You're not being snobby. It is a shadow of its former self and that makes me really sad. :(

I know! No salads, no stir fry veggies, no "you can make fish taste great with lemon and black pepper and garlic!" No lots of veggies to fill up on fewer calories. Nada. I would have been starving on this diet. No wonder the dad gained all the weight back.

You'll be fine. I was freaking out as well. My dad paid for it, and when he told me how much he'd spend I went in the back room and cried. I thought my wedding would be tacky and horrible. Well, it wasn't! One piece of advice - stay away from the bridal magazines and even the websites. I didn't even do Offbeat Bride.…

One thing I really recommend is Craigslist. I wasn't super picky about colors (my wedding was in Spring and I just wanted a Central Texas wildflower theme) so any decorations I found on CL that remotely fit the bill I bought. We rented table cloths, but got the napkins of CL. we found a few decorations and things like…

NO seasoning? Why??? There are zero calories in herbs and spices, and they can make food both healthy AND delicious. All that white rice? Weird! I see white rice as a once or twice a week thing, definitely not something you want to eat with every single meal.

It was amazing! I live in south Texas, but my wedding was about 40 minutes south east of Austin in the hamlet of Red Rock. :)

We invited about 150, about 100 showed.

On my god for a second there I thought you were serious. I was gettin' mah righteous rage aaalllllll worked up! The Dubai part is HILARIOUS, btw. (In large part because my sister is making noises about a destination wedding and it pisses. my. shit. off.)

I really wanted to elope, or just have a tiny civil ceremony with only immediate family present in a judge's office, but my husband really wanted a wedding. So we had one. And I am SO GLAD we did! It was perfect and everyone had a blast, and it the whole thing came in at just under $6000. And that was for open bar,…

Before you have a far-flung destination wedding and exclude most of your friends and family, I really do suggest looking at off-beat locations. I ended up finding a rural country school house that had been converted into a community center, and only paid $150 for the whole place. They let us in two whole days before…

I felt the same way as you when I got engaged. I will tell you, though, that now that it's over I am so glad I had a wedding! We got to share our vows with our closest family and friends, and we had an amazing party we'll remember for the rest of our lives. Also, the gifts weren't too shabby, lol.

GOOD. God I want her to be able to retire and get away from those fuck wads.

If I see the phrase "Boys will be boys" one fucking time, I think I will jump through my damned monitor. I HATE that shit. NO. "Boys" are not given carte blache to act like assholes because they are boys. Fuck that. They are human beings who have to live on the planet with other human beings and need to learn how to…

As I understand it, FAS babies are typically born to alcoholics who would not/could not slow down even a little bit for their pregnancy. I knew someone who was born with FAS and his adoptive parents told me his birth mother drank a fifth of vodka almost every day throughout her pregnancy. She was drunk while giving…

This pisses my shit right off.

Given the way these people are acting, I think they believe that Hellen Keller was a fictional character. Which, if they do, oh. my. god.

So unless you're straight up morally opposed to women having pleasurable, consequence-free sex

"That's what the money is for!"

Look, there's a staffer in the background who didn't get out of the shot in time.

I don't know.... I went to Vegas on my honeymoon (yes, it was cliche but fun!) and I wouldn't take a kid. I didn't see many kids at all, and those I did see looked miserable with miserable parents. There really didn't seem to be that much for them. Most of the kid friendly attractions are really short, like the…