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My bro's wedding is next weekend.

MadameSMadameS
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And I dread dread dread it.August, in Indiana, on a lake at 6. No food, just cake and appetizers. Men (including her 3 little boys) are wearing tuxes, and bride is is full on white/train/veil attire. There will be a keg, but no wine or liquor.Lanie Face.His bachelor party was last weekend. She had a No Stripper Rule. It was supposed to be a low-key affair, a bbq in a buddy's yard. A pregnant stripper showed up. Then, they got him hammered and took him to some back alley strip club I've never heard of...Sassy Kitty's, or something to that effect. He was handed a ginormous (I've seen the pic) wad of cash by my uncle, and later threw up in said uncle's car.Lanie Face.I am supposed to make 150 cookies. I offered to do it as my gift. She asked for monograms. I tried a few, and said to tell with it. It's a great summer, I have a million things to do, other than make 450 perfectly symmetrical cookies that I'm not getting paid for. I told her she needed to come up with a simplier design, as the monograms weren't working out, and she told me I just need to make bigger cookies.Lanie Face.
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  • AngieP900AngieP900 member
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    A pregnant stripper showed up!!!!
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    For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
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  • MadameSMadameS
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    I KNOW. 7 months. I don't have a lot (or need any) details on that part of it. I did ask him on FB if he felt the baby kick. his response was "gross". lol.
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  • EABworkEABwork
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    Mo, We are going to need a complete report of all the happenings at this wedding.  As for the cookies, could you maybe do 1/3 her initial, 1/3 his, and 1/3 the last name?
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  • MadameSMadameS
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    I plan on taking lots of pictures. I did offer to do that EAB, but she didn't like that idea. I refuse to bake bigger cookies. When you are making 150, and can fit 24 in the oven at a time, for 9 minutes each, it really sucks to just fit 16 in the over at a time for 13 minutes. Foff her. I'm putting a daisy (her wedding flower) on each one.
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  • wingedbridewingedbride
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    I cannot wait to see the pics.
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  • EABworkEABwork
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    She is focusing on monogramed cookies after having a keg in a buddies back yard? I really wish we could equip you with a spy cam.
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  • MadameSMadameS
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    Oh yeah, and we can bring our tent if we want, and just stay there on the property. Right, my tent. Of course. WHO DRESSES UP IN FULL BRIDAL GARB AND THEN DOESN'T FEEEEEEEED PEOPLE AT A SIX O'CLOCK WEDDING???? WHOOOOOOOO?
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  • Mrs.ExpchicMrs.Expchic
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    How much do $150 cookies cost to make?  Like $20? 
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  • tastyburgertastyburger
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    the cookies are your GIFT to her.  Make 'em how you want 'em.  I agree that they certainly aren't going to "un-class" this wedding.I can't believe a 7 month preggo showed up to strip.  Even if home strippers weren't absolutely disgusting, I would call the stripper company and complain if they sent some pregnant girl!  Unless, you know, it was "requested."  (ewww.)also, I am a big believer that if you can't afford to at least rent a hall, put your guests in A/C, and feed them dinner/drinks besides a kegger, then what you have there is a "casual wedding" and should be treated as such, down to what the bride is wearing to gifts given.
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  • MadameSMadameS
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    Not much more that that. So you sayin' my gift is cheap?
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  • ChristinSChristinS
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    Meh.  I'd say your gift is your time as much as your supplies cost.
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  • wingedbridewingedbride
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    um, christin, your nose is really weird. and purple.
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  • ChristinSChristinS
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    That's really rude Winged.  Wow.
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  • SarahBethBRSarahBethBR member
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    Maybe after starving your way through the wedding the bride will ask her family and bridesmaids if they want to go eat at Perkins, and them get pissed when your brother invites you. Yeah, my brother's wedding rocked. And I'm with Christin. The gift of 150 cookies is worth more than the cost of ingredients.

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    The nerve!
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  • MadameSMadameS
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    Yeah, there's a reason bakers charge for cookies. It's fun, but very time consuming. If she were paying me, I'd be more than happy to do whatever. I'd say it will probably take me around 8 hours from start to finish. Then I'll drive them down the day before the wedding, which is a couple more hours out of my day. I just can't imagine telling my FSIL what to do when making a gift for me. 
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  • Mrs.ExpchicMrs.Expchic
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    I think its cheap because its your brother but whatevs.  I don't know what your financial sitch is.
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  • salimoosalimoo
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    Making cookies is effing labor intensive. I think 150 Vicki cookies would cost you around $225-300 and her prices are pretty cheap.
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    Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
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  • Vinny08Vinny08 member
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    So, were you the one to first offer, or did she approach you and you said you would do it as a gift?If you were the one to come up with it, she has absolutely zero right to tell you what to make.  If she asked and then you offered as the gift, I can see how she would think she has a say.  Regardless, your gift to them = your design concept.  Eff her and her stupid monogram.
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  • MadameSMadameS
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    I offered. She always loves my Christmas cookies, and makes a big fuss over them, so I said I would do it as their gift.Back when I was planning my wedding, I looked into cookie favors. They were priced anywhere between 5-8 per cookie. Time is money, yo.Exp's bored.
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  • FallinAgainFallinAgain
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    Um, yeah, my H's grandmother made us a quilt.  I'm sure the supplies cost next to nothing. It's far more valuable to me than the china we got.
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  • salimoosalimoo
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    There's also a huge difference between chocolate chip cookies and actually decorating cookies, which is what it sounds like Mo's doing.Now I'm curious, what are you doing, Mo? Royal icing, I'm assuming?
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  • NovemberrocksNovemberrocks
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    No food at a wedding is perhaps the biggest sin one could commit.  My mom still refers to a wedding she went to in 1987 where they didn't have enough to eat.
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  • MadameSMadameS
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    roll out cookies with royal/color flow pink icing, then a white and yellow daisy on the front of it. tied in bags with pink bows.
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  • salimoosalimoo
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    Um, yeah. That's MORE than generous for a gift. The thought of doing 150 of those, especially for an ungrateful wench, makes me want to cry.
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  • Mrs.ExpchicMrs.Expchic
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    CHEAPASSES.  ALL OF YOU.
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  • FallinAgainFallinAgain
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    No food at a wedding is perhaps the biggest sin one could commit.YES.  Cash/open bar and dollar dances aside, you cannot have a wedding at 6 pm and not serve diner.  It's just unacceptable.
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  • katie.i.dokatie.i.do member
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    with no food but cake, mo's gift is literally half the catering!
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  • KristenBtobeKristenBtobe
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    Seriously. The cookies will be gone in a snap.
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  • Mrs.ExpchicMrs.Expchic
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    Thats true.  They deserve a cheap gift.
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  • wingedbridewingedbride
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    I am sorry I hurt you christin. And I am also sorry I didn't come back before now. I have been afraid to open this post back up for fear of seeing your freakinsh nose.
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