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Planning a Catholic wedding? Read this...(very humorous)
Renew America ^
| November 1, 2009
| Matt C. Abbott
Posted on 04/26/2011 2:30:37 PM PDT by NYer
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To: longtermmemmory
That would certainly motivate a person to hold the same size!
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posted on
04/26/2011 4:35:55 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Tornado relief: http://www.baptistsonmission.org/Projects/North-Carolina/Tornado)
To: NYer
I liked it. In a bittersweet kind of way.
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posted on
04/26/2011 4:50:47 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: Tax-chick
“I gave my wedding dress to Goodwill...”
I had a pretty nifty idea. With two girls, I figured I didn’t want any battles later involving who either wanted the dress or felt like they HAD to have the dress so I had it made into a BEAUTIFUL Christening gown for daughter number 2. It even had a long, flowing train. I saved other pieces of the silk/satin/beaded work for daughter number 1 IF she wants any put into her dress or wanted it for a Christening gown.
To: momtothree
That is a good idea. Mine didn’t have any valuable materials that would have been worth the effort, although I could have salvaged some of the embroidered organza for a veil for someone, if I thought ahead.
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posted on
04/26/2011 5:17:22 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Tornado relief: http://www.baptistsonmission.org/Projects/North-Carolina/Tornado)
To: NYer
LOL!!! My wife and I wanted a small intimate wedding with about 20 of our closes friends. Our mothers kept telling us to invite this or that person. By the time it was wedding day we were looking at 200 people with all the usual "stuff". We have told people just elope; it's far cheaper and saves a lot of headaches.
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posted on
04/26/2011 5:20:00 PM PDT
by
HarleyD
To: dangus
My mother was not deflowered after her quinceanera, as her protective father made sure of that.
To: momtothree
My mother’s wedding dress was cut into circles.
Each Grandchild got a ring pillow from it.
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posted on
04/26/2011 5:38:41 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Happiness is a choice.)
To: sitetest
>>Perhaps if Fr. Know-it-all were to have the gumption to lay down some rules about getting married in the Church, he’d have fewer of these problems. <<
That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking.
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posted on
04/26/2011 5:47:05 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Happiness is a choice.)
To: Tax-chick
To: NYer
good article. This is why for our wedding we kept it small (just 50 close friends and family) and invested more time in the Engaged Encounter (Pre-Marital course). Man -- that course was looong and tiring, yet very, very good. It answered questions that one may not have asked (even though we had been friends for 5 years prior to the engagement).
I even advised non-Catholic friends to attend the course as it is the best place for a couple to make that final decision of yes or no.
Also -- no pre-marital sex or living together, that is a killer for marriage in my opinion.
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posted on
04/27/2011 1:18:42 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Christian, redneck, rube and proud of it!)
To: late bloomer
married 55 years to my guardian angel :)
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posted on
04/27/2011 1:19:27 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Christian, redneck, rube and proud of it!)
To: Straight Vermonter
Another priest there told me that his first question for someone asking about having a wedding was if they were a parishioner. One woman actually answered no but said she played bingo there all the time.funny! Also here they ask that you must have attended confession at least thrice in the year before engagement and before marriage and also attend the pre-marital course.
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posted on
04/27/2011 1:21:11 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Christian, redneck, rube and proud of it!)
To: sitetest
Sorry, in the parishes about which I know, this is a way of making sure the priest will refuse to marry you, until you live separately and chastely for at least six months.True, and stop taking communion before you confess and stop living together.
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posted on
04/27/2011 1:22:26 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Christian, redneck, rube and proud of it!)
To: goat granny
Prayers for your husband and thank you for sharing that to us young ‘uns
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posted on
04/27/2011 1:23:36 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Christian, redneck, rube and proud of it!)
To: sitetest
but you also need to add the cost if flowers are specially added to the Church or if you ask for a mass outside usual mass timings.
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posted on
04/27/2011 1:25:19 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Christian, redneck, rube and proud of it!)
To: goat granny
The only time I ever paid more than $10K for a car was when we bought my wife’s car at the end of its lease (she leased it shortly before we began dating; I had no say in that).
Not to mention we spent less than that on our entire wedding. We were married in a chapel in Lake Tahoe, NV with only our immediate families in attendance and our reception was a month later (long story short, we got married on the way to a race event in Kansas I was competing in) with about 70 guests.
We haven’t topped you on longevity, but we’re working on it! We celebrated our 10th anniversary last September.
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
that sounds like a fun wedding. :O)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
I’m convinced that the length of the marriage is inversely proportional to the number of bridesmaids. ;o)
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posted on
05/01/2011 9:15:52 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
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