tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post115102524539368024..comments2023-07-03T21:44:22.373+10:00Comments on Hoyden-About-Town: America needs its celebrities to do the RIGHT thingtigtoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1151587288902189012006-06-29T23:21:00.000+10:002006-06-29T23:21:00.000+10:00unfortunately the problem is that we like our rela...unfortunately the problem is that we like our relatives, and we want them to come... it's a good problem to have in a world full of feuding families and broken marriages, I'm a very lucky girl.<BR/><BR/>and all this reminds me that I have to cry poor and turn down a wedding invitation in Perth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1151396554498716782006-06-27T18:22:00.000+10:002006-06-27T18:22:00.000+10:00Someone I know did elope simply to avoid the whole...Someone I know did elope simply to avoid the whole expected big wedding thing that neither of them wanted. They were perfectly happy for both sets of parents to throw a welcome-back party afterwards on a less lavish scale, and a large portion of the ranks of rels that would have been offended at not getting a wedding invite refused to come to the "lesser" party (and were exactly the ones they tigtoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1151394812239615982006-06-27T17:53:00.000+10:002006-06-27T17:53:00.000+10:00Cheers, I'm quite happy to have a 'proper' wedding...Cheers, I'm quite happy to have a 'proper' wedding at some stage, and there are still legal reasons for being married rather than shacking up (which is why I'm so vehemently supporting same sex marriage). I just don't particuarly want to right now, and I don't think being pregnant is a reason to rush into it.<BR/><BR/>We're not really into handfasting & naming ceremonies, being lapsed Catholics Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1151308216226302632006-06-26T17:50:00.000+10:002006-06-26T17:50:00.000+10:00Oh, and congratulations on the upcoming baby! You ...Oh, and congratulations on the upcoming baby! You could always have some sort of handfasting combined with a naming day party if you wanted to ritual community blessing effect without the big wedding plan hassles.tigtoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1151308042474338342006-06-26T17:47:00.000+10:002006-06-26T17:47:00.000+10:00Whatever makes you happiest, because it's nobody e...Whatever makes you happiest, because it's nobody else's business, just as the the Pitt-Jolie relationship choices should be nobody else's business.<BR/><BR/>I've got nothing particularly against marriage - I'm married, because it was important to my husband and not such a big deal to me that I refused to do it. We ended up having a very nice simple party for 80 guests in a community hall after atigtoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1151298173711400062006-06-26T15:02:00.000+10:002006-06-26T15:02:00.000+10:00yeah, it's coz of Angelina & Brad that Himself and...yeah, it's coz of Angelina & Brad that Himself and I aren't getting hitched. even though we're having a baby. it's got nothing at all to do with our lives/relationship/money/effort involved in having a wedding with 700 relatives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com