What do you think?

hockeywife10 · June 2013

As soon as I started reading this, I thought of you all...

http://www.today.com/news/bride-who-lost-gown-tornado-gets-surprise-dream-dress-6C10293348

OjitosVerdes · June 2013

"Though Megan and her husband, Justin Acord, who serves in the Air Force, had already had a quick courthouse ceremony to secure their commitment before the military assigned him to another base ..."

What does that even mean? *huge eye roll*

hockeywife10 · June 2013

I stopped reading at that point, to be honest!

MoonlightSilver · June 2013

So a married woman got a free wedding dress... that's weird.

SapphireCounselor · June 2013

While I'm not supportive of PPD's either, I think that issue needs to take a backseat in this particular case when we consider the tragedy that this woman, her family and entire home town experienced. That said, I would hope that other Moore brides who weren't already married would be extended this same gift as well.

MissMolly · June 2013

I think the grand gesture is incredibly nice, but yeah. She's already married. Plus, jshillings is right, what about the greater loss that the people of the town went through? Weird.

Peaseblossom55 · June 2013

I"m a bit annoyed too, there are a lot worse things people lost than a wedding dress for PPD. I don't like the PPD concept at all.

SapphireCounselor · June 2013

Alesha1978 said:

I think the grand gesture is incredibly nice, but yeah. She's already married. Plus, jshillings is right, what about the greater loss that the people of the town went through? Weird.

I think the gesture itself is sweet as well. I think it speaks to the incredible nature of very kind people who want to help in some way after a tragedy.

RebeccaB88 · June 2013

I only personally know of one bride (a real one) who was affected by the Moore tornadoes. Some coworkers helped her dig through her family's home (we work for the same large corporation) to find her dress and the rings (family heirlooms). They managed to find both and the dress was damaged but wearable (and there were no price breaks for cleaning and repairing it), so the bride was happy and got married on schedule but at a different location than planned. They should have given it to someone who wasn't already married. I have heard of couples indirectly who had to cancel their real weddings due to storm damage. I'd have preferred they get some help.

pesematology · June 2013

StageManager14 said:

People lost their homes, their pets, their LOVED ONES in those storms. Fuck losing wedding dress and double fuck losing a dress for a fake wedding as being tragic. Priorities people, good lord.

How does giving some lady a big dress make any of this worse? How does not giving it her make any of this better?

SapphireCounselor · June 2013

pesematology said:

StageManager14 said:

People lost their homes, their pets, their LOVED ONES in those storms. Fuck losing wedding dress and double fuck losing a dress for a fake wedding as being tragic. Priorities people, good lord.

How does giving some lady a big dress make any of this worse? How does not giving it her make any of this better?

This is exactly my point. While there are waaaaaaay more pressing matters in Moore than replacing a wedding dress - especially for someone who was already married - I don't see how it adversely affects anything. And the gesture of a business wanting to help in the way they can is nice. While I agree PPD's are rude, I will admit my first thought when reading this particular story wasn't, "Oh God, this woman is so rude for having a PPD." (Most of the time it would be.) It was, "It's nice to read an inspiring story out of Moore about the community's efforts to help their own," even if the help comes in a form that may seem small/irrelevant to all of us. That's all I meant.

SapphireCounselor · June 2013

StageManager14 said:

I say that it made anything worse or better. But when a selfish person happens to be one of hundreds of tornado victims, it doesn't make her any better than any other selfish woman who has insisted on a PPD. THAT is my point. There are tons of people doing so much to actually help in ways that matter without getting any public recognition. The idea that giving a free dress to someone so they can go on with their pretend wedding being newsworthy is what is annoying. And the idea expressed by a couple of people here that it's somehow wrong to judge the PPD aspect because of the "tragedy" of the storm is what is insulting.

As a former journalist, I can certainly agree that there are many more important stories to be told about that area of the United States right now...why the Moore schools weren't absolutely required to have storm cellars being the first in my mind. That issue is waaaay more important than ANY wedding dress ever.

SapphireCounselor · June 2013

StageManager14 said:

I say that it made anything worse or better. But when a selfish person happens to be one of hundreds of tornado victims, it doesn't make her any better than any other selfish woman who has insisted on a PPD. THAT is my point. There are tons of people doing so much to actually help in ways that matter without getting any public recognition. The idea that giving a free dress to someone so they can go on with their pretend wedding being newsworthy is what is annoying. And the idea expressed by a couple of people here that it's somehow wrong to judge the PPD aspect because of the "tragedy" of the storm is what is insulting.

As a former journalist, I can certainly agree that there are many more important stories to be told about that area of the United States right now...why the Moore schools weren't absolutely required to have storm cellars being the first in my mind. That issue is waaaay more important than ANY wedding dress ever.

SapphireCounselor · June 2013

StageManager14 said:

Edited my last post to make the first sentence make sense. As for the storm shelters, that isn't what I was talking about specifically, more that if someone IS going to write "feel good human interest pieces", there are hundreds more deserving than this.

I know. Sorry, the storm cellars are my big question mark when I think about what happened so I used that as one example. But yes, I agree that there are many other more compelling human interest stories out there in Moore that deserve attention as well. Certainly a story about rescue efforts, humanitarian groups, etc., would have been far more deserving of press. This is what we get in a 24-hour news cycle unfortunately...Believe it or not a large part of why I decided to get out of media in the first place.

SapphireCounselor · June 2013

StageManager14 said:

Edited my last post to make the first sentence make sense. As for the storm shelters, that isn't what I was talking about specifically, more that if someone IS going to write "feel good human interest pieces", there are hundreds more deserving than this.

I know. Sorry, the storm cellars are my big question mark when I think about what happened so I used that as one example. But yes, I agree that there are many other more compelling human interest stories out there in Moore that deserve attention as well. Certainly a story about rescue efforts, humanitarian groups, etc., would have been far more deserving of press. This is what we get in a 24-hour news cycle unfortunately...Believe it or not a large part of why I decided to get out of media in the first place.

thejucheidea · June 2013

There aren't storm cellars in Moore schools because the soil isn't conducive to cellars.

SapphireCounselor · June 2013

As a native Californian, I figured that cost was the issue. I had no idea that the soil itself was a problem as well. The only thing I really have to compare it to is all of our earthquake safety measures. Thanks for educating me.

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