<p>Re: Peru Piles, I’m too afraid to check. The best I can hope for is that D has sunscreen, bug spray, malaria pills, underwear, moleskin and bandaids. H is on his own.</p>
<p>Wow, this should be interesting. 
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<p>I do believe we should get an actual offer first, but what the heck…sew away!
I just watched Pride and Prejudice for some tips on proper manners. No hogs in the yard here but I could buy some chickens and let them loose out back. We’ll have to keep the alligators in the lake off them, but if we lose a few, we’ll buy more.</p>
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<p>Agreed! LOL! 
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<p>Welcome WashMom!</p>
<p>Alumother, I looked liked Katherine Hepburn in my wedding dress. Or at least I felt like it. It was ivory silk, long sleeved (surprisingly bearable in August in Pasadena when you are sure you look like Katherine Hepburn!), a bit of beading on a front panel, lots of teeny tiny silk covered buttons down the back. I found it at an antique shop.</p>
<p>momof3sons, she was in my suburb. :)</p>
<p>Mathdad, (boy that sounds weird), defended his PhD thesis a week before we got married. He mostly said “yes dear” to the wedding plans. (To be fair though, he reserved the Caltech garden where we got married, and went with me to the Atheneum to approve the food.)</p>
<p>momofthree and mathmom–
Still here!! (til tomorrow midday). Coffee??!!??</p>
<p>Hard to say if I looked more like a “Tootsie” era Hoffman or a “Some Like It Hot” era Tony Curtis in my wedding dress. </p>
<p>Deffo not a “Hairspray” John Travolta…</p>
<p>But how did you look in your honeymoon trousseau? :p</p>
<p>Hey, I don’t kiss and tell…</p>
<p>How can we plan a danged wedding from page 2 ??!!??</p>
<p>Let’s see:
*Marmot choir - repertoire to be approved by astromom
*Hand-made dress - workroom=Sinners Alley naugahyde booth (somebody sweep up the peanut shells! oh, never mind, we’ll just make it a deep enough shade of ecru that the shells will blend in)
*Band leader = musicmom; she oughta have fun keeping all those SA sons from space under control
*Menu - do we have a menu??!?
*Spitting three times to ward off Evil Eye - sluggbugg (only 3 times, sluggie!:p)
*Manners - Jane Austen will handle</p>
<p>Uh oh. We need <em>manners</em> to come to this thing?</p>
<p>Darn.</p>
<p>Snacks. Unsophisticated hors d’oeuvres (with a nod to mollieb) i.e. Cheezits, sugar-coated peanuts, celery stalks with peanut butter, Fritos, Jelly Bellys - personalized to fit the wedding colors.</p>
<p>Which are of course red, purple and burnt orange to match the desk and the cars…</p>
<p>For the main course, hmmm, high school cafeteria buffet? No. Too awful. The Alley has secretly good food. I think Alice Waters to cater, no?</p>
<p>Manners. Hmmm. Only spit three times. Burp only when lying on the floor?</p>
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Well, p2n brought it up. And he is the FOB.</p>
<p>We’ll need one hot hors d’oeuvre to pass on trays. I’m thinking Pigs in Blanket. In accord with our college confidential roots, I’m thinking red cafeteria trays for passing.</p>
<p>jmmom, haha cross post!</p>
<p>Cross post <em>and</em> Alumother’s split personality shows up. OTonehand, cheezits and pb. OTOH, Alice Waters.</p>
<p>Of course, I <em>am</em> fewer than 6 degrees of separation from Alice: back in the day, jmmom is COO of small Berkeley consulting firm >>>jmfriend is CFO>>>jmfriend’s D goes to K-12 private school with and is bff of >>>Fanny>>>Alice’s D. </p>
<p>How many degrees is that? Anyway, since we are <em>this close</em>, no doubt she’ll take the gig. Just give me a date and I’ll call her.</p>
<p>My BIL worked at CP in Berkeley in the early days, early 70s. </p>
<p>Of course I lived in the same building in Manhattan as Kevin Bacon which makes me Queen of 6 degrees.</p>
<p>I’m just trying to think what I could add to the wedding planning…</p>
<p>You could bring Kevin ;).</p>
<p>I can help with the sewing of p2nolesD’s dress…it would be a welcome change from sewing for my daughter, whose color of choice is black with occasional accents of grey. She’s the least Goth-like person I know but hates to deal with clothing choices (if I can get her to a store once a year, it’s a major victory), so her wardrobe is filled with basic black. And I did hand sew sequins and bugle beads on her prom dress (we found a “bargain” that “just” needed to be re-sequined/beaded). I seem to recall that it wasn’t one of my favorite projects, but the proven advantage to my senior moments is that I don’t really remember if it was awful or just boring.</p>
<p>mathmom,
Then I know your suburb! It’s about 20-25 minutes from “my” suburb. ;)</p>
<p>jym626,
I didn’t check this thread in a timely manner, and now I don’t know if I missed you! 
Which day is “tomorrow?”</p>