Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 17, 2015

a diamond in a dung hill

Congratulations Greg!

Gee, what happened to getting married in a church?

“A Clean Start”“Letting Off Theme”“Let’s Make Ideal”“A Wash..And Details”“A Gimmick Is No Gimme”“Don’t Tread On Tradition”“A Princess Not Above Your Station”“High And Mighty….And Industrious”or“Grey Poupon And Circumstance” – “Luanniversary”

Congrats on the first 30! You’ve only just begun…

Why don’t they get married in the firehouse, in their best uniforms, tying the hoses so to speak.

30 years of Luann? Where’s Luann?

No of course not toni your a princess ….a muddy dirty princess also illusions of dissillusions

also HAPPY 30th anniversary

sometimes a “church wedding” is not that easy if the 2 people are of different denominations, even when they are “kind of similar” (Lutheran and Catholic …….. Anglican and protestant )

Brad stepped in that one.

He’ll have to whip out a smooth operator line now. "No, you’re something better. You’re Toni. ";)

Umm…a church? Las Vegas?

Toni may not be a princess but she does make dirt look nice!!

Congrats Greg! been reading since the beginning.

Maybe we should put attention to what Knute says http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2005/04/25

@exoticsoc2I don’t think Brad or Toni are religious (or at least not traditional Christian), otherwise surely one of them would have suggested a church. Some people who don’t believe that actually don’t want religious ties — why start a marriage with disingenuous superficiality?If one doesn’t believe, will the marriage be more “real” to God if you get married in a church? Why fake it?Not to say that getting married in a church has to be a religious thing. I just don’t understand people who, while they may understand that not everybody believes the same thing, will become flabbergasted that not everybody wants to pay lip service to those same beliefs.If you think the marriage is doomed because it wasn’t a religious ceremony, would faking it save the marriage??

“@exoticdoc2Except, of course, people were getting married before your god came along.”

I don’t know about exoticdoc2, but MY God existed before the world began. He created the first husband and wife long before there was a government around to make marriage a “legally binding contract.” A man was as good as his word, and if he violated his verbal commitment to his wife, he’d have to answer to God directly.

Now, back to the comics… Now would be the perfect time for Brad to suggest that they get married in a REAL castle, so Toni can feel like a real princess.

AAH… Toni is the best female in this family! She IS a queen!! Brad is lucky. She shows none of the shameful personality traits most of the others do.

I don’t care one way or the other but if it was me the last place I’d want to get married would be where I worked. Happy 30th Luann & fans!

My wife is quite the gardener so we decided to get married in our garden surrounded by our friends and it was very lovely.

Happy 30th, Greg!

Per Mark Twain:On Eve’s markerWHERE SHE WAS, THERE WAS EDEN

“TRICK Question! Its a TRAP!!!” – Admiral Ackbar

Need I say the obvious – what about a firehouse wedding? (With a 3-alarm blaze call right in the middle of the vows?)

most people end up divorced, regardless of where they got married.

She’s the best kind.

Wedding photographers will tell you church weddings are getting to be fewer and fewer. Along with declining church attendance by the young are all the wedding rules imposed by a church. I saw one church almost split because the bride wanted to play one lovely soft country love song. Besides I hate to say but the church is only a venue for the event, the state is what authorizes the wedding (and the divorce). Last lines are always By the power invested in me by the state of …

How many can see the wedding at the firehouse?

I don’t see why, if they don’t get married ina church, that they don’t get married in the fire station by the fire department’s chaplain. An eminently logical solution to the problem, IMHO.

Greg – I hope the reason that Toni and Brad have not explored the obvious possibility of having a church wedding is an attempt at political correctness. For years the Degroots have celebrated Christmas. Their religion is well established.

Rats – No Green St Pat’s Elopement!*Will somebody please tell Levi, MikeyJ, and the rest of the old crew to click on the contest bonus qusetions on the right— so those pros too have a chance at the valuable prize!

Get married at a church and be done with it.

Yes, Toni, you ARE a modern-day “princess”.*Gone are those delicate, entitled, pampered, helpless princesses of fairy tales.*Modern-day princesses shoot bows & arrows, lift weights, and clean fire trucks!

So Karen is coming on-line Friday. (I’m supposed to be working at 1:30) so will someone else ask her about those 17 reptiles?

uhhh yeah a church???

It’s so obvious! They should get married at Firehouse. Isn’t that where it all began?

I am shocked at this whole story arc. Why not try the church?

Duh…

Toni is Cinderella!

An old fashion bread and breakfast inn would be ideal for a Cinderella princess. I know the perfect place. It is called Union Hill. www.unionhillinn.com

A princess in the rough is still a princess, for sure. A wedding in a church still works, too, for sure….

As I said 8 hours ago, “Seems most folks are afraid to mention church.” You’ve seen the result: anti-church and anti-God snipers all over the board. This isn’t Iraq, so go freely to whatever church you prefer, no one here is going to chop your head off. And, if you don’t believe, fine. No one is going to chop your head off, either. Okay, get on with the nuptials.

Greg, congrats on 30 years and thanks for having Brad say he didn’t want his wedding to be a his parents’ house! Yay!!!!

Many fire services have a chaplain or two. I envision a wedding conducted by the chaplain, with the reception at the station. Later, just as Toni tosses the bouquet, an alarm rings out leaving everyone to watch as the newlyweds leave on a fire engine.

A real wedding? Maybe a cute little church?

Will they think of having a fire house wedding or will a co-worker have to suggest it.

The little RC firetruck can be brought out of retirement as a ring bearer.

Of course a call will come in during the wedding.

If they had the wedding in a church, since this is a comic strip, jokes would happen. Then somebody would take offense, claiming that Greg was making fun of Christianity. Then he’d get boycotted. Christianity gets left out of a lot of things not because of any conspiracy against us, but because we’re so dadburned touchy nobody knows what will set us off next.

Not good, Brad. Think fast and well!

If I remember correctly, TJ’s food truck blew up because of something he left burning on his stove. It wasn’t anything mechanical in the truck itself.

I’m a fairly recent fan of this strip (two years.) Thanks to gocomics I’ve read and enjoyed the whole thirty years.

Congratulations on your first thirty years! I hope to be with you for the next thirty years or more.

One venue I’ve not seen mentioned is a chapel. Any jokes made shouldn’t offend as chapels aren’t affiliated with any denomination in particular. This could work well since I don’t recall any mention of the Degroot family or Toni going to church, though they do celebrate Christmas.

They could even use the awesome idea (mentioned above) of the remote control fire truck as the ring bearer without objection. The reception could then be at the firehouse hall (which are sometimes rented out for such events.)

All in all I look forward to seeing how this plays out.

A lot of food trucks use propane gas to cook their food, since they have to have a portable source of energy. There have been several cases of propane explosions with food trucks, unfortunately.

has the Luann competition closed yet?

Tread carefully Brad.

I tend to think that a “church” wedding would be a BAD idea for Brad and Toni. Unless there is some indication to the contrary that I do not know about, neither of those two has expressed much if any interest in a faith of any sort. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Church/Synagog/Temple weddings should be for folks who believe in the FAITH of the respective place. They SHOULD NOT simply be a VENUE that looks interesting for photographs. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++An earlier comment talked about how one church refused to let some bride play a country western pop song at her wedding ceremony and this caused an uproar. To me, the very idea of getting into an uproar about rules that a church has for its faith tenets for a wedding is completely ludicrous. You follow the rules of your faith if you want to be married in your faith’s house of worship. Pure and simple. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++A “church wedding” is not all about YOU (the bride and groom)… a “church wedding” is about sharing of faith in the religious act of matrimony ACROSS A COMMUNITY of believers of that faith. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++If the wedding is to be all about YOU (the bride and groom), go for one of the crazy theatrical packages where you each can be a “star” and each make a spectacle of yourselves… be it with some country western twangy songs, foot-stomping hoe-down music, “Stairway to Heaven”, or whatever you wish.

Dave, you are correct about the likely possibility that Greg has not stressed their participation in religious activities. And you are right that Brad and Toni could have some sort of specific, well developed faith of one sort or another. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++I think, however, that since this has NOT been a facet that has been talked about for either character, that it would be safer to still have the two of them have a “NON-church wedding”. To have a sudden appearance of a faith-based church/synagog/temple of any sort for those two could be rather jarring and would probably seem out-of-place for the dynamic of the comic.

Hey! One thing I meant to mention before I got caught up in the wedding venue talk….. 1) Of course everyone saw how that even wet and disheveled, Toni looked very nice. However, I wanted to extend a nod of appreciation to Greg for 2) the very skillful way that he drew the “window washing” middle panel!!!!! The skills in the details and shading of showing window washing from inside the vehicle really do point out how good Greg is at his illustrations!!!! Thank you!

[ Many atheists and agnostics celebrate Christmas as well, because the holiday is more about giving/receiving gifts then anything. ] There are many people that celebrate Christmas that don’t set foot in a church. I’ve never seen the DeGroots do anything Christian. ]

.Christmas is also linked to ancient celebrations of the return of the sun in the Northern Hemisphere..The Chinese Communists have cracked down on celebrating Christmas, although there are millions of Christians in China. The PRC Government must fear that even the secular celebration (major in Japan) could further the spread of Christianity in China. ..I suggest a boycott of Chinese-made Christmas ornaments until they stop such repressive actions. But companies like Walmart, etc. don’t care about human rights as long as there is money in it..I love Christmas, though I am not by any means a conventional Christian. I do believe in human rights.

You and me both!

she can do brad’s job, yet she’ll look smokin’ hot doing it.looks like they are standing right in the chapel.

Yeah! I am glad that Greg is saying he has no intention of retiring anytime soon!

Is just me or has Ms. Daytona never looked hotter?

Princesses are at their best when they’re a little bit roughed and grubby. Just a little.

Since Greg answered one of the posts on the GoComics blog, why not lodge your complaint there and see if you get a response? That should be interesting…

Princesses are at their best when they’re a little bit roughed and grubby. Just a little.-True. And a whole lot hot smokin’ sexier too.

maybe you forgot. They both like cars and fixing cars. There was an episode years ago (soon after they met) when Brad was under the hood of his car trying to identify a problem and Toni comes along and solves and fixes it immediately.

First, let me say Happy 30th. Greg and Luann. Second, I’m Jewish, my wife is Irish Catholic. Seeing that neither one of us wanted to have one religion appear to be better than the other. So, we were able to have our wedding at the United Nations Chapel.

As I said 8 hours ago, “Seems most folks are afraid to mention church.” You’ve seen the result: anti-church and anti-God snipers all over the board.

Such people need to be reminded that Constitution guarantees us freedom of religion, not freedom from it.-Guess again, pal. Our Constitution specifies separation between church and state. Or do you have to be reminded of just some of the “excesses” perpetrated in the name of religion coupled with state sanction: slavery, crusades, jihads, inquisition, witch burnings, ISIS, shall I go on? So, Mr. Whiz, when it comes to choice of belief (or not), perhaps you can show a little less “my way or the highway”, and a lot more mind-your-own-business Tolerance (a traditional American value, by the way). Which is why my people came to America in the first place.

and dirty jokes :P

a true atheist thinks THERE IS NO god at all, and life just happened and evolution just happened. while other people think there might be a God or they might not be a god, but since God is spirit, and men is physical, we will never be able to prove God exists while we are physical, and usually they are called agnostic; and some believe everything and everyone is a part of God, they are of a pantheistic view

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

I, too, suspect that a fire-station wedding is in the offing. Makes lots of sense.

But this strip bothers me in one way: that fire station has GOT to have better equipment for cleaning fire trucks. Long brushes & hoses, at least. Some waterproof clothing, too. Come on, they have to clean a truck probably every week or two if not more often, & they’ve got a bunch of trucks. (I used to know someone who worked for a company that made, well, automatic car washes for semis. If one of those is around, that would be the cost-effective way to go . . . except that when there are no fires you’ve got free labor hanging around waiting for the next call.)

She looks like a pretty hot princess to me.

Congratulations and happy 30th anniversary Luann.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!-The hinting is so heavy, I don’t know how they keep avoiding what looks like an obvious solution.-Maybe we should be ready for a storm generated by a complaint, on, say, Friday?

rb2 now saying weddings are more fun than honeymoons, SMH

That’s funny. I always thought that, if a woman suggested that a couple skip the wedding and just go straight to the honeymoon, that she was either flirting or trying to seduce the guy. Why would anyone conclude that she was embarrassed by the guy if she’s trying to seduce him?

if everybody agreed with RB2 and started saying “Toni does not want to get married” RB2 would start saying “you are wrong, Toni wants to get married” by next week ’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’SMH’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’

he feels the need to be against the whole world

I just came here today to offer my congratulations of the 30th Anniversary.Well done, Greg!And thank you very much.At times this strip has meant a great deal to me, along with the wonderful people who I have become great friends with.In particular Susansunshine and The Sheriff, not to forget Mighty Mouse, Soleil, Raulybarra, Sisyphos, and so many more. Thanks to all of you.

I almost miss the shilly-shallying of Clyde.

A week after My wife and I got married, one of her neighbors came by, A mrs. someone or another. My wife had known her all her life. Let me see your Ring the neighbor says. My wife had to clean her hand off with grease remover. We had been working on our volkswagen. This stip really reminded me of that moment. 42 years later, we are still married and she still helps me work on the car!