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cbayer

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15. I will think of you next week and want to send my best wishes to

Reply to hootinholler (Reply #11)

Sun Aug 25, 2013, 03:07 PM

Aug 2013

your daughter and her intended.

I adore my incoming daughter in law (and her family, who I have gotten to know over the past year).

It will be a tough contest over who cries most - her father or me.

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Something different on a Sunday afternoon, giving away a bride... [View all] hootinholler Aug 2013 OP

Did your daugher ask you to do this? Brickbat Aug 2013 #1

Indeed she has asked hootinholler Aug 2013 #3

It's not about ownership any more. Voice for Peace Aug 2013 #5

+1 - this post made me tear up. cbayer Aug 2013 #7

Might want to? ROFLMAO hootinholler Aug 2013 #10

I thought if you get it all out this week Voice for Peace Aug 2013 #17

It's a strategy then. hootinholler Aug 2013 #23

As to what you say when asked who gives your daughter to be married, winter is coming Aug 2013 #19

+1 Arctic Dave Aug 2013 #12

Congratulations, Dad! leveymg Aug 2013 #2

Thank you Mark! hootinholler Aug 2013 #4

Looking forward to that. leveymg Aug 2013 #6

I will be the mother of the groom next Spring, and I start cbayer Aug 2013 #8

I was totally cool until last week hootinholler Aug 2013 #11

I will think of you next week and want to send my best wishes to cbayer Aug 2013 #15

Thank you very much! hootinholler Aug 2013 #16

Here's an idea: coffeenap Aug 2013 #9

my folks raised me the same way fizzgig Aug 2013 #13

+1. My brother gave me away (my dad was dead). To us, it wasn't a property thing, either. winter is coming Aug 2013 #20

My goal with my kids has been hootinholler Aug 2013 #21

And then they tell you you're doing a great job. n/t winter is coming Aug 2013 #22

The last time I got married, LWolf Aug 2013 #14

I think your wording sounds just fine. The other thing you could consider pnwmom Aug 2013 #18

I was at a wedding last weekend. The father of the bride's answer to "who gives this woman..." was Chiyo-chichi Aug 2013 #24

I *really* like that MadrasT Aug 2013 #25

I like that. hootinholler Aug 2013 #26