Help guide boorish Abbott to successful summer wedding

Where the hell do I get one?

I'm too dumb to go on!

Aren't registries awfully rude? I find the whole idea embarrassing but sometimes, OTOH, I am too modest for my own good.

Congratulations?

Haha thanks!

do you have to wear a traditional dress? if it's a summer wedding, you could just wear a pretty summer dress. i think registries are a great idea - that way you get stuff you actually want/need and it makes it easier for your guests who may be confounded.

I have always hated weddings and I have no idea how to wrangle a totally chillaxed and fun one without offending my family.

Congratulations Abbott! You should wear what you want - it's your wedding. You can rent fancy dresses, or check CL, etc. if it comes to that. And! Miss Manners has probably got a whole book on wedding stuff!

Wooo, get a klezmer band to play. Congrats and stuff, too.

I read hell of Miss Manners but she's far more traditional than I want out of a wedding. What is CL?

Sorry if it was unknown I was gettin' hitched. I tell four people something and assume it's all covered bcz I hate repeating myself.

MARRIED TO THE GAME

We're getting married in a library auditorium! Totally badass! And only $80.

Don't wear a wedding dress! Just wear a dress you like. My wife wore this fab dark-red dress at our wedding and it ruled. No tuxes in sight, too!

CL = craigslist?

Pay a friend in beer to DJ the event, and/or get a Wii to entertain folks at the reception.

Dresses! Wedding dresses scared the crap out of me. I tried on one traditional poofy type thing and just lauged. I ended up figure out a good trick - bridesmaid dresses!! Many of them are formal enough to look appropriate just not as bride-y etc. Most are also available in ivory or white. Mine was less than $3oo including extra length and alterations. Mine was from Dessy. There are pics on facebook if you want to see!

Also, I agree with LC that colored dresses can be amazing. I always thought I'd wear one but ended up ordering the bm dress in ivory anyway. www.indiebride.com has some really good info/advice on the "Kvetch" forums. Whatever you do, stay away from www.theknot.com. Good luck.

Eloping totally rules. A+++ would do again.

Library wedding sounds fun :) CL does = craigslist, sorry. When Mr. Jaq and I got married 4 years ago, we kept it very casual, but we both wanted to dress up. I found an emerald green ball gown; he wore a tux with a purple brocade vest - guests were in jeans/shorts/dresses/whatever - a small group and held on the roof of our apartment building overlooking Puget Sound (free!). Family members into drama weren't invited (sorry Mom! sorry Dad!).

you didn't invite your mom & dad to your wedding?

I think I'd rather have a little potential drama during the weeding from the 'rents than not inviting them (was a serious consideration) and getting ragged about it for the rest of my goddamn life.

This was just me.

yay! Just remember: this day is actually (not) about you. :-)

yeah, don't forget... that. um.

Congrats! What are you doing re after-wedding bash/food/sochali-zing? Or will you just take off in a swish of non-ivory skirts?

Congratulations!

(Was I the only one who knew she was already getting married?)

(you know everything!)

See, ljubljana, I have no idea what the hell I'm doing after the wedding. But I suppose it is dumb to come to ILX and be like "make all my decisions guys"!

(we knew she was getting married just not when)

It took us a year to figure out "when," why the hell did I think six months would be enough to figure out "how"?

my engagement time was five months. you'll be fine--you think up quirky shit all the time, just aim it towards the wedding

Congrats!

The obvious way to shut up everyone is to have a star trek wedding:

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/d/d4/Jadziaworfwedding.jpg

They will object at first, but insist that your backup plan is even worse. No one will call this bluff.

Congratulations!!! Wedding dress shopping suxors. Registering feels greedy and weird, but it is worth doing because it really DOES help your guests and also because it cuts down on people giving you seriously wtf gifts.

As others have pointed out, it is YOUR wedding, so do it the way you want to!

I suppose the problem is I have no idea how I want to do it. I'm pretty much only excited about designing the invites.

you should wear a retro seventies tux and your boyf should wear a tutu. awesome. and make the whole thing dress-up - all the guests.

Abbott i will totally deejay your wedding.

have Laibach play your wedding!

that's my ultimate dream anyway.

It took us a year to figure out "when," why the hell did I think six months would be enough to figure out "how"?

We were engaged in January and married in July - planning in six months is totally possible. In fact, it forces you to make quick decisions which can be a good thing in the end.

Ned - I knew she was engaged too. Maybe we're just the observant ones. ;-)

congrats abbott!

my advice: you're too young to get married! love

-grady

Bring in strippers for the reception.

Theme suggestion!

Abbott I totes knew u were engaged of course.

btw abbott you have revealed yrself as the secret identity of ilx legend cankles

i hope dis nigga twirls HELL OF moustaches in this shit

-- cankles, Sunday, December 30, 2007 5:23 AM

I read hell of Miss Manners but she's far more traditional than I want out of a wedding.

-- Abbott, Saturday, January 5, 2008 9:22 PM

A HOOS RESTS HIS CASE

http://www.ohnorobot.com/index.pl?comic=636&s=%22hell+of%22&search=Find

j crew has some nice dresses that work great as wedding dresses that aren't hugely girly. ebay also has a million wedding/bridesmaid/ball dresses both new and used for a huge range of prices.

i'd say go get martha stewart weddings (or find one in a library and copy instead of tear) and tear out the "planning" section. hers is particularly clear and useful. panic a bit as it's like 10 pages of crap to do. sit down with your intended and cross everything you don't want. for us, that was a LOT (no limo, no venue flowers, no church, no bridesmaids, etc). that'll make you feel better. when you have a short list of what has to be done, figure out how much time you can and want to spend on it. i'm not a girly girl at all, but enjoyed researching food and venues, so spent a lot of time doing that (and eating free food samples! free cake samples are good as well).

the other practical tip is to sit down and make a budget, do some real research and then try to cut a bit out of every single category. we managed to save several thousand dollars by making a few changes, and i didn't miss anything we cut at all (like favors? who cares about favors?)

i agree that you should avoid the knot as people there can be petty and nasty, so unlike ILX. indiebride was invaluable to me. i really enjoyed our wedding and think our guests did as well-- several said it was much more personal/romantic than many they'd been to, and that's because we picked the traditions we liked and chucked the rest. have fun and don't beat yourself up if you get a bit stressed, it'll be over soon.

oh, and plan a honeymoon of some kind. we figured we'd wait a while since we moved just before the wedding and we SO needed it, ended up just packing the car and skipping town for a few weeks.

if you have a male dog, apply a miniature bow tie to his neck and allow him to roam free at the reception

also use a Microsoft Excel (.xls) spread sheet to organize the guest list and keep track of meal preferences, given gifts, and save-the-date/R.S.V.P./thank-you card status.

if you have a male dog, apply a miniature bow tie to his neck and allow him to roam free at the reception

OTFM

congratulations abbott, wish u happiness

CONGRATS ABBOTT YOU LOOK REAL PURTY!!

We marched up aisle to Devo Corporate Anthem!

<3

that's perfect, it even sounds a bit like "Here Comes the Bride"

aw<3 my congratulations and wishes of greatest happiness and admiration.

Aww man, Abbs, congratulations from the bottom of my heart. You seriously do look spectacular in those pictures, and the wedding sounds amazing.

oh and congrats!

Just spotted this thread... Looks like you had a fab wedding, may you two have a fabulous future together as well! Congratulations!

Yes, congratulations from me too! You look great but slightly annoyed on those pics :-)

Congrats, Abbott!

I thought my mom was the lady on Blue Bonnet margarine when I was a kid.

I think I thought the same about my mom and Sun Maid raisins.

Congrats, btw!

^^ not sure what joke to make about Jaymc's mom right now

I guess there's no joke, just that the Sun Maid was a real looker.

Congrats again, Abbott!

Sounds (and looks) like such a memorable and FUN day!

Congrachoolayshuns Abbott!

It was super fun! It was fun & chill & cheap, just like I wanted it to be. And I found out my fave cousin, who is 15 and a girl, is also obsessed w/Dr. Who. So I kind of shortchanged some relatives their talking time bcz, well, it's not like they are going to talk about Dr. Who.

what is on an abbott's gift registry

1) jerky, lots of jerky

2) dr who complete series dvd set

3) deeznuts killfile

Thank god we have all lived long enough to see Abbott safely married!

congrats ABBS!!!! You rock the Clara Bow-esque faraway gaze look v well.

Congrats Mr & Mrs Abbott!

bahaha Edward! I will now accost y'all with some pictures. I finally got the (800+!) files from my awesome photog volunteer bud, and I'm not posting any of the 100+ where I'm sobbing.

First: HOOSBAND!

http://a159.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/25/l_c07472f8ec1cc2b4d77df4024608505e.jpg

http://a398.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/103/l_3a16ae211668acf38a91708eb6efabdd.jpg

Him w/maid of honor.

http://a514.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/59/l_ba794ac567b03006b9433f05b470aa61.jpg

Hoosband you can believe in! Si se puede!

He looks like he's going to conduct the cake, not slice it.

I get progressively more intense w/each family member:

Mom:

http://a656.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/72/l_cfee0af010992d1dfb36788e07cb1ca7.jpg

Dad:

http://a304.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/8/l_a20ea99ec88cdce5461c5532055836e7.jpg

Older of two 'little brothers' (they are perhaps too old to be called that):

http://a996.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/26/l_2c6795f55aa287eb14766c13f09c2c73.jpg

Aw, so cute abbott!

:D so awesome

awwwwww

Surprises:

1. I had no idea the neighbors (who shared the yard) would be moving that weekend, so there was a U-Haul in the background:

http://a485.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/25/l_d0a20bf30a10fad7783d0cae783883cc.jpg

2. While neither of these are traditional attire for an afternoon wedding, my econ friend looks totally debonair nonetheless. Other dude who I didn't really invite: could you stop being SUCH a hipster for three fucking hours?

http://a488.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/31/l_6ae2f4dc3390e2b98640b941cb62d91f.jpg

Yes to all that. :-)

First time all the McCracks were in one place since four years ago:

http://a957.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/112/l_be06a1795886c284e233fa3132ce5e2c.jpg

Abbs you are a vision. Your little brother looks like an evil possessed thing, though. In an adorable Mormon way.

We always scream together as a greeting.

Unless you mean my bro who started experimenting w/red hair dye. He is the coolest person in the world.

you look gorgeous. great dress, great hair.

i love that uhaul pic so much

lol your little brother is yawning, they're all the same :D

HOOSBAND!

this isn't Mr. aka the steendriver, right?

i hate that short shorts douche so much

why?

because he thought a wedding was the appropriate situation to play dress up as owen wilson in the royal tenenbaums?

sounds like you hate hipsters

I have met Hoos and his gal and they do not resemble the happy couple pictured above. Also Abbott lives way way way over yonder, while Hoos is a local yokel.

because he thought a wedding was the appropriate situation to play dress up as owen wilson in the royal tenenbaums?

Ha, yes - totally. He looks esp bad compared to Abbot's dapper friend.

When I walked into the reception at our wedding I saw that my Maid of Honor's boyfriend had showed up wearing jeans. That was a little weird because while not really formal or anything it def wasn't a jeans type situation. I can't even tell you how many people asked me who the hell the dude in jeans was. lol.

because he thought a wedding was the appropriate situation to play dress up as owen wilson in the royal tenenbaums?

-- n/a

actually i just realized he looks exactly like the retarded kid in the royal tenenbaums (dudley i think)

i hate that short shorts douche so much

-- n/a, Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:42 AM (Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:42 AM) Bookmark Link

why?

-- webinar, Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:47 AM (Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:47 AM) Bookmark Link

anyone who needs to ask why a dude WEARING SHORT SHORTS is hated needs to assess some things in my mind. he's also wearing fucking flip flops.

http://paveldanton3.googlepages.com/TheRoyalTenenbaums20015.jpg

bahaha I totally feel like dudley all the time. "Do you want to do any tests on me or experiments or anything?"

BAHAHAHA he has DUDLEY embroidered on his HAT.

this isn't Mr. aka the steendriver, right?

-- StanM, Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:39 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

lol while Mr. HOOSBAND is a v lucky dude he is not me

It is my written way of trying to say it like Hermes' wife.

HOOSBAND!
WIFE O' MINE!