On Sunday, I snuck off to The Ace Hotel & Swim Club to check out Hitched.
Just to clarify, The Boy and I are not married. We certainly have a touch of the common law (since we’ve been together for over eight years) but we’ve never done the big ol’ day thing nor do we have any real interest. I’m not totally sure why, it’s not that I’m opposed to the marriage thing, it’s just never been a high priority or more truthfully any sort of priority for me. The entire wedding process seems like a lot of time, effort and money that I’d rather put into furniture and caulk ’cause I’m house crazy, obviously.
I was contacted by a great company in the UK to cover the event, so I put on my girl reporter hat and headed out with Laure, Bianca and Amaya (who is blog-less, but shockingly the queen of wedding info).
*oops. someone had way too much fun…or maybe the wedding jitters set in.
It was lots of girly campy fun with synchronized swimming, tons of glitter, bite sized foods and drink sampling.
I mean, you sort of win me over with little cans of champagne. I’ll go anywhere, no matter how silly or outrageous or uncomfortable, for endless teeny cans of champagne with straws. I’ll happily hang out in a Levitz or a Mor Furniture for Less or even an Applebees if you just kept handing me those free wee cans of champagne. Retailers of the world – take note!
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so…what was the point of this thing exactly? are these synchronized swimmers for hire at weddings?
even though i am married, i agree with you about the whole wedding thing. when you’re not a god fearing, ritual loving type it certainly feels a whole lotta useless. keep spending your money on all that caulk, girly! you’re not missing much.
PBR’s served on a tray….MAGNIFICENT!
I’m in the middle of planning my own wedding and I’ve been soooo not into all the expense and detail. I, too, would rather put the money towards a good reupholstering or something…I’m cool with marriage, just not the hoopla.
P.S. When you say champagne in a can are you referring to my dearest Sofia Minis? They are my fave…but I’m a sucker for the packaging.
I’m from Milwaukee, but even I don’t think PBR is champagne.
Looks like a rip roaring good time. I just saw that on the back of a movie box so I decided to say that. Looks like you ladies had a interesting time.
I feel like when you are asked to cover something you can’t *reeeally* write what you want to. I would have loved to read what you really felt about this. But it DID look like lots of fun! I love the bagged beer so elegantly served! Yah!
Busted!
RIVKA=PSYCHIC
Yes! The Sofia mini’s are awesome and I never got a picture of.
I’m just not a wedding person, so it’s all like fantasy and very disconnected from what I think about. It’s sort of the same as me going to a car part convention…you know…it’s like oh hey, ok, that’s a thing that people do. I don’t really get it, but hey, all my neighbors think I’m wacky for doing stuff to the house.
What fun! Hell we don’t have much like that to go on around here. Loved seeing the beer in the paper sack, how cool is that? On the marriage I have an older cousin that has been with her husband for well over 40 yrs. I learned shortly after graduating from high school they were not married, and that’s been some time ago. They are still together
Bahaha! …caulk, that is awesome & in general why I like you.
hearting the blog more and more. keep up the awesome job.
xx
You know, part of the whole getting married thing is wedding gifts. When my wife and I tied the knot, we did so in our back yard and had a great barbecue with about fifty of our friends. It was the perfect excuse to fix up the house in a hurry and sod the yard. We only requested one thing for gifts: Lowes gift cards, and we worked on our house for free for a little more than a year afterwards.
So you know…marriage and home improvement can go hand in hand if you play your cards right.
The Mister and I rented one of our favorite restaurants for a night they were normally closed (huge savings there) and had little nibbles and cocktails and wine and that was it. It was a fun night to dress up and not spend a fortune to spend with our friends… we got married in a super private city hall gig a couple of months earlier.
Anyhoo, now I’m a little bummed I missed it and meeting you.
I’m married, but I didn’t care about the wedding either. We got married in a courthouse and then had a low-key event a couple of days later. It was a summer day in a park that was basically a picnic for family and friends. We didn’t even get the big cake – just sheet cake. The whole thing cost less than $1000 and we had tons of beer and wine left over to drink all summer.
I didn’t think I cared about getting married either, but there are a lot of benefits to being married. I am glad I did it.
For one thing there are a lot of legal/financial benefits, whether it is unseemly to talk about or not – like my husband can be on my health insurance (which is much better than his). Taxes are better. We can join forces in a lot of ways that are beneficial. Which is why gay marriage is so important!
But also, there is a commitment that didn’t hit me until we were standing there and he said he would commit to me for better or for worse in front of a judge. I know he could still wander off or I could want a divorce later. But we have been married for over 6 years now and there have been times that committment got us through hard times.
Not to be a commercial for marriage – if it doesn’t work for you it’s up to you. But it’s just something I thought about when reading your post.
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