{"id":23655,"date":"2013-12-26T02:20:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T07:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=23655"},"modified":"2013-12-26T02:20:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T07:20:51","slug":"happy-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/happy-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is my parents’ 48th wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n

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BarbaraB and GeorgeB got married in 1965 at a place called Leonard’s on Long Island. It’s still there<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After the wedding, my mother cut the sleeves off her wedding dress and wore it to someone else’s wedding. “It was a minor trend to wear white to weddings,” she says.<\/p>\n

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When my sister and I were little, Mom let us play with her wedding veil but she had the dress stored away. When we took it out before I got married in 2001, we found that mildew had gotten into it, leaving rusty-colored stains at about knee-level in the back.<\/p>\n

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Alas!<\/p><\/div>\n

I wound up wearing Richard Tyler dress with a sleek silhouette that is slightly reminiscent of BarbaraB’s dress.<\/p>\n

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My wedding in 2001. Click for more photos.<\/p><\/div>\n

As I’ve mentioned a number of times, my parents are selling my childhood home in New Jersey<\/a>. I’m not sad about it.\u00a0 I hated living in New Jersey. (Despite that, my “first dance” wedding song was Bruce Springsteen’s cover of “Jersey Girl<\/a>,” because it struck me as funny.) I’ve been collecting\/receiving old stuff from the Jersey house. This month, my mother gave me the damaged wedding gown. She knows I wear a lot of vintage clothes and thought I might be able to do something to make it un-wedding-y. The damaged part is certainly low enough to be cut off, but it’s hard to take the wedding out of a wedding gown. I haven’t managed to do anything with my own wedding gown, which I tried on for size for my tenth anniversary in 2011.<\/p>\n

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Phew! It still fit.<\/p><\/div>\n

I tried BarbaraB’s dress on today.<\/p>\n

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It’s a little big up top.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jean of Ghost Tailor<\/a> could easily take it in a little and hem it — the question is whether it could be dyed and de-wedding-ized.\u00a0 Maybe one day I’ll get creative and explore the options.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, let’s drink an anniversary toast to BarbaraB and GeorgeB!<\/p>\n

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When I was little, I thought this “Champagne glass” photo in the wedding album was ultra-glamorous.<\/p><\/div>\n

Did you know that at a wedding, etiquette calls for you to say “congratulations” to the groom, but “best wishes” to the bride<\/a>? That’s because the man has gotten lucky and snagged an awesome ladyperson, so congrats are in order. Meanwhile, a woman is permanently attaching herself to someone who is going to do things like belch loudly and then exclaim, “Ooh, that was a good one!” The reasonable reaction to any woman’s decision to do such a thing is to say, “Um … yeah … good luck with that. LOL!” but we rephrase that as “best wishes” to make it sound a little nicer.<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure if there’s a similar rule for anniversaries but there should be. So I’ll say, “Congratulations, Dad!” And, let’s see … “Thanks for having a good sense of humor, Mom!”<\/p>\n

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“American Gothic” — summer 2013. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is my parents’ 48th wedding anniversary. BarbaraB and GeorgeB got married in 1965 at a place called Leonard’s on Long Island. It’s still there. After the wedding, my mother cut the sleeves off her wedding dress and wore it to someone else’s wedding. “It was a minor trend to wear white to weddings,” she…<\/p>\n

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