<p>I remember quiana…they made disco shirts out of it. I actually made my first wedding dress…I think it was a Gunne Sax pattern with long sheer sleeves and a lace collar…here I had this skinny young body and I looked like Little House on the Prairie.</p>
<p>Got married 29+ years ago in a quiana dress.</p>
<p>H & I did almost all our own planning/arranging, etc. One thing that was completely out of our hands, however, was the invitation. Since my family was in the paper business, there was NEVER any question about the type of paper, or that the invitations would be engraved. Does anyone even do engraved invitations anymore?</p>
<p>I still have the copper plates from our wedding invitations.
We planned all of ours as well - well, I was 30+ and my parents were long gone. MIL was chomping at the bit to get in on the action but that didn’t happen. She did plan the rehearsal dinner - at the University Club on 5th Ave. It was lovely - and quite opposite from our downtown wedding. (Thanks for indulging me with my walk down memory lane - but it IS our anniversary this weekend!)</p>
<p>Ours too, Woody! May 2nd. 29 years, and I still find that hard to say. </p>
<p>I was talking with a friend about “middle age” and musing about how long it lasts – her theory – ten years older than however old you are now. </p>
<p>I think she’s right.</p>
<p>May 2nd - 23 years!!</p>
<p>I had a very traditional wedding. the best thing was the setting, as we got married in the church at my H’s undergrad school, and his friend married us(priest) the reception was very typical and i would change that now, no garter, yada yada, but I was young and my parents lived in florida so we did on our own. They paid for the reception we paid for everything else. If I had been older I would have done things with more originality. i tell my kids with private HS and college they will get married in the backyard , but to tell you the truth those have been some of the lovliest weddings I have been to! 26 years in June. no video which I kick myself for to this day, my H didnt want one (not sentimental) in those days it was a big light and he hated it. now i would never do that but iwas in LUV!!!LOL</p>
<p>My wedding dress story. I found the dress at the annual wedding dress sale at Filene’s Basement. People used to line up hours ahead of time, and it was a mob scene of young women, female friends, and mothers all grabbing up dresses and hoarding them while the brides-to-be tried them on. I went on a whim, arriving shortly after the sale started, and walked around looking at the discards, some of which were pretty unappealing. Then I found a beautiful silk taffetta dress with a dirt stain across the very bottom of the train - as if a cleaning person had spilled a mop bucket on it - though fortunately the stain was confined to the hem area. Anyway, the dress fit perfectly, I bought it for <$200 (it still had a Neiman Marcus tag on it - for considerably more), and a friend of my mother’s trimmed the train so you’d never have known about the dirt. Months later I found a picture in Martha Stewart’s Wedding Book of a bride wearing the exact same dress at a fancy suburban wedding - something I’m still scratching my head about. Is this a nice coincidence or does it make me a Martha Stewart groupie?</p>
<p>Please cross your fingers and toes or say a prayer or light a candle or whatever. Son’s Big Paper is due tomorrow. He’s working fiendishly on it. I tried to provide milestones to prevent a last minute rush but it happened anyway. Hope he has something decent to turn in by tomorrow!</p>
<p>Best wishes to your son, missypie, as he works toward successfully completing his big paper!!</p>
<p>Sending HUGE GOOD KARMA to Texas. GO MISSYSON GO!</p>
<p>Best wishes to missyson!</p>
<p>Ah, wedding memories - I was a quiana bridesmaid. The dress was peach and had a chiffon floral cape. Ugh. How could my sister do that to me?</p>
<p>My wedding was almost 32 years ago and my dress came off the sale rack at Neiman Marcus. Off-white georgette with lacey yoke and sheer sleeves. $80.</p>
<p>DH wore a 3 piece brown wool suit, which we apparently thought was quite dashing in 1978 and less formal than a tux. Eggson recently made off with that jacket. He thought it was a great retro find in the back of dad’s closet.</p>
<p>All best to missyson!</p>
<p>My dress was out of a Gunne Sax outlet, about $30 … We were married in a small church on a Saturday morning, and had a brunch in my parents’ front yard. Our D’s reception will be an evening buffet in my parents’ front yard!</p>
<p>Thinking good thoughts for missyson!</p>
<p>Zetesis - how wonderful that D’s reception will be in the same place as yours! </p>
<p>No great wedding dress story (I wore my mom’s) but I’m not sure any of the bridesmaids have forgiven me yet for the mint green floral dresses I chose. With pale pink pumps. I look at the pictures and wonder what I was thinking.</p>
<p>On June 20 it will be 23 years for us too.</p>
<p>Go Missyson (who is probably still working on the paper even though it’s the middle of the night there).</p>
<p>Sending some last minute good thoughts to missyson.</p>
<p>I was a “quiana bridesmaid” multiple times.</p>
<p>Also wore those dresses to sorority/fraternity formals. Saved my favorite dress - the black quiana halter dress with the little silver stripes (matching bolero jacket included!). Bought it to wear to the Sigma Chi fall formal and it was borrowed so many times I lost count. Im sure it has some good stories to tell. I was hoping that D would have some 70’s Disco Day at school so she could wear it, but that never happened.</p>
<p>Sister of the Traveling Black Qiana Halter Dress. Now that has a ring to it, eh?</p>
<p>Go MissypieS, go!</p>
<p>Good thoughts and wishes to MissypieS</p>
<p>My DH wore Quiana shirts when I first met him. That changed pretty quickly. 
He remains grateful to this day.</p>
<p>Son posted on Facebook at about 1:30 this morning…so he was up then but I don’t have an update.</p>