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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, August 19, 2004 - 8:03 am
Well, after much discussion and worry, Colossus and I have decided to put off our honeymoon until after the 1st of the year, when we can really take our time and go someplace special for 10 days or so rather than try to cram in 3 days, much of which would be travel, to go someplace way overpriced because of seasonal rates. It's very disappointing for both of us, but the only thing that makes sense at this point. We have 10 days in Mexico in November, so that will be a nice getaway to look forward to in advance of the honeymoon. We're still considering all options, so keep the ideas coming. Thanks everyone for your input - I'm sure we'll have alot of questions once we actually get down to choosing between your suggestions. 
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Thursday, August 19, 2004 - 2:07 pm
I still think mine was the best suggestion! Who else is gonna give you all that and more? Besides I'm cheap, close and a whole lot of fun!!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, August 19, 2004 - 2:10 pm
Nah I think mine was the best 2 suggestions. 
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Thursday, August 19, 2004 - 2:35 pm
Well I know where mine was, at the bottom of the list, prehistoric bugs....
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Friday, August 27, 2004 - 5:03 am
MEGGIE!!!! Are you SURE you can't photograph my wedding? 7 weeks to go, and still no photographer. I'm ready to scream now.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, August 27, 2004 - 10:03 am
GAL -- What's been the trouble? Scheduling? Or finding someone who's "right" for the job? (I'm asking cause dh may have some ideas for you)
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 5:55 am
Hi, Yankee!!!! Combination of both, and my mother who has all the connections in the world is completely absorbed in her LPGA tournament and is just astrally removed for the next few weeks. HOWEVER!! I have good news - while I was flailing about and leaving messages for everyone who ever touched a Brownie, I came across the website for a cinematographer who started his career shooting stills for a mini-series my mother did years ago. I left him a message saying I think you know my mother yadda yadda. Total desperation, as if he would care, I was just trying to catch his attention. Well, he called yesterday it turns out the guy has known me since I was a baby, mom would bring us to the local network affiliates back in the 60's and 70's to shoot her shows, and he was frequently the guy behind the camera. He's gone on to shoot somewhere around 150 movies and whatnot, and trip Yankee - he just finished filming a documentary for the Discovery Channel about Abraham Lincoln, and large portion of the shoot took place at the chapel and mansion where Colossus and I are being married!!!!!!!! ANYWAY!! - He called and all this information came out and he said lookie, I have three other things I'm scheduled to shoot that day but I don't care. For you, I'm going to hand them off to other photographers and I'm going to shoot your wedding. Anything for you. And trip - I had no idea about any of this, I didn't discuss contacting him with my mom, nothing. It was just a cold call, and a desperate one at that. LOLOL!! So I have a Hollywood cinematographer shooting my wedding!!! YAY FOR ME!!!!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 6:46 am
That is so totally cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is your mom an actress?
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 6:52 am
Yes, Tex, she's a professional actress and singer. TV and stage work mostly.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 6:54 am
How cool! Was that fun for you growing up? Would I have seen her work?
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 7:09 am
Well, it was fun on some levels and not so fun on others. She was gone alot particularly during the summer months when the professional outdoor theaters were in session. It was fun going to movie sets, seeing some shoots and meeting celebrities. I don't ever remember having an unpleasant exposure to any star, they were uniformly gracious (particularly Hal Holbrook and Elizabeth Montgomery I remember as being very kind). Wait, I take that back - Steve Allen was a total jerk, but he's gone now so I won't say much more than that. Anyway, when you grow up in the middle of that stuff it doesn't register that you're privileged - it's just the way it is. I rarely get excitable around any celebrity now, though. Which can also work to a disadvantage - some (usually lower tier) celebrities like to be fawned over and can be dismissive if you don't do that. But mostly I've found them to be regular joes who will gladly warm up to a good conversation. You've probably seen some commercials and a television movie or two with her in them, Tex. Oh, and an informercial that almost caused me to come out of my shoes when it rolled across my TV screen the first time - I had no idea she'd done it, and my father was in it too. I've long since gotten used to my mother's face showing up without warning on my TV screen (my cousin Joe's, too) - but that was the first time my father did that to me LOLOL.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 7:11 am
Amazing, the sun is surely shining on you GAL!!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 7:15 am
Thanks Reader, I think so!! Know any good DJ's? ROTF. One final crisis to resolve.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 7:19 am
I am so glad to hear that Hal Holbrook was wonderful!!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 8:57 am
OK, so we've booked the classical guitarist for the chapel (he's playing renaissance/baroque classical for the wedding and spanish classical for the first part of the reception). And we've booked the photographer. Colossus is extremely pleased with both of them (a pleased groom is a great thing - it loosens up the wallet). All the flowers are ordered. Caterer's handled. Tents are ordered, tables, linens, silverware, glassware, bartender all handled. Both wedding dresses are being fitted next weekend. Junior bridesmaid and flower girl dress material is ordered and will be in on Thursday, in time to take home to the seamstress. Already had sessions for hair and makeup. The waistline is doing just fine. The tuxes are ordered and hotel rooms blocked. Ummmm - I don't have a cake, I don't have a DJ and I don't have ivory pumps to go with my second dress. And I don't have all the addresses I need to send the invitations. Otherwise, life is good. 7 weeks from right now I will be two hours from finally being a married woman. 
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 9:28 am
Remember I told you earlier in the year that Colossus had a real issue with the bush in front of the chapel? And Fruitbat offered to poison it and Halfunit volunteered her truck and tirechain to pull it out by the roots? Well, some things never change. We were at the chapel last week and I took this picture of Colossus considering his options again (LOL - he was trying to figure out whether the local hardware store would have a sufficient supply of antifreeze to kill the damn thing). Somehow I suspect bad things will cause that poor bush to be a non-issue by the time we're scheduled to marry.

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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 11:13 am
Poor little bush!!! LOL
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 11:33 am
Yay Goddess!!! See how things always end up working out?
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 11:39 am
sounds to me like we better start another 'get out of jail' fund 
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Zachsmom
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 11:55 am
another? who used the first one? dang..i miss everything. Goddess..I kind of like the bush.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 1:09 pm
Well, so much for having a pleased groom. The tux shop has f'd up our order for the five hundred and twenty-twelfth time, demanding deposits from our best man and ringbearer for tuxes which Colossus has already paid for in full. In addition, I had to physically remove the phone from my groom's hands this morning, send him off into the corner and undertake booking our honeymoon suite myself because Colossus was to the point of using the "GD" word with whomever he was speaking at the Renaissance. We've gone through weeks of trying to get them to book us in a honeymoon or presidential suite (there's always no one there who can book it, or they try to sell us a king-bed room instead of a honeymoon suite, yadda bling), and Colossus isn't getting the treatment he has long paid for as a major rewards carrier. So I went to the source (corporate headquarters) and expressed extreme displeasure and impressed them with the hostility of my groom, and at least got acknowledgement of the fact that they had two presidential suites available for at least MOST of the time we need them. Of course, the person who MUST book those rooms isn't available until tomorrow morning, but I got her name and bad things are going to land on her desk in the morning if good things don't happen to me during that conversation LOL. Oy, I'm not even going to tell him about the tux screw up - we've gone through two groom's fittings and they still haven't gotten it right. He's going to blow his stack if he finds out his nephew and grand-nephew were presented with financial demands when they went in for their fitting - more than anything, he didn't want them to worry about finances for participating in the wedding. I would like to beg for some peaceful karma now. Let us pray . . .
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 1:13 pm
Welcome to the wonderful world of wedding and event planning, GAL -- LOL! It's crazy, isn't it?!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 1:14 pm
Yankee, I'm going to CWY!!!!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 1:19 pm
Woooooo Saiiiiii Gal and BigC. The poor thing. I knew yall should've just done the deed in Vegas. No muss no fuss. And I was there too.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 1:21 pm
Tell it, Mocha. Unfortunately, Colossus did the Vegas thing on his first marriage-go-round, so it was entirely off the spectrum of possibilities. Bad karma and whatnot.
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