Yep, katliamom.
You don’t say, youdont’tsay… hmmm… if a liberal, outdoorsy 27-year old scientist who also loves big cities (she lives/works in NYC) would sound at all interesting to any of them, let’s talk!
I found my wedding dress almost by chance. I was at my favorite craft store/ gallery that also had a consignment section. The wedding dress was hanging on the wall. It was a 1930s very simple silk dress with some brocade on the bodice and a million little buttons down the back. It looked like something Katharine Hepburn might have worn. Of course it fit like a glove. Sometimes things are just meant to be.
If you go to the link with John John’s wedding take a look at what poor Caroline Kennedy’s bridesmaid’s were wearing. I don’t mind the Laura Ashley print, or even the wreathes in their hair, but the dresses look like flour sacks! I don’t think you could have made them uglier or less flattering.
^^^ Yeah, even Maria Shriver can’t pull it off.
Post #41 cracks me up. College confidential could become the new match.com.
@peacefulmom you don’t know the half of it!
katliamom, he started as a science major and he is an Eagle and plays a sport at the club level. Is 23 too young?
@mathmom, in Caroline’s defense, it was the 80s. A most unfortunate decade, sartorially. Most of us were wearing what today looks like grandma’s living room curtains.
Hey, I got married in 1984. I went to at least two weddings with Laura Ashley bridesmaids. It’s not the fabric, it’s the cut of the dress.
My one and only maid of honor wore a yellow tea length dress. I told her to wear something she liked. It looked good on her. If I’d been choosing I’d probably have done the Laura Ashley thing too!
Just think - we could combine descriptions of our kids, match,com, and “chance me - I’ll chance back”!
I was a bridesmaid in the 80s. The mother of one friend was determined that we should wear Laura Ashley. Now, I actually liked SOME Laura Ashley clothes, but these made us look like washerwomen. Luckily the bride didn’t let her mother determine what we wore. We eventually wore wheat-colored linen Calvin Klein skirts and white linen lace-trimmed blouses. (The bride was wearing an off-white tiered short lace dress.) The mother insisted on the Laura Ashley for her other D, who was the matron of honor, and prevailed because she was buying it. The MOH looked like a washerwoman. 
@mathmom, my two attendants wore a tea-length yellow linen drop waisted dress that they both liked and wore again many times. I think it was Eileen Fisher.
Does anyone else remember LongPrime, who was always trying to marry off his son? B-) I think we should arrange centrally located CC mixers.
@Youdon’tsay – sorry, but I don’t want to be accused of acting as if my daughter were a cougar! (OMG, would our kids be appalled if they saw this thread.)
^^can I join in? I have a wonderful 24 yo son who is looking for a girl that wants to have meaningful conversation! Its an inside joke in our family that the only way he’s going to get married is if I sign him up on match.com. he’s very frugal, sensitive and thoughtful… 
Well, katliamom is playing hardball with her non-cougar so we’ll have to look elsewhere Chuckle Doodle.
Drats!
Yest that’s the dress, though my sil made it herself. 
Married in the 1980s too. Are you telling me that my girls didn’t have any use for mauve taffeta in that kind of moire wallpaper look with v shaped backs and a large bow cascading down from above the butt all the way to the floor? Shocker, I tell you. Well at least I’m sure they got plenty of wear out of the matching mauve lace pumps. Ha ha.
I much prefer today’s bridesmaid styles where some of the dresses can be worn again!!
I wore Laura Ashley jumpers as maternity wear. I always associate them with that! How about Gunne Sax and Jessica McClintock?
I was married in 1980. I word - quiana. Pretty sure that’s spelled wrong but you can probably hear the disco music.
I went to a wedding during that era where the dance floor lit up wherever you stepped on it a la Saturday Night Fever or the Billie Jean video!