadise

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Can we please stop saying that half of marriages end in divorce? That statistic just isn't true.

EJXD2

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @CandiedViolet: Well, they take on average 3000 pictures per event. I personally don't have time or desire to photoshop these 3000 pictures myself. I want them to give me around 400 pictures, and then I will print them myself and make the album.

catness

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> "However, people were pretty pissed that they'd been traveled and spent just ride out the couple's issues..."

Whoops--just thinking about those martinis. Should read:

However, people were pretty pissed that they'd traveled and spent much to attend this, just to be forced to ride out this couple's issues...

thatgirlinnewyork

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> For the dresses there is nothing better then Filene's Basement. But you have to go in the AFTERNOON! There will be exactly 3 brides and still thousands of dresses. I got a gorgeous dress for $250, which I later found online for $3000. And the same idea pretty much works for the rest of the wedding crap: if you look for a while, you'll find cheap and decent options . I am getting married this summer, and I got a pair of photographers for $1500 (they are just as good as the $5000 people), a florist for $1700 (other florists start at $2500) and so on... Yes, I did spend a couple of weekends online googling away, but in the end I feel like it's worth it. Also, you can get very nice invitation kits from Paper Source and make your own invitations (took me exactly one day) for $150 total for 100 people. Although, I have to agree with most people here: I still can't wrap my mind around spending that much time and money on a 6 hour long party. But that's what my boyfriend wanted, and now I feel like it will be a lot of fun, so I'm excited too.

catness

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ineffable.me: must.find.local.vendor.

nenasadije

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I told my parents that I'd be pissed if I found out they had a wedding slush fund for me, considering they didn't have a college fund.

PrettyBitch

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Devonna: i know, right? romance!

J.D.Regent

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> The secret to a great wedding is getting everyone so blitzed they won't remember your cheap dress, iPod DJ, half-assed buffet and the fact that there weren't any flowers!

Oh wait, that was MY wedding! AND IT RULED!

hoppers13

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Centaurea: Anyone who has a friend who is a photographer can tell you to call bullshit on the whole 'it takes so much time and edit to ready the photos which is why it costs $6-8k' Can't believe these photographers still get away with this considering this is the age of Photoshop and click, click, paste, paste, all done!

CandiedViolet

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ineffable.me: And I hope you get those lovely shots in your album, too!

However, on the subject of letting guests stage their own pics with a photo booth or by handing out disposable cameras, I offer up this cautionary tale:

A girlfriend once had one of those year-in-planning, ultra-fabulous weddings. Guests were kept in various, charming B&Bs in the resort town in which her parents had a second home, and provided with little lead-up events to attend and thoughtful parting gifts.

Bride got mad at the groom the morning of (for getting outrageously drunk/arrested for fighting with his brother the night prior), and threatened to call the whole thing off. Happily, they patched things up by the nuptial hour. However, people were pretty pissed that they'd been traveled and spent just ride out the couple's issues, and proceeded to get so very drunk on the vodka martinis served immediately following the vows (and who wouldn't like that?). The disposable cameras deposited for their use on all tables returned rolls full of cleavage shots, views up dresses and sundry other photographic hijinks--your imagination is the only limit.

Sorry for the long post, but I report this in the name of hiring a decent photographer to do the job properly.

thatgirlinnewyork

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Heidiismyrealname: Ha...I am the third of four, and the only unmarried one. My father has said on more than one occasion of late, "GirlLegal, don't be in a rush to get married. I have paid for four college educations, part of your grad school, part of your law school, three weddings, and countless gifts for 6 grandchildren. Have you thought about being a nun or a lesbian?"

LitiGrrl30

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I've had fun attending low-budget, backyard weddings. There was a lot more booze involved and more blokes making asses out of themselves.

Cam/ron

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @lewbers: Again, ladies, do I need to bring up the time I went to the wedding of a 26 year old acquaintence where the theme was freaking PRECIOUS MOMENTS? Vom.

CandiedViolet

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Twerpsichore: 25K for the unfreezing fee, 25K for the matricide. Grand total- 50k.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ccchild: Yikes. A comment like this makes me never want to have children. Don't get me wrong. It totally blows that you are broke and stuff, and maybe your parents would be willing to help you out with some $$ if you asked (I think someone else said this too), but once you are grown and out of the house, where do you get off thinking they owe you anything but love and advice? They get to decide what they do with their money.

Ray Gunn

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @brookidy: you would NOT want to work where i work (shudder)

thatsrealbutter

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> That poubelle photo crosses a new line. Respect!

brouhaha

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> First off disneys wedding stuff can be cheap if you want to .

directly from their site

"Total pricing, including all applicable taxes and gratuities, for above-described event could range from $15,000 - $25,000. "

So stop bashing disney just because they are a big company.

Have you ever seen the wedding locations at wdw? One of them is right on the lake at the Grand Floridian. Just because its disney does not mean you have to have a wedding with all that prince and princes stuff.

majortom1981

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @angryblackgurl: hahaha. the puerto ricans do the same thing. (with the food and the line, i mean)

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @hortense: Mmm except he's not dead... he's frozen! So how about $25K?

Twerpsichore

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> My husband and I eloped and then went to the local wedding showcase the following weekend with a group of friends to eat, drink, and be merry. It was like having a wedding with all of the great food, music, and booze without having to pay for one (and without having to negotiate with either of our insufferable mothers). All of the vendors were a little disappointed when we would inevitably say, "Oh, no, we're ALREADY married," but the shwag was excellent.

rowingrowingrowing

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> This had me laughing out loud!!! I went to a wedding with a photo booth, it was great, the line was longer then the food reception line(not a small feat at a black wedding). This story, and the pics made my day!!!

angryblackgurl

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @clerkinprada: I haven't taken it in the tookus but I can relate to the miserable wedding experience. Last year, I chased my niece's drunken, tweaker boyfriend in the parking lot (the dude had his shirt off and pants hanging below his boxers). Does the Disney wedding package have a special tool for dealing with surly druggies who spoil the party?

Cam/ron

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> this is seriously the best thing I have read in a really long time!! bravo!

delish food, free booze, photgraphing sprinkles on toliet seats, amazing gift bag and mocking banana Disney ladies is what i'm about.

Diabolina

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I got married on $4000, total. No debt, no reading wedding magazines or buying into this kind of crap felt good.

nasturtium

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> You know, I am more scared of weddings then butt sex...and that says A LOT. Even with open bars I hate going to weddings, I all twitchy and my skick itches.

BitchIsTheNewBlack

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @stoprobbers: Oh man, read Rebecca Mead's One Perfect Day. She interviews the Disney Weddings people. They are braiiiin-waaaashed. I keep trying to get my bride-friends to read this book, but for some reason they don't want to read about how the wedding industry is tricking people into spending money. I can't imagine why.

TheGintheCity

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Spouse got all upset with her dad over his reluctance to chip in for our wedding. I gave her a hard time about it, because I think she was acting spoiled. It's his money, he can do what he wants with it. We're adults with our own jobs. She was 34 years old! Plus he paid for her college, while my folks were too poor to do so. I don't have a problem with adults paying for their own weddings. It might keep the excessiveness down.

raoul j raoul

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Yeah, it's hard to knock free things. I'm all about free things.

That's sort of incongruous with having a real wedding, though, no? Maybe you could try to get corporate sponsorship of your after-party? I'm not above doing that.

Steverino

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I have to disagree with your last line tracie. Juding from my parents, marriage CAN hurt way more than ass sex. it seems to be like getting fucked in the ass as soon as you wake up in the morning, no lube, right when you need to take a dump the most. that must be why my mother looks to fucking angry ALL the time.

clerkinprada

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Cam/ron: haha i want my wedding scrapbook* to be nothing but peoples eyes, people making out with other people, people double fisting champagne and being ridiculous.

*not currently engaged or getting married or wanting to get mattied or anything of the sort.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Slut Machine - I'm joining the Chorus O' Love.

This has me ready to take the girl to one of these events, just to see the vendors heads spin over the idea of catering/ hosting/ whatever for a lesbian wedding. :-P

scarletvirtue

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> it's weird that the dresses were all sized 0. normally they are sized 8 and the sales staff has laundry-line pins to pull back the extra fabric.

ecl

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ineffable.me: The last wedding reception I attended had a photobooth. It's an awesome custom although the pics of me getting smashed on Manhattans probably didn't look chestnut in the wedding scrapbook.

Cam/ron

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Trust me, you'll have far better memories if you elope (as I did the 2nd time around. City Hall NYC rocks!). When you put yourself on display, and try to orchestrate the "perfect" event, you don't tend to enjoy it, as much as run it--even when you hire someone else to do just that.

As for that very chic poubelle in the first pic--I just love how "wedding planners/event people" think everything is more elegant when draped in muslin--from the chairs to that unfortunate toilet you came upon.

thatgirlinnewyork

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Heidiismyrealname: I can relate. Shortly after I got engaged, my parents told me that after I got a merit scholarship to college, they figured they were done helping me. I told my fiance that my wedding fund was now their two new cars. He thought I was joking.

Bless his heart.

Centaurea

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Reception rental photobooths have just made me want to switch from my elopement fantasies to a big ass reception. BEST IDEA EVAR.

megankills

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @hortense: OMG I'm in class right now and I almost LOLd at that bad boy

Improvident_Lackwit

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Hey, isn't that Bethenny in the photo? She loves weddings and we know she loves an open bar.

gladys_kravitz

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @stoprobbers: Saw that too. I was impressed by the finesse of the Disney team, but was shocked at the gobs of money being thrown at them. But the mad tea party hosted by Alice and the Mad Hatter looked like fun.

bellethellama

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Not to sound lame because apparently Disney hate is the name of the game around these parts, but the party planner who actually does the Disney weddings is innnnnncredible. Not only is he an amazing party planner, he's the NICEST guy ever. Never in a million years could I afford him, unfortunately. Unless I don't get married for a long time, which is a distinct possibility. And I kind of love Disney. *ducks* But I have my head in the clouds and have Disney princess fantasies. I fucking love those ball gowns they all wear.

LessThanZero

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @BrianVan: I don't think its meaningless for everyone. I will never have a big wedding b/c that's not my style but one of my dear friends has always dreamed of a big day and she has saved money for it and had the $100K wedding. I think spending that much is pretty crazy but she loved planning it, she loved the day and it was good for them. So to each their own.

marybanjo

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @LoveNoelG: @ccchild:

You gals are lucky. My dad wouldn't even give me $500 bucks to help me buy a car. He thinks since he paid for (a very small part of) my college, I should be able to pay for everything else I need form now on. I think if Iasked him to pay for a wedding he might* buy me a keg of beer (cause we are calssy like that), but the rest would be on me.

Heidiismyrealname

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Just really need to be totally sincere and give a shout out to Tracie. Girl, you're my fave. Every time I find myself randomly digging a post without knowing whose it is, like really really digging it, it always turns out to be yours. Seriously, you have yet to disappoint me. *mwah*

Desperate Attempt to Stay Relevant

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I'm getting married soon and would not be caught dead at one of those things. No doves or chocolate fountains for me I'm afraid.

mepo

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: @SpicyTamale: Thanks so much for the suggestions, guys; they are definitely good ones. I finally did find someone who is totally awesome and I love him. He just got out of the Navy (like many people in my town), so he was incredibly reasonable but had experience from their medical photog program.

All he did was show me his photos, list his credentials, hand me references, and tell me his photography philosophy. I wrote him a check.

Why is that so hard for some people?

Centaurea

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @wolf biter: me too! the last frontier on my body...

tokyomonamour

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Lady Skittlehattington: roommate...

I can spell. It's troo.

Lady Skittlehattington

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ccchild: My sister is getting married in a month and was PISSED that my parents only gave her $10,000 bc that is the same amount they gave my other sister ten years ago and she thought they should factor in inflation. WTF?

Me? I get money towards my first year of law school this sept. Im on my own come wedding time (not that I could give a crap about the whole big wedding thing, I think my sis's current state of panic is hysterical).

LinaLamont

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @hugnkiss: oh the around the world drinking is so wonderful. they totally have optimator at "germany"!

RemoteCommander

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> the last paragraph is brilliant!! i <3 Slut Machine!!

dvs

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Gross, Slut Machine! It's bad enough I had to flush my roomate's crazy European cousin's piss this morning. And now photos of period blood. It's not safe anywhere. :)

Lady Skittlehattington

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I would understand if paying $75,000 for a wedding earned you an effortless experience. But it turns out that a $75,000 wedding is something that requires a full year of work, something you could easily pay someone else yet another $75,000 to do for you. It's a fucking monster project that is often more complicated than the line of work of either of people being married in the firstplace.

I do not understand any of this, anyway. It is all meaningless. All expectations placed on a wedding are foolish. If anything, it serves to ridicule the very thing that is supposedly being celebrated. If I love my existing family members without the need to arrange a huge event to honor my connection with each of them, why can't I do that with a wife?

However, many of you never learn, and will keep lining the pockets of my fellow photographers who make incredible amounts of money doing weddings. Several of my colleagues, including myself, refuse to ever photograph weddings (at our own financial peril) because the idea is just terribly unappealing. I do NOT need to shoulder the unrealistic emotional expectations of 100-300 people for any price.

BrianVan

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Centaurea: if you lve in GA I have a friend who does AMAZING photos- for like 2k.

SpicyTamale

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ineffable.me: @KittenFluff: There's this show on, like, Lifetime, that I'm embarrassed to say I watch sometimes on lazy Sundays, called "Rich Bride, Poor Bride." It follows a couple as they plan their wedding -- some have insane budgets, some have modest, reasonable budgets. This one couple was in the latter camp, and was already way over budget, but the husband INSISTED on getting a photo booth, regardless of cost -- he even said he was willing to go into debt to have it at his reception. $1500 later, he'd tossed a photo booth from the local movie theater into his pick-up truck and brought it to the reception hall. He came across as a jerk, but yeah, having a photo booth there looked fun!

emandem

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @tokyomonamour: I'm saving mine for marriage.

wolf biter

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> slut machine i love you. if only for that last sentence.

(i never thought i'd have a "wedding", but i did - although we got married at city hall first - we made everything else up. and i have to say... it was awesome. i never want to do it again though.)

misshoax

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> The past two things I read about Slut Machine going somewhere, she posted a picture off her cell phone, in a bathroom, of something related to periods.

She's my kind of girl.

Atsumi

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @Centaurea: check out the art department at your local university. i bet you could find a photography student who would be more than happy to build a usable portfolio, without any of the bullshit. also, they'd probably be THRILLED with $1,000 and the cost of prints.

onthecornerofparkerandwoolf

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> i love you SM.
I would be just like you- getting all the free shit and leaving my friends to get bombarded with these annoying sales bitches to themselves.
Hah.
My husband and I eloped and for our wedding with just close fam and friends (max 20) was 10k. YAH.@missdona: i so wanted to do Vegas but i was preggers and refused to have open bar or anything fun if i couldnt enjoy it myself.

SpicyTamale

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @hortense: No, no Mother-in-law

PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> SM, if I should ever decide to tie the knot, I'm totally booking you as my photographer. The way you capture the spirit of these events is just so timeless. That said, don't hold your breath.

Pterodactyl

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @LoveNoelG: OMG, are you me? I'm doing the same thing with my parents. I'd rather have whatever money they want to give me for a wedding to spend on a house.

wolf biter

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ccchild:

really! it's so crazy to me spending that much money on an event, especially when most of it turns into this cliche wedding-industry dictate that you'd never agree to for any other party you wanted to have. and for most of us it's probably the biggest chunk of cash we'll ever spend on an event.

the only part i like is the cake.

msAnthrope

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @lewbers: And that is why the last time I was in Disney World (a few months ago) my BF and I decided to spend a day drinking our way around the world showcase in Epcot. You totally forget that kids are even there when everyone outside of your direct line of vision is a little blurry blob.

hugnkiss

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> PS That is not to say I don't respect true professionals, but just be honest about what you do and why.

Centaurea

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ccchild: If I were you I would ask the boyfriend if he might want to make a cool 10 grand each. Or any random guy, even.

shewar

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @missdona: This is exactly what I want to do! And we don't even have 50 friends so, in theory, it would be even cheaper!

annab

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ccchild: That is weak! If she gets that much to have a huge wedding, you should get the same $20K to buy a house, go to school, travel Europe, whatever you want to do.

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Anal sex is my new hymen.

tokyomonamour

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> It's not the picture of the period blood that disturbs me, it's that fact that someone left it there and couldn't be bothered to wipe it up! How classy are you if you have $75,000 to spend on a wedding but you use the restroom like a fucking pig? I swear to God, I love you all, but if I ever go in the bathroom after you and there is piss on the seat that you knew was there and didn't clean up, I will rip the rim off the toilet and beat you on the head with it. And I WILL NOT wipe it off first.

brookidy

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I went to one of these (in L.A.) over the weekend! Lots of pretty flowers, tasty desserts, free alcohol, and free food. Milking this engagement thing is AWESOME.

Gumbina80

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @hortense: comment of the day, please.

Philthyist

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> when people ask if the bf and i are getting married (because in the upper midwest dating for 2+ years = marriage SOON) we say "oh, didn't you hear? we're having a star wars themed wedding this summer. but the thing is, we sent out the invites through the force last week so if you didn't get it...."

onthecornerofparkerandwoolf

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I'm planning my wedding right now, and went to a couple of those showcases looking for a photog. They were all so full of it, it drove me insane.

I love photography, so that part is very important to me. I looked at their portfolios and storybooks, and would say, I really like your work, tell me about your credentials. And they (all men) would seriously sit there and blow sunshine up my wedding dress about how they used to photog sports, etc., but they just looooved "helping you realize your one big dream day and making you feel like a princess." WHATEVER.

What you like is reaming people for $8K just because it's their wedding day and you can't make any money off of shooting sports. And then they want to tell you how long it takes to work on the photos, and that's why it's so high. Pal, I have no sympathy. I work just as long on my job and I make a quarter of what you make off of working on the weekend. Puhleez.

/rant

Centaurea

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> PS - Who would want a wedding with a theme a five-year-old would enjoy? And who would want to honeymoon at Disney World. I mean, sure, happiest place on earth. But there are sticky children everywhere scaring you off sex.

lewbers

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ccchild: That is some cold, cold shit from your parents, my friend.

Photo booth at the reception FTW. That's a fantastic idea.

wolf biter

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ccchild: Ask them. Seriously.

I'm 27, single and want a house. I talked to my dad about it and he said he thinks a $50k wedding is what he would go for, and to consider that when asking him for a home loan. It will be subtracted out.

I have zero problem with that and think he's the awesomest. All I had to do was ask. I'm not ready to do it, it's just nice to know.

LoveNoelG

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> If I ever have to attend a destination wedding, there better be anal sex involved.

And period blood around wedding garb makes me feel nerrrrrvous.

shewar

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Yeah, I am taking the money and forgoing the party. Rather, we will have a party, but it will be for 20 people.

I can't justify spending $10,000 for a dress I am going to wear once.

lewbers

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @hortense: Ha, and that's why you're a star commenter. Who doesn't love a little matricide at the hands of a American icon zombie.

hugnkiss

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I saw something on the Food Network (I think) once about the Disney wedding package and it was both fascinating and totally horrifying at the same time. I might, though, have some kind of phobia about Disney characters. They freak me out.

stoprobbers

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> My mom wants me to have a big bang wedding but only if I marry a man.

HAH!! Jokes on her, I'm NEVER getting married.

TwiceShy

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> The last sentence kinda makes me want to get married.

Devonna

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Food that falls on the table is still totally edible. Agreed.

sylvie calls shotgun!!

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> So Disney sells cookie cutter packages but calls them Couture? I don't think they get the irony of that.

dcbosoxfan

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> i would be all about the free massages. and an ice cream sandwhich sounds so good right now!

pinkyBella

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> For an extra 50,000, Walt Disney will rise from the dead and kill your mother.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> OK, so my beloved sister just got engaged. She's so, so happy, I love her the most, I love seeing her happy, blah, blah, blah.

However...my parents told her they have $20,000 for her to spend, and I don't have a single penny to my name. What. the. fuck. I mean, if my bf and I decide to elope, can I get $20,000 for a downpayment on a fucking house, instead of a fucking party?!!!

ccchild

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @KittenFluff: oh man. im totally going to steal this idea if/when i get married. also because god knows there would be awesome pictures at 4am when everyone is fucking drunk as shit.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ineffable.me: That would be a splurge well worth it

Fizzy77

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> haha schmaltzy much?

nodoubt9203 [אִיזָבֶל]

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Does the $75,000 include Mickey ears for all your guests? If so then its a bargain.

marybanjo

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> i love events with free food!

hypnotic

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I would get excited by the possibility of free stuff by attending the thing, but I bet the ones held here in Iowa aren't even close to as much fun. Sometimes being surrounded by corn has a downside.

MissKittyFantastico

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> THAT PICTURE WAS NOT NECESSARY AND YOU KNOW IT.

My best friend and I want to be the female wedding crashers. And we're multi-ethnic enough to blend into a broad spectrum of events and be DRINKENN UR BOOZE & EATING YOUR WHOREDERVS.

JessicaLovejoy is voting for Kodos

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> You sold me. Next time it comes up, I'm going.

I did a destination wedding in Vegas for 50, with sit down dinner, open bar and DJ for $6K.

Vegas, ladies, it's your friend.

missdona

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> I'll go to anything with an open bar.

... Does this mean I have a problem?

TeenageGangDeb

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> You had me with ice cream sandwiches on a stick and open bar.

Then you ruined it with that picture of a toilet with blood on the seat. Classy move.

LoveNoelG

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> @ineffable.me: I was at a wedding with one; it was great. You were supposed to cut off one picture and paste it into the bride and groom's scrapbook, but the boyf and I took all of ours home (shhh!).

KittenFluff

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Brilliant. Especially love the last sentence.

misssgolightly

]]> <![CDATA[Single Slut Crashes <i>New York</i> Weddings Showcase]]> Man, renting a photobooth for a wedding sounds fucking AWESOME.

ineffable.me

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