Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Gracia's happy news!

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Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 01-22-2005, 09:16 AM:

So, why have I been grinning for an entire week?

My love asked me to marry him! [Big Grin]

The big day is slated to be the 14th of June 2008.

I haven't been able to get a good picture of my ring, else I'd be showing it off.
Even with the length of the engagement, I've already started planning things. [thumbsup]

Posted by Richard Greco (Member # 2032) on 01-22-2005, 09:29 AM:

Congratulations Gracia

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 01-22-2005, 11:05 AM:

Darn! Another Film-Tech Hottie spoken for!! Jennifer? Are you out there? You wanna catch a movie? [Big Grin]

CONGRATULATIONS GRACIA!!! [thumbsup]

=TMP=

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 01-22-2005, 11:58 AM:

That so very AWESOME news Gracia!!! [Big Grin]

The best of luck and many long and happy years together! [Cool]

Congrats!!!

Am I invited to the wedding? [thumbsup]

Thomas, I'm saying "no no" to all prospects for now. [Wink]

I'll keep it in mind though.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-22-2005, 12:42 PM:

Congratulations!

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 01-22-2005, 02:55 PM:

Yes, congratulations!

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-22-2005, 06:04 PM:

I was wondering why you've been grinning for the past week. But I'm glad you said "yes". I was afraid to ask, but am glad I did!

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 01-22-2005, 09:21 PM:

Congrats

Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 01-22-2005, 09:37 PM:

Total grats to ya gracia...

very long engagement coming up.... plenty of time to plan...

ciao

dave

Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 01-23-2005, 06:12 PM:

Congrats Gracia...

May you have many wonderful years of marital bliss.. [Smile]

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 01-24-2005, 02:31 AM:

Congratulations Gracia!

Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 01-24-2005, 08:29 AM:

Thanks all! [Smile]

I don't have a 'set in stone' guest list yet, however, it would be nice to have my film-tech pals present. Of course that means a trip to Maine - unless of course I win the lottery and can pull off something like having my wedding at Stone Henge. [Wink]

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 01-24-2005, 08:55 AM:

Now that would rock!! Get it? Rock..stone..nevermind. Congratulations!

Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 01-24-2005, 09:23 AM:

Congratulations Gracia [thumbsup]

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-24-2005, 10:48 AM:

Wishing you all the Best.

Congrats................ [Smile]

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 01-24-2005, 09:32 PM:

Best wishes for happiness together. [thumbsup]

Posted by Kris Brunton (Member # 432) on 01-24-2005, 09:40 PM:

CONGRATULATIONS [thumbsup]

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 01-27-2005, 02:54 PM:

Gracia, why such a long engagement?

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 01-27-2005, 03:29 PM:

Congrats Gracia. I'm so happy for you!!!! [Big Grin]

Posted by John T. Hendrickson, Jr (Member # 849) on 01-27-2005, 07:37 PM:

Best Wishes, Gracia! [Smile]

Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 01-29-2005, 12:00 PM:

Why a long engagement?
For one, I would like to finish college; two, we wanted to get the astrological timing favorable; third, I want the time to get into shape! I want my wedding photos to look good. [Wink]

I don't want to have children either. So I don't have that reason to hurry up and tie the knot. [Smile]

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-29-2005, 12:45 PM:

Well, I hope it's a great wedding when it happens. Just one tip though: even if you do win the lottery, forget Stonehenge. When I was a student at Exeter and my parents lived in Wimbledon, South London, I drove past it probably once or twice a month. The site itself is surrounded by A-roads (freeways to all intents and purposes) on three sides. Should you ever drive past Stonehenge you'll have plenty of time to admire it becuase the A303 is always snarled to a second gear crawl where it passes the site. It rains there all the time, except for one or twice when it snows. You have to pay £8 ($13ish) to get in. There would be nowhere to hold any reception except a monumentally skanky café which charges around £2 for a cup of coffee (no booze). Having gone through all this you're then forced on a frogmarch round the stones and are discouraged by uniformed wardens from actually stopping and looking at any of them. Taking pictures of them is banned; presumably to maximise their takings from post card sales.

In short, if I ever get married, I think I'd rather do so in a council maintenance depot than in that place!

Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 01-29-2005, 02:09 PM:

Congrats.

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 02-15-2005, 04:14 AM:

Stonehenge has changed a lot since I last visited, I guess. It sounds like what's happened to most of the US Gulf Coast.

Gracia has the option of Stonehenge - Aotearoa in New Zealand. A druidic ceremony with Paul Cassidy, James Falloon, Christopher Wilson, & Brian Hogan would be very nice. The more invitations you send out, the more presents you get!

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 02-15-2005, 04:23 AM:

I always wonder just how they do that "Druidic" stuff. As we know from Ceasar and other classical authors, the Celtic druids did not write any of their teachings down, nor did they share it with outsiders or even uninitiated members of their own tribes. In other words, that knowledge, whatever it may have been, was completely lost - whatever they try to sell you in those esoteric bookstores.
Apart from that, Stonehenge predates the Celtic period by at least 2 millenia. We know practically *nothing* about the people who built it, and for what purpose.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-15-2005, 06:59 AM:

It's a tourist racket, basically; albeit quite a lucrative one.

Whenever I think of druids and Stonehenge I'll always remember an ex-girlfriend who noticed a brief news item covering some ceremony or other they were performing. Not knowing anything about druids, she took one look at their costumes and asked 'What are the Ku Klux Klan doing there?' [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 02-15-2005, 07:09 AM:

A great line, Leo! I love it. Don't hold her "ignorance" against her. Apart from a few brief passages in the works of contemporary classical authors, nobody really knows much about druids, even though some people don bed sheets and pretend they do.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-15-2005, 02:45 PM:

quote: Michael Schaffer
Don't hold her "ignorance" against her.

Wouldn't dream of it. The idea of getting married at Stonehenge must seem quite neat, I suppose... until you actually see the place! I'd still pass on the druids, though.

Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 02-15-2005, 04:41 PM:

Michael, your anser to the " always wonder just how they do that "Druidic" stuff " is....

With the help of UFO's of course ! [Wink]

Agree with Leo and that Stone Hedge is great, until you see it and say "hmmm, I thought it was going to be bigger" But hey, if I ever get married, it would be a cool place to get hitched at. That or an old worn down castle.

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 02-15-2005, 05:11 PM:

Didn't Clark Griswold destroy Stonehenge? [Wink]

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 02-15-2005, 07:05 PM:

quote:
Michael, your anser to the " always wonder just how they do that "Druidic" stuff " is....

With the help of UFO's of course !

You are right. How could I have forgotten that!

quote: Allison Parsons
Agree with Leo and that Stone Hedge is great, until you see it and say "hmmm, I thought it was going to be bigger"

That's true of almost all famous monuments and buidlings I have seen so far. The only exception was the Eiffel Tower. That thing is so big, in reality it's much bigger than it looks in pictures.

Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 02-15-2005, 07:58 PM:

I don't know if Leo put this in a previous post but now you can't even go up to the rocks, you have to walk this roped off path around it. If I did get a chance to walk thru Stonehedge, I would be affraid to touch anything because the luck I have the rocks would fall on me.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-16-2005, 02:37 AM:

I suppose that makes sense from a conservation point of view: those stones might have been up for thousands of years, but it's only recently that thousands of tourists have been visiting the site every day.

quote: Michael Schaffer
That's true of almost all famous monuments and buidlings I have seen so far. The only exception was the Eiffel Tower. That thing is so big, in reality it's much bigger than it looks in pictures.

Try visiting York Minster some time. It's probably not the tallest or largest cathedral in the World, but being surrounded by densely packed buildings less than a tenth of its height certainly makes it look dramatic: even more so given that most of the building in its current form went up between 1080 and 1115. I live about 300 yards from it and that building is always the first thing you see after stepping out of the front door, even in dense fog or rain. Darren once remarked that if you were to gut the interior it would make a great Imax cinema... [evil]

Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 02-16-2005, 10:29 PM:

Congrats!!!

Posted by Rick Long (Member # 213) on 02-17-2005, 01:08 AM:

Congratulations, Gracia