Boris Johnson's girlfriend Carrie Symonds is PREGNANT: Prime Minister and his First Lady are engaged as she announces 'We've got a baby hatching early summer'

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15 minutes ago, laylalex said:

I mean, isn't that the old joke? Like, you ask a guy how many kids he has and he says "one... that I know of."

One of the reasons I qualified it, perhaps he needs a give or take number. Like the King of Siam.

[laylalex 7,300]

1 hour ago, Boiler said:

One of the reasons I qualified it, perhaps he needs a give or take number. Like the King of Siam.

I mean, hasn't he heard of birth control?  I did see that one of his concubines special journalist friends conquests ladyfriends did have an abortion. There's keeping it in your pants and there's also wrapping it up. He needs more wrapping it up.

 

At least the King of Siam was building a dynasty. Unless Boris isn't telling us something.

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Boris is a maverick, who knows?

 

Whilst I think about it I met a lady who does weddings, beauty aspect and she specialises in, well not exactly her words, high maintenance bride parties, the ones that others run away from.

 

Anyway if you need contact details let me know.

 

 

[laylalex 7,300]

11 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Boris is a maverick, who knows?

 

Whilst I think about it I met a lady who does weddings, beauty aspect and she specialises in, well not exactly her words, high maintenance bride parties, the ones that others run away from.

 

Anyway if you need contact details let me know.

 

 

Ha, thank you for thinking of us. ❤️ I'm starting to think I want to elope to be honest. I have been looking at wedding dresses and I signed up to a wedding planning website, and I remembered how terrible it all is. If I elope, no bachelorette/hen party from hell.

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I may be speaking out of place but is there not somebody else who might have a say?

[laylalex 7,300]

Just now, Boiler said:

I may be speaking out of place but is there not somebody else who might have a say?

Errrrr, oh yeah, him.  I really should see what he wants.

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I was thinking of your Mother.

[yuna628 9,716]

14 minutes ago, laylalex said:

Ha, thank you for thinking of us. ❤️ I'm starting to think I want to elope to be honest. I have been looking at wedding dresses and I signed up to a wedding planning website, and I remembered how terrible it all is. If I elope, no bachelorette/hen party from hell.

We did not elope and neither of us had a stag or hen party. Having an actual wedding does not mean you have to do 'traditional' things that the 'industry' tries to force upon us. Early on I signed up to those planning websites, then quickly realized they were useless.

[laylalex 7,300]

6 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

We did not elope and neither of us had a stag or hen party. Having an actual wedding does not mean you have to do 'traditional' things that the 'industry' tries to force upon us. Early on I signed up to those planning websites, then quickly realized they were useless.

Yes, I know -- Boiler and I have a little ongoing joke about mine. I mean, my proposed-maybe-maybe not one.

 

I used The Knot last time, and it was useful for me to keep track of things I needed to do. I got a wedding planner to help me though so I think it was more paranoia than anything else. I was way, way more bought into the wedding industrial complex last time, that I had to have certain things for everything to be right. I lost my mind the day of when I discovered the florist had used a dark green and red tartan ribbon on the floral centerpieces instead of forest green, because it looked too Christmassy, and I did NOT want my wedding to be about Christmas, even though we were getting married on December 18th. I discovered that absolutely ZERO other people cared, including my fussy ex and his horrible mother. I'm using another one now, and it's been useful for setting up a registry, since we're already getting people pestering us about that, even without setting a date. 

 

We are agreed that what we want more than anything else is to have a great party with our family and friends. The party will be about them and how they've supported and loved us over the years, just as much as it is about us. And I expect I will probably have at least a mini-hen, even if it's just going out for a few drinks once the UK crew has come into town. 

18 minutes ago, Boiler said:

I was thinking of your Mother.

Mom is kind of hands off about these things and isn't super keen on (as I termed it above) the wedding industrial complex. I think she would live, though I can see the argument for having at least close family present for the ceremony.

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Strongly suggest a heart to heart so everybody is clear and there are no misunderstandings.

[laylalex 7,300]

2 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Strongly suggest a heart to heart so everybody is clear and there are no misunderstandings.

Literally in a Hangouts conversation about it now. 

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2 hours ago, yuna628 said:

We did not elope and neither of us had a stag or hen party. Having an actual wedding does not mean you have to do 'traditional' things that the 'industry' tries to force upon us. Early on I signed up to those planning websites, then quickly realized they were useless.

We got married at home.  Paid to have my best friend at the time be a marriage commissioner.  My wife cooked for the 7 in attendance, and we had a great time.  Think we spent less than $300 for food, dress, marriage license, marriage commissioner, everything.  Very proud of our frugal wedding!

[laylalex 7,300]

1 minute ago, Voice of Reason said:

We got married at home.  Paid to have my best friend at the time be a marriage commissioner.  My wife cooked for the 7 in attendance, and we had a great time.  Think we spent less than $300 for food, dress, marriage license, marriage commissioner, everything.  Very proud of our frugal wedding!

That sounds very reasonable, and the most important thing is that it is what YOU wanted. Both of you, I mean. I want this to be what both of us want, and I was told that due to being "stupendously jetlagged" there was no possibility of cogent thought on the topic. But we should talk about what we want because we haven't really beyond the first discussions we had when we were really excited. 

 

I hope Carrie Symonds has a better idea than I do! (See, dragging back to topic.)

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19 minutes ago, laylalex said:

That sounds very reasonable, and the most important thing is that it is what YOU wanted. Both of you, I mean. I want this to be what both of us want, and I was told that due to being "stupendously jetlagged" there was no possibility of cogent thought on the topic. But we should talk about what we want because we haven't really beyond the first discussions we had when we were really excited. 

 

I hope Carrie Symonds has a better idea than I do! (See, dragging back to topic.)

It seems to follow that the length of the marriage is inversely proportional to the amount of money spent.

I know this doesn't apply in your situation, since you are already a made woman, but it breaks my heart to see kids have weddings that cost $20-50,000.  I think of the cars and houses they could buy if only they were willing to spend a LOT less on a silly ceremony, and I just SMH.

[laylalex 7,300]

20 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

It seems to follow that the length of the marriage is inversely proportional to the amount of money spent.

I know this doesn't apply in your situation, since you are already a made woman, but it breaks my heart to see kids have weddings that cost $20-50,000.  I think of the cars and houses they could buy if only they were willing to spend a LOT less on a silly ceremony, and I just SMH.

I think some of it has to do with where you are -- I have friends who married in Tennessee a few years ago, GIGANTIC wedding (~400 people, his parents paid for it), and it was still under $20k. I doubt I could have anything nearly as large out here for that amount without compromising on what I want. (To be fair, they just started divorce proceedings so...)

 

I have already had my big wedding, so has Alex. I think we're on the same page that a smaller event with ~100 people is what we're looking for. My bigger concern (and one that is troubling me more and more) is how to handle his ex. We 100% have to have his daughter with us on the day, but she'll be 7 by the time we get married. That means her mum needs to be over here too. Her mum and I are friendly and have a pretty good rapport (we used to be closer years ago, but time moved on) but I feel weird saying (1) come celebrate the wedding of your ex-husband! or (2) your daughter is welcome but you probably don't want to be there. What is the happy medium? Like, have another relative collect his daughter for the day and arrange for the ex-wife to do a spa day or something? I have no experience with any of this. I want the ex-wife to be happy and not to feel awkward, because she's a good person and really pretty lovely. I want this to hurt as little as possible for her.