Another thing that people don’t factor into this is that couples who go this route typically rely on the free labor of their friends and families to achieve it. Someone’s setting up those chairs, the mismatched decor, etc. If you only want to rent one lot of chairs, the guests are carrying those chairs from the…

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I’m happy for all of you and happy for me. I’ve been checking the site daily both out of habit and “just in case”. The other day it looked different and I got so excited thinking you were back!

And so is the comment section! Hurray!

God yes. I remember looking into cool alternative venues for my wedding and when I looked into the cost of bringing in all the stuff I was just like, “Nevermind.”

Yup! My backyard wedding was in SoCal, in October, which meant there was an excellent chance the weather would be perfect, but a real chance it would be too hot, and a very small chance it would be too cold, or it would rain. So we had tents, heaters, *and* misters, all ready to haul out at a moment’s notice. The…

The cost of the chair rentals is legit. I got married in my parents' backyard, and that was way more expensive than it sounds. A wedding venue that includes everything you need is the way to go if you want to keep costs and effort under control. 

She fucked Elon.

Nope, not according to the dude upthread who says it may as well have been a leg of lamb 

oopsie

I’m having a hard time reconciling 29 weeks.

I think you are right. We’ve seen in the past prosecutors try to charge for murder in these cases and the person gets off, so I think we are seeing that shift to them going for the lesser charge, which sucks, but its one that all but (hopefully) guarantees that person will see jail time.

It was surely murder, but I see why the prosecutor might not want to leave a murder charge in the hands of a jury. This is same fucking state whose jury acquitted George Zimmerman on SYG defense; anything could happen once you get twelve Floridians in the box. I think they’re going for manslaughter because it’s much…

Fingers crossed but still, all she’ll need to do is cry and plead and you just know she’ll have a wry smile walking out of the courts.

Yeah, I mean silver lining here is that even if she's not facing murder it's not like manslaughter isn't serious. With the manslaughter plus the assault charge she could still be looking at 30 years or maybe even more.

This seems a bit too optimistic to me. You can serve racism with a “benevolent racist” strategy too. Letting her off on an offense that can be nothing more than time served can be justified in many ways. The real motivators are pretty obvious here. Not to mention you can be prosecuted for both and the jury can be…

Republicans are transphobic bigots spearheading an increasingly genocidal persecution of trans and queer people. They would have found something to manufacture outrage about from this event no matter what happened or who attended in their desperate attempt to gin up rage from their miserably hateful and increasingly…

Please fuck all the way off...

This is an unhelpful misogynist comment. 

So how is that supposed to happen then? You know that birth control is also being limited in some states with Republicans looking to get rid of birth control as well.