Fix...
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85146)
Shingle Springs, California
September 3, 2009 12:26pm CST
Hm, I should go find the photo and post it. Can't right now, not at home.
Anyway, you know the tradition of the bride at a wedding throwing the bouquet? All the single females line up, the bride turns her back and tosses the bouquet blindly. The person who catches it is supposed to be the next one to get married. Well, I freely confessed that I fixed the result at my wedding. When everybody was all lined up, I turned around and threw it straight to my sister. 
She caught it too!
My cousins started yelling, "fix, fix." lmao
Did you ever make sure something would get the result you wanted by *ahem* cheating a little bit?
She caught it too!
My cousins started yelling, "fix, fix." lmao
Did you ever make sure something would get the result you wanted by *ahem* cheating a little bit?5 people like this
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Hang on, we fixed our pet dogs and cats when I was a kid, is this the same thing?
If not, then I got nothin'.
@ElicBxn (63705)
• United States
3 Sep 09
lol... I've been to a a couple of weddings and people were pushing me forward - because I was about the oldest single woman there - and I told them, as I was being pushed forward, that if it came to me, I'd let it hit me and fall to the ground before I caught it - they let up - never caught one, let someone else catch them
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
9 Oct 09
At our wedding, I didn't throw the bouquet, and my husband didn't do the garter thing. I had a bouquet but my husband no garter. Of course, it wasn't a traditional wedding, that and there was only a few single people there...
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
9 Oct 09
Yep it is! I can't think of a time I've "cheated" to get the result I wanted... though I probably have.
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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4 Sep 09
Hi dawnald,
Oh lord!! when I threw min it lande4d on the food table and all the singles just scrambled to get it, you should have seen them, it was the funniest sight to see, but the girl who mange to get, got married three months later.
Tamara
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
5 Sep 09
oh gosh, that's funny... I hope you didn't like the top too much!
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 Sep 09
haha did she get food all over herself scrambling for it?
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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5 Sep 09
Hi dawnald,
Yeah, she got cheesecake all over the front of her and had to go back to my place to getone of my tops, you know I never got it back, lol,.
Tamara
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
3 Sep 09
hehehe if it looks like a cake and tastes like a cake, it's a cake...
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Oct 09
I got a joke e-mail on that topic after this was posted. The Little White Lie Cake:
New lady in town volunteers to make a cake for the church bake sale. But she's running late and the cake falls. So she stuffs it with toilet paper, frosts it and sends it to the church with her daughter who has instructions to buy it right away and bring it back. Well somehow, the snootiest lady in the church snaps it up without it going up for sale. The next day the new lady goes to a party at the snooty lady's house and is just mortified because there is the cake ready to be served for dessert. Well people start complimenting her on how beautiful the cake is. That's when the hostess says, "I baked it myself". The lady who really made the cake smiles and thinks to herself, "God is good."
@prashanthalva (2272)
• India
4 Sep 09
Hi Dawnald .. I Just thought You Should Listen to My Response .. What You Say Seems To Be right Out Of A Fairy Tale .. Well If You Really Had Your Wedding this way, Your Sis Couldn't Have asked For More ..
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 Sep 09
I guess not. Of course she didn't return the favor. 
@breepeace (3014)
• Canada
9 Sep 09
Too funny! :)
My best friend tried to throw her bouquet to me at her wedding, but her 14 year old niece was really pushy, and ended up snagging it from me.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
9 Sep 09
Goodness, I wonder why she was in such a hurry to catch it!!!
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
5 Sep 09
Did it work for your sister? The only thing that comes to mind i let my grandson win in whatever we are playing most of the time but i shouldn't. he's got to learn u don't win all the time.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
7 Sep 09
same with my son....
Anyway she caught the bouquet and got married the following year, so I guess it worked1
@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
4 Sep 09
this is quite funny . well i have not done so. i dont remember being in any situation where i will have the say as to whom to give something on another person. but i may do that in case, for example in some game or contest or whatever the occasion is. like i may favor one person over another person and will make sure that the person i like to get it will get it.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 Sep 09
aha reminds me of the peeking thing...
I feel another discussion coming on.
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
4 Sep 09
Was that a cheating? Ahh, I don't think so. What if some other person took the place of your sister, or what if others could catch that bouquet or what if she couldn't catch that!
Even if it was fixed from your side but you never know!
@marctiu (829)
• Philippines
4 Sep 09
I was really having fun reading your description. First of all I would like to congratulate you for your wedding. For the question you have raised. Well I can't say that I've tried it because everytime I try to cheat and have things to go my way every thing don't fall to places where they are suppose to be. So I stay away from that.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 Sep 09
Thanks but that was 26 years ago!
And yep, that's why they have the expression "cheaters never prosper". More often than not, you get caught!
@EnglishTeaDuck (862)
• United States
4 Sep 09
lol....good for you! Sisters have got to stick together...!
I don't think I actually threw my bouquet, although it wasn't a kind of compact one but more holding long stemmed roses so it wouldn't have thrown well...lol
The only way in which I may have, um, cheated is that in my degree, which was in Drama, I did one course called Dramatic Adaptation, where were were supposed to take a novel or a poem or whatever and adapt it to become a theater piece.
I wrote the theater piece and then wrote the poem and said it was 'Anonymous'.
Ahem!(I was still adapting a poem though...kinds....!)
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 Sep 09
I had a separate bouquet for the throwing, didn't throw my actual one!
Your own poem? Well if you had written it first, I would have given you extra credit for that, but writing it afterwards, hmmm...
@cloudwatcher (6861)
• Australia
3 Sep 09
I'm sure I have, I know I have . . . .
Would a little bit of matchmaking count?
Sorry, can't think of anything.
I'll have to think about this while I'm working and come back.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
3 Sep 09
Sure why not? Especially if it worked out...
ah....I don't...ah believe.....ah that....I would....ah do something like that!
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
3 Sep 09
Oh Dear, the lamb and you have had face lifts. lmao
@devilyangel728 (39)
• United States
4 Sep 09
Of course everyone cheats a bit to get the results they want.
Although I think in this situation it's a little mean to throw it directly at your sister. She might be feeling a bit bad about being unmarried now that you are and that just emphasizes her single status. It's great that you want your sister to get married but there are reasons that she's not and she might not be proud of that.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 Sep 09
Oh no, she was younger and with a new boyfriend and they got married a year later, so that was OK.
