Daddysredhead
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ORIGINAL: sambamanslilgirl
i do steer clear of all your wedding talk yet it's hard not to when it's all everyone talks about these days especially in the random stupid section.
thank you, my wedding will run and go smoothly in Vegas.
now if you want to hear about the negativity - perhaps you should look at your guest list and go on from there.
Samba,
I have a lot of respect for you, and can appreciate the trials that you have gone through last fall as a mom - as I told you privately, I have been in a smiliar situation with my son. That being said, I felt I needed to chime in here because this is just too much for me to remain silent about.
First of all, an attempt to keep the wedding chatter to its own threads has been made, however, there is spillover here and there. It's just going to happen. The election stuff from the fall that's usually kept in Off Topic made its way over here several times and to other parts of the board. So what? People had strong emotions and they couldn't be contained to one place. Same thing here. Lots of us who went, and even those who didn't, have strong feelings about finally meeting one another in person and all the silliness that we shared. We talk about it and we keep the memories alive and fresh - it was only a week ago and some of us are still riding kind of high from it all. I was a bridal consultant for nearly 3 years when I was finishing up my paralegal certification, and I have helped plan at least 200 weddings. I never heard such extreme love and excitement from the guests regarding meeting other guests the way we have here. It didn't take away from the ceremony at all, it enhanced it, because this opportunity gave all of us a chance to send this couple off to a loving start.
I'm sure you will have a lovely wedding, of that, I have no doubt. I'm sure, like any bride-to-be, there are details that you are going to go over and over and over with your friends and event planner. Greedy and Pirate did the same thing. The only difference is that their friends and planners were scattered about the country and into Canada, and before the "official" wedding site was created, the only place we had was here. Sorry if it ruined your surfing the boards to have to deal with a bunch of excited people who have come together for a cause, who had no other central place to go till FourQ, Pirate, and Gimp got the other site up and running.
Now, I distinctly remember about a year ago, all of your posts were centered around getting engaged and all the excitement, and I remember when you were collared, etc. I was very happy for you, even though it seemed like forever, that's all you had to post about with people on the boards. You know what? Who cares what the hell I thought? It was your moment, and you were happy, so what I thought as I scrolled the boards didn't mean a thing, and I sure as hell wouldn't have written to you on the boards or in private, and told you that it was "too much." Regardless of how saturated the threads get, this section is P&oRS, so this is where the "children" get to play. If we've stepped into your part of the sandbox, sorry. It'll die down, give it time, and if you don't have the patience for that, well, there are other sections to play in till the "shiny, newness" wears off.
I will tell you, though, in my prior experience as a bridal consultant, there WILL always be glitches or miscalculated things that happen along the way. There's also a lot of emotion as people spend basically 2 or 3 days together, all wanting to do their parts. So, if anyone got frazzled throughout their stay in FL, who cares? There was no blood shed - not even in the wreck that totaled the car - we're all still posting, we're all still texting and emailing and calling each other on the phone. So, if any feathers got ruffled down there, it's no different than any other event, and people got over themselves and had fun. Therefore, your comment that it wasn't all rainbows and unicorns, basically speaks to any given day, in any given location. It was though, one of the most incredibly warm, loving, bonding, caring, joyful occasions that I have had the pleasure to be a party to, and I am proud that I was there and got to meet so many I hold in high regard. If that type of warm fuzzy irks you, I'm sorry... it makes my heart happy, and I'm glad to see people still basking in the afterglow.
Since you weren't there, any "tales" you may have about the weekend would be best sifted through a bullshit screen or discussed with the bride or groom. If you aren't willing to "put it out there" or "give up the tapes," it does come across as stirring up shit that you can't speak to, from first hand knowledge. It also reads as bitterness and resentment, which you say isn't the case. However, it's surely the reflection that's appearing in the mirror.
Sincerely,
Red
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