Here Comes the Mother-to-Be

NY Times ^ | 3.13.2005 | Mireya Navarro

[NYC GOP Chick]

Stephanie Keith for The New York Times

Carmela Pampillonia says she found her Catholic parish "very accepting" of her wedding at five months along.

[cyborg]

:sigh:

[crazyhorse691]

I was doing the video at one wedding where the very next day the bride gave birth. That would have been some video if the baby had decided it wanted to see what all the noise was about.

[mlmr]

We settle for shreds in today's culture.

[A knight without armor]

Nice. Real nice.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Well, on the positive side, they're not aborting the kid and they are getting married.

[cyborg]

OMG you just read my mind *lol*

[Finger Monkey]

Seven months pregnant and 4" heels, man, she isn't too bright.

[keithtoo]

On a side note: It's surprising that in a NYT piece, they constantly refer to "the baby" when speaking of a 7 or 8 month pregnant woman.

I thought the NYT crowd was only supposed to refer to these entities as fetuses?????

[mlmr]

Some are not aborting and some are getting married. But it actually sounds like the reason for the big wedding is ME ME ME!!!

[Lizavetta]

"It's all become, 'Hey, look at me. I'm pregnant!' "

It's not only weddings.

Everywhere you look it's "Hey, look at me!".....either with skin tight low rider pants with rolls of fat hanging over, tattoos, knobs and bolts in the eyebrows and noses, purple hair, etc.

There's something wrong when people look to total strangers in society for attention.

[Jeff Chandler]

"Marriage is supposed to be a symbol of love and unity, and a child brings you more love and unity,"

Catholic marriage is not supposed to be a "symbol" of anything. It is supposed to be a real covenant in which a man and a woman give themselves completely to each other in a reflection of the love between the Father and the Son, and between Christ and his Church.

A child is the result of that love.

[mlmr]

I thought the NYT crowd was only supposed to refer to these entities as fetuses?????

Fetuses immediatly turn into babies when they are wanted by the biological mother. And these women are having themselves large extravaganzas, not becasue they love their husbands, but becasue they are with child.

[SIDENET]

"But for brides like Ms Pampillonia, however, etiquette was not on top of the priority list."

Yeah, no s**t.

[taxesareforever]

"They're older, they're more confident," said Carley Roney, editor in chief of The Knot

But hardly makes them smarter.

[Jeff Chandler]

Well, on the positive side, they're not aborting the kid and they are getting married.

Thank God for that. Of course, if they had a clue, they would have had a discreet service without the hoopla. Unfortunately, to many women, the party is more important than the marriage.

[mlmr]

In my work I have met many men who told me how they had to marry their wives becasue of the pregnancy. They felt used.

I always thought that the time a young couple spends together prior to the children arriving as the cement to help lay a strong foundation in the marriage.

[SuziQ]

At five months along, she should never have been married in the Catholic Church because, with a baby on the way, she's not entering into the Sacrament freely and without encumbrance. Shotgun weddings are NOT valid! This priest ought to be horsewhipped!

She could have had a civil wedding with the fancy dress, and the reception I'm sure her parents paid dearly for, then after the baby was born, gotten married in a small Church ceremony, where the Sacrament would be valid

[Slings and Arrows]

OMG you just read my mind *lol*

Mine too. Would that be considered "light reading?"