Letters to the Editor
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I wonder if she stood there the full 5hrs while they laid it out?
Or did they hook it on at the end?
In any case. Ridiculous. 2008 cm would have still been impressive and she might have been able to move it on her own over a well waxed floor.
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Since it's a wedding train we can trash it. If it had been a burqha we would have had to call you a racist
Just saying.
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Is he honoring his bride or the 200.8 Olympics?
I smell a publicity stunt. By the way, notice we aren't talking about Darfur.
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Train Wreck
Isn't there some real news to talk about?
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Mosquito netting
Maybe after the wedding they can donate it to an NGO and have them cut it up and treat it with insecticide to sell as mosquito netting in malaria-infested regions.
I'm serious, that way they get to have the wackiness they want at their wedding, and then redeem it by doing something awesome for humanity.
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Why must they do something for humanity because they did something wacky for their wedding?
I don't get Kitchengirl's argument. No one ever says if someone goes out and buys a Porche that they have to do something in return for humanity. Or if they buy a vacation home. Or a Prada bag. But I hear that a lot regarding weddings. What is it about people spending money on a wedding that creates some debt to humanity?
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No one *ever* says that?
I certainly think it about people who buy luxury cars or vacation homes, but even those have utility beyond a single day.
And that's some pretty impressive moral relativism, Eava.
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Conspicuious consumption and moral obligations
No one ever says if someone goes out and buys a Porche that they have to do something in return for humanity. Or if they buy a vacation home. Or a Prada bag. But I hear that a lot regarding weddings. What is it about people spending money on a wedding that creates some debt to humanity?
Actually, people say things like that all the time. "If you have the money to purchase X, why don't you just purchase X-minus instead, and give the rest to charity?"
As far as weddings go, the problem that most people (including me) who bitch about extravagance have is that it is not just conspicuous consumption, but conspicuous *waste*. That $10,000 dress will never be worn again, those $7000 flowers will wilt and die, that china, that seven-tier cake (that nobody likes anyway) with the fondant icing the in shape of your chalet in the Italian alps, all of the trappings of an overdone wedding are transient -- the exist for ONE DAY and then they're gone.
A huge house and a expensive sports car are certainly overpriced (unless they're 100% solar and a greasecar respectively, in which case I admire your moxie!) and the money could better be used elsewhere, but at the very least they have a lasting value. People will live in that house, and someone will transport themselves around in that car.
I'm not saying everyone should wear burlap sacks for wedding dresses, or drive 20-year-old VW shell vans, or live in reclaimed-wood shacks. Heck, I love nice things just as much as the next person, but I do think that being a good citizen of your country, and a good tenant of this planet, involves some level of stewardship.
Dial it back just a little bit, or if you're not going to do that, then send the flowers to a shelter immediately after the reception (while they're still fresh) to make the people there feel a little bit more human in their hard times, give the leftovers to a soup kitchen, and cut up that 2-mile train to dip in insecticide and give it to an anti-malaria group to sell.
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Maybe something got lost in the translation (THIS IS A JOKE, FOLKS, OK?)
Once upon a time the ultimate feature of a wedding gown was a nine-yard train. (Supposedly one of the origins of the phrase "The whole nine yards.") Maybe the designer heard this and thought "nine-CAR train?" Would nine average-size boxcars equal the length of this gown?
Actually, all I can really think of is how much of a problem this will be if the bride needs to use the ladies' room...
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More pics
http://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/node_10/node_37/node_250/2007/10/15/119241449528582.shtml
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The bride can't move.
Mission accomplished.
Next year, they'll be bronzing brides, so that they'll be pretty forever and ever. Me first!
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The world's scariest wedding dress
It looks Adobe Photoshopped.
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Authensensitivity
The world's scariest wedding dress
It looks Adobe Photoshopped.
http://www.xkcd.com/331/
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Actually, 200.8 meters = about 659 feet.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to appear as the answer in "Pictures of Mathematically Anal-Retentive People" for $800.
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trainzilla
KitchenGirl, I love you! Thanks for the link to the snarky photoshop comic.
(FYI, most photoshopped pictures, not all but most, can be detected by turning the contrast on the picture up and down and looking for oddities.)
I also agree with you about conspicuous consumption. By the way, at our church, it's customary for the bride to donate the altar flowers to be used at church services the Sunday following the wedding, and the reception flowers are given to sick people in the parish.
As for the Prada bag, etc., it depends on how poor the speaker is. You can bet your bippy that someone living on mac and cheese thinks anyone who would spend 2 grand on a handbag is a sick puppy. But part of human nature is that as we get wealthier, our standards change. We only feel this way about those who spend more money than we happen to have. I personally spend $15 a week on a bouquet of cut flowers for my desk. I have to work here all day, and it varies the scenery and makes me happy. The checker at the grocery store is profoundly offended by my extravagance. To her, fifteen bucks is the difference between enough gas to get her to work and having to beg for a ride.
Anyway, the additional pictures seem to answer jello's question. The bride stood there. For five hours. Everyone else is wearing a hat that shades the face. I hope her makeup had sunscreen in it!
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Well, I think it's nice
Different maybe, but it definitely makes for a really nice picture, especially the way it weaves around the sunflowers and how it covers some of the other ones.
Who knows, maybe they did make donations after the wedding.
And as for the crazy spending, well, people in the wedding business definitely jack up their prices - complete highway robbery there.
But also, a lot of people are probably thinking, here is one chance for us to go all out, to try to make "our day" really special - if there is a time NOT to penny pinch, it would be for one's wedding day, no?