Justs saw news where Melania's wedding dress cost $200,000. What a piker!

[CTyankee]

My daughter's wedding dress was priceless...

Her sister hand made it, even down to sewing on the tiny seed pearls on the bodice. She also designed and sewed her own maid of honor dress and the dresses of the two other bridesmaids.

Melania will never know such happiness as I had on the day my daughter married 28 years ago. It was a garden wedding and the men wore summer dinner jackets. I hired a string quartet and helped my daughter chose pieces of music which included Bach's "Sheep may Safely Graze."

My guess is that Melania's wedding did not include such real human emotions.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. I consider Malaria's "wedding" as an employment contract for services.

[dalton99a]

2. I think the number was inflated by the groom.

But she had a crap-ton of rhinestones and pearls

[WePurrsevere]

9. Oh my... Normally I figure 'to each there own' but dang...

That over priced scrunch-a-bunch of a dress and veil were not at all the sophisticated sleek and sparkly creation that I envisioned her wearing. I wonder if tacky Trump chose it for her?

[Squinch]

12. Man! That's fugly! It looks like Scarlett ohara being attacked by sea anemones

and giant jelly fish at the same time!

[Raine]

15. I'm sure with what it cost it

it wasn't rhinestones but real diamonds. I've heard Trump has real diamonds imbedded in some of his doors in Trump Tower, I'm sure he would do the same for Melania's dress.

[kskiska]

16. But, then again, he has fake art on his walls

and probably gold paint rather than gold leaf on his walls & furnishings.

[Ohiogal]

3. Your daughter's wedding sounds lovely. You must have been so proud!

Garden weddings are so beautiful.

I went to a nice ladies' store with my mother and she bought me a fashionable cocktail length dress of lace over top of satin. My mom was a widow on a fixed income when I got married, and my husband had been divorced, and I was 30 years old, plus my family is very small. I didn't want big and fancy. I hate being the center of attention. I told my sister, who was my maid of honor, to just pick out a nice dress to her liking. After our small wedding, we went out to dinner at a country club restaurant with our entire group in attendance - 12 people. For me, it was perfect.

I have a feeling there was plenty of lawyer meetings between Mel and Donnie before they tied the knot.

[CTyankee]

11. It was espcially poignant since her bridesmaid sister in law was permanently disabled in an

accident and rolled down the aisle in her wheelchair, beaming.

This made for wonderful memories.

I wish I could post pics but all I have are photographs.

[BigDemVoter]

4. Like everything else, Melania manages to make even the most expensive items look cheap and

tasteless. . . . She is a GREAT example of how one can have lots and lots of money and still be trash. . .

[DFW]

5. My elder daughter will choose her wedding dress in January

I have already canceled all vacations and unnecessary household expenses for the next eighteen months.


(no, not really!)

*on edit--since my brother and I had a double wedding, and his bride wanted to wear a fancy white bridal gown, my wife, ever the cost-conscious farm girl, chose a simple brown dress she saw somewhere and liked. Of course, she looked so spectacular all by herself that she could have worn used brown tennis shorts and a potato sack over it and still stolen the show:

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[OriginalGeek]

6. I'm a sucker for a beautiful wedding

got a little teary reading about your daughter's.

[CTyankee]

8. That daughter is now the head of the Costume Department at Warner Brothers Studio in Hollywood.

I toured the WB lot when I was out there a couple of months ago. It was wonderful.

[tavernier]

7. Bet the designer never got paid.

That’s what he did at many of his events... hired people to cater, design, etc., then told them that he wasn’t paying because his name recognition would get them lots of publicity.

[trueblue2007]

10. i think Malaria is a slutty woman

[sdfernando]

13. why did Melanie even bother to wear clothes at all? /nt

[Buckeyeblue]

14. I'm sure it was never paid for.