wedding dress ball of tackyness

poet123

tizhimi wrote: »

lol, I LOVE particalycloudy, she's got me down to a T, I am a snobby stuck up cow with standards. And I love em.

Many of us have standards....high standards, but we don't have to have the other three attributes too.

crapwithcash82

tizhimi wrote: »

lol, I LOVE particalycloudy, she's got me down to a T, I am a snobby stuck up cow with standards. And I love em.

... or maybe OP just likes to think of herself as "a snobby stuck up cow with standards"....

Surely there are loads of wedding production-side-of-things she could be working on for her importantly wonderful company instead of slagging off charity events...

cpjackso

Sounds weird to me that a wedding planner (the OP) of "the stars" is spending as little as possible on her wedding... Surely a wedding planner (or whatever she says she is) should be 'known' by others to have a fairly spectacular wedding (but SECRETLY done for pennies due to her contacts)? Surely a wedding planner is supposed to encourage clients to 'spend-spend-spend'... and it looks odd when she 'saves-saves-saves'.

Something doesn't add up here.

CG77

Hahaha!!! This thread has made my night! Thanks tizhimi!

CG. x

lucylouwoo

After reading this thread I do think a couple of points have been missed.

Firstly this is a money saving website so is it not a good idea to get a bit of wear out of a nice dress that you might of spent quite a bit of money on rather than just wearing it once???????

Also this is a charity event, this is not a bunch of 'me me' women all putting thier dresses on to go round each others houses for a party!!!!!!
No one is putting their dress on to have another wedding, they are putting it on to raise money for a chosen charity and to have fun!!!!

Personally I think anything that raises money for charity is great!!!!!!

tizhimi

cpjackso wrote: »

Surely a wedding planner should be 'known' by others to have a fairly spectacular wedding (but SECRETLY done for pennies due to her contacts)? .

I don't "do" weddings as I have said repeatedly, I do production, event management and logistics, not wedding planning (thank god as I try to avoid the general public, you scare me when it comes to weddings) - just the logistics behind it for big budget weddings - and who said my wedding isn't going to be spectacular? It's just going to be "low key" as we've plowed the money into our businesses and getting what we can for free through work contacts - you make it sound like a bad thing! I would never incourage a client to spend more, in fact quite the opposite which clients like as it is a sign of frugality (if thats the correct word). Just because in my personal life I choose not to spend 5k on a sound and lighting rig it doesn't mean that I'm not going to have 5k's worth of sound and lighting, prices are over inflated, I'm the first to admit that things are over priced but whilst people are prepared to pay daft prices they will continue to get charged that unless they know different.

(What on earth that has got to do with a wedding ball of tack goodness knows .)

Dee-Dee

I have just had a read through this thread and I can't believe how personal things have got. I normally keep out of this kind of thing but as everyone else is having their say I thought I'd have mine too! Can we not all just express our opinions and respect the opinions of others even if we don't agree with them rather than having a go and resorting to personal insults?

Planning a wedding is stressful enough without people have a go at someone else for expressing an opinion. I have generally found this forum to be a place where people can get ideas AND support. Anyway if you disagree with this please be gentle with me

Also I have to admit that the idea of going to a ball where people are wearing their wedding dresses doesn't really appeal to me.

SugarSpun

Dee-Dee wrote: »

Also I have to admit that the idea of going to a ball where people are wearing their wedding dresses doesn't really appeal to me.

Me neither, although if I hadn't seen the perfect wedding dress and decided against my original plan I was going to get a 1950s circle dress in a bold colour that I could wear again rather than something I could only wear once.

The charity event aspect doesn't bother me at all. I went to a wedding a few years ago where the bride was wearing a long plain strapless off-white dress. There was a cousin of the bride at our table at dinner, and his wife was wearing a knee-length plain strapless off-white dress. She told us after a couple of glasses of wine that she was wearing her own wedding dress that she'd had shortened and had worn it to 7 weddings besides her own. Given that any picture without her legs in it would have showed her dressed the same as the bride, I thought that was tacky as all hell. Other people might not think the same.

clearing_out_my_pockets

Sorry if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but where in the OP does the original email mention that this is a charity event? the way I read it, the venue is milking couples' notalgia for their own weddings and using it as an opportunity to boost their profit margins...

poet123

The OP doesn't mention it, but these events are quite well known fund raisers for Cancer Research. Unless this particular venue is jumping on the bandwagon, but the OP has not responded to the postings about the charity aspect, so I assume that it is indeed for charity. Perhaps the OP could confirm the situation?