Dress for a very, very posh English wedding?! HELP?!?!?!?

When she said that about immigration... I replied, "Historically, immigration cuts down on inbreeding." - Good one, right?!?!?

(Place visual of "red wine shooting out of husbands nose" here)

But, then she said, "Not if the immigrants are inbred." And smirked at me. (Ouch.)

Of course, I could have given her a basic science lesson on DNA and mixed marriages... But it STUNG, so I shut-up.

I am looking forward to the "Smashing of Cake into the Bride's Face" moment.

PLEASE GAWD, LET IT HAPPEN...

Wow she sounds horrid!  Insulting and almost racist as well. 

Glad you didn't have to spend loads and loads and glad you don't have to stay for the whole thing!

What a witch!  Thank goodness you don't have to stay the whole time!

THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING!!!!!

She is plain mean.

That's awful!  I think you should have a little oopsie with food or red, red wine over her & her wedding gown. 

"Oh, sorry luv... It seems I shat on your 10 thousand pound Vera Wang wedding dress..."
 
 

I am wearing the dress to the wedding AND the party after - I do not care if it is socially "uncool" to her...

And on Sunday I am wearing something I already have...

It's you, and not the bride, who is right in step with the times, btw!  It's all in the news right now about Kate & Pippa Middleton wearing their same dresses more than once... 

Okay I'm a Brit so I plead ignorance but what is the 'smashing the cake into the Bride's face moment?' - never heard of it, never seen it.  It sounds awful.  Imagine spending all that money on a good dress, make-up, hair etc and having that happen.  Who does it and who in their right mind would let them do it!  If it's an American custom apologies (and I don't want to offend anyone) but it's one custom that you can keep!! 

Okay I'm a Brit so I plead ignorance but what is the 'smashing the cake into the Bride's face moment?' - never heard of it, never seen it.  It sounds awful.  Imagine spending all that money on a good dress, make-up, hair etc and having that happen.  Who does it and who in their right mind would let them do it!  If it's an American custom apologies (and I don't want to offend anyone) but it's one custom that you can keep!!  

Yep, it's an American thing, I believe, and not really the done thing here.  Except we did it at ours (I didn't know any better that it wasn't a tradition here too & my husband was clueless about the whole thing) & everyone (Americans & Brits alike!) loved it.  The bride and groom take turns smooshing a piece of cake into each other's mouths.  Or sometimes, it's done where they cross hands over each other & smoosh a piece into the other's mouth at the same time.  

I somehow doubt that Mrs Vera-Wang-Dress-Woman is going to go for it.  

THE CAKE IN THE FACE THING IS SOMETHING THAT REALLY TACKY AMERICAN GROOMS DO TO THEIR BRIDE!!!!
They feed the bride the 1st bite of cake, and then mush some with their hand on their mouth - not all over he dress.

I maintain my original stance on this subject...

Bring a large bag and take all the loot you can!!! 

Oh well if it's just a piece of cake in your mouth I could just about see it but the word 'smashing' conjured up a whole different (and not very nice) image  

Oh well if it's just a piece of cake in your mouth I could just about see it but the word 'smashing' conjured up a whole different (and not very nice) image  

Yeah, you get it around your mouth, on your chin, maybe your nose - we're tacky that way. 

I believe that the original tradition was for the bride and groom to feed each other a piece of cake, and somehow it's mutated into smearing it all over each other's faces.  Personally, it's not a tradition I care for.  I used to work in events at a winery in California, and we did lots of weddings.  My supervisor, who had been a wedding coordinator for years and years, always used to say that she could tell if a marriage would last by the way the couple dealt with the cake feeding.  If they did it nicely, with just a little smearing, they would last, but if they really ground cake into each other's gobs, then the marriage was doomed.  She swore by this rule .

I told my (american) husband that if he thought for even a second about smashing cake into my face, we'd have the shortest marriage ever.