Seconding this. I freaking love weddings, including the really traditional banquet halls with forgettable food ones.

You're shocked that someone enjoys dressing up and then drinking and dancing to fun music with friends?

Maybe most of my friends haven't had totally shitty weddings, but I enjoy being around other friends, supporting friends who've decided to make a big commitment. I don't see that as a big pain or waste of time. (Bridal/baby showers on the other hand...)

I can assure you the bride...

Or you could let people have whatever kind of weddings they want. I've been to some really fun weddings that, sure, were in banquet halls and had forgettable food, but I got to drink and dance to fun music (helps when friends just make a good playlist and set up an ipod/speakers) with a bunch of other friends in a fun…

Yep... My best friend... We talked about being each other's Maid of Honor our whole life... Her wedding comes and she picks her other friend to "get even with her for making her run around when she was her Maid of Honor." Seriously, pick your MOH out of spite? Years later she said her husband didn't want me in their…

I NEVER unfriend gems like this. I only defriend for bigotry-related stuff. I've gotten hours and hours of free entertainment from some of the dramatic and delusional randos from my high school class who've found me on FB over the years. It's my own low-effort version of reality TV, without the cable fees.

I don't like the tit for tat thing either. But we had to make tough choices when choosing our 60-70 people to invite to our wedding. And in some situations, it really did come down to....Well Person A invited us to their "party" and Person B we haven't seen in over a year and haven't heard from in several months. …

I'm getting married in... shit, less than three months, and I like to think I'm quite reasonable. My take on the matter has always been that everyone else is doing me a favor. Literally nobody else on the face of the planet cares about my wedding as much as I do, and the people who show up anyway - never mind the ones…

I don't. I find most brides to be quite reasonable. Brides actually get unfairly dumped on a lot in the wedding planning process. The bride in this article, however, sounds like a peach.

Gee, I can't imagine why she's been blown off by so many people in the past.

If her album released on the 18th is called "Yahoo! 5 Kittens!", I may consider buying it...

I don't think that's actually an issue though. Being trans isn't impersonating another gender. I went to a summer camp with a trans guy. We had a turn around day too. He loaned me his clothes, laughed loudly at my attempts to pull them off, and insisted that he won turn around day forever, because he'd fooled everyone…

Oh for god's sake. All of our spirit days in high school were usually based on something harmless, like different decades. OMG, WEAR A POODLE SKIRT AND CAT EYE GLASSES! OMG, WEAR TIE DYE AND JOHN LENNON GLASSES! OMG, CRIMP YOUR HAIR AND WEAR GIANT SHOULDER PADS! (Of course I never participated, because angst.) In an…

Again, DODGING THE BUFFET TIPPING QUESTION.

A lot of places around where I live and work (DC) absolutely refuse to do separate checks. I much prefer separate checks myself, in large part because I'm perpetually broke and get annoyed when I end up paying for some cheapskate's soda. I was a waitress for years, but we always did separate checks so I'm never…

The worst is when you know someone is intentionally not leaving 20% because they're miffed at God knows what, and so I end up leaving a 40 or 50% tip on my share of the bill that I can't really afford to leave but I don't want the waiter to get stiffed. This goes double if the bad tipper refuses to listen to me about…

"When we are out with friends we usually just have one person pay with card and everybody else transfering their share to his/her account."

You know, I'm a teenage girl, and what would've been helpful for dealing with body issues wouldn't have been less women showing off their bodies, it would've been more support from my parents and those around me. It's actually pretty condescending, to say that women showing off their bodies proudly is going to hurt…

You know what iTunes doesn't censor? Skinny white butts.