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Yep, that's right...

You heard me...

Four hours....

In one store...

Picking vases for the wedding....

Where's the 'pulling one's hair out' emoticon? :biggrin:

Drove in to the city last night and stayed the night, so we could buy vases at the store today. My goodness, that was fun! :rolleyes:
 
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See, you're going about it all wrong.

When "I" got married, I first made sure that the girl met a few prerequisites:
-Her sister was a wedding planner.
-That same sister and her husband owned a florist.
-They were real good friends with the city's biggest caterer.

I was basically told two things:
1) Get a tuxedo &
2) Show Up.

Believe me, it's the ONLY way to get married.
 
Four hours picking out vases isn't too bad.....Wait until she starts deciding on how to place the furniture, four hours will seem like nothing. My couch still isn't in the right position and we have moved twice.
 
wolftat said:
Four hours picking out vases isn't too bad.....Wait until she starts deciding on how to place the furniture, four hours will seem like nothing. My couch still isn't in the right position and we have moved twice.
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The solution to this is to buy big bulky furniture that will only fit in one place in the house. Problem solved.
 
I think we spent a total of fours hours planning our entire wedding. We had only lived here for a few months so no one locally to invite.

Justice of the Peace at the Town Hall, 11 guests, catered reception at our apartment for the 2 of us and the 11 guests. Easy and no stress. Oh yeah, and it was all my wife's idea to do it this way.
 
A word of warning!!

Andrew, my boy, sit down and listen!!!!

When she tells you it's time to go look at

DRESSES

STAY HOME!!!!


Hers or the bridesmaids ---

AVOID IT!!!!
​

no charge!!
 
ed4copies said:
Andrew, my boy, sit down and listen!!!!

When she tells you it's time to go look at

DRESSES​

STAY HOME!!!!​


Hers or the bridesmaids ---​

AVOID IT!!!!​


no charge!!
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Possibly the best advise a groom-to-be could ever hear.............. Well worth the charge!:)
 
Rollerbob said:
Possibly the best advise a groom-to-be could ever hear.............. Well worth the charge!:)
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Way ahead of you on that one! She bought her dress at a place in Duluth, which happened to be right next to Harbor Freight!!!

Spent more time shopping at harbor freight than she did buying a wedding dress! :biggrin: :biggrin: (really!! she had to come find me to bring the car over so she could put it in the back!)
 
maxwell_smart007 said:
Way ahead of you on that one! She bought her dress at a place in Duluth, which happened to be right next to Harbor Freight!!!

Spent more time shopping at harbor freight than she did buying a wedding dress! :biggrin: :biggrin: (really!! she had to come find me to bring the car over so she could put it in the back!)
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Sounds to me you are well on your way to a long and continual marriage to the same woman!!!:cool:
 
Andrew, I feel for you buddy! LOML and I went to Laughlin and got married across the river in Bullhead city, NV. No muss no fuss, loved it!
 
maxwell_smart007 said:
Way ahead of you on that one! She bought her dress at a place in Duluth, which happened to be right next to Harbor Freight!!!

Spent more time shopping at harbor freight than she did buying a wedding dress! :biggrin: :biggrin: (really!! she had to come find me to bring the car over so she could put it in the back!)
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I would have been pissed. I love HF!
 
Monty said:
The solution to this is to buy big bulky furniture that will only fit in one place in the house. Problem solved.
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Hahahahaaaaa Like I have some say in it. When we buy furniture it goes something like this.
Her: What do you think of this set?
Me: It looks good to me.
Her: I kind of like the 3rd set we looked at.
Me: Which one was that?
Her: The brown one:
Me: Yep, that one is fine also.
Her: Which one do you like better?
Me: Either one is fine.
Her: How come you can never give me a straight answer.
Me: Cause I just don't give a damn either way.
Her: Well pick one then.
Me: okay, this one is good.
Her: I liked the 7th set also.
Me: Fine, whatever.
Her: Lets go to another store.
Me: Fine
Her: You don't care about the furniture do you?
Me: How could you tell?
Her: My mother is coming for dinner.
Me: I'm eating out.
Bottom line: No matter what you do it's going to be wrong anyways. So don't take it personal and get used to it. I love my wife and we get along great, except she now shops for furniture alone or with a friend.
 
wolftat said:
Hahahahaaaaa Like I have some say in it. When we buy furniture it goes something like this.
Her: What do you think of this set?
Me: It looks good to me.
Her: I kind of like the 3rd set we looked at.
Me: Which one was that?
Her: The brown one:
Me: Yep, that one is fine also.
Her: Which one do you like better?
Me: Either one is fine.
Her: How come you can never give me a straight answer.
Me: Cause I just don't give a damn either way.
Her: Well pick one then.
Me: okay, this one is good.
Her: I liked the 7th set also.
Me: Fine, whatever.
Her: Lets go to another store.
Me: Fine
Her: You don't care about the furniture do you?
Me: How could you tell?
Her: My mother is coming for dinner.
Me: I'm eating out.
Bottom line: No matter what you do it's going to be wrong anyways. So don't take it personal and get used to it. I love my wife and we get along great, except she now shops for furniture alone or with a friend.
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That was the conversation between my wife and I almost exactly about the Vera Bradley purse I had to purchase her for me purchasing my 1220 lathe.

Her: Do you like this color?
Me: No
Her: Do you like this color?
Me: No
Her: I thought you said you like this color better than the other color?
Me: No
Her: Yes you did!
Me: No I didn't, I said I can't stand any of them. Just pick out a purse and lets go!

Of course choosing something for dinner is the exact opposite.

Me: Where do you want to go to dinner?
Her: I don't care
Me: Ok..let's go to Taco Bell
Her: I don't want Taco Bell
Me: I thought you said you didn't care?
Her: I don't, I just don't want Taco Bell
Me: Ok..then where would you like to go?
Her: I don't care.
Me: Ok...then let's go to BW3's
Her: No, I don't like their food there.
Me: You better pick something or I'm going to eat a PB&J
Her: I don't care.
Me: Punches wall. :at-wits-end:
 
The voilence will get you no where. It's better to stay calm and never let them know that they got to you. But I can understand where you are coming from.

Just a little follow up. After 4 stores we got the brown set. It's fine.
 
You really are going about this process all wrong...:cool:

I proposed to the LOML and then promptly left for deployment two weeks later. :biggrin: I left SWMBO with her friends and our mothers to do all the planning while I was in the "gulf". When I came back, there was nothing left to do but try on my tux and show up.

Worked out great for me.:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin: Six years in it is all good...:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
 
If she starts talking about "Feng shei" look out. Apparently its means "throw your husbands crap out of the house". I think its Japanese and makes the house more calming or somthing like that.

I got feng shei'ed last week......
 
el_d said:
If she starts talking about "Feng shei" look out. Apparently its means "throw your husbands crap out of the house". I think its Japanese and makes the house more calming or somthing like that.

I got feng shei'ed last week......
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I put an end to that phase when I tripped over some furniture in the dark one night. The only way it makes things calm is if you get knocked out.
 
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