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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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The most important thing is the bullfight - name the bulls, and have pictures of them on the invitation, along with the bullfighter/toreador.
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No bullfight for a wedding.
Although there might be a small chance of a "capea", certainly not in the wedding day, but in preceding days (e.g. a long weekend where people are joining for several days) or as a stag&hen outing.
Never been to, but a "capea" is basically an outdoor party where the participants get bumped and trampled by a (fortunately) very much scaled down version of a real bull, being still painful enough.
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Now that everyone seems to go crazy about the new Windows version I recognize that there is pretty much the same discussion going on with every new Windows version. Remember when people rather wanted to stick with Win 98[^] instead of going with XP?
Time flies by, and UI are changing. Over time there was always more screen real estate becoming available, and users needed to adopt to new ways of using this SRE.
MS is more and more pushing towards service based payment and we (as developers and users) have exactly three options:
- Go ahead and adopt with the future
- Stick with Win 7 and ignore new ideas (Including the hope of MS going back, which won't happen until there's desert in Alaska)
- Go get a Mac / Chromebook / Linux installation
Your decision.
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For about 7 years now my main machine is Linux (Fedora) and all the others are VMs..So I have not the slightest problem to install any new version of Windows - in a VM...
To make it more fun, VirtualBox has the 'seamless' mode for years, so actually I never open the VM as VM but only windows of the applications I use...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Um...except for Windows ME. And Vista. And Win 8 ... 
Me? I stuck to XP to avoid the horrorshow that was Vista.
Then I stuck with Win7 to avoid the kiddie play room that was Win 8.
Win 10? Hope it works...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And why did Microsoft go to W10 instead of W9? My theory is they cannot count unless it is money. 
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Because even they want to be as far away from Win8 as possible...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The best theory I heard was that there was too much code in the wild doing something like this:
if (WindowsVersion.StartsWith("Windows 9"))
{
}
else
{
}
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That could be true.
However, when has MS ever thought about what the users do?
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Corporal Agarn wrote: However, when has MS ever thought about what the users do?
Very often, actually, at least when they have examples. Go read The Old New Thing some time to see the horror stories of the Windows team dealing with the insanity of ensuring backward compatibility with every program out there.
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I guess they did not want to put everybody on cloud 9?
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That would be better than a love potion no. 9[^]
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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It's not Windows Ten, it's Windows 9 in base 9. The idea is that you can correct mistakes and issue SPs upgrade ad infinitum by simply changing the base. Windows 10 actual will be Windows 10 base 10, Windows 11 will be Windows 10 base 11, Windows 12 will be Windows 10, Windows 13 will be Windows 10, .......
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Hmmm...Dessert in Alaska!
But really, I have come to expect very little from Mickeysoft and they still managed to disappoint me often enough. SO i lower the bar one more time and be happy if their junk is not too annoying or buggy. Their grand new ideas don't interest me at all.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: Dessert in Alaska!
Sounds like a half-baked idea. 
There are strangers on the Plain, Croaker
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Who cares? Is your jet fueled and ready?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I go even further back.
Going from DOS to Windows was for some taking real computing and turning it into a kid's game; I preferred the GUI to the command prompt but still like keyboard over mouse.
Then we got to the great Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 fuster cluck. I admit it, I ran the program manager inside Win95 for a while as I preferred the UI. Actually I didn't, I just hadn't made the change to my mind set.
I enjoy change, I even change my clothes daily, so why not embrace it? If you have difficulty with the new UI, then you'r probably getting old or spending too much time with ![Sheep | [baah]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sheep.gif)
veni bibi saltavi
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It doesn't matter. I spend most of my day in Visual Studio with some random file copying in Windows Explorer. A potential few new shortcut keys and I'll be able to ignore the new OS like I ignore my current OS.
Hogan
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Marco Bertschi wrote: Remember when people rather wanted to stick with Win 98[^] instead of going with XP
No I don't. That's because back then, I was rather enjoying the stability of NT4 (relatively speaking - 98 sets that bar pretty low), then 2000, then XP.
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Many may gasp at this, but I skipped XP, staying on 2000 until 7 came out. For now, I'm sticking with 7, even with the offer of a free upgrade to 10...after SP1 I might reconsider. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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