Barbara Bush marries her beau in Maine

[Anonymous]

I think she’s extremely unphotogenic. Had you attended in person I bet you would have thought she looked beautiful albeit a low cut dress

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Well, I guess I’m an outlier. I love the photo of her in the flowered rehearsal dress. She has small breasts and just owns it.

I’m not crazy about the wedding dress only because the fit. I I saw her in person, I would be too distracted with worry that she was going to move the wrong way and accidentally expose herself. Buy hey, if she was comfortable in it, then whatever.

She’s beautiful, the family and wedding were beautiful, and she looked happy. Good for them.

[Anonymous]

I think she's pretty. She looks like her mom. (W and Jenna have the too close, squinty eyes that make them look like rats.)

Jenna had her wear a bridesmaid dress that covered her bony chest. Small boobs are fine but we don't need to see everything but the nips.

[Anonymous]

Makes me sad that she didn't have anyone to say to her "Not sure that dress is making you look your best..."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think she's pretty. She looks like her mom. (W and Jenna have the too close, squinty eyes that make them look like rats.)

Jenna had her wear a bridesmaid dress that covered her bony chest. Small boobs are fine but we don't need to see everything but the nips.

I'm a PP. I have always thought Laura and W look similar. Their kids just look inbred.

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Anonymous wrote:Her mother, Laura, is a murderess. Their whole family makes me absolutely ill.

Wait... what now?

She killed someone while she was driving drunk as a teenager.

Not true.

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Anonymous wrote:Her mother, Laura, is a murderess. Their whole family makes me absolutely ill.

Wait... what now?

She killed someone while she was driving drunk as a teenager.

Not true.

True that she killed someone in an accident, but not true that she was driving drunk.

From the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/books/28laura.html

But it is her description of the deadly accident, and its subsequent impact on her life and her faith, that is the subject Mrs. Bush had most shied away from speaking about in her public life. On a November night in 1963, Mrs. Bush and a girlfriend were hurrying to a drive-in theater when Mrs. Bush, at the wheel of her father’s Chevy Impala, ran a stop sign on a small road and smashed into a car being driven by Mike Douglas, a star athlete and popular student at her school.

“In those awful seconds, the car door must have been flung open by the impact and my body rose in the air until gravity took over and I was pulled, hard and fast, back to earth,” she says. “The whole time,” she adds later, “I was praying that the person in the other car was alive. In my mind, I was calling ‘Please, God. Please, God. Please, God,’ over and over and over again.”

Mrs. Bush concedes that she and her friend were chatting when she ran the stop sign. But she also suggests a host of factors beyond her control played a role — the pitch-black road, an unusually dangerous intersection, the small size of the stop sign, and the car the victim was driving.

“It was sporty and sleek, and it was also the car that Ralph Nader made famous in his book Unsafe at Any Speed,” she states. “He claimed the car was unstable and prone to rollover accidents. A few years later, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration went so far as to investigate the Corvair’s handling, but it didn’t reach the same grim conclusions. I was driving my dad’s much larger and heavier Chevy Impala. But none of that would ever ease the night of November 6. Not for me, and never for the Douglases.”

Mrs. Bush reveals that she was wracked by guilt for years after the crash, especially after not attending the funeral and for not reaching out to the parents of the dead teenager. Her parents did not want her to show up at the funeral, she states, and she ended up sleeping through it.

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Anonymous wrote:Makes me sad that she didn't have anyone to say to her "Not sure that dress is making you look your best..."

Yup. My mom would have said “that’s not very flattering.”

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Anonymous wrote:It’s way better to be her weight than the weight of most American women. Sad but true.

Really?? I disagree. I would rather be a size 10/12. I don't mean to pile on her, she probably has issues we aren't aware of, but let's not act like her skeletal figure is appealing or desirable. It likely comes with a lot of pain and anguish and related health affects.

Regardless of her frame, she deserves congratulations and best wishes for a long, happy marriage. The Bush sisters were fun to watch when they were teenagers and they have grown up to be smart, composed & good people!

Gosh, as an equally thin person, who knew I was supposed to be suffering with "a lot of pain and anguish and related health effects (fixed the spelling for you)"?? I had no idea my thin physique should be making me so miserable. Thank you, PP, for enlightening me. I'll make an appt. with a psychologist ASAP.

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Anonymous wrote:Dubya is freaking adorable.

Agree.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the dress with the purple straps looks really good on her! Not the wedding dress or rehearsal dinner dress, the other one. Also, agree with PPs who say y'all are haters. I'm so happy for Barbara on her wedding day & glad the family looks so happy. Good for them for keeping the wedding low-key. Also, I love Laura's Wedgwood dress, even tho it's not my personal style.

-Democrat

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Love the dress with the purple straps. And Laura's dress! It does remind me of Wedgwood, but I like that. Very unusual and fresh looking.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I guess I’m an outlier. I love the photo of her in the flowered rehearsal dress. She has small breasts and just owns it.

I’m not crazy about the wedding dress only because the fit. I I saw her in person, I would be too distracted with worry that she was going to move the wrong way and accidentally expose herself. Buy hey, if she was comfortable in it, then whatever.

She’s beautiful, the family and wedding were beautiful, and she looked happy. Good for them.

+100

[Anonymous]

Why were both of her sister’s dresses that weird off the shoulder style?

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Anonymous wrote:Why were both of her sister’s dresses that weird off the shoulder style?

Because they are from Texas and it's probably a southern style.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow...she's ummm, spilling out to the side.

There is nothing to spill.