Lurk no more...

[strangetomato]

Did you know that today is Delurking Day out there in the blogosphere?

 

That's right. So, let this be an invitation to anyone who'd like to introduce themselves and say hi. You know I'd love to hear from you. No pressure, of course, but you may as well delurk on Delurking Day, right? Come one, come all. Get a conversation started. I'm all ears.

This was a great day for me. I made some real progress on the next update, and there was RL good news all over the place. I was asked to interview for a job that had over 50 applicants and was pleasantly surprised to be offered another job that will stretch my experience significantly. I was also asked to be a bridesmaid in my "brother"s wedding this summer (actually a cousin, but we grew up together like siblings). I'd fully expect to win the lottery too, but I don't actually ever buy tickets.

Now, I should go out there and delurk too, shouldn't I?

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I received the two job phone calls within an hour of each other, which was pretty exciting. I was like, "Anyone else want to sall with good news?" Everything just seems to happen all at once like that.

My bridesmaids dress, I am told, is cornflower blue. It's not a bad colour for me, so depending on the style, I'll be fine. I just might cut my hair into a pixie to avoid an updo (or just keep the bob really short, but that's not a sure bet). As longs as there are no "bubbles" I'll be happy. Remember bubbles? *shudder*

I had pretty decent bridesmaids dresses at my own wedding, I thought. They were black and lavender (I wanted all black, but I had to make concessions to my mother). My SO's sisters added little black cardigans and black pearls on their own. I made no demands in the hair/accessory department, and I think they ended up looking quite good.

I'll have to share some stories and pics, for sure. Weddings always end up having the funniest moments.

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Bubbles? You mean actual bubble soap so you can blow bubbles as the bride/groom leave? *snicker* If that's what you're afraid of, I have to admit I had bubbles at my wedding. And the little containers were shaped like churches and the cross at the top of the steeple was the handle for the bubble wand. *taunts you with bubbles*

My SILs attendants were in red. A nice color for all three women (none of whom were really pale) except the style didn't really work on the one woman (the other SIL). The dress was more picked out for the other girl (sister of the groom) who is shorter and has a more boylike build. So the poor bridesmaid (the other SIL) looked a bit like a hooker. The dress was really short and every time she had to bend to fluff the wedding dress train she was worried she'd flash the guests. Pair the tight and short red tube style dress with rather high heels and it was hooker-tacular.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

No, I mean hair bubbles (the soap kind is fun - I had some too). It's like a short, tight little curl that's just about the most hideous of things that are supposedly "fancy" when you come from a small town.

Your bubble wands were shaped like church steeples? *snort* Was that your own idea?

A friend of mine went with red too. With the white and black, though, I found it a little Valentines-esque. My cousin used the same colour this summer, but with yellow accents. Her SIL jokingly referring to it as ketchup and mustard (that BITCH *snicker*), but I liked it better than SIL's own pale pink selection. My cousin wore a Japanese kimono wedding dress in the same colours, and I think it all looked rather nice (she's not Japanese, she's just really into the culture).

It's sad when a dress is selected that doesn't flatter all body types. I was going to let the maids select their own style, but it would end up too inconsistent, so I went with something pretty classic. they all seemed to like it well enough (some changed for the reception dance, but again... I didn't care about that at all).

What did you do? You had a small wedding, right? Did you have many attendants? I often thought about how nice it would have been to just have two witnesses. So much easier.

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/1922/bubbles.html

Scroll down a bit and there they are, the church bubbles.

I think I know what you're talking about with the hair. "Bubbles" also made me think of the hideous dresses with poofed sleeves (or worse, where the skirt is poofed, like something Judy Jetson would wear).

The dresses (for SILs shindig) weren't UNflattering, it just needed to be about two inches longer on the bridesmaid (her shape went well with the dress and all that).

There were no attendants at my wedding. Just me, the wife and the pastor. It was about five minutes of "do you?", "do you?", "it's done, kiss" then LET'S EAT! We all know that's why people come to weddings (that and free liquor, which my wedding didn't have--kept it cheaper and kept the riff raff side of the family away).

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed. Church bubbles. Well, I'll be.

Hmmm, but don't you need two witnesses to sign for the marriage to be legal? Or maybe it works differently in the U.S.

Sounds like a fun time, but my SO wouldn't hear of anything that casual for our wedding. He was about the "go hard or go home" approach, but not in a frilly, tacky sort of way. It worked out well, I think. People had fun, so what more do you need?

It's not actually that common to have an open bar at a wedding around here. When I read that in U.S. Wedding magazines I was amazed that people would consider it wrong to not offer free booze (and I would seriously go broke, with the drinkers in my family. Yeesh.)

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

If you need witnesses to sign, then my marriage isn't legal. (I know what you mean, my wife had to sign something for my SIL since he was the best man)

Did you have a wedding in a church? Maybe that's the catch. I wasn't married in any type of religious building. My marriage license just has the sigs of me, the wife and the pastor. It must be ok since I used it to get my passport updated.

My wedding was completely dry. It was held in my parents backyard and they're not drinkers so it would be rude to demand a keg or something. And if someone didn't want to come because they wouldn't get free booze then no big loss to me. (oh, I lied, it wasn't completely dry, my sister had a wee bottle of rum in her boobs!)

(all this wedding talk made me realize my wedding was a lot like a sim wedding--just BAM, lets get married in the yard)