My wedding band arrived today. This is all suddenly very real.
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Good luck. ;)
Stylish. Quite nice.
It’s a piece of cake. Couldn’t believe how calm I was on the big day both times I did it.
— Bill ![]()
The advice that I wish I’d been given before I got married: don’t slap your forehead with your left hand, no matter what.
You would think this goes without saying, but you’d be wrong.
— Brett ![]()
No, honey. You know it’s real when one of you fluffs your lines during the ceremony and the other one makes a beautiful save, such that to this day nobody but the two of you knows of the fluff.
Oh. Oops.
Yes, happened, but I decline to say which of us fluffed.
Very nice! We got my now-husband a celtic style ring also (bought at conjose dealer room) — it seemed fair since I got a moissanite engagement ring *and* a wedding band.
54 days left.
— Jesper ![]()
Mazeltov. Very nice ring. It’s a very different. Nice to see something a bit different.
That’s a very cool ring. I like it. Good luck!
… and when you are about to get it put on your finger - relax your hand. Knuckles are gard to get past otherwise. hahahaa!
— dabitch ![]()
… and when you are about to get it put on your finger - relax your hand. Knuckles are gard to get past otherwise. hahahaa!
— dabitch ![]()
..(way to go confusing preview with post - duh me)
Married life is good. Think of all the things you get to do… You get to to have sex whenever she wants, eat wherever she wants, go whever she wants whenever she wants. Seriously though.. Being married is nice. I recommend it.
— Andy ![]()
Mark, very bizzare–but my wife and looked at the _exact_ same set of rings.
I loved them, she decided she wanted something a bit plainer. We’ve been married for about 6 months now. Best wishes to you!
— cms ![]()
i read “band” as “musical group”. it seemed odd to me that you would mail order a live band.
Heh, I know what you mean about it feeling real. We’re getting married next month, and I think it really hit home when the invitations went out.
Counting down the days….
— ralph ![]()
Wow, what a beautiful band. I have to make sure my fiancé never sees it or I’ll be returning ours…
Lovely rings; congratulations, Mark, and all best wishes. . . .
— AKMA ![]()
Congrats Mark! =/
your page rocks! I wish I had some true HTML skills.
Marriage is great.
Also, I don’t know about you, but I have unnaturally large knuckles (you should have seen Carolyn’s face as she tried to get the ring on my finger.) The advice I was given was that lipsalve is a more delicate pot for the best man to have in his pocket than vaseoline, should an emergency occur.
Good luck!
— Simon ![]()
Really nice. Congratulations.
The best piece of advice I got for the wedding day was to make sure you find ten minutes where the two of you can be alone to take it all in and form some memories.
Getting married was much more fun than I had imagined .
Alternatives to lip balm are dish soap and (really!) window cleaner.
Apparently, lubricants are no longer just for the honeymoon. :)
Still time to abandon the idea as a conventional sop to an institution that has traditionally oppressed women and to this day is denied to homosexuals.
But…congratulations if not.
In the UK it’s called a wedding ring. Is ‘ring’ rude or something over in the US?
‘Lord of the Bands’, anybody?
— David ![]()
Congratulations, hope all goes well for you on the big day. Relax and enjoy it.
My advice, take 10 minutes to relax and eat some pizza between the wedding and reception etc.
— BenM ![]()
The two are used interchangebly over here. Like “Going to the dentist” and “sticking a red-hot poker up my ass” are used interchangebly in England.
Wow, this conversation deteriorated rapidly, didn’t it?
As for “band”, Dora has an engagement “ring” and will soon have a matching wedding “band”. I don’t know what I have, other than a headache.
— Mark ![]()
Following up on dabitch’s comment: if, like my husband, you have big hands, you might want consider having your lovely fiance slide the ring just to your knuckle when she puts it on; you can unobtrusively slide it the rest of the way yourself, and it avoids any appeance of a struggle during the ceremony. If you have regular-size hands, I offer my other piece of advice: eat something before the ceremony - you might not get a chance to eat much during the receprion.
— Donna ![]()
My wife lost her wedding ring at Half Moon Beach recently, so I am looking to replace our rings. Those Celtic rings looks great. Maybe we’ll get those. Good luck with the wedding, Mark.
— Don Park ![]()
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