Is the worldwide demand ending? I used to work across the street from their 5th Ave Manhattan flagship and the lines of tourists waiting to get into that store at all hours (9pm? really?) baffled me. (I would bet at least 50% European and Asian, based on their clothes). But we moved downtown last May so haven't been…

OMG, I am legit glad to know this. The last time I had Pizza Hut (ugh, 2 nights before my wedding because I had forgotten that my hometown is not NYC, so there is no takeout, and needed to feed my hungry pregnant bridesmaids), I had one slice and I was so so so sick in the middle of the night. Like, the worst stomach…

I'm tempted to change my Kinja user name to "Old Chef Yelly Pants"

Oh there were/are sooooo many rumors about the things Gretchen Moll did to make herself "happen." Pretty sure Crazy Days & Nights revealed some of them to be true. Apparently she was Queen o' the Casting Couch even after she got married, and her husband was OK with it.

I would warn people about JCrew though. Either find a store with a Bridal section so you can try on, or order way way way in advance and be prepared to send sizes back and forth — and you will also have to pay for alterations. I was able to go into a JCrew Bridal store and try on some dresses.... and noped the fuck…

Something like this (not QUITE as fugly) happened to my SIL. She is tiny — 4'9" — and very curvy. Understandably, the idea of going to bridal shops sounded like torture to her, so she ordered a couple of dresses online from China — she knew what she was risking, but she waited wayyyy too long. Both dresses came about…

Yeah we were able to keep up the softpaws for about 18 months. The vet put the first round on, and it was easy enough to replace them one at a time as they fell/grew off but then we got really lazy and that was the end of that. Funny story though: our big cat accidentally got locked in the closet for an afternoon by…

These two magazine covers are the most 90s thing evar!

That is so dumb! I had 3 bridesmaids and lo and behold, 2 of them (including the MOH) ended up getting pregnant before the wedding...after we'd chosen and they'd bought their dresses. All I cared about in the end was that they could still come to the wedding. I even told them both they could bow out if they didn't…

The parents thought it was hilarious and adorable. It wasn't.

Ugh, I had the guilt friend too (2 weeks before the wedding). Her 4 month old wasn't taking a bottle, of course she couldn't leave her home, 3000 miles away, for a weekend. She balked LIKE HELL at getting a babysitter at the hotel. I told her I would miss her but that I couldn't make an exception (and of course…

Incredibly rude. I put a line on our wedding website reading "we love your kids; they are not invited to our wedding." All of our relatives had to fly in so it was not easy for them to flout this rule, luckily.

Yeah it's a slippery slope. My husband's cousins let their 7-year old run wild at another cousin's wedding. The kid is literally in every single photo from that wedding. He never left the dance floor, and even stood up there with them while they cut the cake. I don't think the bride had even met the kid before that…

You really have to go all or nothing. If you invite some kids and not all, there will be tantrums. Hell in our case, we stood firm and there were STILL issues.

I feel your pain. My SIL is severely allergic to nuts and shellfish and mold (so things like celery which I guess is really susceptible to becoming moldy can make her really sick) and mildly to tons of really weird crap (All citrus. Soy. Eggs. Also pork!? Green beans!?!) Tomatoes and dairy are the worst for her…

On The Media is a show produced by NYC's local public radio station WNYC. Its host Brooke Gladstone is a badass awesome lady — she just got back from a 2 week reporting trip to Liberia, so I expect OTM will be covering Ebola for the next couple of shows at least. They already interviewed some Liberian newspaper…

A Jezebel reader two years ago turned me on to Femdophilus. Oral probiotic, found on Amazon (but better, Vitamin Shoppe, because it needs to be refrigerated.) For me, at least, it was THE CURE. I went through 10 years of this BS before I finally found my (pH) Balance. Interestingly, about a year ago, my cousin…

Yeah it's pretty much the Kylie Jenner lip that is all over the Pinterest "Hair & Beauty" boards these days. For my first prom (Oh 1995) I begged my mom to buy me this Clinique shade that looked straight up brown in the tube but was sheer and a really pretty red-brown on my lips.

I tried to write this as a reply to you but accidentally wrote to someone else — Oops!

Oh my god. I know that Hallmark store and that building — I can vividly picture it. We or our families probably know each other. (And having recently spent of bunch of time back home leading up to my wedding, I believe that store is no more...) I had no idea they made jam in the back though! (Oops, this was…