The Incredible Shrinking Bride

Poor girls... Where is love in the whole story? This is nothing but an egotistic attitude (mirror, mirror on the wall... remember?) and if it really had to do with the genuine want to spend a whole life with your loved one, you wouldn't even think about all that. You're just filling others' pockets with your naive, selfish attitude. This ain't nothing to do with a wedding. This is nothing but show biz and plain money business.

everyone do wish to look perfect on their wedding day, especially for the bride, but beware of the health. looks are important, but the inner side of ourselves is much more gorgeous than the "shell". guys/girls not only love each other for the look only. bare in mind that: everyone of us are special as we do, appreciate yourselves. modest is the best way of life.

We've been living with you anywhere from 6 months to a year or longer before we finally asked you to marry us. You have met my friends, I have met yours, and I have seen you naked. Now you want to radically change everything about you and in the process make us wonder why we ever decided to ask you to marry us in the first place, because after we say I do it's back to the same old routine.In fact, stats show that married couples gain on average married couples gain about 15 to 20 pounds once they have settled into a committed long term relationship. We accept you the way you are. That's why we asked you to marry us in the first place. Lighten up. Have some tea...and a cupcake. We'll still love you. We promise.

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LET US REMEMBER BERG. I AM NOT JEWISH, HOWEVER I FEEL THAT WE MUST NEVER FORGET.
IT IS WORTH THAT yOUNG ARABS AND JEWS FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS START FORMING GROUPS THAT ENCOURAGE THE INTERACTION BETWEEN JEWS ARABS MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. SOMETHING LIKE AN NGO. ANyONE FROM ANy BACKGROUND CAN CONTRIBUTE. WITH ONE OBJECTIVE IN MIND. FRIENDLy RELATIONS. NO PRESSURE TO SET FOREIGN POLICy , JUST GETTING THE TWO ADVERSARIES IN THE SAME ROOM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WILL BE IN AMERICA'S AND THE WORLD'S BEST INTEREST. . THAT IS THE FIRST STEP .

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I find this absolutely appaling! I am afraid I do not understand why brides would become so...insane. I am appaled though, but if that is what they want, then so be it.

Bridezilla, hmmmph! Well after the kids were born and breast-fed my wife's breasts were sagging quite a bit. She was unhappy with them. Of course it's a natural thing for them to sag. She felt a little sad and depressed about it and didn't feel she was attractive anymore. I didn't mind at all, but she insisted on getting breast enhancements from the doctors at FinestImplants.com She did it a year before we renewed our vows, and she looked knock-out gorgeous for our ceremony. Her attitude has changed also. So, it may not be for every mom, but it sure worked out well for her.

I got married last September, and spent a below-average amount in an above-average-price market (the DC metro area). I had the wedding of my dreams, not for *cheap*, exactly, but definitely less expensive than it could have been. I got lucky in some areas, like getting an upgrade from basement to ballroom because of construction. But other than that, it's just a matter of planning and prioritizing and hard, hard work. (No wedding planner!)

I wanted my waist-length hair to look good, so I had a pro do it - but I'm completely capable of applying my own makeup, so I did. I went to the fancy boutique with my mom for the fun of it, but I got my dress at David's. We each only had two attendants. We got a really good photographer, but used their cheapest package and put the album together ourselves on Blurb.com. We had really good food and an open bar, and made our own table decorations and favors and invitations and such. We got the best DJ we could find and didn't do a brunch the next day.

It's all about the trade-offs and priorities. Since our marriage has no legal meaning at the moment, it was important to have lots of the important people in our lives there, having a blast and experiencing it as a "real" wedding, so we were very guest-focused and strove for as classy and traditional a wedding as we could muster.

Obviously the marriage itself is more important than the wedding. But that doesn't take away from the fact that the wedding itself is a wonderful once in a lifetime event and for most couples, the only single day that ALL of their friends and family are present for. I hardly think it speaks ill of a woman's character or values if she wants to look her best. Afterall, how many other days of her life will she have a photographer and videographer following her around? My grandmother's wedding portrait hung in my grandparents' living room for over 50 years.

It cracks me up that so many people freak out about thier wedding. My husband and I (married Jan. 13, 2007) were/are both full time college students. We didn't have the money to even dream of spending $30,000 on a wedding. We were married in a beautiful ceremony that incorporated who we are as individuals and a couple. I believe that our total cost was about $1,000-$1,500. That included the dress, location, and everything else. While it wasn't a huge gala, all of our friends/family chipped in and our wedding couldn't have been more perfect. I understand that every woman wants this huge cinderella wedding, but I say that you have to make your own story. I can honestly look back at my wedding (and the thigns that went into it) and be truly HAPPY because it was perfect...for me and my husband, and after all, we were the only ones who truly mattered that day. While we didn't start our life out with this huge gala, we understood that the important thing was that we were together and happy. I think that if I had tried all this stuff--the stuff mentioned in the article--my husband probably would have called off our wedding. He wanted me, not the "plastic bride" as he likes to say. Our life began with a great ceremony (even if we didn't have all the frills and a honeymoon) and it is continually blessed, everyday, by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

You can have a nice wedding even if you cannot afford the Bridezilla pageant of your dreams. My husband and I were married many years ago very simply. We had no money for any kind of ceremony, so a justice-of-the-peace performed the ceremony with family and a few friends in attendance. My bosses gifted us with two bouquets and boutonnières, my mother made my dress, and our friends and family hummed "Here Comes the Bride." The justice, very sweet older man, was retiring that day, so our wedding was his very last official act. He told us afterwards that he couldn't imagine a happier way to retire from public service. It wasn't the poufy bridal fantasy I had when I was a teenager, but if I had it to do again I wouldn't change anything. To this day I still smile when I think about my happy little no-frills wedding.

I too, have always felt that the marriage is far more important than the wedding. And I'm puzzled by those who "renew their vows" after 20 years. What's wrong with the old vows? I've been married for 43 years and have no interest in renewing the vows - mine are still good and will be for life.

Families, books, culture, and popular media have always fed girls from birth on a strict diet of stories about princes, knights in shiny armor on a steed, castles, and the fairy tales like Cinderella, and even contemporary literature and films, Where the Heart Is, The Other Bolyn Girl, and then we wonder what has gone awry. I remember when I was an undergraduate at Brigham Young University. The females felt and/or placed themselves under tremendous pressure to have not our BAs or BSs but our MRSs. I???ll never forget the first time I saw a bridal magazine used as popular reading. Peers actually had their bridal dresses selected, torn out and taped to the refrigerator or visible places, and a popular pastime was talking about weddings. Mind you, these were bright, articulate students with respectable SAT scores and GPAs. By my sophomore year I was immuned to that magazine and others, and seeing girl talk about praying before and after date to ask in prayer if her date was The One. It all seemed silly then, and quite laughable, since I believed and stated many times, ???Only in Mormon culture would this happen and be considered perfectly normal,??? but now the laugh is on me since this is prevalent.

The focus on and process of beautification/beauty has always been, and it even rules in the animal kingdom, but the intensity and commercial of it is or seems ever so high probably because we???re shameless about it. Products are advertised and readily available for a price. Unfortunately the search now comes at a human price, far beyond a checking and credits by the way of skin cancer, abnormal metabolic rates, and, of course, deflated or fragile egos that fluctuate with the numbers on a scale. Will it stop as we discuss it or alert the people on the dangerous content? I doubt it because even though my husband and I raised my two daughters with strong feminist views, we still ended up with daughters who prim and prod and examine themselves far too long in the mirror. It???s been hard for me because external beauty defined by dominate culture has never been a value for me. But I hope their self-interests on beauty or what they interpret as beauty will dim and fade as they attend college and mature.