For anyone lusting after a painted Kitchen Aid mixer–google KitchenAid decals. Cheap alternative! Got some really pretty ones on Etsy.
Love my white KitchenAid. Seven years after my long term boyfriend/fiance died, I finally married. My late bf’s parents gave me that mixer with sincere wishes that I have a long, happy marriage with DH. It still works 27 years later, and I use it a fair amount, maybe once every week or two.
This is getting to be like a parody of a threadjack, just sayin’. 
Can’t be worse than the “egg” thingie.
Back to our regularly scheduled program…tacky wedding stuff!
Anybody have opinions on “portable restrooms” (port a lets but fancier) for weddings?
To bring it around to tacky wedding behavior, anyone else remember @zoosermom’s intention to give her niece a mixer with her recipe for special mashed potatoes, and how her sister (I think) knowingly hijacked the gift by giving the mixer herself?
I would not want to us a ‘portable restroom’ of any kind when dressed for a wedding. Depending on which dress I wear, I might be wearing Spanx. I can’t imagine!
I think for a wedding you’d have to kick it up a level and get something like this instead of the ubiquitous blue porta-potty.
http://www.servicesanitation.com/trailers/restroom/regal/2-stall
@doschicos I have been to outdoor events that use those fancy rental bathrooms. One looked just like a hotel bathroom! So if I was at a wedding in a location that needed ports potties I nwould definitely rent these!
S1 and his fiancee are planning a rustic barny-type wedding and may need to rent those. I’ve heard they can be really nice.
Yeah, there are super fancy ones that are basically RVs with full plumbing and fancy fixtures.
So far, ALL the weddings I’ve attended have been at hotels, restaurants or the aquarium and had nice, standard restrooms. I would be unhappy to deal with a standard portapotty when at a fancy event, tho wouldn’t be wearing spanx–don’t own it and not buying it.
We were invited to a barn wedding this summer. As soon as I saw porta potty on the invitation I sent our regrets.
How did they word the invitation to include mention of porta-potties? Mentioning toilets of any sort on the face of a wedding invitation seems pretty tacky to me!
I was at a barn wedding 2 years ago where they had those trailer restrooms. Very relieved when I saw what it was like inside, since I wouldn’t have been happy to use a porta-potty.
I went to a wedding in a beautiful historic mansion and the bathrooms were two tiny one person rooms wedged under the stairs. They were very uncomfortable. The bride had a private suite with a glorious bathroom upstairs and I don’t think she knew or cared about how everyone else had to cope.
Looking around at venues with my daughter, I always look at the bathrooms. I would prefer a fancy port a potty as long as it was roomy and clean and had a proper sink and mirror. Of course, real bathrooms that are roomy are even better.
I watched some reality show where the bride decorated the bathrooms. It sounded over the top, but it looked so cool.
If you only did one fresh flower vase it would still be lovely.
Well the wedding was in a state known for having mosquitoes the size of hummingbirds.
Would they spray? Would they have the fancy restrooms, or any place to wash your hands?
Too many reasons not to attend.
The high end portable restrooms are nice, really, really nice, as in rented by movie stars nice…while I wouldn’t have imagined listing port a potty info on an invitation, if it were in a barn setting, I would find this information useful as a potential guest.
I was going to say that if you had a running themed wedding, porta-potties would fit right in. Then proceed to joke about how you could have finishers medals as wedding favors, your buffet could feature bagels, bananas, Clif Bars, etc. And just think how comfortably everyone could dress! Then I Googled it and discovered that of course, many people have had variations of this for their weddings. As a runner I’d love it, not sure how other would feel though.
If I were throwing a party in a barn or other place where I would need to rent bathrooms, I would not in a million years think that I needed to “inform” people of the planned bathroom facilities.