Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 16, 2016

Toni is SO thrilled…

Let’s see Frank and Nancy’s reaction.

planning a wedding is getting more and more complicated than Brad and Toni thought

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Yep – you called it … Bwad picks up the deposit check and they head over to The Fuse to discuss a Dec. wedding with Mr. Gray (bypassing Frank and Nancy because everyone knows they have ZERO control over their place …

Aah… the one thing they were hoping would be provided for them- the one thing that prompted their procrastination, when they initially set out to tackle this….

“It’s Your Thing…” (♫)“57 Varieties, 31 Flavors…”“Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock…”“Where’s Two-Face, When You Need Him?”“Options 4-2”“Any Colour You Like…As Long As It’s Black” (♪)‘And, But And Or’ll Getcha Pretty Far…" (♪)“So…How’s That Function?” (♪)“At The Junction Of A Funky Conjunction”“Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda” “An Aversion To Divergence”“In A Maze”“The Dilemma Of A Fair Affair”or“There’s Love In The Air…And A Coin”

Brad remains clueless. He got the gene from Frank – who was all excited about Pru moving in. Toni should just show up one night and say, “get in the car – we’re eloping…”

I see an elopement on the horizon – or the Fuse’s ultimate destiny.

Brad is FABULOUS!! If you know what I mean.

It’s so much easier to go to Las Vegas and get it over with.

Just have the wedding at your church and the reception at the Fuse and the honeymoon in Vagus.

Nothing like being caught up in the wedding industry.

I see sticker shock on the horizon!

I guess toni didn’t expected it to be more work i would have thought brad would say that not toni though

The couple’s work has just begun. Think about all the work it takes to stay married? Lots and lots of work everyday until the end of your life. When you pick the right person to spend the rest of your life with, the work is pleasant. If not, it is much harder to stay together and make your marriage work.

Actually to have the venue to all this for you is rather convenient! Imagine having to schedule the florist, the DJ, and the catering ALL separate! WHEW!

All this BALLYHOO for a coupla hours of “Wedding Stardom.”

How about an “Options Meeting” for the REST of Your Lives???

She offered her chaos to meProffered herself languidlyThe eldritch bitch must have muddled her spellsTinges of Persia, I hope that it sellsChemical nuptials and ringing the bellsIt’s heavenly I say

Alright, I like the lady with the bun and a pencil stuck behind her ear, and anybody who says she’s not “hot” is a liar.

Water features?

Woman I worked with took the job to help pay for her daughter’s wedding 2 years hence. The wedding was a grand affair, antique cars even. 6 months latter the groom/hubby was in a standoff with the cops, he had a shotgun and was babbling about money, they were flat broke and it gave him a nervous breakdown. The daughter went into hiding for a year. Yeah, great wedding.

You can just stick with simple. “No” is an easy word. No doves, no balloons, no water features, etc. White linens, recorded music playing in the background, stainless steel flatware, white plates, a cake, a few hors d’oevers (sp). I went simple, no one complained.

Been my sentiments all along that the Brad/Toni relationship does not flow naturally. Sure, they’ve gotten to this point, and they’ve been friends and colleagues (and guardians of Shannon), but not to the point of spending a lifetime together. At the same time, though, Frank and Nancy have endured, so perhaps Brad and Toni’s partnership could follow a similar pattern.

“why would she think this is great?”.She is hearing “great” as “very large,” or a very big deal, but actually those options are simply choices that need to be made.

They really should have checked with family about the new date before booking it. Everyone thinks the wedding is 9/11, They may have made other plans for Dec. 11. That is a Sunday. I know I’d be watching football.

Options are Optional, they can say no to the things they don’t want. They probably do have to spend a minimum amount, but they would already know what amount that is since they signed a contract when they paid the Non-Refundable deposit.

Brad is so much like my wife. And Toni is much more like myself.

“Sometimes I feel like Brad knows nothing about Toni. She’s been whining about a big wedding for years, why would she think this is great?”Brad’s as clueless as his father. And he isn’t listening to Toni, which doesn’t bode well. Not so long ago, Toni would shut down his dumb ideas. Now she’s going along, with no enthusiasm. Doesn’t bode well either.

SO I have one tinney, weinnie little question here: If Brad and Toni were having such a hard time deciding on where to hold their wedding – we had at least a week of strips where they went around to look at all the places to hold weddings and none were any good – then how did they overlook this place or why did they turn it down the first time but it is now acceptable?

Still it is waaaaaaaaay better than a Fuse Shotgun wedding!

Just because the place offers all those bells and whistles doesn’t mean that Toni and Brad’s wedding has to have them. Like funereal homes, these type of places will push all the added crazy stuff, like doves, to jack up the price; but nothing says they have to have doves in their wedding. Toni can still have a small, simple but lovely affair – the thing is not to get carried away at the options meeting.

Theme? They’re getting married. That should be the only “theme”.

The Fuse was originally supposed to be for the reception, after the small, simple wedding. But it seems that Cottage 4-2 does not deal in “small, simple” weddings. Either elope, go elsewhere, or blow many precious thousands of dollars on this upscale place, Toni and Brad!

Forty years ago we held our wedding on a shoestring budget at a local park. My BIL said if there were more weddings like ours, he’d go to more weddings. At least three little girls who attended grew up to have similar weddings (one even wanted to have it at our park). A good time was had by all.

Today’s strip is disturbing. It shows that Brad has never been listening to Toni in all the times she’s discussed her ideas about the scope of their wedding, and almost certainly they haven’t been listening to each other when they’ve discussed their future lives together, either. They are strangers to each other. Furthermore, how long will it take for this idiot to realize that his parents own an auditorium where they could get married in front of an audience – no need even to rent chairs – and then they could have the reception in a dining room of that very same facility? When dope-boy finally realizes this (or more likely, has it called to his attention), he will react like it’s a stroke of genius. (“Wow, I never realized! Who would ever have though of it!”) -OK, we all know that Brad and Toni are ill suited for marriage (in general, and especially to each other), and we know that Brad is a dim bulb indeed, but should the strip be emphasizing those points and mining them as the basis of a story line? I would think they fall more nearly into the category of “awkward little secrets about Brad and Toni that we had rather not call attention to”. Apparently that’s not how Team Evans considers them, however.

Brad, you still haven’t heard what Toni told you about her wishes, have you? Try taking Listening 101 before she says “I do”.*BS, looks like you were right— they’re looking for a place that cam be both for the ceremony and the conception. But if they want a priest to do it, it will need to be private and immaculate.

Brad, your opinion will be needed – and then discounted.

Did they ever have the New Year’s show at the Fuse, which was Pru’s excuse for staying in town? If so, what’s keeping her here now?

Sounds tacky… and they’ve already paid… mistake #1…too rushed.

Wow… people just drown on a glass of water planning a stupid wedding.

FOLK,S THE WEDDING NOT GOING TO HAPPEN EVER

What’s the problem, you dimbulbs? Go to the airport, fly somewhere warm, and get a motel room. You won’t be coming out of it for a week anyway. Hell, you might as well fly to Detroit. Or Detroit, you might as well fly to Hell. You won’t care.

Don’t worry about the cost. Bunhead is Mr. Gray’s ex-mistress from the days she was running an “escort” service in Las Vegas. They’ll re-kindle old fires and she’ll practically give it away.

Everything in this strip is very shallow and politically correct, so Greg will avoid many things like the plague. Therefore don’t talk of church, or love, or politics, or tradition, or pregnancy. These are paper people living plastic lives. You can talk wedding, but not “the” marriage.

Maybe Pru meant they were getting set for New Years 2017.

Thank you! And once again, good to hear from you!

Oof… this is why I’ll never get married. Marriage itself seems fine but wedding planning sounds like the most unpleasant thing on the planet to me.

OKStep One – Pay deposit – checkStep Two – Find out everything is extra after doing step one – checkStep three – be declared an idiot – checkStep four – there is no step four

When is the other shoe gonna drop?