Wife chop

Night_Sprite

As you know, I got my hair cut this weekend.  We have discussed our wife chops and friends of mine have also gotten wife chops.  A classmate of mine suggested I submit it to urban dictionary.  So, as of this morning, wife chop is pending review in urban dictionary.

shellydiane820

awesome

goheels05

Hehe.  Is mom-chop in there?  I'm holding out, but there is no way I'm blow-drying this mess every day when I gots young'ns. 

laurenclaire1386

I'm out of the loop on what a wife chop is. I'm assuming it's chopping your hair (that you may or may not have grown out especially for the wedding) right after you get married?

Night_Sprite

That is it precisely, Lauren.

ohwhynot

Oh, that's a great one!  I also like "procrasturbation," which was featured in a Dan Savage column not too long ago. See - I'm tying together threads. 

shellydiane820

I still haven't wife chopped my hair.  My hair is my security blanket.  Every time I think about it, I talk myself out of it pretty quick.

laurenclaire1386

I might be an excellent candidate for a wife chop, then. My hair hasn't been this long in 2 or 3 years, and I'm growing it for the wedding. Today it's rainy outside, which means my already thick, wavy hair is now damp, heavy, hot, and curly. I have no idea how I'll make it through the summer with the mane I've got going on right now.

mandapanda78

a very odd man I work with pulled me aside the other day and "complimented" me on not changing my appearance post-wedding. I thought he was just congratulating me on not gaining 50 pounds as soon as I said "I do", but maybe he was just more familiar with the Wife Chop concept than I am.

britne28

I'm getting the wife chop right after the wedding.  Before the honeymoon.  Going to Italy and I want a style more fashionable than a pony tail.  I had long hair for the longest time and then a few years ago I went chin length and I love it.  So growing it out now is a bit annoying.

kikibaby

I'm definitely not chopping my hair post-wedding.  I miss my long hair so much... honestly, the only reason I wish we were having a longer engagement is so my hair could grow more.

xoxpipahxox

I'm totally chopping off my hair post-wedding.  I've been itching to do it for MONTHS now.

Only 7 more months of this much-too-long hair...

shellydiane820

What I don't understand is, if you don't like your hair long, why grow it out for a wedding, don't you want to look like yourself?

janedoe1113a

I'm chopping mine off after the wedding.  My hair is normally long-ish, but there are times (like the summer) that I just want it short.  Since I've been growing it out for a year so I can have a pretty updo, I can't wait to chop it off before going on our honeymoon.

laurenclaire1386

I used to keep my hair really long. Like almost to my waist long. Then I chopped it all off about two years ago and have regretted it every day since. I like it long, it just drives me crazy some days, like today.

BecW2be

I cut mine all off before the wedding, and now am growing it back out a bit. I'm backwards!

But I already have a short cut picked out for summer. It's awesome.

Nebb

I wish I didnt wife chop my hair after the wedding, its taken me a year and a half just to get it to this length. growing curly hair out is a biitch.

kbmeow

I am actually thinking of taking off 6" this week,  I have super long hair and love long hair.  I am not going to be a wife chop.  I also have curly hair so I think it is hard to go short without having to do alot of hair work every day.

ThePinkSuperhero

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_wife-chop?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:14a996b4-8bf7-43a9-aa64-6049691b02f1Post:9965a3e1-ddda-444e-b462-369c92b12915">Re: Wife chop</a>:
[QUOTE]What I don't understand is, if you don't like your hair long, why grow it out for a wedding, don't you want to look like yourself?
Posted by shellydiane820[/QUOTE]

I'm myself no matter what length my hair is.  My hair is really long now (long for me, anyway- past the shoulders), and I will definitely be ready for some sort of change after the wedding.