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I only just came across this item from the “if it’s a joke, let people know it’s a joke…quickly” department. Katie Masters sent her attendants a document asking bridesmaids to legally agree they won’t gain weight, conceive, or get a haircut without the bride’s consent, but failed to append it with an easy to spot JK. Some bridesmaids didn’t see the humor in the contract and griped about it to others, who then forwarded it ad nauseam. The end result? Masters received massive amounts of hate mail, and people were calling her vendors under assumed names to cancel her contracts. The funniest part of the whole fiasco is that the guidelines were something she’d copied off of The Knot.
At the 99¢ Only Store in Lewisville, Texas, your dollar will get you more than a tube of toothpaste. To highlight the oftentimes overwhelming extravagance of today’s weddings, bargain shopping guru Sue Goldstein decided to hold a no-frills wedding event at the discount shop. Dressed-to-thrill couples with license in hand could take advantage of the services of ordained minister Melanie Hart, former assistant to Tammy Faye Bakker. Yes, that Tammy Faye Bakker. But even those to whom legal marriage is closed (folks already married, gays and lesbians, and, um, pets) were welcome at the all inclusive event.
And finally, a recent post over at Offbeat Bride featured a neat (and budget friendly) wedding cake idea found buried in a wedding-related thread over at the Lifehacker forums.
We told all the guests to bring a cake if they wanted to eat a cake, and we’d award prizes. We had 15 entries, some very simple, some really complex and amazing. A ton of fun, really interesting additional wedding-day activity (the contest), more food, more involvement.
I’m so competitive…my cake would have been out of control.
The bridesmaid’s contract is the sort of joke you have to be VERY careful with.
I did a similar joke once on a fandom-related Yahoogroup I run. I sent out a new set of list rules. I did it on April 1. I filled it with restrictions that would have killed my favorite topics of conversation. I put in ludicrously labrynthine rules about how many posts you had to make on topic A and topic B befor you could post one on topic C. Then I put a huge April Fools message at the end…and I still got a couple people who quit over the horrible new rules.
Sometimes you have to make a joke very clearly a joke, and someone will still miss the punch line.
Gotta love the 99cent store wedding extravaganza! I keep telling people that weddings cost what you’re willing to pay for them…and this is a perfect illustration. If I lived in the area, I might be up for a vow renewal.
Also kudos to the arrangers for sending the profits to a very worthy cause. We need more no-kill animal shelters in this country.
Agreed, Twistie. No kill shelters rule!