Comments on Souris Mariage: Mouse's Adventures as Bride, Newlywed, and Best Woman: After reading Anna and The Ring's thoughts on bea...

it's about the joy and love coming from the in...

2010-03-10T22:12:12.121-06:00

it's about the joy and love coming from the inside. there's too many stories about brides thinking that the details will make everything beautiful and have a terrible day worrying about it instead of recognizing what weddings are actually about.

i chose a color palette for my ladies and said you're all lovely and i trust your style/i am not obssessing over this detail. i chose them because i love them, not so i could have a row of colored dresses next to me in pictures. and one of my girls flat out told me "you had better not go on a diet because you are perfect exactly as you are now". we need to spread more of that around.

I told my maids to wear whatever hair, shoes, jewe...

2010-03-10T19:47:30.237-06:00

I told my maids to wear whatever hair, shoes, jewerly, etc, that they wanted so that they would feel beautiful and authentic and half of them sent me emails begging that I pick out their shoes and hair styles. Sigh.

Anyway, I am sure whatever you get them will be fine. I think I spent too much time reading WeddingBee posts about BM gifts and freaked out. No sweat. Cant read that anymore.

I have a bridesmaid who has serious body image iss...

2010-03-10T16:49:22.902-06:00

I have a bridesmaid who has serious body image issues, and she has also gained weight since we graduated from college (I'm not being derisive or mean here, it's a fact). I think she's beautiful, but she isn't happy with herself and I feel terrible because I know my wedding is stressing her out about her weight. I don't want her to go on a crash diet, and I don't want her to look at pictures from the wedding and hate the way she looks (because no matter how gorgeous the dress is, if you weigh 40lbs more than you want to, you're going to feel negatively about it.)
Nothing I can say or do will stop her from feeling 1) like the heaviest girl in the wedding party or 2) like that matters and 3) like that reflects poorly on her character.

Awesome! After watching a disguisting episode on ...

2010-03-10T15:57:25.364-06:00

Awesome!

After watching a disguisting episode on TLC about beauty pageants, I'm so glad to see that there is some sanity left in the world.

I am going to tell my girls to wear something hot ...

2010-03-10T11:15:45.099-06:00

I am going to tell my girls to wear something hot and black. The only reason I'd be upset if they change who they are for my wedding. I'm picking them because they are beautiful to me inside and out and if they do anything to f*ck with that, I'll be a sad girl.

I love this! You are so right, it's all about ...

2010-03-10T11:09:41.553-06:00

I love this! You are so right, it's all about authentic happiness - the rest is just glamour.

I wish I had something eloquent to say. So instea...

2010-03-10T10:52:27.629-06:00

I wish I had something eloquent to say.

So instead, "have some of my boobs?"

yes yes yes! i love that everyone is writing such ...

2010-03-10T10:49:01.584-06:00

yes yes yes! i love that everyone is writing such amazing posts today! thank you for this

You are truly lucky to have such obviously magnifi...

2010-03-10T10:22:17.675-06:00

You are truly lucky to have such obviously magnificent women in your life.

(And I see we were on the same page this morning. Good. We all need more posts like this make me smile and cheer.)

Agreed. I've told my bridesmaids basically exa...

2010-03-10T08:24:17.622-06:00

Agreed. I've told my bridesmaids basically exactly what your note said there and they all laughed and told me not to worry. And you are totally right, when I see wedding pictures I do not see the size of someones waist, I see the smiles on their faces.

Yeah. In a big way.

2010-03-10T07:55:07.032-06:00

Yeah. In a big way.