I’m torn here. A friend is getting married in 8 days and Im not sure whether I should show her this cartoon or not.
Her fiance didn’t want a fancy wedding, but Friend insisted on tuxedos, the trad. white dress, and the “proper” ceremony with all the trimmings. Then in February she realized that she’d rather elope to Lake Louise for the weekend, but her fiance had grown attached to the idea of the tux. Now she’s just freaking out daily; so far this month, she’s had to replace the DJ, the wedding cake baker, the hotel rooms for the out-of-town guests, and most recently the flower girl’s dress (the dry cleaner destroyed it!?!).
And having written that, I guess I won’t show her today’s strip.
She KNOWS what she could have done. And she is aware of how much stress she could have saved by eloping.
And I don’t think it’s the “happiest day of her life.” The wedding is a day for the family and friends; the “happy couple” will be rushed around and won’t get enough to eat, and they’ll be glad to sink into bed and have the day over with.
As someone who just had to deal with the stress 3 months ago, she might be able to use the laugh. And then tell her that no matter what happens, as long as she gets married it will be the happiest day of her life.
My brother recently got married. No tuxedos. No huge ceremony. But a hell of an excuse to fly to Hawai’i and, well … right. I mean, if you’re gonna fly me to Hawai’i for a week of drinking and revelry, and the only specific obligation is that I not wreck the marriage from the outset with a toast, well, yeah, I’ll happily bear witness to your love for the six and a half minutes it took you to get through that ceremony.
Was rereading old comics, even though I’ve read them all already, and reading the comments. Some are mean, most aren’t but :P. Thought I’d come to the most recent just to tell you that if I could I’d give you a hug and tell you hope much people appreciate that you are entertaining. I think web comics and lion taming are the most overlooked things as far as appreciation goes.. :3
Spend your money on the honeymoon. Get some guy to ask you the questions, wear whatever you want, and to coin a phrase…”git ‘er done”, then the party starts!
I don’t remember my wedding as being too stressful. It was fairly traditional in that we had tuxes and I had a nice, white dress but it was so low key and inexpensive that everything just sort of fell into line. There were no problems with any of the things we hired, we didn’t have dancing to worry about and it was mostly just a way to get a lot of friends and family in the same place.
I don’t regret it at all but we really set ourselves up for a plain, simple affair and that worked out for us.
Divorces are my second favorite gathering, the first being funerals.
I’ve been literally begging my fiance to skip the wedding and elope!! I’m going to enter the first two panels as evidence for my argument
How about a step ladder and the keys to a green Subaru as a St. Paddy’s day gift to the fiance?
The lifted foot is wonderful!
For a second I thought Adam resorted to drawing a stick figure
Just had déjà-vu reading this one. I could have sworn I’ve read it before. Maybe I can see the future! :O
… or maybe it was just déjà-vu.
Haven’t you already posted this?
This is all very familiar…
I thought I was pretty immune to advertising, but now I want a boogie board.
Oh, and a girl to fight over it.
I’m torn here. A friend is getting married in 8 days and Im not sure whether I should show her this cartoon or not.
Her fiance didn’t want a fancy wedding, but Friend insisted on tuxedos, the trad. white dress, and the “proper” ceremony with all the trimmings. Then in February she realized that she’d rather elope to Lake Louise for the weekend, but her fiance had grown attached to the idea of the tux. Now she’s just freaking out daily; so far this month, she’s had to replace the DJ, the wedding cake baker, the hotel rooms for the out-of-town guests, and most recently the flower girl’s dress (the dry cleaner destroyed it!?!).
And having written that, I guess I won’t show her today’s strip.
Wait to show her after the wedding. Tell her, “This is what you could have done! It would have saved you so much stress!”
She KNOWS what she could have done. And she is aware of how much stress she could have saved by eloping.
And I don’t think it’s the “happiest day of her life.” The wedding is a day for the family and friends; the “happy couple” will be rushed around and won’t get enough to eat, and they’ll be glad to sink into bed and have the day over with.
As someone who just had to deal with the stress 3 months ago, she might be able to use the laugh. And then tell her that no matter what happens, as long as she gets married it will be the happiest day of her life.
My brother recently got married. No tuxedos. No huge ceremony. But a hell of an excuse to fly to Hawai’i and, well … right. I mean, if you’re gonna fly me to Hawai’i for a week of drinking and revelry, and the only specific obligation is that I not wreck the marriage from the outset with a toast, well, yeah, I’ll happily bear witness to your love for the six and a half minutes it took you to get through that ceremony.
Y’know?
Some of us are just lucky, I guess.
I can only imagine the crowd at divorce proceedings. Jerry springer would seem calm.
Was rereading old comics, even though I’ve read them all already, and reading the comments. Some are mean, most aren’t but :P. Thought I’d come to the most recent just to tell you that if I could I’d give you a hug and tell you hope much people appreciate that you are entertaining. I think web comics and lion taming are the most overlooked things as far as appreciation goes.. :3
Spend your money on the honeymoon. Get some guy to ask you the questions, wear whatever you want, and to coin a phrase…”git ‘er done”, then the party starts!
Why do I always see swastikas in the legs of walking bugs like nerd bug in panel one?
I thought I was going crazy!
Thank you for letting me know I wasn’t the only one!
I don’t remember my wedding as being too stressful. It was fairly traditional in that we had tuxes and I had a nice, white dress but it was so low key and inexpensive that everything just sort of fell into line. There were no problems with any of the things we hired, we didn’t have dancing to worry about and it was mostly just a way to get a lot of friends and family in the same place.
I don’t regret it at all but we really set ourselves up for a plain, simple affair and that worked out for us.
Everybody wants to be invited to the wedding, but nobody wants to go.