Comments on: Daily Discoveries…

By: lyrebirdgully

lyrebirdgully — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:38:03 +0000

re American weddings; I suspect that we in Oz would find a host of strange customs if we were to delve further. For example, the way mothers-of-the-bride dress, which is virtually the same as the bridesmaids. Do the following m-o-t-b styles strike you as being just a tad att*nt*n-s**k**g and competitive?
http://www.fabulousafter40.com/products/ebooks/mother-of-the-bride/
http://www.motherofthebridedresses.us/?p=11
http://www.motherofthebridedresses.us/?cat=21

By: The Mumma

The Mumma — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:03:17 +0000

I had four bridesmaids as did my sister. We are in Australia.

As for the bold, I find it irritating when it’s scattered through like that.

By: Lady Smaggle

Lady Smaggle — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:18:19 +0000

Jay – Ha! I’ll have to be more careful which words I emphasise!

Josephine – That’s totally sensible!

E – Ah ha! The key is to be less sporadic! No bridesmaids? Wow… I would want at least one or two!

Lou – No matter what I think bridal parties need to be symmetical.

Grant – We had a bridesmate at the wedding I was in a few years ago. It loked so cool…

Kat – Totally. If someone asked me amongst 13 others I’d be all ‘Do you want my mum to do it too?’

Sneaux – Maybe it’s just the big crazy expensive weddings on design blogs that have that many…

Barb – I agree!

Stephanie – I don’t want to talk about Design Sponge. My brain hurts.

Scribbles – If you can afford it I guess!

Erin – Yeah… I may need to book myself in for a lobotomy.

Cookie – Excellent. Will take that on board!

Nico – Ha! No I was just being precocious.

Lula – How BAD was the weekend? Cops everywhere and loud cars… I hate the nats.

Reckless daughter – Noted! x

Maggie – But how many close female friends can you have? I agree with the two…

Bianca – I want a small wedding too

Lala – Best compliment ever!

Sarah-Rose – That’s the same as the wedding I am in now… I think it’s perfect. Anymore would be weird.

By: Sarah-Rose

Sarah-Rose — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:07:30 +0000

Oo. The bold made me read those words EMPHATICALLY which felt a little weird. But it did make it easy to scan.

At my wedding there were 8 of us total standing up there, my husband and I, a best man/maid of honour (2 beloved friends) and then our 4 siblings, 2 each, it worked out nice and symmetrical.
I wouldn’t have more than 3 people standing up for me though, same for Craig.

By: LaLa

LaLa — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:31:06 +0000

I used to work in online advertising and we did recommend that clients used bold to highlight pertinent points so you are on the right track but too much can be.. distracting (more my issue than yours, I have the focus of a stapler sometimes…)
A man once stopped me in the middle of a crossing a road and told me I look radiant, it actually made my day!

By: bianca

bianca — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:59:09 +0000

i dont mind the bold, i didnt really notice it to be honest!
Nico I’m on the same page as you. I really want a small wedding with only people i actually care about attending. My family is huge and i barely know them, so I’d rather have the truly important ones being the only people there.
Smaggle, the only wedding I’ve been to only have 2 bridesmaids and 2 groomsmen…ushers…dude-maids…whatever theyre called.
cookie i can honestly agree that i giggle and blush whenever a bartender or customer winks at me, but i want to throw something when people “woot” at me from cars.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:19:27 +0000

I’m American, and I only had two bridesmaids. My bestie since Kindergarten was my maid-of-honor and my older sister was my matron-of-honor. Personally, I don’t have that many close friends, so it was an easy decision for me as to who would be in the wedding party.

By: reckless daughter

reckless daughter — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:02:58 +0000

I think Americans do generally have larger bridal parties. That being said, the most recent weddings I’ve been to were fairly small affairs.

Ps: yeah, the boldface just distracts me haha

By: Lula

Lula — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:26:28 +0000

Haha the cat call discussion is apt, given it’s Summernats weekend!!
The best ones I’ve been on the receiving end of:
‘You look lovely today’ from a homeless drunk
and
‘Has anyone ever told you you have great legs’ from an old man riding a bicycle (which completely took me by surprise because it was about 8am in a quiet suburb and I DO NOT have great legs.. not by a long stretch.)

By: Nico

Nico — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:21:38 +0000

I thought you were intentionally adding emphasis to certain words and out of habit (I’m a literature student) “read” them louder in my head and quite honestly, it didn’t make any sense to me at all.

As for bridesmaids, I just had my sister-in-law stand in, but we had a very small wedding, literally 14 people including the groom and I. We took over a small inn for the wedding week-end and they were still able to book a few other guests in other rooms. I find large weddings very impersonal because half the time you have people you barely know attending and I find that just kind of strange. Then again, I am like two steps away from a recluse …