Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 04, 2014

So, That’s what happened!…the wedding planning was taken from Nancy and Frank and their wishes were ignored… ;)

“Not Safe For Weddings”or“Parental Guidance Strongly Resented”

“Sugar…. Oh, Honey, Honeymoon”“The Dull….And The Not So Dull”“The First Dance After The Reception”or “Do Not Disturb- Frank’s Got This One!”

Sometimes the best wedding stories come from what went wrong. We were wed by a state Supreme Court judge who turned up at our early afternoon wedding drunk as a skunk and rushed through our ceremony so fast that one invited couple arrived just as we were kissing. Decades later it still makes us laugh.

God be with the Fort Hood victims and their families tonight.

Well, don’t make the same mistakes as Nancy’s parents. Let the kids decide.

Well, considering Frank and Nancy stayed together, what we can conclude from today’s strip is that Brad and Toni should spend more effort on their honeymoon then their wedding. Which actually makes sense. A wedding is one really odd day. A honeymoon is the beginning of the rest of your life.

…and the bride’s sister… ;)

Frank seems a bit miffed at the IL s… he sounds as though it was “Fiddler in law” and “Meddler in law”, as far as what they were planning was concerned…. I suppose he feels his wedding wasn’t…safe from their clutches…

OK, FRANK- YOU CAN STOP RIGHT THERE!!

TMI! TMI!

It’s not the Wedding ceremony that’s important… or how much you spend (Note: the multi-million dollar weddings of Hollywood that end up in divorce… within months of the nuptials). It is the marriage… have a reasonable (money/guest list wise) ceremony and have a great marriage. Invite friends and family to a nice anniversary party to celebrate your first year together…

a. That one doesn’t make sense, because there are no orange paisley ties and orange stiletto heels to go with the grey plaid…b. The most likely choice, as Frank would consider the slow-tempo ballad “Beth” to be a good wedding song.. (Just a few more hours, and I’ll be right home to you.. Oh, Beth, I mean, Nancy, what can I do?..)c. followed by releasing a second Flock- Of Seagulls….d. can’t be this, since there are no leaky walls and “zuiders” to have to fix, and no hardware store to hand out free cans of Dutch Boy Paints™ to the guests…

What Frank said is based on the old belief that the bride’s parents pay for the wedding.

More whine, Frank?

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“d. Since Degroot is Dutch, Frank wanted a traditional Dutch wedding complete with the groom wearing a lace collar and cuffs, Nancy wearing a solid black dress, and a reception where the food served is sugar cake, marchpane, sugared almonds, chapter-sticks, sugared beans, and Hippocras.”

Since they’re Dutch, they could be Lutheran. We tend to do receptions as a potluck in the church hall. If you like three-bean salad, you’re golden.

Lemme guess.. they tried to test the camel out, by tossing the $40 and a drinking straw on the camel’s back?

That’s heavy, man… heav-yyy….

That is too funny! And I am a mother inlaw, but my daughter and I have had too many marriages between us for me to care about planning any!!! LOL!!!

For both of us marriage was a career! She hates it when I talk about it. Still friends with all the exes though so we must do something right!

“I do like 3-bean salad, however it sounds too practical. Maybe Frank wanted 4-bean salad.”

Yeah, he’s a wild man.

No man complains that his wedding was too practical.

the honeymoon was climactic?whodathunk?

Got married by a justice of the peace, didn’t have a honeymoon – I mean go away to a nice vacation spot – still married 30 years later.

The wedding was anti-climatic but the honeymoon was not. I daresay this is Frank’s first “Arlo Award”!

My advice is to have a small ceremony and a large reception.

Frank, she does not want to hear how Brad was made.

“The Parent’s Took Over”. THOSE Words? The KISS of DEATH, Toni!

ELOPE. The DeGroot’s will Get OVER it.

Oh, and Frank? The “Honeymoon” Bit? Waaaaaay too Much INFO!!!

A wedding only happens before God (or god(s)). It is a ceremony. Everything else is just a legal procedure. Hence the distinction between “marriage” and “civil union”.

The wedding isn’t the big deal we all make it out to be.

Practical. How about taking the kitchen carving knife, wrapping the handle with waxed paper and tying a string around it? No thanks, Mom. I’ll buy some satin ribbon and silk flowers to put around it.

Have been through this twice as relations to the bride. Believe me, the father of the bride has no influence what so ever. He just writes cheques.

Frank, you old dog! Toni, take what he says with a grain of salt. On second thought, make that a pound of salt….

They say 50% of all marriages end in divorce and the other half end in death..One of my many cousins was a Baptist, same as me. We don’t lightly believe in divorce but he was a bit flawed. Due to his wife’s religious convictions opposing divorce, she did not divorce him.She shot him through the liver.Being a tough old cus, he overed the flesh wound, but he was MUCH less presumptive of his wife after that. He finally made a fairly decent husband and it only took a single 38 to adjust his attitude.WHEN NOTHING ELSE WORKS,PUT YOUR FAITH IN SAMUEL COLT(brought to by Women For Better Husbands)

Usually the bride;s family is in charge of a wedding. But Tony’s parents are not in the picture, so are Brad’s parents paying or Brad and Toni paying???

So, Toni, don’t listen to Nancy or me. You and Brad do whatever you want to do, have any kind of wedding you want.*On the other hand, Nancy is telling her son, “We had a wonderful small wedding. You should have one exactly like ours. In fact, I’ll plan it all for you.”

Maybe he climaxed. He can’t speak for his bride.

>I had to give her mother 12 chickens, 2 goats, a camel, and $40.

1 hump, or 2?

I’m happy to see from Frank’s smile that the honeymoon was . . . satisfactory.

Jonah. When the bride’s Dad is deceased, it’s conventional for her brother to take his place in the wedding ceremony.

“However the honeymoon…” I’m sure he remembers it fondly, one of only two times he and Nancy have done it. How do I know? 1. How many kids do they have? 2. They’re in a family newspaper.

“Hopefully Dirk will do it.”^Re…straining…. or….der…….

“We seemed to corner the market in flippin’ crock pots….”^For us, it was dish sets… we registered at Target (Tarzhay), to make sure that people could get an affordable gift (everything we registered for was $40 and under, except for a $70 microwave), but people showed up with dishes from just about everywhere else on the globe. It must have been about 4-7 sets of dishes… as if somehow we would never be able to eat, if no one got any…..

If Jonah is unavailable, maybe the Fire Captain can step in.

Ha ha!!

“Last they talked it was perfectly civil and they departed as friends.”^That’s fine and dandy! In fact, I was glad! -

However , Brad still has a restraining order against Dirk. He’s getting his life together, raising his family, but that will be jeopardized, should a public official see that Dirk was violating that order, and decided to be “technical” about it. Fire Service present at a wedding. Wouldn’t maybe a couple of Pitts’ Silver and Gold Badges also be there?….

LOL on your “bride price!” ;)

No, Greg Evans provided the, as you call it, “dirty” entendre.

@Gweedofrom yesterday:I use an iMac. We also have 3 PC’s, a lap top (PC), and two tablets. I use the iMac and iPad and hubby uses (read “plays with”) the PCs and the other tablet. Not sure what it is, but it’s not an iPad. The lap top is split, his side, my side. I used it when I traveled a lot, before I got the iPad. Anyway, I know where the special characters are on both, but there’s a lot more stuff on these pages IJB gave me links to. Or I just don’t know how to use what I have…more likely.

Why are you going on about something that needs absolutely no explanation?