Comments on: After the dress is packed away and the flowers are preserved http://manolobrides.com/2006/03/31/after-the-dress-is-packed-away-and-the-flowers-are-preserved/ Manolo Loves the Brides! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:34:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: angie http://manolobrides.com/2006/03/31/after-the-dress-is-packed-away-and-the-flowers-are-preserved/#comment-86519 angie Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:04:38 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/03/31/after-the-dress-is-packed-away-and-the-flowers-are-preserved/#comment-86519 THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

]]> By: jenny http://manolobrides.com/2006/03/31/after-the-dress-is-packed-away-and-the-flowers-are-preserved/#comment-1489 jenny Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:20:57 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/03/31/after-the-dress-is-packed-away-and-the-flowers-are-preserved/#comment-1489 I read a line in "The Enchanted April" last night that expresses this fairly universal feeling of anticlimax very well: "After those early painful attempts to hold him up to the point from which they had hand in hand so spendidly started, attempts in which she herself had got terribly hurt and the Frederick she supposed she had married was mangled out of recognition, she hung him up finally by her bedside as the chief subjet of her prayers..." I read a line in “The Enchanted April” last night that expresses this fairly universal feeling of anticlimax very well:

“After those early painful attempts to hold him up to the point from which they had hand in hand so spendidly started, attempts in which she herself had got terribly hurt and the Frederick she supposed she had married was mangled out of recognition, she hung him up finally by her bedside as the chief subjet of her prayers…”

]]> By: Kai Jones http://manolobrides.com/2006/03/31/after-the-dress-is-packed-away-and-the-flowers-are-preserved/#comment-1488 Kai Jones Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:17:15 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/03/31/after-the-dress-is-packed-away-and-the-flowers-are-preserved/#comment-1488 I think what contributed to this the most is that planning a wedding is a project with a completion date, while building a marriage is an open-ended project with no specific evaluation period, and you can't tell when, if ever, you've reached the goal. I think what contributed to this the most is that planning a wedding is a project with a completion date, while building a marriage is an open-ended project with no specific evaluation period, and you can’t tell when, if ever, you’ve reached the goal.

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