YES - I hate that favors are required! That said we did do little favors - but mainly because I had such a good idea for them I couldn’t resist. But indeed, weddings absolutely do not require them.

*We did little packets of seeds which doubled as escort cards. The seeds were California poppies mixed with Irish…

In my family this is very true. What can I say, we like to party. We had to supply our own booze at the hotel for them to serve in order to do the open bar, then just pay for the bartenders. So my dad and I went to BevMo and asked “how much do we need to get for 150 people” and when they told us we said “double it!”.…

That’s cute - we had no gendered requirements for the bouquet toss (and didn’t do a garter toss). My 8-year-old nephew caught the flowers and then let my crying niece have them because he’s a kind big-brother.

I don’t lack empathy and I did toss my bouquet! I just got hoisted on a chair and some of my friends-in-relationships and all kids at the wedding (regardless of gender because ‘catching things!!’ and I did not do the garter thing) and drunk cousins gathered in a mosh-pit type collective, and my 8-year-old nephew…

Our favorite mom-story is one we (my dad and I, mainly) like to embarrass my mom with whenever we are with her family. She’s a special education teacher and avid birdwatcher, and all-around practical lady who has never owned a pair of heels. Her sisters tend to think of her as the introverted one - which is fairly…

I really love Julia Sweeney. I listened to her two books on audio and I weirdly loved Pat in the 90s. Sweeney and Dratch as well are two smart and funny women I wish had bigger post-SNL careers.

Is this just NYC? I am genuinely shocked. I get my nails done and the woman who owns the salon is there 6 days a week usually, and her kids come in after school and wait for her to finish with her client and she goes home with them. The staff are all great. I got my nails done there with my bridesmaids before my…

I have to take xanax to fly without a full-on crying episode. It does help though when a pilot says that we’re expecting turbulence, rather than just dinging on the fasten seatbelt signs - actually any indication of what’s happening helps me from imagining the worst. Also, the sound of the signs going on and off…

I had 7 - I included my sis, sister-in-law, and 5 friends. My mother-in-law thought it was excessive, but I didn’t want to edit - in fact, if I could do it again I’d have added one friend who I regretted not including. My friends travelled really far for my wedding and helped me out a lot during the planning process -…

I usually put 3 avocados, a big handfull of cilantro and lime juice in the food processor and call it a day. Everyone is always like “OMG this is amazing”, and really it’s basically avocado paste with some cilantro. Sometimes simple is good.

Also, I often just spread avocado on toast or eat it with some salt and a…

Oh my god let’s start a support group. My husband rinses his hands with water all the time! And I never once considered not bringing it up, I am constantly like “USE SOAP WATER DOES NOT DO ANYTHING”. But it doesn’t change the behaviour, you just spend your whole life aware of how gross and germy they are.

He also has…

I hope they at least get nice fabrics - I always feel so bad the flight attendants have to wear polyester. Ugh.

I agree with you - but my only other pet peeve are the photos of feet up by a beach. Ugh. No more feet-up grams!

I assume that they just are not close. I mean, imagine the two female co-workers who sit closest to you, or the first two girls you encountered on your first day of college - now imagine spending a decade with only them. Odds are some personalities just won’t mix, and add in the fact that he psychologically messed…

I recently watched Big Daddy when babysitting for my friend’s pre-teens who were having a movie night. What struck me was that rather than being just sexist it was actually hateful towards women. There were points where I thought ‘how revealing, he actually thinks any woman who is not passively sexually available to…

My husband likes to put this on, it always freaks me out:

When my husband goes out of town I watch and eat trash until he returns, because I can live free of judgement and intervention! Last time he went to a 2-day conference I ate an entire tube of cookie dough while watching ‘the best of me’. The latter made me slightly more queasy. It reminded me of one of those chain…

How old is too old to rock a see-through dress and granny panties? Because I LOVE it. Also I hate music festivals - so, uh, where would a 30-year-old woman wear such a thing?

Irish fellas are lovely. Their apartments are gross. But they are lovely.

This is the truth.