Julia Altshuler wrote:
> Janet Baraclough wrote:
>>
>> I suppose it's all down to what one thinks a wedding is for. If it's
>> a spendathon social event involving lots of pre-selected presents and a
>> let's-pretend quiz, then it makes sense to hire lots of thin beautiful
>> strangers for the crowd scenes on the video.
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>
> <dope slapping forehead>
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> Why didn't I think of this?
> This has to be the next big thing in wedding planning. For years I've
> gotten the idea that the lavish arrangements weren't really for the
> comfort of the guests and that I was just a prop for the wedding video.
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>
> And to think I was appalled at the idea of hiring professionals to write
> the toasts and speeches.
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> For that matter, why only have thin beautiful people for the crowd
> scenes? You might as well have good looking models to play the parents
> of the bridal couple too.
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> Since it's all about staging the perfect party, getting gifts, and
> impressing the right people, I don't see why the bride couldn't be
> replaced with someone younger and prettier too. (Wait, men are doing
> that already.)
Only the men with money. The rest of us tend to hang on to what we've got.
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>
> There's gold in them there hills.
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>
> --Lia
>
They've got wedding planners, wedding singers, wedding caterers, why not
a cast of hundreds you can hire to put on your society wedding.