# Please... give me wedding advice!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-give-me-wedding-advice/387123>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 8, 2007, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-give-me-wedding-advice/387123 "2007-01-08T05:03:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tabula\_Rasa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@Tabula\_Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabula_Rasa)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-give-me-wedding-advice/387123/81 "2007-01-10T14:55:44Z")

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Rubystreak, the winery sounds great. If there’s any of everything that the wine guy turns out not to do, involve the bridegroom in what’s left. Involve him extensively.

Congratulations!

Tabby

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**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-give-me-wedding-advice/387123/82 "2007-01-10T21:40:05Z")

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[QUOTE=Rubystreak]  
Think AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Tom Waits, stuff like that. Hell, we don’t want the Wedding March either. I’m not sure how to handle THAT aspect of it.

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You know, I had this “horrible” idea for wedding music for my own (eventual) nuptials that I shared with my fiance, and it was things like playing mostly Tom Waits’ more jazzy pieces… and possibly (if we had table assignments) naming the tables after his song titles.

I hate the wedding march, I don’t know what I’m going to do about this whole “walking down the aisle” thing, and I’m [marginally] obligated to have an attendant. Thing is, my best friends are mostly guys and none of them live near me anymore. I also hate most things that are girly, so this is going to make things more difficult. I understand where you’re coming from on the “let’s just have it in my back yard” idea, and it’s a great one. (I’m going to have to have mine on the beach or something, as nobody I could ask has a back yard, myself included.)

As for dresses that’d be appropriate, J. Crew’s site has a section for weddings, and there are at least a handful of attractive tea length dresses there that’d work. Bonus is that they’re pretty and somewhat fancy [yet understated] and they’re a hell of a lot less than some bridal shop frock.

Anyway, congrats on the engagement, and good luck on the planning!

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