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Re: Dress for a very, very posh English wedding?! HELP?!?!?!?
« Reply #60 on: June 30, 2011, 07:40:13 PM »
We both rather enjoyed it!  I think there's a photo of me - greedily licking the icing off my chin or cheek, while simultaneously staring longingly at a strawberry in my hand, that had been on the piece of cake.  :D
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Re: Dress for a very, very posh English wedding?! HELP?!?!?!?
« Reply #61 on: June 30, 2011, 07:50:19 PM »
I'd be all for cake smashed in my face! But then again I'm not exactly classy  ;) :P
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Re: Dress for a very, very posh English wedding?! HELP?!?!?!?
« Reply #62 on: June 30, 2011, 07:51:49 PM »
I'd be all for cake smashed in my face! But then again I'm not exactly classy

We's good people!  [smiley=2thumbsup.gif] ;D

Honestly, LaraMascara, kudos to you for going to that thing - I would find the whole thing insufferable & doubt I could bear it at all.  When we were on our long walk recently & stopped for a pub lunch, wedding guests (all dressed up) filtered into the pub and started celebrating while we were there.

I looked at them in their dresses, hats & four-inch heels, and considered myself all grubby, sweaty, and muddy in my waterproofs & walking boots...and I was soooo happy to be me & not them.  :D
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Re: Dress for a very, very posh English wedding?! HELP?!?!?!?
« Reply #63 on: June 30, 2011, 09:50:12 PM »
Perhaps I can start a NEW English Tradition... Hostile tacky American guest smashes cake in brides face?????
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« Reply #64 on: July 01, 2011, 12:54:20 PM »
Yah, you deserve a medal just for going. If it was me, I'd develop a "migraine" at the last moment and spend the time in my room reading and eating Kit-Kats.  ;D
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« Reply #65 on: July 01, 2011, 02:07:11 PM »
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.)



This sounds like something out of a movie.

Lara, I am sorry that you have to put up with this woman but I want to hear about  what happens at the wedding.

And any photos, if possible. I bet you look fabulous in your TK Maxx dress.



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« Reply #66 on: July 01, 2011, 03:16:37 PM »
Thank you all for your support - I will have emergency kit-kats, and the hotel room key, in my borrowed black velvet handbag...
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« Reply #67 on: July 01, 2011, 03:59:59 PM »
Good luck! So glad you don't have to endure three days of it!

And about that immigrant comment - I so would have blinked at her and cackled madly like she was some idiot and then simply turned my back on her and walked away, muttering "oh dear god she's one of THOSE..."


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Re: Dress for a very, very posh English wedding?! HELP?!?!?!?
« Reply #68 on: July 06, 2011, 03:07:11 PM »
WHAT. A. HORRID. WEDDING.

Really... And, NOT what I would consider even close to POSH.

It was tacky.

A wedding guest, a friend of bride, he was a German, was walking around dressed as Hitler - he donned a fake stash and eyebrows at the tacky reception!

At first I assumed he was being Charlie Chaplin, but then he began saying, "Heil Hitler." It went on for hours. No one seemed to mind.

I said something, and it got back to the b*tch-bride, and she came over and said, "Don't be offended. You shouldn't be offended. He's just having a laugh."

No one asked him to leave, or even take it off...
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Re: Dress for a very, very posh English wedding?! HELP?!?!?!?
« Reply #69 on: July 06, 2011, 03:14:01 PM »
That's just shocking!

Was the food at least good?


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« Reply #70 on: July 06, 2011, 03:21:48 PM »
A wedding guest, a friend of bride, he was a German, was walking around dressed as Hitler - he donned a fake stash and eyebrows at the tacky reception!

At first I assumed he was being Charlie Chaplin, but then he began saying, "Heil Hitler." It went on for hours. No one seemed to mind.

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« Reply #71 on: July 06, 2011, 03:23:18 PM »
What phatbeetle said!  :o :o :o :o :o :o
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« Reply #72 on: July 06, 2011, 03:27:29 PM »
Holy cow!! How can anybody just accept that kind of tacky behaviour?!! At a wedding!!?
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« Reply #73 on: July 06, 2011, 03:42:24 PM »
sure it wasn't Prince Harry?  ;)
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