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Citizenships are like baseball cards. Collect them all. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I've got three already, going for my fourth next year. #serious face#
veni bibi saltavi
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Yeah! With all those school fees, you can't afford the holiday price hikes on flights.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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chriselst wrote: You have to phone in each morning,
Not sure if She did that, I'll ask. If it was me I'd just phone in on the Monday and say they have Tonsillitis she'll be off all week.
See somebody on the box giving advice on how to sidestep it. The Scots have a slightly different holiday period than us, they break-up a week before or a week after, so you can fly from a Scotch Airport when there kids are still at school at the cheap rate.
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It's still mostly cheaper to pay the fine should you get one than to fork out for a holiday during the school holidays.
I found myself looking at forest holidays recently, looking for a short break with the dog during October half term. The prices for the week after half term were exactly half of those during it.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: It's still mostly cheaper to pay the fine should you get one than to fork out for a holiday during the school holidays.
Yeah agree. That's why the Scots bit. If you fly from an airport there while their kids are still in School (but ours have broke-up) you get the out of school holiday price.
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That is the day after ALL of the leaves fall off of the trees...
One week earlier, splendid fall foliage.
Cheap week and later, sticks and brown leaves on the ground.
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Why not an Irish wedding? That way you can stretch it to two or three weeks! ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Okay. How about having it in Zahara de la Sierra[^]? Romantic village up in the mountains where her father has a small farm and vineyard. The family, at least her father's side, have been there for at least 300 years! We'll call her Ana Sofia Tobora Herrera and she is 29, and quite the catch for fat old Dave who you went to college with and played rugby/football/tiddlywinks with for at least ten years.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Why not an Irish wedding?
Because my daughter will have a suntan when she goes back to school.
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It could be rust 
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I'm sick of that. Let's be from Vermont. And let's have an emerging maple syrup conglomerate.
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Might I at least supply a bride's name?
Bonita Picante del Mujeres Calientes
Now, in the US that might not go unnoticed, but as most of the UK news presenters don't know how to even pronounce "Jose" correctly, you'll be quite safe.
And I'm glad to be of help.
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Quote: We did not find any results for Bonita Picante del Mujeres Calientes because SafeSearch is active and your query contains some restricted word(s).
Google images has some interesting results though.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Honestly - that it seems your safe search is turned up a tad high. However, I'll try the image search immediately.
[edit]: Even with safe-search on the images were quite special. [/edit]
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Ana Sofia Tobora Herrera gives safe results
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I have a bad feeling about googling this one.... but i'm curious (and at work) 
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To be honest (and I ALWAYS AM):
I picked the first name because it sounds like (and is a name).
None of the words are nasty.
I'd not thought to use it for an image search. The Yahoo image search should not be done (at work) with the safety turned off.
Not intentional - but the grand scheme of unforeseen consequences is one of life's party favors.
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don't worry i'm no fool .
It's just that with the little spanish i know i had a general idea where Bonita picante could be refering to.... 
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It roughly translates to "Beautiful spicy hot woman"
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Whatever you, do don't mention the part in the ceremony where all the male guests have to redacted a goat after having redacted a chihuahua.
It probably would not go down too well with the school's child care unit.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Chihuahuas are Mexican, you buffoon. Why would they be involved in a Spanish wedding ceremony. The school would see straight through ... oh wait ... teachers ... as you were!
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I'm sure for a samll fee I can provide this service
I can even answer the phone if anyone checks up.
For a large enough* donation I'll marry my wife again.
Hasta luego
Andy
*needs to cover wedding and guests travel arrangements
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Much simpler if you call the school and tell them that the household has a vomiting bug. They want nothing to do with you until you have had 24 hours without being sick and the virus that causes this can easily last a week.
The added bonus is no one wants to hear all the details on how you felt when you were throwing up.
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really?
Anyway, as Spaniard and married I can probably provide some details on what that means.
1.- Names: You know, we Spaniards have always two surnames (typically first surname is the father's first surname, second is the mother's first surname, legislation has changed recently allowing more freedom at the time of registration). There's a big article at the wikipedia: Spanish naming customs[^, but the above will probably suffice.
Frequent surnames: García, Fernández, Sánchez, González, López, Rodríguez
Frequent names for a woman: María (a safe bet)
[note: beware of placing the acute accents at the correct place, also -ez termination in some surnames, no -es (that would be Portuguese or Hispanoamerican)]
The Spanish National Statistics Institue provides access to the frequency of names and surnames at http://www.ine.es/en/daco/daco42/nombyapel/nombyapel_en.htm[^], so you can get a common enough name.
2.- Location: Feel free to go to google maps. Take a starting place, then look for a church. Marbella is the capital of Costa del Sol. If you want to have something less typical (far from foreigners), try somewhere in Castilla y León (León, Burgos, Segovia) or perhaps Asturias (Oviedo, Luarca) or you might want to get lost in busyness of Madrid.
If your choice is Cataluña or Euskadi, surnames might change, but the INE page will allow to select statistics by province.
I'd look for a small chapel. Not the cathedral or a famous church as it would be more difficult to book
3.- Date: Typically Saturday and typically mid afternoon.
4.- Other details:
If it is a religious ceremony it will be in a church or a chapel (never at the celebration place). If it is a civil ceremony it will at the town council or (in some cases) at the celebration place.
The bride is delivered by the marriage godfather, typically her father (or other man of her choice if the father is not alive). There are no maid-of-honors.
The groom is delivered by his marriage godmother, typically his mother (or other woman of his choice). There's no bestman.
The groom will wait for the bride. Everyone should wait for the bride inside and she should arrive slightly late (to make sure everyone is inside).
In a catholic ceremony, the sacrament of marriage is in the middle of the mass, after the , the couple exchange the rings (that will be worn in the middle finger of the right hand) and the arras (thirteen coins, could be any coin or they could have some personal significance) in representation of the things they are going to share. (BTW, no-one asks if there's any impediment).
At the end of the ceremony, The couple, the godfather, godmother and some witnesses (e.g. some close friends to the couple) will sign the marriage document.
At end, the now married couple will go out together. Typically they are thrown rice (that represents fertility) (although this is being replaced in recent years with flower petals). If you set the wedding in Valencia there will be an enormous and very noisy amount of fireworks.
For the married couple is the time to go to be photographed, for the rest of the people to go to the place of celebration. If it is far or inconvenient to go, there might be buses hired to transport the guests.
The dinner will have three or four courses with previous cocktail while waiting for the couple to arrive. There will be wedding cake that the couple will cut (formally, cutting one piece is enough).
Usually there will be a central table where the married couple will sit, together with their parents (godmother/godfather)
Finally there will be a ball/disco, usually started with a waltz that the married couple will open and then followed by the godmother and godfather.
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The fake wedding invite was an idea I had based on a letter from the school about them requiring them.
I decided to try to flesh out the details because I thought it would be fun, and educational for myself.
Thank you for the effort you put into that reply, very informative, and useful too.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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