Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 14, 2015

Excellent team work, Brad & Toni. That’s how [future] husbands and wives cooperate.

And the next ’toon is TJ offering his venue and catering, and the tired Toni and Brad agree. Sigh…

These are not real people.

Extreme Wed(nesday)? Does that mean that you have to climb a really big hill to get to the end of the week? Or is that making a mountain out of a molehill? – Just as long as they’re not wed in a volcano ….. – Imagine getting married in Pamplona, in front of the bulls…. Talk about a “runaway bride”!

“I Think I’m Falling For You”“Extreme Caution”“Venue Decide, Be Sure To Let Me Know”“Not Quite Right”“Adrenaline, Endorphin, Endocrine, Exocrine…”“Getting Married In A Haystack Full Of Needles”“Ultimate Wedding Federation”“Jack Splat.. In 20 Seconds, Flat”“I Do! Well, I Do It More!”“Getting Cold Feet…And Hands… And Frostbite…”“Fear Factor: Wedding Edition”“Next Of Kinevel”or“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough…Ain’t No Valley Low Enough…” (♫)

(“Look…”:) Very appropriate!!!

LOL!!!!

Perhaps at this time, TJ may now open his mouth and “slightly” suggest something about that warehouse purchase (if he even made it)….or it may somehow come up in conversation with ‘bright light bulbs" joyously popping up over everyone’s heads….

Come to California for a winery destination wedding!

Has getting married been reduced to the level of Fantasy Island, kind of an adult novelty store purchase, a “theme” ritual? Might as well just elope, then come back and throw a party so everyone can come and the girls can buy new, sexy dresses.

Just stand in front of a judge and do the thing… then if you wish, throw a large themed based reception party with all of your friends and kin… The ceremony isn’t the most important thing… It’s the life lived together afterwards that counts.

LOL!! Brad would probably just pass out. That’s about what Gunther did, when he was drunk on the Senior-itas bus in Peru…

2 guys went to a Bungee jump place, and unfortunately they got a very obnoxious and notoriously macho show-off scaffolder, built like a brick outhouse and a real action man. No challenge was too much for him: windsurfing, free-fall parachuting, mountain surfing – he’d even done the Cresta Run on a hot water bottle.

The bungee ropes were suspended from an immense crane over the local docks. A lift took them up the tower to the gantry and, as luck would have it, one of the 2 friends got paired off with Mr Macho and his bragging motormouth. His ludicrous chat about how he’d seen it all before irked the instructor and the friend alike. At the top, the gloater stepped out on to the crane arm, smirking and leering at his friends below. Then the instructor shouted, “Go!” and the loudmouth leapt forward. But the instructor made as if to grab him , yelling: “Not you – I haven’t tied you on properly yet!” Of course, this wasn’t at all true; just the callous instructor’s bowel-loosening joke to bring the braggart back down to earth.

B&T. Seriously, Church. Preacher. Tux. White dress. It works.

That will make it turn into a “roast”…

I kind of liked the world better when everything wasn’t described as a ‘venue’…

I still don’t see why theme weddings are popular: Isn’t the fact that two people found each other enough of a reason to celebrate by itself? It’s up to the couple, it is their day, but to me a “theme” is a distraction.

Elope. Seriously, just elope. You’ll ne’er regret the money saved.

Which one of this week’s gags was funny?None. That’s my little joke! You’re welcome.

Thank heavens. Just go to the courthouse…Just as tight, just as nice and a lot cheaper!

https://www.yahoo.com/style/everything-you-need-to-know-about-weddings-in-2015-113538597433.html

“None?” Good!

Living together IS Cheaper.

Especially for BRAD.

I already called it Thursday! It will either be a court wedding or backyard….

Over hot coals!

Lol, wonder what Garfield would do, if: Odie were sitting too close to the edge of the table, Nermal somehow ended up in a box ready to go to Abu Dhabi (just needed a stamp) and 2 trays of Lasagna were “calling out to him” in the kitchen… all of this on a Monday, while he was still in his bed?

Now all our society needs is some entrepreneur to come up with a fantasy/dream/themed Divorce party for when the happily married couple decide that it isn’t going to work out like Disney… -“Happily Ever After is only for stories that haven’t finished yet.” <from Mr. & Mrs. Smith>

E L O P E.

They can have a ceremony at the auto races!

Tough luck, Brad. Looks like the gods of Luanniverse have banished you to wedding limbo. It’s become a running joke that could go on for years.

What’s wrong with putting your heads together and creating your own wedding? When my wife and I got married, I was working for a hockey team so I suggested, “Why not get married at center ice before a game?” She actually went for it, so we went ahead and planned it ourselves: Red carpet to center ice, players forming an arch with their sticks on either side, a lap around the ice on the back of the Zamboni after the “I do’s” were done…the whole kahuna. The league president was one of the 1,000 people in the stands, the local paper ran a BIG picture of us walking back through the arch that the AP picked up and the whole thing cost about $1,000 (reception included).The team folded two years later but we’re still together after 23 years.

Wanna bet that next week Mom and Dad will offer to let them use their backyard and TJ will cater it? Greg is really telegraphing his next move here. I think they would be better off going with the bungee jump wedding instead.

I vote for “wedding planner and online ordained minister” TJ taking charge. Of course, the wedding will be in Brad’s backyard (Stone Soup is heading down the same path – when was the last time a comic strip wedding took place in a church?), and obviously Brad’s parents will have to pay for pretty much everything

Hey, all…Some have said that Brad and Toni don’t have much money, and Brad’s parents would have to pay for most or all of the wedding…They both are firefighters, gainfully employed. Why would they not have the ability to set some money aside for their wedding? Am I missing some plot point that would explain why at least a few folks on here have said that? Just curious… Thanks for filling in that blank for me.

Haven’t read all the comments, how about the fire station

Firehouse wedding interrupted by a fire

Happy Pi Day!

Very kind of you! – I didn’t even think about the “All The King’s Horses” angle (a la Humpty Dumpty)…

Told ja – at the fire house!

would you expect logic in married with children or in 2 and a half men?, if we had complete logic…………… Quill would have been able to make Luann confident and sure of herself, =as she actually listened to him; instead of being jealous of Tiff, and Gunther would have been able to convince Rosa that she would help more the village with education at college and being part of a big organization that helps villages instead of all by herself

@wl. Let me reassure you that everyone here knows that these are not real people. Cartoons are a form of storytelling.

Every culture in the world tells stories. The point of a story is to suspend disbelief in it, so as to identify with the characters, so that their experiences become yours. This offers something called “vicarious experience” where, to your mind, it’s as if something happened to you, minus actual repercussions. The result is that you can boost the rate at which you mature and grow, without actual risk.In this particular story-arc of Brad and Toni, it gives the mind practice with the idea, “I can say no to other people’s plans and go my own way.” We all know this on a conscious level, but reading and laughing about Brad and Toni’s adventures—as story characters that we experience—gives us practice with the idea to help make it a habit—without going through the actual exhaustion of checking out many wedding venues.

KISS principle, my friends. Skip the professional (read: give me lots of your money!) “wedding planners” and just do it as simply as suits you! Church or justice of the peace, elope or have close friends and family at a small ceremony; but just do it!

A Church or the back yard.

Hm, could be. I wast thinking, wedding at the firehouse — but I guess the memories there aren’t all good.

All this Pi Day stuff has me running in circles. Check back in another 100 years.

I’ll drink to that.

Calling it: they elope on Tuesday.

I’m going to have to disagree, here. I think there’s much more mileage that can be had from this arc. I don’t think the wedding will be tied to the 30yr anniversary. We already know from Greg to “expect some drama and trauma” in re: the wedding. A bit difficult if they elope. And not enough time to set it up (2 weekday strips). I can see them doing the wedding, perhaps in early April, on the anniversary of the proposal/acceptance. But, more likely, I’m thinking some time this summer (June bride and all that)…

either next week is Lue and Q, or Brad and Toni will be telling his family that they have date and place of their vows, the thing is certain is that Tuesday has to be with at least one Degroot if not all 4 of them

They won’t elope. Greg has a lot of time and panels to fill, and TJ has to be allowed to screw everything up.

It doesn’t sound like the venue shopping went “great” if they didn’t find a place.

It’s too close to April 1 – the anniversary of both their engagement and Brad’s proposal the year prior. You COULD be right, but considering the timing I’m thinking small, quickie wedding in the DeGroot’s yard, with TJ officiating via his Universal Life Church “ordainment” (he’s gotta get out of paying taxes somehow), on April 1.

I found the Garfield one funny and believable, as Garfield was having a “sleepwalking nightmare” and as I said, we can’t think of Luann as “Cosby show” or “married with children” but more toward “2 and a half men” kind of serious but here and there things we would not expect in real life to happen

You sure did mention the car theme, the junk yard… A race track would be good! That is an elegant location you provided the pic of.

Wow… Gene, Gene, the Dancing Machine…Yes, R.I.P.

Sorry about that. I can go on long enough as it is without repeating myself. Will make mental note to stop at twice on this one.

And thanks. I don’t know how she did it.