Word of advice for DD ...

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dbrad4d

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and you other guys with young daughters ...

Start saving NOW for that wedding dress. Went shopping with the oldest daughter last night. What an ordeal! Almost smoked one of the sticks that iminaquagmire sent me in the PIF, but didn't have enough wind left in me. I settled for a stick drink.

I may need some of you guys to show up on the chosen date to blow cigar smoke in my face as a sort of artificial respiration.
 
Not quite ... but I could make nearly 4 of my next car payments for the same amount.

And it wasn't even close to the most expensive they had ... :roll:
 
My wife's wedding dress is from the 1950s and was given to us by a friend. My wife just had it fitted for her.

My wife also made her nieces's wedding dress. I think it was very well done, but I think she said a comparable dress would have cost about 2,000.
 
guys got it way easyer, simple tux, easily rented. they should have a store to rent wedding dresses.
 
Dean, the dress is just the beginning of the cost to marying off a daughter, it's an up hill climb.

But all in all it's worth it - for them and the mother of the bride :cry:
 
Dress? I'm thinking nudist wedding, no scratch that............toga party/wedding, something about a martini, good cigar and wearin a toga seems right.
 
I'm still trying to convince my daughter to elope....


and she is only 8......



Scratch that, she is never meeting boys. Time to file for my gun permit. :twisted:
 
The one movie I absolutely hate is ... Father Of The Bride.

I couldn't begin to describe the look I got when I casually mentioned how many boxes of cigars I could buy with what I am spending on her dress.


HiTide, We're going to be down your way, Orange Beach, this weekend. She wants to have a beach wedding if possible. We'll be doing some research while we're there.
 
My wife and I got her dress on eBay.
Sounds cheap, right?
The company we got it from makes copies of original designs for a fraction of the cost. Once you win the dress, you e-mail the measurements to them and they make the dress in about 3 weeks.
We had to get some simple alterations after we got it, but we only paid, total, $600 for a $1500 dress. Not bad.
I just looked on eBay and now there are several people still doing that.
Just an idea.
Here's a couple of pics of her dress:
 

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HMMMM?
No Shoes?
They were a box of good smokes alone!

My wife wore a gem incrusted tiara!
Thankfully I knew the jeweler that made it!
 
My daughter WILL be wearing her mothers dress.

I can get that to work right? :roll:
 
We saw one very similar to that DD, except it was crimson where your wife's looks black, or dark blue maybe? Very pretty.

What do I know. It's better for me to just sign the check. :cry:

You're right CC, the shoes and veil were more goodies to add. And alterations of course. Poor little girl is only 5' tall on a good day. Everything looked like it was made for girls 5'- 8 and up.

I'll be smoking swishers and phillies and the macadoodles you guys don't want ... :cry: :cry:
 
True story -
My wife and I got married twice - first in Vegas
then again a year later here at home with family & friends.
So a year later 2 hours before we walk to the alter.
My wife discovers her dress doesn't fit any more (lost weight)
Her mom is looking at her like to bad at this point your stuck.
Misa is in tears.
I'm all - give me a needle and a thread I'll take it in.
So here I am doing the sewing & it comes out perfect.
Misa's Mom was all DAMN that boy has skills.
Women skills :wink: but skills none the less!
Wedding dresses are a bitch to alter!
 
CastleCrest said:
True story -
My wife and I got married twice - first in Vegas
then again a year later here at home with family & friends.
So a year later 2 hours before we walk to the alter.
My wife discovers her dress doesn't fit any more (lost weight)
Her mom is looking at her like to bad at this point your stuck.
Misa is in tears.
I'm all - give me a needle and a thread I'll take it in.
So here I am doing the sewing & it comes out perfect.
Misa's Mom was all DAMN that boy has skills.
Women skills :wink: but skills none the less!
Wedding dresses are a bitch to alter!
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aww, just tell em you learned how to do that, stitching up your buddies in deer camp.. That'll sound manly enough. :lol:
 
That's pretty good CC.

Jack of all trades, huh? I'd do something like ... turn that sucker inside out and give me a stapler.
 
I am lucky, my 13 year old has decided ( at least for now) to wear her mom's old dress, I came home one day from errands, and she was standing in the liveing room wearing it, and holding a batch of flowers, she was so beautifull I nearly started to cry.

That is what you want to think about while all this is going on, this is your little girl, you would take a bullet for her, right? Well now you want to be the best dad you can ever be, help as much as you can to make her the most beautifull bride she can ever be!

You are going to cherish that day for the rest of your life, make if worth remembering.
 
As a jewler things like that seem pretty easy -
you can go slow and don't have to worry about anything melting.
 
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