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So the question of the day is: do you invite kids to the wedding or not. Mind you, I don’t mean babies, which should not be invited at all (besides they can’t read the save the date card) and yes I realize that means that the mom’s probably can;t come either and that also means the husband’s of said wives would probably be brow-beaten if they came home tanked after a fun filled wedding. We all know what happens at weddings… mmm hmmm…

Cnn posted a story yesterday about how kids actually add value to a wedding. So I am on the fence about this one. So I put it to you, gentle reader. Sound off about whether you think having rug rats children attend a destination wedding that IS NOT Disney is a good idea or sheer Folly.

In the wild, wonderful, crazy, expensive, nutty, world that is your engagement, nothing else is quite befuddling and expensive as “Save the Date Cards”. You see, you poor sap gentle reader, save the date cards are Pre-invitation wedding cards to notify your loved ones of the joyous days approach…without actually explaining very much except the fact that the wedding is indeed Read the rest of this entry »

Weddings are expensive. Upwards of 20,000 - $50,000. So, unless your wedding is to be at the place where I was raised, ($20 worth of buckshot, five cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon and a trip to the WalMart; set you back $150 total) looks like you’ll need an investment strategy.

Of course there is no bigger investment for the man than the engagement ring. This thin piece of metal capped by a tiny Huge clear rock basically determines your status in the world to her friends and plays a role in determining how many times you can expect to get laid in any given month. Essentially, this is something you want to get right, because you only get one shot.

Of course how to find out what Read the rest of this entry »

The PreWife and Myself were talking the other day about what kind of wedding we want. Once she 86′d my suggestion of two fiddlers, moonshine and a ho down, she suggested that a simple non-traditional wedding would suit her fine. I scratched my head and tried to convince her that nothing could be more non-traditional then a greased pig chase after a few belts of my Uncle’s home brew after saying our vows with her daddy’s shotgun in my back, but she looked through at me and with a patient smile said, “no”. End of discussion.

The hardest part I think of a simple wedding is, well, keeping it simple. This is actually harder then it sounds because now you have freed yourself from the bonds of tradition. In fact there are so many variations on the theme, that you can go hog-wild just trying to reign in the possibilities. We put our heads together and thought about all the weddings we had been to (me about one, but that was to my sister, so it doesn’t count in 49 of 50 states and Guam…her about 200) and we landed on Read the rest of this entry »