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> Her life is a romantic comedy waiting to happen. For those who wonder, I’ll save you the google search: yes the movie has been made and is called “the profes

by d--b 3y ago

> Her life is a romantic comedy waiting to happen. For those who wonder, I’ll save you the google search: yes the movie has been made and is called “the professional bridesmaid”. it was released in 2023.

throwup238 3y ago
Considering how many times the subject ends up crying in a bathroom in the article, it should be more of a dark tragicomedy.
- mcphage 3y ago
  Weddings are emotional events, even at the best of times. But also a lot of effort and planning and stress.
  - arethuza 3y ago
    My wife's mother was very keen on a large wedding, my wife wasn't - we were watching a holiday program on TV and they had weddings in Mauritius and she announced "we're doing that!". Anyway, we ended up getting married in the Seychelles and it was blissful and zero stress... and cost a lot less than a normal marriage. That was 34 years ago so something must have worked.
    - cafard 3y ago
      Less when counting in transportation? Where did you live at the time?
      - arethuza 3y ago
        Scotland So we had to fly from Edinburgh -> LHR -> Seychelles Looking at the current price from the same travel company and hotel it would be ~£8K - still cheaper than most weddings. The actual cost of the "wedding" part was pretty small. Edit: One thing I do remember is that flight out was full of stressed out newly weds!
      - michaelt 3y ago
        Destination weddings can save a lot of money by having far fewer guests, while still retaining the most-important-day-of-your-life glamour that a small scale registry office wedding might lack. Obviously, you can have a small scale wedding in your home country. But a lot of people feel they ought to invite their second-cousin-twice-removed and their family of five, while spending £200 a head on venue and food costs. If attending the wedding needs a £1000 flight and a week off work, your guest list will drop from 100 people to 10.
        arethuza 3y ago
        The hotel we were at arranged a free room swap with another couple on another island for a few days so we even got a "honeymoon". We went to this hotel for a few nights: https://www.larchipel.com/ https://www.larchipel.com/
        KineticLensman 3y ago
        > If attending the wedding needs a £1000 flight and a week off work, your guest list will drop from 100 people to 10. That didn't work (in fact wasn't intended) for my niece when she got married. The hotel deal (all inclusive in Cyprus) made it much cheaper for them than an equivalent do in the UK - e.g. cheaper extras such as videographers than in the UK, bigger meal, etc. The resort-style hotel was also cheaper than staying in the UK and the long lead times made flights / bookings quite affordable. Some of the guests treated it as an annual beach holiday with added party. (Personally I thought it was ghastly)
        com 3y ago
        We did an almost-free registry office thing (the free ones were booked out a year in advance). One witness from each side and a surprise attendee who was literally in town at the time (we didn’t invite friends and family because of family drama and logistics issues). It was a very sweet event where the registrant and their assistant were clearly hopeless romantics - they told us, true or not, that they had won the in-office ballot for who could marry us after we charmed the intake panel when we went in to book - the historic room was intimate and charming and the party we organised that evening for unsuspecting local friends was a huge success. All up it must have cost us less than two hundred euros, and was an unutterably perfect day. And our unexpected guest took a great video (which seems to have been lost somehow :-) For some people, simple and small is impossible to beat!
      - rsynnott 3y ago
        I assume the theory is that most people won't want to travel to Mauritius for a wedding, so you end up with a smaller wedding. (Of course, you could just invite fewer people, either.)
    - davidgay 3y ago
      There's also the "get married on top of Half-Dome trick" (13km hike one way, 1.6km elevation gain for non-Californians) - keeps the wedding party small and fit! I didn't do it, but did see one ;)
bewaretheirs 3y ago
Gilbert and Sullivan's "Ruddigore" (first performed in 1887) features a chorus of "professional bridesmaids" who are experiencing a bit of a lull in business: Hannah: Nay, gentle maidens, you sing well but vainly, for Rose is still heart-free, and looks but coldly upon her many suitors. Zorah: It's very disappointing. Every young man in the village is in love with her, but they are appalled by her beauty and modesty, and won't declare themselves; so, until she makes her own choice, there's no chance for anybody else. Ruth: This is, perhaps, the only village in the world that possesses an endowed corps of professional bridesmaids who are bound to be on duty every day from ten to four--and it is at least six months since our services were required. The pious charity by which we exist is practically wasted!

by d--b 3y ago

throwup238 3y ago

Considering how many times the subject ends up crying in a bathroom in the article, it should be more of a dark tragicomedy.

mcphage 3y ago
Weddings are emotional events, even at the best of times. But also a lot of effort and planning and stress.
- arethuza 3y ago
  My wife's mother was very keen on a large wedding, my wife wasn't - we were watching a holiday program on TV and they had weddings in Mauritius and she announced "we're doing that!". Anyway, we ended up getting married in the Seychelles and it was blissful and zero stress... and cost a lot less than a normal marriage. That was 34 years ago so something must have worked.
  - cafard 3y ago
    Less when counting in transportation? Where did you live at the time?
    - arethuza 3y ago
      Scotland So we had to fly from Edinburgh -> LHR -> Seychelles Looking at the current price from the same travel company and hotel it would be ~£8K - still cheaper than most weddings. The actual cost of the "wedding" part was pretty small. Edit: One thing I do remember is that flight out was full of stressed out newly weds!
    - michaelt 3y ago
      Destination weddings can save a lot of money by having far fewer guests, while still retaining the most-important-day-of-your-life glamour that a small scale registry office wedding might lack. Obviously, you can have a small scale wedding in your home country. But a lot of people feel they ought to invite their second-cousin-twice-removed and their family of five, while spending £200 a head on venue and food costs. If attending the wedding needs a £1000 flight and a week off work, your guest list will drop from 100 people to 10.
      - arethuza 3y ago
        The hotel we were at arranged a free room swap with another couple on another island for a few days so we even got a "honeymoon". We went to this hotel for a few nights: https://www.larchipel.com/ https://www.larchipel.com/
      - KineticLensman 3y ago
        > If attending the wedding needs a £1000 flight and a week off work, your guest list will drop from 100 people to 10. That didn't work (in fact wasn't intended) for my niece when she got married. The hotel deal (all inclusive in Cyprus) made it much cheaper for them than an equivalent do in the UK - e.g. cheaper extras such as videographers than in the UK, bigger meal, etc. The resort-style hotel was also cheaper than staying in the UK and the long lead times made flights / bookings quite affordable. Some of the guests treated it as an annual beach holiday with added party. (Personally I thought it was ghastly)
      - com 3y ago
        We did an almost-free registry office thing (the free ones were booked out a year in advance). One witness from each side and a surprise attendee who was literally in town at the time (we didn’t invite friends and family because of family drama and logistics issues). It was a very sweet event where the registrant and their assistant were clearly hopeless romantics - they told us, true or not, that they had won the in-office ballot for who could marry us after we charmed the intake panel when we went in to book - the historic room was intimate and charming and the party we organised that evening for unsuspecting local friends was a huge success. All up it must have cost us less than two hundred euros, and was an unutterably perfect day. And our unexpected guest took a great video (which seems to have been lost somehow :-) For some people, simple and small is impossible to beat!
    - rsynnott 3y ago
      I assume the theory is that most people won't want to travel to Mauritius for a wedding, so you end up with a smaller wedding. (Of course, you could just invite fewer people, either.)
  - davidgay 3y ago
    There's also the "get married on top of Half-Dome trick" (13km hike one way, 1.6km elevation gain for non-Californians) - keeps the wedding party small and fit! I didn't do it, but did see one ;)

bewaretheirs 3y ago

Gilbert and Sullivan's "Ruddigore" (first performed in 1887) features a chorus of "professional bridesmaids" who are experiencing a bit of a lull in business: Hannah: Nay, gentle maidens, you sing well but vainly, for Rose is still heart-free, and looks but coldly upon her many suitors. Zorah: It's very disappointing. Every young man in the village is in love with her, but they are appalled by her beauty and modesty, and won't declare themselves; so, until she makes her own choice, there's no chance for anybody else. Ruth: This is, perhaps, the only village in the world that possesses an endowed corps of professional bridesmaids who are bound to be on duty every day from ten to four--and it is at least six months since our services were required. The pious charity by which we exist is practically wasted!