[Margaret]

This is almost exactly like the basque/corset i had. And pretty much what my dress looked like.

I was slightly bigger in the boobs than these two lovely women though.

Purely in the interests of research, I dug out my wedding photo album to refresh my memory - and wouldn’t you know it, I got my dress style skightly wrong. I can’t think why (there were a lot of weddings at the same time - but you’d think I would remember my own wedding dress!). It was actually a corset-style dress (I think I had a shrug/wrap, which makes me think I had it off-shoulder).

It brought back a lot of memories looking through it. 😘😘😘

[solvegas]

^ As time goes by and you naturally age, memories and several of their details can be forgotten or changed. Most of us do not have what is called photographic memory.

[Hiram]

Purely in the interests of research, I dug out my wedding photo album to refresh my memory

I thought you'd be reminiscing.  It is fascinating how we think we remember things and then we find out that we didn't quite get it right.

I wonder if you'd ever do it all again (not remarried) but like if you could go back in time and reenact the whole thing?

You've made me reminisce about all the weddings I've been too - some as a kid.  My sister got married in the 80's, when the only record was apart from pictures was an audio tape.  I'm sure that wedding cost £25K even back then (£81k today jeez) glad I didn't have to pay that!

I do wonder what the future of marriage is. I don't think people are going for it as much as they did,

[solvegas]

Purely in the interests of research, I dug out my wedding photo album to refresh my memory

I thought you'd be reminiscing.  It is fascinating how we think we remember things and then we find out that we didn't quite get it right.

I wonder if you'd ever do it all again (not remarried) but like if you could go back in time and reenact the whole thing?

You've made me reminisce about all the weddings I've been too - some as a kid.  My sister got married in the 80's, when the only record was apart from pictures was an audio tape.  I'm sure that wedding cost £25K even back then (£81k today jeez) glad I didn't have to pay that!

I do wonder what the future of marriage is. I don't think people are going for it as much as they did,

The institution of marriage has been in decline for 60+ years in the Western World and it is now in decline throughout the world. I'm old enough to remember how we were going to have world overpopulation but now it is a crisis of world depopulation. It is now predicted that China's population will be half of what it is now by the end of this century. There will be too many old people and not enough young people.

[Margaret]

Purely in the interests of research, I dug out my wedding photo album to refresh my memory

I thought you'd be reminiscing.  It is fascinating how we think we remember things and then we find out that we didn't quite get it right.

I wonder if you'd ever do it all again (not remarried) but like if you could go back in time and reenact the whole thing?

You've made me reminisce about all the weddings I've been too - some as a kid.  My sister got married in the 80's, when the only record was apart from pictures was an audio tape.  I'm sure that wedding cost £25K even back then (£81k today jeez) glad I didn't have to pay that!

I do wonder what the future of marriage is. I don't think people are going for it as much as they did,

I’d do it all again in a heartbeat - but you can never go back. I’ll never be that young again - but that’s fine. It was a truly magical experience - it’s the very definition of being a princess for the day - something I’m sure almost every little girl dreams of doing at some point in their early life. I have great memories of it, and I still have the dress (if not the lingerie) it’s packed away in storage. I’ve no idea if it would fit me (I very much doubt it).

[Margaret]

Edited.

[Hiram]

I’d do it all again in a heartbeat - but you can never go back. I’ll never be that young again - but that’s fine.

No, alas true.  Although with virtual reality, in the future, maybe.

something I’m sure almost every little girl dreams of doing at some point in their early life.

I don't think that ever leaves a women - I have a friend who will pop in to random weddings when she sees one as she enjoys them.

I have great memories of it,

These days people will have high quality video to watch when they get older.  I'm not sure if that is a good thing or not. It is nice to reminisce. 

[Scarface]

Is Hiram alright? Haven't noticed him around for awhile.

[solvegas]

Is Hiram alright? Haven't noticed him around for awhile.

I thought I was the only one who had noticed his absence. Hope he's alright. 

[Margaret]

I noticed this too. Haven’t heard from him in weeks. We had been in touch by email, but he’s not responding to any messages now. I hope he’s okay.

[solvegas]

Hiram hasn't been in the BEA since November 29, 2023. 

[Margaret]

Would you guys be interested in seeing some AI images trained on me?

I’m quite nervous about this, but after fishing out my wedding photos and other old pictures of me, I spent the last week learning about Stable Diffusion, and worked on some basic training of AI on my face/body (when I was younger!). The results are remarkable - I had no idea how well it would work out.

I know I can only post one image per day (I think?), but I’d be interested to know what you think of them. They’re (mostly) clothed photos - kind-of idealistic notions of what I’d look like in certain outfits that I like, or lingerie that I used to own (I still feel a bit weird about seeing those!). Of course; I’ve gone slightly bigger in the boobs, to give you guys something to enjoy. I can tell you, it is the weirdest thing - they more or less look like me, but very slightly different - like a cousin or a sister. It’s truly startling (for me anyway), and they look incredibly realistic and natural.

Let me know, I’ll start posting them if you think it’s something you’d be interested in.

[solvegas]

I'd love to see any image of you that you wish to post. You are a BEA Princess, and we want to bow down to you. 

[Margaret]

I'd love to see any image of you that you wish to post. You are a BEA Princess, and we want to bow down to you. 

That’s very kind of you. Let me take a bit of time to think about which one to post first (I have many!). Even though I know they’re not actually me - it’s a weird feeling, because they’re similar (albeit much more attractive and refined than little old me - and some 20-ish years younger!).

It’s so out-of-character for me to do something like this - I joined this forum by accident more than anything (to see what my husband was up to), and I’ve come to really like it - but my persona on here is very different from who I am in real life. Even if the photos aren’t real, it still feels a bit like I’m giving away a small part of myself (and I’m irrationally worried that someone might look at the photos and think “ooh, that looks a LOT like someone I know!”).

I’ll post something later today when I’ve stopped fretting over it.

[solvegas]

I'd love to see any image of you that you wish to post. You are a BEA Princess, and we want to bow down to you. 

That’s very kind of you. Let me take a bit of time to think about which one to post first (I have many!). Even though I know they’re not actually me - it’s a weird feeling, because they’re similar (albeit much more attractive and refined than little old me - and some 20-ish years younger!).

It’s so out-of-character for me to do something like this - I joined this forum by accident more than anything (to see what my husband was up to), and I’ve come to really like it - but my persona on here is very different from who I am in real life. Even if the photos aren’t real, it still feels a bit like I’m giving away a small part of myself (and I’m irrationally worried that someone might look at the photos and think “ooh, that look a lot like someone I know!”).

I’ll post something later today when I’ve stopped fretting over it.

Looking forward to it.