How to Be a Gracious B****

I’m not a huge fan of email forwards, but when I got this one today, I had to laugh - thanks OS for sending it to me!

Jennifer’s wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could dampen her excitement — not even her parent’s nasty divorce. Her mother had found the PERFECT dress to wear and would be the best-dressed mother-of-the-bride ever!

A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father’s new young wife had bought the exact same dress as her mother! Jennifer asked her father’s new young wife to exchange it, but she refused. ‘Absolutely not, I look like a million bucks in this dress, and I’m wearing it,’ she replied.

Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, ‘Never mind sweetheart. I’ll get another dress. After all, it’s your special day.’

A few days later, they went shopping and did find another gorgeous dress. When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, ‘Aren’t you going to return the other dress?  You really don’t have another occasion where you could wear it.  Her mother just smiled and replied, ‘Of course I do, dear. I’m wearing it to the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding.’

NOW I ASK YOU - IS THERE A WOMAN OUT THERE, ANYWHERE, WHO WOULDN’T ENJOY THIS STORY?

~sd

Matron of Honour

My little sister isn’t so fond of the word “Matron”. She’s married, but that word just makes her sound old. So what to do? I can’t call her  “Maid” anymore, so I searched online for some more youthful alternatives:

Woman of Honour
Lady of Honour
Attendant of Honour
Chief Bridesmaid
The Supreme Being of Chickness
Mrs. Wingwoman

I thought “The Supreme Being of Chickness” (from the website The Offbeat Bride) or “Mrs. Wingwoman” were pretty interesting and would garner some friendly chuckles, but my sis opted for “Lady of Honour”, which is a good, safe choice too!

I’ve made the changes in the Bridal Party section, and updated a few more things there. Take a look!

~sd

Top Wedding Trend of the Day!

And here I was wondering how Khiem could possibly have so many friends…

“A Tokyo company called Office Agents has a booming business in renting people out for a couple hundred bucks a head as wedding guests. It’s a popular service among those who want to impress their spouses with the number of good-looking, amiable friends they have. You can even rent a fake boss or colleague if you’re unemployed but need to pretend to you aren’t to your spouse’s friends or family. Apparently, this service is doing even better during the recession because of this.”

Read the whole story at Tokyo Mango.

~sd

Brooms in Trees

Khiem and I watched Rich Bride, Poor Bride yesterday. I’ve never actually watched a full episode, and this was the first time that Khiem and I watched the show together. I was a bit surprised because Khiem was actually the one who flipped to the channel. Apparently the football game was over and there was nothing else on tv - but I think it might have been because he wanted to watch a bonafide bridezilla in action.

And was it ever the perfect episode to see what a bridezilla is like. She had several uncalled-for flips outs. She had the look of death when her hubby-to-be and wedding planner tried to convince her to spend less on the cake (she got her way, dishing out $850 on a cake that no one ate). She insisted on spending $25,000 on the decor alone and another $750 went to the “walking dessert table” - essentially a woman who mingles with the crowd with a table around her waist. Kind of like those sandwich boards but it’s an actual table and people have to make sure they pick up the pace if they want to catch up to her to grab a sweet after-dinner treat. I imagine the children who are going to be at our wedding and my own clumsy self, and I just think: disaster waiting to happen.

By far the strangest thing she did was refuse to create a rain plan, instead relying on brooms in trees to ward off the rain spirits. So here I was, thinking that Chinese traditions and superstitions were weird enough - now someone has introduced something that sounds a bit witchy to me. Then I did a quick Google search for “wedding brooms rain” and found this tidbit about witch lore:

Brooms have long been known for their magickal ways, probably due to it’s shape, use in purification rites and kinship with magickal wands and staffs. The common household tool has been known to be so sacred that in many parts of the world there are Broom Deities.

Sao Ching Niang - The lady with the broom who lives in the Broom Star. When there is too much rain and the crops are threatened, it is not uncommon in China to see pictures of Brooms hanging on the front door or fences to bring clear and sunny weather to the field.

Go figure.

~sd