I'm with Farrah on this.

I made:
The boutonnieres
The corsages
The table center pieces (including the flowers that went in them)
Dressed the tables
Put up lights

My wife:
Made her own boquet that she carried
The table treats (candy and stuff)
Decorated our fancy drinking glasses

We rented out the large hall at the Moose Lodge, they had a bar, I bought a keg and all the champange, we bought all of the food and used the Lodges kitchen. It worked out great.

Ya'll can talk her out of the location she wants then. :)

Sure...where's she thinking?

So next time I see someone picking their nose and eating it, I'm gonna think, "Hey, this guy's pretty healthy he's eating his own boogers!"

Try Vegas style. Fast, no fuss and definitely not in the 10s of thousands of dollars.

The Narnia Estate (yes, it's really slightly Narnia themed)

To be fair, it's a freakin' GORGEOUS place. We went to a wedding there last year. They do a quite nice job.

To be unfair, it's a freakin' outrageously expensive place (which is not surprising given the grounds).

I looks quite lovely. If I WERE to try to talk her out of the venue, I'd start by suggesting botanical gardens, or even the Brookfield Zoo.

(And some would argue "come with a money back guarantee") :D

SI

Just from a "I used to be on that side of the phone" perspective. Yelling gets you nowhere. But I do feel your pain.

Well you won't have to worry much more about that one...

Maybe Mizzou will give you the FOFC-discount on your wedding?

You and my wife can commiserate then. Our U-Verse service (TV, internet, phone) got fried out by a lightning strike Saturday night. I called for help Saturday night and had a very polite Canadian-sounding fellow profusely apologizing for the inconvenience and that he'd give us a month upgrade on our TV service once things were working again. Scheduled a tech to come out early afternoon Sunday. Tech came out, determined not only were we not getting anything in the house, but the line leading to the house was messed up, so that tech scheduled a second tech who works on exterior lines to come by late Sunday afternoon and fix that issue and says we don't have to be around for it.

Second tech comes by and he's there when we get back from my daughter's birthday party. He basically strung a new line to the house, but then is surprised when still nothing works inside. So, he puts in a ticket for a third tech to come by. Crucially, he didn't say and I didn't ask when the next tech was coming. My wife's not happy that I don't know when the third tech is coming because she's got plans for Monday. I told her repeatedly that the tech didn't say anything and yes, they had my cell phone number.

My wife calls AT&T yesterday morning and promptly gets chastised for claiming that we had no information about when the tech was coming even though they had told us when he would come (no, they didn't, or so we thought). All well and good because the tech was hopelessly behind and wouldn't have made the morning time window anyway so they re-schedule for late afternoon. Wife then asks to talk to someone in billing to see why our e-bills haven't shown up. Wife gets semi-berated again by different rep for not doing everything right in some fashion, which causes my wife to start snapping back at the rep. Eventually the billing stuff is cleared up (we hope) and we're getting all the promotional stuff we should have been getting but weren't in some instances. My wife's still pretty irate about how she was treated, though.

The third tech shows up along with my father-in-law who wants to help out because a) it's his old house and b) he was previously an AT&T tech before he got an asshole of a boss who basically did everything he could to run my father-in-law out of the job. Between them, they find out the line to the modem and the modem itself got fried by a lightning strike, replaced the line and the modem and now everything's working again (albeit somewhat unsteadily at times).

The final punchline is this: AT&T did indeed call us to let us know the tech was coming. However, they called us on our house number...you know, the one that got fried by the lightning storm on Saturday. :banghead:

A coworker gave me a tomato plant. I have no idea what to do with it, I am not a gardener.

For the first time in my life, I'm looking forward to having surgery.

/tk

Jesus, what did you do with the tomato plant?! :eek:

"Hiya Blondie, how's your old tomato?" - Joe Schultz.

Get a Topsy Turvy and make fresh salsa! :)

I've had a new MacBook Pro sitting in a box since Friday. Hope to finally get a chance to try it out for the first time tonight

Dude, what the heck are you waiting for? Well, unless you are already on a MacBook Pro, then no big deal.

no, my first mac. been kind of busy lately

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake is a God among cakes!

Ah ok, that's cool. There's a secret video from Steve Jobs that plays when you first boot the machine. After that, you will be a Apple fan boy for life. ;)

My next laptop is going to be a Macbook Pro.

I have a pair of white jeans by the Gap (the new 1969 jeans) being delievered today. These are my first pair of white jeans and I'm somewhat excited (I got my first grey jeans earlier this year). I mean they aren't the designer stuff I usually get (though always on sale for at least 50% off), but they are white jeans, which means no whiskering or much cross stiching, so why pay more?

Are the skinny jeans?..

I find this post very disturbing.

Who wears white jeans?

That's where I was going with my comment.

I will not let anyone see pictures unless they have been fixed.

That's pretty hardcore that you need someone to be fixed before they view pictures.

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Nope. Straight leg.

Plenty of folks! Especially this season:

How to Rock White Jeans

I have a simple fashion lesson. Wear what is comfortable.

White jeans, yikes! I think they are magnetized in a special way so you are sure to get them stained in the least amount of time.

That's not exactly a fashion lesson ;)

FWIW, these are them:

Shop clothes for women, men, maternity, baby, and kids | Gap

I had a few coupon codes though (I haven't paid full price for jeans in years).

You are right, it's a whole freaking course.

ISiddiqui should change his username to Fancypants

These are potentially my least fancy jeans (well, ok, I have a Levi's 501 gray jeans) ;).

I have less fancy khakis though! :D

Just..lol. Trying hard much?

It's like the male version of Cosmo.

Last month: my supervisor to another supervisor - We can't accommodate an additional person in the class.
Today (day before class): I'm told to expect one more person in the class because (previous supervisor) asked about accommodating an additional person in said class.

1. Pineapple upside down IS the best cake.

2. I'm with Imran here. I was at the mall today looking for the whitest shade of blue I could find. I love super-light blue jeans, couldn't find a good pair anywhere today.

I have a pair of white jeans that I got from Zara. They rock.

I made a pineapple upside down cake for the first time the other day, kind of out of necessity....cuz it's the only cake I could cook in a cast iron griddle. Which only confirms its kingly status.

also: anybody who went to high school in the '80s knows white jeans are for fags

I'm still waiting for Ksyrup to do some vacuuming....

Does that make them Zara Whites?

Winner, for the early 90s porn star reference!!!