Manslations Reader Request: A Simple(?) Wedding
Welcome back to Manslations.com, people. We’ve got a ton of Reader Requests coming up this week (and keep ‘em coming — I’ll get to as many of you as I can!)
Cynthia, has some thoughts on weddings and marriage after my recent post HERE. (Which, by the way, was featured on Terry MacDonald’s fantastic website , and you should all go and check her out.) Cynthia writes:
I agree about the weddings and men. I’d like to do what Cindy Crawford did and her husband. A spaghetti string dress, short dress, no gown, a bouquet of flowers and he wore black pants and white shirt (opened) or was it white pants. Simple and great; on the beach, just the two of them! Huh! So there! What do you think about all this?
-Cynthia Walsh
Dear Cynthia,
I think it sounds like a great wedding. That said, you might want to run it by the dude before designing his costume for him.
That’s one of the things that scares men about weddings. It makes us nervous that you might have had our outfit picked out for us since before we actually met. Kind of gives us a vibe of, “Look, buddy, if it’s you, it’s you. If it’s somebody else, it’s somebody else. Either way, are you gonna wear this thing or not? Let’s get the show on the ROAD here!”
Don’t get me wrong. Most men probably don’t want to have to figure out what to wear (We’re lucky we can do that for work every day.) And he doesn’t want to look like an idiot, so your fashion input would likely be very welcome. And the getup you have envisioned for him sounds great. (Not for everyone, of course. If someone like ME wore that, he would look like Caspar the Friendly Groom. Well, until the end of that wedding on that sunny beach, at which point I would look like a burn victim.)
Just make sure that the dude is very aware that you want to marry him for HIM, not just because he’d look great in the outfit that you have selected for whoever it turns out to be. If you do that, and you look as totally hot as it sounds like you’re planning to look, he’ll probably wear whatever the hell you ask him to!
Huh! So there, right back at you!
Thanks so much for stopping by, Cynthia.
What about it, ladies? Any of you plan to get married like Cindy Crawford? How about like Joan Crawford? Joan Rivers? How about Slim Pickens?
Posted: August 27th, 2007 under Marriage, Reader Requests.
Comments
Comment from MissEducation
Time August 27, 2007 at 9:39 am
Rats! You beat me to it, BeefGrrl17!
I won’t stand in your way. Do you think you guys will need a bridesmaid or flower grrl17 or anything?
Comment from Lady of the Cake
Time August 27, 2007 at 10:06 am
Cynthia, I’m with you. Simple, fun, fabulous.
Unfortunately, my husband would never go for it. He’d be underneath an umbrella the whole time slathering on sunscreeen to keep from being broiled alive.
Comment from Curvy Spice
Time August 27, 2007 at 11:20 am
Having attended a nightmare beach FORMAL wedding I do recommend a couple of thing:
1 ) pay for tents for the guests because there will always be some elderly relative (or fair skinned curvy beauty) who shows up and then literally melts before your eyes, spare them the direct rays of the sun since you are already paid to feed them;
2) encourage dressing down for both guests and wedding party because when you say dress formal people will do so and then they will end up with heels sinking into the sand or elderly relatives will be trying to get sand out of 1922 era spats;
3) Consider the hour of the day you schedule this…I say late afternoon to evening to avoid the heat of the day and the potential bad combo of too much alcohol and too much sun making for a vomitous wedding;
4) If you install a “dance floor” in the middle of the sand” make sure its not METAL, metal heats up with the sun and you can imagine what fun that is for your guests to burn the bottoms of their feet at your wedding;
4) if you opt for sunniest part of the day do slather on the suncreen for you, your loved one and everyone else at the party (make it available to guests who forgot) because the wedding I went to that particular bride left her own wedding with sun blisters and really that’s not sexy at all and not the memory you are looking to generate.
Learn from my ex-friend’s mistakes and throw yourself a GREAT beach wedding…
CS
Comment from Jeff Mac
Time August 27, 2007 at 2:24 pm
BeefGrrl17, MissEducation: Get a room, you two.
Lady of the Cake: I can relate to your husband’s flammable nature. (I can also relate to the cake of which you…are? I really enjoy cake, is what I’m getting at.)
Curvy Spice: Thanks for taking one for the team and doing recon. For me, the beach is a place to become sticky, sandy, and sunburnt. But hey, anybody who wants to add “married” onto that list is obviously more than welcome.
Comment from The Commenter Formerly Known As BeefGrrl17
Time August 27, 2007 at 9:27 am
I could go for that beach trip right about now. Plus I’d look great in either of the outfits. Cynthia — I’m in if you’ll have me.