Oh, phooey! Your reply was presented in an order that mad me think it was in answer to something else. Yes, thank you for the sanity check & the sympathy!

Am I racist if I say I keep thinking he’s Meshach Taylor...? (Bearing in mind that I also confuse Meredith Baxter with Blythe Danner...)

EVERY SINGLE TIME I see one od those, I say “Okay, there’s the underwear - where’s the dress to go on top?”

And, IIRC, it was only Paltrow who griped about the parody.

That dress always looked like she had a perfectly good dress & yanked it open to get attention.

What makes no sense? There’s obviously no truth to the nonsense, & it IS just a tacky excuse for a guy to feel up some girl’s leg - with all the peer pressure for her to comply, too.

I have the exact opposite story (sorta). My mom wore a wedding gown to my wedding. BECAUSE I MADE HER. The whole story is pretty cute, but the upshot is that it was a heavy, creamy satin mermaid with large “old silver” appliques & the only things really “bridey” about it were the pointed sleeve ends (which she cut…

ACTUALLY, white for weddings came in with the Regency, and yes, it as totally an indicator of wealth: white was the formal color for rich people because it was hard to get pure white & harder to maintain. Queen Victoria was able to better popularize the color because she was the Monarch & communication was even better…

British Royal brides leave theirs on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. Now I’M crying!

There are stunning orchids that are purple & blue - a deep, rich purple & a bright Mediterranean blue. Unless someone has been lying to me with dyes or something... And now I am nostalgic for the 70’s powder blue tuxedo that would be the perfect backdrop for such a bouquet (Not that I am trying to twist your arm or…

Just watch a few episodes of World’s Dumbest. The only NON catfight bouquet toss is the one where the bride manages to hit an active ceiling fan (that’s my favorite)

Yes. I think they make that “higher” thing up to guilt the girl into allowing the guy to feel her up even more.

My mother had such a weird fetish about that garter0thing that when I flatly said I was not doing it, she rambled on about “isn’t the maid of honor supposed to do it then...?” I KID YOU NOT.

Or they should cut out the whole disgusting ritual in its entirety.

I didn’t know it was a thing that the girl who caught the bouquet had to have the garter put on HER leg. I nearly left a wedding over that - because no one told me until AFTER I’d caught the damned thing.

We had our piper go out on the floor (The joke being that “a kilt is a skirt, so why not?” & the further joke being that “No, a kilt is not a skirt, ignorant people just thinkit is”) & I had my husband let me know where he was so I could aim at him. And yeah, he jumped for it & simpered around like an idiot…

I feel so naive & stupid that I am shocked that anyone outside of a drunken brawl (or the Internet, of course) would use language like that, much less Nordstrom’s!!

Oh, I have been there & done that SO many times! No harm, no foul, no problem!

Hooks & eyes work better than snaps, IME.

I am confused. I am an Orthodox Jew, myself, and I can’t see what was so wrong with what I wrote that a kinder view needs to be taken: isn’t it better to be dressed modestly than dressed fancily? & isn’t that what you just said? So I have to say that yeah, you had to have misread what I wrote. (& I wrote “they”…