Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 03, 2014

“Divide And Concur (part IV)”“The Trip To Plan-It X”“Same Difference”“Turnabout Is A Fairly Complex Play”“His And Hers”“Flip The Switch”or “♪I’ll Be The Roundabout….♪”

Ooh, oh…two conflicting points of view…so, it looks like Frank is the one who likes big weddings… ;)

Compromise and have a medium sized wedding.

Even a medium-small wedding would work. I hope Toni gets her wedding info from Nancy, too… ;)

and why was the small wedding all wrong???

" It’s the bride’s big day, not the groom’s."^Not necessarily. She’s not marrying herself… – And they’re both there to commit to marriage….

What’s with this? It’s usually the guys that want to get it done without the cast of thousands.

The higher, the fewer?…

and yet, their marriage survived without a perfect ceremony

This is probably the “engagement ring” thing that Brad went through after the proposal, all over again! But only the “Frank” version, this time…

LOL ;)

And if you had difficulty getting back on shore, you’d wonder if it was the coast guard giving you grief… but you’d know it was all those angry “non-invitees” with pitchforks in their hands….

Ah, but that would have been so romantic…but I can understand your decision…weddings are like that, the best laid plans of mice (ahem) and men (the couple) oft go astray because of circumstances beyond their control… Hopefully, compromises can be made… ;)

f. The well-known fact that Brittney’s song “Oops, I Did It Again” wasn’t originally about a “teen tart”, but about Frank’s 2 close calls with dropping the wedding band in the storm drain, since his best man had a hole in his tuxedo…

“Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired.”/ from one ofShakespeare’s Sonnets… ’Nite all… ;)

We met at nineWe met at eightI was on timeNo, you were lateAh, yes, I remember it well

We dined with friendsWe dined aloneA tenor sangA baritoneAh, yes, I remember it well

That dazzling April moon!There was none that nightAnd the month was JuneThat’s right. That’s right.It warms my heart to know that youremember still the way you doAh, yes, I remember it well- “Gigi” 1958

In the last panel Frank sounds like he is auditioning for the show Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. Not for the Straight Guy part.

LOL!!! – Also sounds like a radio station contest….

Is it’s sister station (on the A.M. side) KIDO?

I’m telling ya! Las Vegas… The Flying Elvis’s!

My wife and I had two weddings. One small and one big.Or rather, we had a wedding, for legal paperwork and all, and later we had a wedding party with friends from all over the country coming to celebrate with us. And since the WedCon (as we called it) was just for us, we had a friend who roleplayed an elven viking priestess officiate for us, in costume of course. Praise Odin and Pass the Ale.

We had a tiny wedding. With the money saved, we were able to make a major down payment on a house. We are both frugal and just celebrated our 27th! Yeah, some were pissed…so what, it wouldn’t have been THEM paying the bills!

How about a medium size wedding?

Ooh, oh…two conflicting points of view…so, it looks like Frank is the one who likes big weddings… ;)

Frank may change his mind when it is his turn to pay for a wedding.

However, if these people invited all their relatives we’ve ever even heard of, much less seen, that would be maybe a dozen people? Add everyone Brad knew from high school and assuming Toni didn’t know any more people at her school than Brad did at his, then add their co-workers from the Fire Department, and we’re still at under 50 people, right?

This is a kind of weird story arc……in my experience, guys either don’t really care or prefer smaller type weddings…simpler the better. Big weddings are money pits and headaches.

With this ring I do sayThat I marry you todayAnd will do what’ere you sayBefore these folks I meekly sayI you will worship and obeyNow ‘tis said, my blushing wifeNow you may lay aside that knifeYou may trust I will be trueOr I know what with that blade you’ll doNo shotgun wedding here todayNo need my skin or scalp to flayAnd truth be told what I’d doEven if you were unarmed I’d gladly marry youOnce I was free — free and aloneNow I’m not, for the love you’ve shown.

I’ve attended both kinds, the very small and the big (though not the really super-large). But my sympathies lie with Nancy and Toni. I expect we will (eventually) see a medium-sized wedding of Toni and Brad….

WAIT! WHAT? “Com-pro-mise”???

You MEAN “Capitulate” Don’t ’Cha, Nancy-Bot?

Oi Vey everybody!

I have three sons, and I hated having to only invite a few relatives. That meant leaving out a lot of people. I wanted all my siblings and their spouses and their children and their spouses to come. So what if it meant I would have to fork out enough for an extra room and food. I was willing to pay for it. In the end I did pay for about half of the cost of the weddings, and one thought I should pay for the honeymoon, too. We had only enough relatives at the wedding to fill one regular size table. After two weddings, I hope my unmarried son takes off to Reno or Tahoe and skips all that wedding planning.

It does not matter what others did. Seek good sound advice, then decide as a couple what is the best thing for couple to do. You may think as two, but each half must come together to as one.

Haven’t heard from the “Where’s Dirk?” party lately. No, that’s not a hint. Or maybe it is. Or not.

We had a very small wedding…52 years and counting

I thought it was the guy who wanted the small wedding. The bride wants the big, huge wedding. This seems bassackwards.

“I spent hours making this dress, and after two hours it is time to take it off.”~“But a marriage is forever.”~That was me complaining, and the response was the housekeeper of the parish house. ~Forty-one years later, my marriage is still strong, but the gown is stored in a foot locker. The lace has yellowed, but those long weekend hikes we take together are still fun. ~Was the cost of the wedding worth it? Maybe. We did get a nice toaster from my aunt.

Elope!

Are you kidding me Nancy! Get a dishwasher.

“They’ll tell you what to remember !!! ".Which is fine as long as they agree with each other.

-Great rhyming vow! Do you mind if I pass it along to some friends who are trying to plan a very small wedding?

Why put yourself in debt for a party that’s only one night…I had a small. nondescript wedding and it’s paid off. Not like my cousins who had huge, ostentacious weddings and are still in debt…

If these two have a big wedding, they’ll still be paying for it even after they’re divorced (a year later).

first they got to get married before they can divorced and their not not ever getting married

-I look over at her while she sleeps and gently run my fingers through her hair; I think, after nearly 24 years, yeah, I’d do it again.-Who are you kidding, you could make a million writing books like this….

Well, the ones from Monday and Tuesday “paid” for the week, but I’m sure that there could be an open spot made for somebody. I’ll look on the desk and see who’s available…

“Brought to you” by…. – The Men’s Scarehouse…. “No one under 17 allowed to look at the price tags…. We’re gonna make money off of the way you look… we guarantee it!” – Davey’s Bridezilla recycling centers…. “Come trade in that nasty old green for some white- that green is no good for you! Let us take care of all of that… the more you bring in, the better we’ll- uh… you’ll feel!… and check out our Monster price a thon 24 hour marathon, the sequel to last year’s!….” -And by… Dynasty Caterers…. “You’ve got a lifetime to eat Ramen… but one day to eat ‘diamond crusted steak’!”…“The prices are meh… but at least the food’ll taste good!….”

“…Major reasons why wedding costs keep going up, it isn’t about the bride wanting this stuff just for herself, it’s to throw the ultimate impressive party for as many as they can…”^For some this is true!

Doesn’t matter how big, how small, you can only tie the knot so tight

No, as usual, yours is less complicated. I recommend yours!…

Yeah, that site you had and the one for the special characters (like 斡 and degree symbols and stuff) still come in handy. – I found another site with some good stuff, but you know what happens with “JayBlues” and “BlueJays” and their acorns…..

- I just went ahead and deleted mine, but the other link I’ll keep up, as there are some useful tips for other neat stuff you can do on the page…..

“I know too good friends who married the way the wanted then the male two timed his wife with her best friend.”.Bad when that’s the best you can do for a friend.You need better friends.

“Marriage: both.Wedding: her.”.Wedding, like welding is joining/

uniting of two things: the bringing together of two things

.the wedding of form and function ..

“The two concepts had become wedded in his mind. ". World English Dictionary /But you knew that, you were just toying with us

Re: you’d do it (marriage) again…what a sensitive post, Brdshtt…your wife is one of the lucky ones! (me, too!) ;)

To get back into the topic of small weddings vs. large ones. My experience was a very small wedding. We paid for everything as we went, and only had about 15-20 people there…all first tier relatives and very close friends. My sister made my dress, I purchased cold cuts and such for the party, and everyone enjoyed themselves. The best part was the wedding ceremony…and the venue, which was a very, very small church in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies. Would do it again for sure! ;)

I can somewhat relate to this comic, but it is different from my life experience. I graduated from high school in 1970, but did not get married until 1988. Who cares? I don’t!

It actually is neither the Bride’s nor Groom’s big day. When they are in their early 20s, it’s the Parent’s Party. Look at who gets invited, and who’s paying!

No, like this….

“But why go to all that trouble when shift + 1 does the same thing?”^My wife says the same thing when I press 1 then 0 then 0 on the microwave, instead of “Cook +1”…. – Lol, no, I wasn’t meaning to seem as though I was trying to reinvent the exclamation point, I was just giving an example about the codes found on that page for “special characters”. The “!” was just an example to show how that page’s codes worked

When I got married the third time, I told my love she could have whatever size wedding she wanted – after all, I’d done a big one the first time, a small one the second time, and this was her first.She picked the courthouse, with her folks, my folks, and her sister & brother-in-law as Matron of Honor and (since I liked him as a bro-in-law too) Best man.18 years later, it STILL works out great. What matters is the love before, during, and after, dammit!

Back to the strip: I wonder if perhaps a “radical” idea brings it all together tomorrow, or Saturday?…

ThursdayFridayThe ATM Machine…

I don’t know if you were there for the conversation we had a few months back… that’s why “Lynnskay” asked for the page with those codes, and why I posted them….

And I wouldn’t ever suggest memorizing anything… but the codes on the page in question are in a handy dandy chart that helps for both PC and Mac…. not only that, but it has characters for Kanji, Chinese and other languages, as well on that page….

That’s a long way for takeout from over here….

You should see us up here in Md… we looked at mid sixties as though it were a heat wave !….

The guys are real good a wanting a big wedding when the Girls side pays the bill. LOL from a Dad that had three girls.