Comments on: The Cartoonists’ Parents

By: joe dreyfuss (jdreyfuss)

joe dreyfuss (jdreyfuss) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:46:02 +0000

My parents got married in 1977 and, between the drawing of the wedding photo and your desription of the colors, I think theirs looked exactly the same as your parents, with the obvious addition of powder blue yarmulkes and a huppah overhead.

By: kicking_ k (kicking_k)

kicking_ k (kicking_k) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:46:01 +0000

We had to have a meeting with the minister too - Church of Scotland (Protestant) and it basically went:

Minister: Jon isn't religious, right? Can I help you come up with vows you're both comfortable with?

Us: Ehm, OK!

Strangely, Shaenon's parents' relationship sounds exactly like my grandparents'. They made it to their diamond wedding, still arguing. My mother says she did her best to check that my dad was much more peaceable than her father before they got married.

By: Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity)

Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:46:00 +0000

Andrew's brother got married at the Venetian in Vegas. It was excellent. I very seriously recommend the Vegas wedding.

By: Vlad Taltos (flyingfish)

Vlad Taltos (flyingfish) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:45:59 +0000

My dad’s a Protestant minister, and although there’s nothing requiring him to give a class, he gives it anyway because he wants to make sure the couple has thought through what being married means. Being still single, I’ve never attending it, but I understand the first thing out of his mouth is “Over half of all marriages in the US end in divorce. Tell me why you’ll be different.” (I’m guessing, in the case of the Garritys, the answer would be “Because we’re too stubborn to give my sister the satisfaction!”)

By: Eric Burns (ericburns)

Eric Burns (ericburns) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:45:58 +0000

For the record? Vegas was awesome. Our ‘wedding planner’ (he came with the package) had a pompadour and was cheerful. Our chat with the pastor was three minutes which involved our selecting a service and asking they not play the Wagner/Mendelssohn processional/recessional. Later, we got to see our names in lights over the strip for twelve glorious seconds. And the ceremony was beautiful, as was Wednesday, and was over in seven minutes whereupon we sat down and watched friends do the same thing.Then we had Korean food and drank ourselves silly to the sound of slot machines and bad rockabilly.I swear, I’m choked up just thinking about that day. No joke. I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

By: Maricruz Villalobos-Zamora (maki_p)

Maricruz Villalobos-Zamora (maki_p) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:45:57 +0000

You know, I live in a Catholic Country (no seriously, we still have official religion and all), and I understand, getting married is complicated and priests are obstrusive. Did you have to take a course? People who get married in this country (Costa Rica) HAVE to take a course, and the best man and maid of honor too (same if you want to be a godparent); well, at least here the guys here are not crazy enough to espect you not to use birth control, they know the turf. Anyway, I'm glad you survived.
Good luck from a Fake Latin Catholic to an Irish Catholic

By: Fandarel (fandarel)

Fandarel (fandarel) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:45:56 +0000

Sounds like its also a catharthic marriage

By: Elaine Corvidae (elaine_corvidae)

Elaine Corvidae (elaine_corvidae) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:45:55 +0000

True story: My husband, who is not Catholic, was best man in a Catholic wedding. The groom actually had to make a substantial “donation” to the church before the priest would okay his presence in the wedding party. Of course, this was over twenty years ago, so things may have changed even in the wilds of PA.

By: Paul Marshall (potatoengineer)

Paul Marshall (potatoengineer) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:45:54 +0000

My Catholic wedding was fairly permissive. I didn't get anything about using the right birth control (the weekend wedding-prep seminar talked about it, but never attempted to extract promises), but it turns out that if you're marrying a non-Catholic, you can't have a Mass (with the whole communion bit and the rest) at your wedding ceremony.

It's good to not be Catholic. Can you imagine tacking on another hour to the wedding?

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:45:53 +0000

(TUNE: "L-O-V-E", Nat King Cole)

L is for the way you loudly yell;
O is for your overbearing smell;
V is how you vary ... your vile vocabulary;
E is everyone expecting us to quit and run!

Well, LOVE we share, although we fight and fuss!
LOVE is there, although we swear and cuss!
Yes, I love you, jerk! Now shut your face and go to work!
Yeah, LOVE is made for both of us!