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From: jamcmullan@wateng.UUCP (Judy McMullan)
Newsgroups: net.social
Subject: Re: Wedding party:what would you have done?
Message-ID: <1232@wateng.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 17:00:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 18 17:00:18 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Jul-84 03:39:47 EDT
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Both questions are the same -- "Is it reasonable for the bride to drop
someone at the last minute because they would ruin the photographs?" I, myself,
think it is NOT reasonable but I have found that other people think it is!
I would certainly be more than miffed if I had paid for an outfit.

Given that the bride is insistent on having the bridesmaids match in all
ways, I think the whole argument could be much more amicably settled if
she offered to pay the deposit that the bridesmaid had put down on the outfit.

Weddings bring out all sorts of weirdnesses in people. I had a recent
discussion with a bridesmaid who was not only concerned about the shoes looking
the same in the photographs, but she was concerned that the photos would
"look funny" because all the bridemaids were not the same height.

I like Anita's remark that you should consider a bride harmlessly mentally
deranged at wedding time.

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