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My billboard!! LOL

Original post by bearsbabe_113

Well girls, the infamous 'billboard' is up on my living room wall!!! We had it framed and picked it up on Saturday. For any brides-to-be reading this, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT GET ANYTHING BIGGER THAN A 20x24 -- TRUST ME, THAT'S BIG ENOUGH!!!

The billboard, for those who don't remember, is my wedding portrait that my wonderfully delirious husband insisted on getting in a 30x30!! Now that it's framed, it's now a 42x42!!!! And the man who insisted on this monstrosity, was refusing to hang it up because it's 'too big'!!

The funniest thing was when we went to pick it up!! IT WOULDN'T FIT IN THE CAR!!! I was hysterical laughing watching him try to finagle something and cursing under his breath! I was so HAPPY he picked this out and not me! He finally listens to me and puts the front seat down, so that now I have to look like a big chooch sitting all the way up w/no support behind me, but we didn't live far. We get home and now he CAN'T GET IT OUT OF THE CAR!!! Well, I almost peed in my pants and he wasn't too thrilled with me or the picture at that moment!! Our neighbors see him carrying this gigunda thing and say 'oh art work' and he mutters 'it's our wedding picture'!! I burst out laughing!

Now on to the hanging! More huffing and puffing and muttering on his end and finally he gets it up and stands back. I tell him 'ya know, I b**ched and moaned about it, but it doesn't look to bad now that it's up' and he looks at me with a big grin on his face and says -- are you all ready?

WE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE 30X50!!!!!!
LnP2003 Posted:

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i wanna see the billboard.... PLEAAAEZZZZZZZZZ

Fran M Posted:

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too funny
30 x 50! I didnt know they made them that big.
shamma Posted:

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I love when you write about you and Joe and your adventures, I want to see it in person Deb. that is too funny, I could see Joe now, and you laughing...not nice. You 2 are funny
phyl Posted:

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i am laughing soo hard- thank you for sharing your adventures!
Sassyz75 Posted:

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You almost got me fired with that story I was laughing so hard.

Betty Posted:

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I got a 20x20 and thought that was big!!! 42x42
ILT1221 Posted:

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That is so funny. Just think when you both get old and your vision starts going you won't need your glasses to admire the picture!

bearsbabe_113 Posted:

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Irenie !!! This is true!! Actually he keeps telling me 'what's going to happen to that picture in 100 years?'??????? Who cares, we won't be here, so don't worry about it!!!! Then he gets sad!!!

Thanks guys!! I'm happy to keep providing you all with some laughs, albeit at my hubby's and my expense, but whatever works!!! Seriously, it really is quite funny being in our house and when we went to pick out the frame, the guy in the store (my friends BIL) was trying not to laugh at us! Joe's picking out these typical gaudy guinea frames and I'm picking out these modern looking things! My friends BIL goes to me 'um, those gaudy guinea frames are coming back in style' and Joe is like 'SEE' and I'm like 'I don't care, they're hideous! Next thing you're going to tell me is you want the couch to be upholstered!!!'

No offense to anybody who has upholstered furniture, please, I grew up with it myself!!!
anna Posted:

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Deb, this thread has me dying laughing !! LOLLL.

I agree about not so big pictures! Our package came with two, I think 16X24 ?? and thats BIG ENOUGH FOR ME ! and another one we got 8X10, and john wanted it poster size !! LOL, I was like NO WAY, 8X10, with a matt with be 11X14 !

LOL, ginny frames !!

oh, what you said about a baby picture. We have a shot of me kissing john Anthony seconds after he was born, it really is a picture that captures that moment, and john was like 'I wanna blow it up to poster size' I Was like 'how sweet, but uhmmm, nahhh, not that big !!'

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Here I am after 24 hours of labor kissing this little cutie pie precious, but NOT poster size!
bearsbabe_113 Posted:

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OMG, can you imagine the size picture Joe will want when this baby is born???? We'll need to build a house with a wall big enough!!!! Or maybe he'll just rent billboard space along the LIE or something?
MichelleW Posted:

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LMAO

Deb I know a guy at Viacom Outdoor that could probably give you a good deal
bearsbabe_113 Posted:

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Michelle, can you imagine??? Don't ever tell Joe that, he'll take you up on that offer!!!!
ILT1221 Posted:

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I really want to see this picture now!

bearsbabe_113 Posted:

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Sit tight Irenie!! Next time I'm up at MIL's, I'll scan a pix of it!!
ILT1221 Posted:

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I can't wait. This picture is like a legend to me now. LOL!

kelly4 Posted:

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bearsbaby: you can hang this next to your 'billboard' to take the attention away from it! It may help balance out the room LOL!
ChristineC68 Posted:

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Debbie, this is hilarious!!! I can totally picture you two getting this huge picture out of the car and I almost fell over when you said 'Jow said we should have gone for 30*50!!! hahahahahhaaaa

michele31 Posted:

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You MUST photo of this on your wall!!! Please, please, please.

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