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Re: Wonderful diary, Barbara! (4.00 / 4)

Thank you for your kind words and encouragement, Sven.

Yes, I want to do the wedding because it's an opportunity to kind of review your life... and for me, it will be quite a pallette of people and cultures, and I'm very curious what will happen when I bring them all together! I think it will be similar for Miguel as well. We will need lots of interpreting, but that will hopefully be part of the fun. I really look forward to it.

As far as the separate party from the ceremony, we'll just have to see how awful it will get with the papers. Maybe somewhere in the process we'll just throw in the towel and run to the closest city hall in London, just to get it over with.

"If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it." Lord Brabazon

by Barbara on Wed Mar 28th, 2007 at 09:54:36 AM EST
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Re: Wonderful diary, Barbara! (4.00 / 3)

Maybe somewhere in the process we'll just throw in the towel and run to the closest city hall in London, just to get it over with.

Yes, it's a great thing to know that we can always get same-day walk-in service in London ;-)

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Mar 28th, 2007 at 10:16:37 AM EST
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Re: Wonderful diary, Barbara! (4.00 / 2)

Depending on how you think about it, there's always the possibility of separating the legal element from the personal/social element of the wedding. You could do the legal bit in the registry office and do a solemn ceremony to your taste, religious or not, with friends and family.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Mar 28th, 2007 at 10:17:20 AM EST
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Re: Wonderful diary, Barbara! (4.00 / 2)

The problem is that I am not big on ceremony.

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Mar 28th, 2007 at 10:19:40 AM EST
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Re: Wonderful diary, Barbara! (4.00 / 2)

I'm very curious what will happen when I bring them all together! I think it will be similar for Miguel as well.

You're curious, I'm terrified.

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Mar 28th, 2007 at 10:18:25 AM EST
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Re: Wonderful diary, Barbara! (3.50 / 2)

Where's your sense of adventure?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Mar 28th, 2007 at 10:27:56 AM EST
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Re: Wonderful diary, Barbara! (4.00 / 2)

Socially I have none.

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Mar 28th, 2007 at 10:29:25 AM EST
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Re: Wonderful diary, Barbara! (4.00 / 4)

Well, strap on your pith hat and damn well grow a temporary one ... you can borrow mine, though I warn you it's pretty weak. Maybe Sven could lend you his, though he seems to be using it all the time.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Mar 28th, 2007 at 10:38:54 AM EST
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Re: Wonderful diary, Barbara! (4.00 / 2)

damn well grow a temporary one

Maybe I should smoke some pot on the morning of the wedding.

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Mar 28th, 2007 at 10:41:18 AM EST
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Re: Wonderful diary, Barbara! (4.00 / 4)

I said "sense of adventure", not "death wish".

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Mar 28th, 2007 at 10:41:58 AM EST
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Re: Wonderful diary, Barbara! (4.00 / 3)

Absolutely - it's a very good way to deal with reality - everything seems sooo fine ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Mar 28th, 2007 at 11:55:51 AM EST
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