Ladies and gentlemen, a family Cry Face (from a photo booth at a recent wedding):
We may not agree on how we feel about what happened yesterday, but Cry Face will always bring us together.
[Posted by Mallory]
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yours to decide, cute or creepy?
Sorry that I have been “the worst guest blogger ever” to directly quote Mallory. I recently got back from a fantastic trip to Ireland and London with my Mom, and then we had a long-femurred visitor a few weekends ago. I know, poor me.
All excuses aside, I wanted to share this youtube video to see how people felt about this marriage proposal. So far, we’ve got 2 votes for creepy, 1 vote for cute (sorry, Caroline).
To me, it seems like the girl being proposed to in the video would vote creepy as well, but that’s just my observation.
Here it is: Disneyland Musical Marriage Proposal
[Posted by Shannon]
a lifetime movie waiting to happen.
Here is your crazy story for today! (From the AP)
HEBRON, Ind. — Police say a northern Indiana woman who wasn’t invited to her sister’s wedding reception showed up anyway and attacked the bride, pulling out clumps of her hair.
Twenty-three-year-old Annmarie Bricker of Valparaiso faces a misdemeanor battery charge for last Friday’s attack outside a Porter County home.
The Porter County Sheriff’s Department says a friend was hosting a reception for Nicholas Landry and Lori Kappes — Bricker’s sister — when Bricker attacked Kappes on the front porch.
Police say that after the attack, Kappes had smeared makeup and clumps of hair missing from her head but sought no medical treatment.
Bricker told police she arrived at the home to confront her sister and parents and “just wanted to talk” about family problems. She says she never touched her sister.
She “just wanted to talk”? HA! Liar, liar, pants on fire!
I sense a Lifetime movie script in the works. Toss in a stripper, a pregnancy, and we’ve got ourselves a nice little Sunday afternoon. Maybe Kate Hudson is available?
[Posted by Kathleen]
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it’s not midnight yet. i win!
I’m trying to be on a roll here. A roll of not forgetting the Hump Day Cry Face. I’m doing well, right?!
I’ve mentioned Jed before. Jed is great. I love Jed. Jed is a really, really wonderful Cry Face Ambassador. He orchestrated all of these gems:
He seems to be teaching the closed-mouth Cry Face. Interesting tactic. I’m okay with it. To each his own. Jed’s in the middle of this next photo:
And while I’m making an e-shrine to Mr. Jed, I’ll just throw in this photo because I think it’s pretty fabulous:
Jed, let’s get married.
[Posted by Mallory]
some humor for your hump day.
Okay, okay. So it’s no Hump Day Cry Face. But this video should make you feel a leeeeeeetle better.
Vodpod videos no longer available.
It gets better each time. I love the “Oh God. NO NO NO!” Thanks, Collegehumor.com. Even though I’m no longer in college, my humor has not matured.
If that video didn’t help you out and you’re still Cranky McCrankster, have no fear. Just tell people that you are participating in National Grouch Day. Which, according to Sesame Street Magazine, today is.
“A Grouch’s mission in life is to be as miserable and grouchy as possible, and pass that feeling on to everyone else. Only then will a Grouch feel in touch with his or her world and be happy.”
This post is done, OKAY? GO AWAY. NOW LEAVE ME ALONE.
I jest.
[Posted by Kathleen]
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just six words and a picture.
Live long and prosper, Mr. Sulu!
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may the force be with them.
Now I’ve seen it all. Yes, friends, that is a Star Wars themed wedding. The bride, Rebecca D’Madeiros, wore a stunning white, Mon Mothma dress, and the groom, Bill Duda, looked strapping as Admiral Ackbar. They were wed on a beautiful day in June, and were escorted by Imperial Storm Troopers. That is the truth. I am not making that up.
“The wedding was presided over by Yoda, who had secured his marriage licence off the internet in the weeks beforehand and the ringbearer was none over than Princess Leia, sporting her famous gold bikini.
Okay, WTF. And disclaimer, the typo (none over rather than none other) is theirs, not mine. Anyway, way to go upstage the bride, Leia. That’s not cool. If I was the bride, I would have had my bridesmaids all dressed as Chewbacca, just to ensure that I was the hottest one up there. And I’m not even going to discuss the Yoda online marriage license thing. Sketchy.
“It was a lot of fun – after all, it’s not everyday you get to be married by Yoda,” the groom said. Well put, sir. I don’t think anyone will disagree with you on that.
But power of the force to them, this wedding is unique. So congrats you two crazy Star Wars nerds. Mon Mothma, you may now kiss your strange looking alien husband. And if I was familiar enough with Star Wars, I’d make more nerdy jokes. But I’m not. Alicia, help me out? Just kidddddddding.
[Posted by Kathleen]
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something borrowed, something blue, something…botoxed?
We’ve discussed plastic surgery a little here at SWTCTW. As I mentioned in this post,I think plastic surgery trends are getting a leetle nuts these days, and my thoughts and fears were confirmed by one of today’s New York Times articles. In “It’s Botox For You, Dear Bridesmaids,” Abby Ellin talks about the latest fad in plastic surgery: brides encouraging and/or paying for their bridesmaids to get everything from Botox to boob jobs.
To begin with, I’m the kind of girl who thinks that over-the-top weddings are unnecessary. I know that many women want their wedding to be the best day ever and are happy to spend bajillions of Daddy’s dollars on the perfect ceremony, but I just don’t see the point. Give me an “I do”, a cake, and a party with an open bar, and I’ll be happy. But all those things aside, plastic surgery for bridesmaids strikes me as out-of-this-world absurd. In the article, the brides who want to Botox their BFFs seem to want to do it as a gift. As 35-year-old bride-to-be Kasey Knauer explains:
“Giving them a bracelet isn’t as special as spending an evening together. Plus, as you get older, everyone is more conscientious about their skin and appearance,” she said. “Giving them something for themselves — as opposed to something that they’ll never wear again — is more meaningful.”
And I guess if her bridesmaids are the kind of people who would want Botox anyway, that is a pretty nice gift. Still, the whole thing strikes me as a little Stepford wife-y. As in, “My bridesmaids will wear perfect matching dresses, they will be skinny, and they will NOT be wrinkled. Smile, girls!.”
Other brides are encouraging their bridesmaids to get their teeth whitened or go tanning before the wedding so that they all look more or less the same. One bride took things a little far:
…two women were claustrophobic and couldn’t bear standing in a tanning capsule. “They asked the bride if they could use regular tanning cream from a salon,” Ms. Goldberg said. The bride refused; she wanted everyone to be the same shade. The women ultimately declined to be bridesmaids. “Friendships of 20-plus years gone over a spray tan?” Ms. Goldberg said. “Sad!”
By that logic, I’d have to make my token Asian friend work the guest book. Sorry, Walsher.
Even more disturbing than the Botox and the tanning, some brides are requesting that their bridesmaids get breast implants:
Becky Lee, 39, a Manhattan photographer, declined when a friend asked her — and five other attendants — to have their breasts enhanced. “We’re all Asian and didn’t have a whole lot of cleavage, and she found a doctor in L.A. who was willing to do four for the price of two,” said Ms. Lee, who wore a push-up bra instead.
Call me old-fashioned, but if a friend asked me to get a boob job for her wedding, I think I’d be insulted. Getting me into an unflattering dress would be hard enough, but getting me to go under the knife? Ha! What happened to mani/pedis and lunch with the girls?
[Posted by Mallory]
mom, i’m marrying a serial killer.
To take a quick break from sports, I’m going to write about another popular topic on SWTCTW- strange weddings. (For evidence of this, please click here and here) Everyone has heard the jokes about marriage being a life sentence and whatnot. This story is the perfect combination of all these things in a sick and twisted way. Oh man, my mind is whirling with puns and bad jokes that I could make. Okay, maybe just one… Nihita Biswas can literally call her future hubby the old ball and chain.
Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who is 64 and serving a life sentence in Nepal, is engaged to marry Nihita, a 20-year-old Nepalese girl. Here is their how we met story: they met when she was applying to be a translator for one of his lawyers. (Cute? No?) Oh, and he is best known by his criminal nickname, “The Serpent”.
There are so many things wrong with this! Besides the whole killing people thing, I don’t think I could ever marry someone with a nickname that sounds like it comes from a Batman movie! (Sidenote: I am so excited for the new Batman movie. Why, Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeath, why? I love you.) What are his evil powers, besides the obvious? I wish this was an episode of Scrubs and you could see what goes on in my head. Damn my wild imagination.
Even though you can’t see what goes on in my head, use your own to imagine the conversation she had with her mother. Moms essentially all ask the same basic questions when it comes to learning about the new man in her daughter’s life. What is his name? What is he like? What does he do? Or in the case of marriage, they ask when the date for the wedding is. For the Serpent and his lady, this all depends on whether the Nepal Supreme Court accepts his appeal and let’s him out of his life sentence. Good luck with that. The point is, not one answer to any of the basic questions is good! How do even you answer ‘what does he do’?
Instead of answering all of these questions for the news story, the blushing bride to be commented on the 44 year age gap between them.
“I am mature enough to decide for myself,” she said. “Age does not make a difference.”
Age is the least of your worries, hun. I think your number one priority should be, umm, staying alive.
The Frenchman has in the past admitted to killing several Western tourists, and he is believed to have murdered at least 20 people in Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Turkey, Nepal, Iran and Hong Kong during the 1970s.
So this story isn’t quite Sunday New York Times wedding announcement material, but it’s still a wedding announcement. Congratulations to the happy couple? I demand an invite and there best be an open bar.
Here she is:
And here he is (looking mysterious and somewhat dapper?):
[Posted by Kathleen]
will she be called mrs. peepers?
Dear Sunshine Tutt,
Do you realize that you are marrying Mr. Peepers today? MR. PEEPERS.
xoxo,
SWTCTW
ps- In case you didn’t know, you are a model and Mr. Peepers is not.
Okay, I wish I could have sent that note. Five bucks says at least one of her friends did, probably her parents and the rest of her family too. I just have visions of Chris Kattan going all Mr. Peepers on their wedding cake.
UPDATED: Here is a picture of the new Mrs. Peepers:
Rawr! It has also come to my attention that she should be commended for marrying Mango.
Double rawr! This is starting to look like it rivals White Owl and Julia Lee…
Congrats to the happy couple!
[Posted by Kathleen]
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six words to change the world. 
