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Mauve.

I loathe the color mauve.

So my sister calls me last Friday night while I was at Caryn and Will's and tells me that the dress I am expected to wear for her wedding isn't going to be peach. It's going to be mauve

WHAT?????????

I don't do mauve.

Yes, I know that this is her wedding, not mine. but she doesn't have to wear it. And dammit, if I were getting married and she were in the wedding I'd have the consideration to not make her wear mauve. Gawds, I'd rather do seafoam green.

So we go around in circles a bit and she tries to give me an idea of what it's like...so she uses the most ghastly example possible.. "You know what color the wall is behind the sink in my kitchen?"

Yes! I know precisely what color that is and I find it to be particularly objectionable.

Oh, a little while back, she'd told me she expects me to dye my hair a normal color. So that I don't embarass her in front of Dave's relatives. Great, now I'm embarassing. All because of my hair color. Like she didn't used to *go out of her way* to embarass me regularly.

so I tried to bargain with her and said I'd agree to the color if I could keep my pink hair. She insists no. Oh, and the material was bought and paid for. "Diana went along and she agrees to it so you should like it too."

But I != Diana. Hello?

Mom says it's "pale rose" which is a VERY far cry from their kitchen wall. And then asks if I would have preferred to wear orange because the store didn't have peach.

YES! I really WOULD prefer to wear orange. I would prefer orange over a great many colors...including especially mauve. i said this and mom's answer was "you know your sister hates orange."

Dammit, now I want to get married so I can have a wedding and ask Chelle to be a bridesmaid and dress her in orange.

Hey, if she makes me wear mauve, I am perfectly entitled to make her wear orange. I could make her dye her hair too. Orange. To match the dress. Orange orange orange.

Okay, anyone wanna marry me so I can make my sister parade around in an orange dress? (We can have it anulled later. I don't think I'd want to spend my entire life married to anyone on my friends list. Y'all are wonderful people but...ya know...well, there might be one or two exceptions. :-P )

Comments

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

I've always suspected that forcing your bridesmaids to wear awful dresses is the real reason a lot of women have big weddings in the first place!

[penguinicity.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you could have seven bridesmaids, make them dress in orange, and have them spell out "Sunkist" when they line up.

[arcanefairy.livejournal.com]

Its her wedding, and if shes paying for it, wear the mauve. However if she expects you to pay for it, say no. Also it's your hair, you can do whatever you want with it. Don't dye it. If she doesn't want you to "embarass" her future inlaws tell her you won't come. Won't that look lovely. Your hair is part of you, it's not her decision what you do with it.

[iamjanjan.livejournal.com]

mocha?

[leodios.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I'm so tired of princesses that demand everyone jump through hoops to make "their special day" so perfect. The fact that she expects you to dye your hair is ludicrous. And, frankly, if she's embarrassed to be seen with you, maybe you shouldn't come. Wouldn't want to upset her on "the big day" after all.

[fervid-dryfire.livejournal.com]

What's not to like about mauve? There're worse colors out there.

Looking at that color makes me want to go to the store and buy a box of Good & Plenty. =)

[fuego.livejournal.com]

that's purple. I'd swap mauve for the color of a box of good and pleny any day.

http://www.toddlerock.com/images/Chairs/Mauve%20Vinyl.jpg

That is mauve.

[fervid-dryfire.livejournal.com]

Still makes me think of G & P. =P

I guess your complaint is falling on deaf ears (or eyes?) because I don't perceive a discernable difference in those colors.

[dcnblus.livejournal.com]

*ROFLMAO*

the wedding should be in October or November then, just to make sure that everybody resembles pumpkins :) It'll be a "harvest theme" wedding

[corpslave.livejournal.com]

Tell her that if you can't keep your hair color, you'll shave it all off and go to the wedding bald.

[unprotoize.livejournal.com]

The many amazing facts of mauve!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauve

[chironcentaur.livejournal.com]

Pardon my ignorance, but who is Diana and why is she the all knowing oracle of all things Renee loves?

I agree with what everyone here says about your hair, its yours, you have to live with what it looks like beyond the wedding day and she can't make you do anything with it. If you want to keep it pink, keep it pink. Your sister of course will attempt to verbally eviscerate you if you do so, but if you think its worth it to be embarrassing (and I would) then do so (and why would this embarrass the in laws, their son isn't marrying you, for the love of the gods).

I like the orange wedding. I'd like to be there to see it. From the sidelines of course, comfortably wrapped in my black cloud. :-)

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Diana= Maid Of Honor and Sister-In-Law-To-Be.

My sister has it in her mind that if she has an opinion, and someone- anyone- else agrees, then somehow that must be more than enough to make me magically agree with...whatever. I can't tell you how many arguments have included her saying "Even *insert someone else we both know, usually irrelevant to argument* thinks so!"

[iamjanjan.livejournal.com]

*shudder*

[iamjanjan.livejournal.com]

seems like they've got a wiki page for just about everything...

proposals??

[liritsvoice.livejournal.com]

i better be one of those exceptions, hon. and for our wedding, i think we can do without both mauve *and* orange. that way both you and your sister can be happy. the bridal party will wear chainmail and/or fishnets. i hope this will please your sister. :-)

[liritsvoice.livejournal.com]

bad friend!!! that's enough out of you!! no more convincing people to bail out on their friends'/family's weddings!! that's it. i'm gonna marry and divorce no less than 20 times and i expect you to be there for each!!!!!!!

:-D