Posted on 05/10/2008 3:08:58 PM PDT by Mister Ghost
We think, whatever Oscar de la Renta Bridal design Jenna unveils herself in at today’s ceremony , will be a fine choice, but we at The Fashion Time Magazine, believe we have ten other stylish designs, which would have made for a more spectacular selection.
Which of these ten, would you the reader, choose for Jenna to complete her wedding day in sartorial splendor?
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The strapless ones all look the same to me. Thank goodness I got married before those became “the thing.”
Not sure I would take fashion advice from a website that uses black writing on a dark gray background. I had to hightlight the words in order to read them.
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Strapless dress in a church wedding? What is the world coming to?
They’re getting married outside.
Leave the kid alone.
It’s HER wedding, after all.
I would suggest a matching jacket or bolero for the church ceremony.
~~sigh~~
And I even had the audacity to get excited over having raspberry jam on my PB & J last night.
OK, off to flog myself in penance.
I'm glad someone has retained their sanity around here. ;-)
Does anyone think Jenna is likely to be mistaken for a pious churchgoer?
She likes the churchy setting, that’s all.
I guess I should say “churchy trappings,” since she’s not having a church wedding.
Actually you should just shut your trap.
Agreed. No bride should dress as though she’s looking for a date at the wedding.
Yawn.
She’s done everything short of getting arrested while in the White House.
Oh wait...check that last.
She’s actually been a good demonstration of how seriously the Bushes actually take their social conservative postures.
She’s getting married; I don’t have to pretend to be a fan.
Jenna has her detractors here. Next we will have the input from the nine-fingered bunch.
Actually Jenna has been a very good model of increasing maturity and serious sense of social responsibility.
She taught preschool, traveled on occasion in a representational role with and without her mother and also with the President, and wrote a book about a teenage mother in Central America living with HIV. Not bad for a 26 yr old. Her twin Barbara spent some months interning at an AIDs orphanage in Africa.
Both the twins matured a lot since graduating from undergrad and both are on paths to work as advocates in socially responsible roles.
I think you can probably compare their lives and roles to 28 yr old Chelsea Clinton’s public behavior while a grad student at Oxford, and to her chosen career path with a NYC hedge fund. John Edward did say that hedge fund managers are really altruists dedicated to making the world a better place. Time will tell.
And I think it is lovely she is being married before a limestone altar constructed by her father with his own hands. I do not think the Lord disapproves of men building altars to Him under the open sky, with their own hands. Think I even read about a few who were directed by the Lord to do so!
I like 4,8, and 9.
How would you KNOW that??
I too got married before brides started wearing gowns that showed what only a husband should be able to see. Her mother calls it the `bath towel’ look.
We joked for years that these strapless brides must all belong to the NRA because they believe in the right to bare arms.
Anyway, I agree, leave Jenna alone. The paparazzi sure won’t. And I’ll bet she defied convention and wore a modest gown.
As a woman who was married in a huge Church wedding and the mother of 4 girls who made their First Holy Communion dressed in beautiful white dresses and veils (I know, how shallow of me) and had huge parties afterwards, I can’t wait to shop for wedding gowns with my daughters.
Someone feed those poor starving models.
War, people dying in Burma, education probs, the price of gas...sigh. Sometimes its nice to take a break and think of something ‘happy’ like a wedding...and a wedding dress. That’s all...a little fluffy cloud on a dreary horizon. I’ll just bet if you go to FR’s ‘search’ box and put in annnnny of those topics...you’ll find a thread (or three) to discuss the problems of the day. Me, right now...I’m liking the Oscar deLa Rentas...
Note: She had zip...nothing was showing...There wasn't much to show anyways. Heredity sucks.
Just as an aside...I read that Jenna's 'attendants' (Barbara being her Maid of Honor) were wearing different dresses (that flatter the wearer) in 'Texas wildflower colors.' Do you remember the 'rainbow weddings' of the 80s? The ones where each bridesmaid (and her groomsman) wore a different pastel color...so when whe all lined up we looked like sherbert run amok? I was a 'professional' bridesmaid for a while, and when my daughter was little she played dress up with all those dresses (you know, the ones 'you can get shortened and wear again!). I missed my chance...I could have written "27 Dresses."
I was an extra in “Oh, Inchon” while I was stationed in Korea my first time. It’s an experience everyone should have at least once. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084132/
I guess we'll all know tomorrow. And I agree with Pennsylvania Mom. I'm not really interested in fashion and have never understood why people like to watch strangers' weddings on Lifetime or whatever cable channel shows that stuff, but it's nice to take a break from all the chaos and just focus on the frivolous now and then.
I have vowed during my vacation to only read light and fun books, watch movies of the same genre and just keep one eye on the war for situational awareness purposes.
Life is sweet. :-)
I call it the ‘I Love Lucy’ syndrome. Really...when bad things happen in the world and you are channel surfing to see which network has the ‘updates’ and you catch a rerun of Lucy (or something like that) and you just kinda ‘stop’ because its good not to over load on the bad news...and just watch those chocolates speed down the conveyor belt to Lucy and Ethel :)
OK, off to flog myself in penance.
But we know how much you LIKE to flog yourself.
The world is always full of troubles. Wedding Days are lovely but you are a drip!
I guess I'm getting old. I see these strapless gowns and just don't know what people are thinking. It would never occur to me to wear a strapless gown in a church, synagogue, whatever. Maybe all these women are getting married in hotels or the backyard?
More fun when someone else does it.
My father was an extra in Jimmy Stewart’s “Strategic Air Command.” He’s sitting in a classroom being briefed on a mission.
You're right, I am. LOL I'm just concerned that we aren't looking out for our best interests, but Miss Bush should be able to have her special day without my two cents worth.
The pickled onion doesn’t fall far from the tree.
It’s easy to be a model of increasing maturity if you start by getting bailed out of a minor-in-possession charge while accompanied by the Secret Service.
How much teaching does one do at preschool? Does traveling in a representational role merit combat pay?
Even the charitable aspects of her rehabilitation penance were salted with various pokes in the eye to social conservatives, including her advocacy of contraception, her studied nonendorsement of the war in Iraq during her book tours, and her clumsy suggestion that she best served America by working for the U.N.
Why are we trying to give her credit for her sister’s good works, by the way?
And who on Earth sold you the bill of goods that W. was stone masoning the altar?
“[It] was his idea to build this beautiful limestone altar,” the First Lady told reporters of the now-permanent fixture at the family’s Crawford, Texas ranch – where their daughter will wed on May 10. “It’s the same thing that our house is made of from a local quarry. And they’re the ones that made it.”
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20197930,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines
It’s astonishing what people can convince themselves if they don’t want to think about something else.
I know my kids are fantastic but they are not without some "growing pains" (pains in the a$$)!
I can't imagine anyone chastizing either of the Bush girls for partying in college. Get over it.
I was only informing another FReeper that this isn’t a “church wedding” as she had posted. I don’t care what style of dress Jenna Bush wore tonight.
It’s hard to imagine a more privileged upbringing. Once upon a time the WASP ruling classes imbued a sense of the responsibilities those privileges entailed. Jenna spent the first three years of her family’s return (so it’s not like the family didn’t understand the scrutiny of the office) to the pinnacle of power and privilege indulging herself, helping to reinforce every liberal talking point about the self-indulgence of the Right.
Now she’s married into a Republican noble house, so she’ll probably start paying more attention to the lessons from her mother about more carefully concealing her country club attitudes (although I think somebody should have at least thought harder about letting her tell the proposal story in such a way as to reveal that she and her boyfriend were already sharing a tent), but it’s hard to imagine how she could have done much more damage to the Republican Party’s fortunes with the middle classes short of knocking over liquor stores.
People gushing about her Texan wholesomeness and so forth are indulging a complete rewrite of history.
Congrats to the newlyweds. May your troubles be small ones.
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O.k., fine:
What lovely clothes the Emperor’s daughter is wearing!
Happy?
This has to be the single most stupid response I've heard all week. Congratulations!
p.s. Your jealousy is showing.
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