<![CDATA[I Thee Dread - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> I don't get weddings. What is the big deal? Why do people have to watch? Ugh.

Lonely Goatherd

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @MonkeyButt:
I am sooo grateful to you for posting that link. My fiance's conservative family just found out a few days ago that I'm pretty heavily tattooed (I was pussy and never let them be seen) and some of them have been pitching a fit about me being some sort of deviant weirdo waste-of-a-white-dress. Seeing all those beautiful tattooed brides reassures me that I'm going to look like a pretty classy broad.

brisk1333

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> Our ceremony took place @ the Chicago courthouse with just parents and then in following weeks we had a east coast reception for my fam (dim sum in a fave restaurant) a chicago party for our friends there (open bar, hookahs and nibbles @ hookah lounge for 4 hours) and had a bbq in Canada w/his family. Total cost including gorgeous formal photo session in an arboretum, white dress and all? Under 5K including all our travel. And it was awesome.

Yes_Tim_Gunn

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @girlfromthenorthcountry:I'm with you. We got married at the courthouse and took the money we had put it down on a nice-sized house. 15 years later we're still glad we did it that way.

The greatest part is we had to pay the cashier $25, and I have a receipt that reads "marriage fee: $25.00. Thank you and have a nice day". I keep it in my wallet to remind me of when my anniversary is (not good with numbers). And if Mr. G gets uppity I remind him I can still return him. All smart women keep the receipts....

Gretchen

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> We have a girl in our (profoundly middle-class) circle of friends who got married about a year and a half ago--when both she and the groom were a year out of college at entry-level jobs--and spent 60K on the wedding. I guess all she does now when they all go out is complain about how broke she is.

Honestly, it's ONE night. If I were really going to spend that much money on my husband and myself, I would buy a house. Or take off a year of work and travel.

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @LaComtesse: Honestly, I haven't been able to look at them yet--the last few weeks have been INSANE. Crikey. But I will check them out--I really need the ideas!

And that time of year is so gorgeous--my brother got married 3 years and 3 days prior to us.

bellethellama

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> I got married in Vegas wearing a dress that I had in my closet. I didn't need the party to be happy. But I can see how wedding prices can add up fast. I would probably have spent most of my budget on a dress.

Spending lots of money on a wedding isn't my style, but if you have the money and the desire to do it, I say go for it. Try to put as much thought into picking your partner as you do into picking your flowers, and remember that a wedding is only one day. Celebrate your partner every day.

millelilly

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @bellethellama: Three days before my one year anniversary! Mazel tov! Oh, and did those pictures help you at all (you wrote me a while ago).

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> I had a beautiful wedding 13 years ago for about $5K. My sister is getting married this June, and it may run around $8 - 9K. And it will be lovely, we will dance under the stars, and they will be lawfully married.

And the funnest (that a word?) weddings I've been to are the outside pig-pickin's. I live at the beach, so we have some lovely outdoor weddings here.

And the marriage still stands, cheap or not.

gerbilsoutofexile

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @es-ki-mo: It is about time. I have a wedding to pay for...and I am struggling to find a reason to pay $600 for a white freakin' dress.

FunSizeCupcake

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @jenndavo: @BeckySharper: Seriously. I'd probably nominate Indy from the stunt show...rawrrr.

@LaComtesse: October 4th. It's still far away, but it'll be here before I know it.

bellethellama

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @jenndavo: Awesome. I'm always wanted to have a hot threesome while wearing a name-embroidered pirate hat.

Cam/ron

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @bellethellama: That's really good, and good for you for not buying into the extra crap. I swear to God, my husband and I found the Brigadoon of wedding venues-- like, it only appears once every hundred years and everything is magical/delicious/beautiful/cheap. We were lucky. *sigh* I loved our wedding. When is your date?

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @jenndavo: @bellethellama: Super bonus points if the third person in the shower with you is one of the Disney characters. Cinderella? Goofy? I leave it to you and Mr. Jenndavo to decide...

BeckySharper

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @FunSizeCupcake: I think "stick bride" accurately describes the look most brides are going for. I think you may have just started a multi-million dollar business.

es-ki-mo

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @bellethellama: From the article: "Perhaps most impressive is the bathroom, which features a 4-foot-square Jacuzzi jet tub with a waterfall faucet, a separate shower that could comfortably fit THREE ..."

See? That castle was MADE for a Penthouse Forum letter.

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @PinkSoxHat: I am glad you said this as I was just about to. It's frightening how fast things add up - even with a non conventional wedding with not all the whistles and bows attached. I think mine cost about $30K and it was not all that.

TriedandTrue

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @jenndavo: Oooo! There is an interesting article about this on MSN travel: [travel.msn.com]

bellethellama

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @jenndavo: Rock on! (Raising my devil horns to salute you).

Cam/ron

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @LaComtesse: My ovaries failed me the first time I was knocked to the ground by an overly aggressive bridesmaid and her 50-pound sequined "find." Filene's Basement: Only the Strong Survive.

InkSlinger

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @LaComtesse: So, so true. I have to say, though, that our reception venue is giving us mad value for the money--ranges from $105-$110 a head (and the food is gooood), and that includes open bar, lots and lots of appetizers, cake, coat check, room for the two of us, plus a whole bunch of other crap I'm not thinking of. Naturally, they offer many, many ways to "enhance" the experience (potato bars, etc.) but we're not doing any of that crap.

bellethellama

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @LaComtesse: @lolacat: It's Cinderella's castle, I think:

[www.2008disneydreamcatalog.com]

I urge you all to enter.

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @freedc: I have never seen anything like this in my life - and I lived in South Philly. The absense of blunt/sharp objects likely saved many a life.

InkSlinger

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> I can kind of imagine spending 75,000 on a wedding if I had millions of dollars. If they'd spend that much on a car that they might have for a short time, then it's just as easily spent on a huge party. The millions becomes harder for me to imagine.

My kind of car purchase is more along the lines of a few thousand, which is what my wedding ended up costing.

fizzyg

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @WorkingWino: I cannot even imagine. David's Bridal on a Saturday afternoon was bad enough. I do not think I have the ovarian fortitude to participate in the Running of the Brides.

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @jenndavo: Oooh- Is it in Sleeping Beauty's Castle or the one in the Walt Disney room (cuz' the Walt Disney room is possibly oner of the creepiest places in America)

If I ever marry again (shudder, shudder)- I will definitely go secular. It wasn't the "gheys" that ruined marriage for me - rather, it was the preacher men and one, hetero asshole.

lolacat(ΩΜ)

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @WorkingWino: We actually talked about this in my Torts class this year, how Filene's has to remove things like glass shelving beforehand or they'll be liable for negligence.

freedc

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> We are so totally having a backyard BBQ. I understand that my priorities are so different from other people, but even spending $30,000 seems ridiculous. When I see $30,000, I see condo downpayment not flowers or a band. No disrespect to anyone who spent or plans to spend that.

LadyPants

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> Then there's the other extreme - I was dragged to the Filene's Basement Running of the Brides sale in Paramus a few months ago and I'm still bearing the physical and psychological wounds. They literally whip a crowd of rabid discount-seeking bridezillas into a frenzy outside the store in the pre-dawn hours before the sale and then open the doors at 9 a.m., stepping aside as the stampede roars across the linoleum floor, elbowing, shoving, grabbing and squealing...oh the humanity...

InkSlinger

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> I don't know if you guys have heard of this site, offbeatbride.com but it rocks my fucking face off. I'm getting married in August and I'm addicted to it. in a good way though.

MonkeyButt

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @jenndavo: I can just see the headline.

Jenndavo Fucks On Sleeping Beauty's Bed: Seven Dwarfs Look On in Horror.

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @PinkSoxHat: Just avoid wedding stores. You can get almost everything you need for a wedding without going into bridal boutiques. The adjective "bridal" is the most expensive word in the English language. Making anything specific to a wedding ups the price by at least 50%.

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @LaComtesse: Show me your best "Cotton-Eyed Joe" moves, too. N Southern wedding is complete without it.

@lolacat: Yeah, no kidding! Hangover divorces don't devalue the average American marriage, but those evil, evil gays do. Tell me another one, Mr. Focus on the Fmaily!

@Cam/ron: I realize how w-r-o-n-g this is, but I've entered a contest for a free weekend stay in the Disneyland castle. It's always been my dream to defile it with 48 hours of the filthiest sex imaginable.

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> 10 million dollar wedding? no thanks.

I'll take a drive-thru window in Vegas!

Lulamaeb

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @theloudcorral: weddings have always been a status symbol. If you read Marjorie Morningstar, which Herman Wouk set in the 1930s, Marjorie decides to choose the $5,000 top-of-the-line wedding offered by the Lowenstein catering company, which includes a stairway for the bride to descend, a rose arch through which she enters, and a film crew to capture the whole thing. That would be the equivalent of a $75,000 wedding now.

brendastarlet

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> In this whole wedding planning process, I've learned that the more expensive things tend to be totally not my taste, thank goodness. Those huge tree-like centerpieces and stupid bows on chairs that cost something like $7 each are hideous. Its not that hard to have a really great wedding on a reasonable budget. Whats disgusting is that $30,000 is considered reasonable now.

PinkSoxHat

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> The English language is failing me. Words like "obscene," "ridiculous," and "shocking" don't seem to cover what I think about a $10 million wedding. Perhaps unconscionable??

There's just no excuse for it. I just can't wrap my head around it.

Loki_Monster

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @brendastarlet: Dahling, I am married to Mr. Badmutha, and we had a lovely wedding, but it wasn't extravagant. To each his own, I guess, especially if you can "afford it."@jenndavo: I really never understood that reasoning. I liked the slogan that said "Support gay marriage: Let them be as miserable as the rest of us." @BAngieB: Of course you should be able to marry. One day you will!

badmutha

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @jenndavo: Anyone who's that obnoxious about her wedding is overcompensating. To say nothing of the whole "I gotta man, y'all! See! I gotta man!"

So I don't feel too bad for her. She got the attention she wanted. Now she has to live with the snark. Her choice.

BeckySharper

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @jenndavo: Don't forget the annullment, too, so I can pretend it never happened with religious fervor and a sense of superiority. (Yeah, I'm not bitter or anything).

lolacat(ΩΜ)

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> A $10 million wedding, huh? I wonder what the wedding night packages would be. How about sex in a room at the top of the Disneyland Castle? Or maybe it's the Fabio package where the man himself reads out the steamiest passages from his novels to the bride before bedtime?

Cam/ron

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @jenndavo: Noooooooo! I've been practicing the electric slide for weeks! Weeks I tell you!

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @LaComtesse: I have no idea where that meme came from, but I've fully embraced it. It perfectly encapsulates homophobic ignorance.

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @theloudcorral: Hahahahah! Silly girl!

amy1971

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @BeckySharper: Ha ha, OUCH!

I have zero sympathy for that woman. Anyone who turns their wedding into a grab for schwag deserves to end up alone.

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @jenndavo: heh heh. "Gheys."

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> I'm sorry, but I have to be honest: If I had $10 million to spare, I would so totally pay it to see my face on an M&M. I *heart* M&Ms with a passion that isn't entirely correct.

cargirl86

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @BAngieB: That my uncle and his husband of 25 years are not legally recognized as married is in all seriously one of the top 5 tragedies of my life, and I include the death of my father in there.

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @jenndavo: Not yours. Just Star Jones's.

BeckySharper

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @LaComtesse: You are officially UNinvited to my nuptials. You can kiss your embossed gift bag goodbye, missy.

And there was a Swarovski crystal-encrusted pair of "Jenndavo & Mr. Jenndavo" flip-slops in there, too.

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @es-ki-mo: For $75,000 I will personally draw your picture on any candy you want. As long as you don't mind looking like a stick bride.

FunSizeCupcake

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @BAngieB: But that would somehow devalue MY marriage. You know, the one I can spend $10 million on while the entire African continent starves. The same marriage I can end almost instantly, thanks to quickie divorce laws.

Isn't that how it works? Teh gheys are ruinin' my relationship?

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @TheOtherJen: Ooohhh zing! Good one!

KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @Dear Blond Diary...: @zivah: You know, I made that point--tactfully--to the father of a friend of mine who shelled out nearly million for her ridiculously extravagant wedding. He actually didn't take offense and said "You know, I donated over $25 millions to charity in the last 2 years. It's not like I'm throwing this wedding instead of giving money to charity. I can afford to do both, so I do."

BeckySharper

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> Now if you could put my picture on a resees peanut butter cup, we may have something. or onto the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop (how many licks doest it take to get to es-ki-mo?). or onto some tart 'n tinys.
**excuse me whilst I go eat a fistfull of glorious sugar**

es-ki-mo

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @RaisonPassion: I don't begrudge people a nice wedding. For some people, weddings are culturally very important. But for Christ's sake, there's a limit!

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> So, if I spend $75,000 on my wedding, can you guarentee it will last "till death do us part?"

No?

Well then, no marriage for this girl.
Seriously. Ugh.

KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> I think someone should ask Star Jones how she feels about this today.

TheOtherJen

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> "If you can afford it, you do it." - That's the "let them eat cake" of the bridal-industrial complex.

gingerkhan

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> uhhh...shouldn't the focus be on the couple's love and commitment and not how fancy the reception can be? god, even weddings have become a status symbol. make me gag...

theloudcorral

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> Dear People Who Take This Shit Even A Little Seriously,

You give brides everywhere a bad name. You make everyone think a bride planning a wedding wants a trained dove to place a 35 carat diamond ring on her finger as she wears a Vera Wang gown made of silk and baby tiger pelts. Us normal brides planning a reasonable wedding are therefore subject to taunts of "bridezilla" every time we have to go to a dress fitting or pay a vendor.

I hate you all. You and your overwhelming sense of entitlement,
La Comtesse

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @freedc: At least ad Backyard BBQ's the food is recognizable.

FunSizeCupcake

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> Wow, lots of money for what? Something you'll remember on pictures after it's over ? Give money to kiva instead or do something productive like a trip even a shopping trip would seem less stupid as you'd have concrete results from all that money!

RaisonPassion

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> GAH! The kind of women who are into this sort of thing will always throw it in your face how their wedding day is "MY day". Yet they live their entire lives like every day is "MY day". Puke.

asylum

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> I've said this many times to people: I've been to so many F-ing weddings and the $100,000 ones are no better than the backyard BBQs.

I have to believe you will be punished for spending $10M on a party, if not in this lifetime...

freedc

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @badmutha: weddings are pricier than you can imagine. If you have 200 people, times $100 a plate (which is not unusual for a good caterer to charge), that's $20,000 for the food alone. Add in flowers, booze, the band, favors, valet parking, the rental for the club -- you can easily get there.

brendastarlet

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> And it's back!

Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> Wow. I am so anti-bridezilla. I'm eloping.

FunSizeCupcake

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> silly silly silly people. They fork out 10 million for the wedding...divorce within 2 years and pay a fuck-load in alimony. wow.

Her_royal_Highness

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> @TeenageGangDeb: Kind of like a starter wedding...

Kittenish

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> "Entry-level" wedding. HA! Like you're waiting to get promoted to you're next, better, bigger wedding.

TeenageGangDeb

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

nothanks

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> You wanna hear about MY fantasy wedding? It's to be able to legally marry the woman I love.

BAngieB

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> No, if you can afford it, you make a huge difference by giving 10 million dollars to the charity of your choice.

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> a 10 million dollar party???
PLEASE tell me this rich people ask their guests to donate to micro loans in lieu of gifts, right? no?

Dear Blond Diary

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> How much for the godzilla bride?

dummyfakeroller

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> That is just the most self-involved thing in the world to do. Who would possibly spend that kind of money? Even the 75,000?

badmutha

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> I can pretend that I don't dig that ice luge thing that is on every wedding show ever.

JessicaLovejoy is voting for Kodos

]]> <![CDATA[I Thee Dread]]> How much is his commission?

That's the real question here ...

Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka

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