I had good results with Emperial House at the Copley Mall. I had a pleated maxi skirt and needed to get the waist taken in. I brought it to Jerry’s Custom Tailoring first, but he didn’t feel comfortable doing the alterations because he didn’t think he could do it without messing up the pleats.

It takes me 35-45 minutes, depending on how much I towel dry and air dry before blow drying. My hair is below shoulder length when it’s left to its own devices; when I blow dry it or pull it to it’s full length, its reaches the middle of my boobs.

I have only recently become confident about my blow drying skills. Here are my tips:

My dog walked with me down the aisle, off leash. Then, during the vows, she wandered off to poop.

I’ve been generally avoiding participation in comments, because it’s such a timesuck, and I’m trying to be a productive adult, but I have been loving your all caps comments lately. LOVING THEM.

I had five attendants, and I didn’t get a bachelorette party either.

I think this is actually more common than you think. Just because someone is your BFF doesn’t mean they will magically transform into a responsible, helpful, resourceful person once they join your wedding party. My biggest source of stress during my wedding planning was one bridesmaid who just couldn’t get her shit…

I had four bridesmaids and a bridesman, and when I was a bridesmaid, I was one of five, so I feel like five is a perfectly reasonable number.

I see what you’re talking about. But I think Neville has warmer eyes and a generally softer countenance.

It’s truly incredible how much Neville Longbottom has transformed since the Harry Potter movies were released.

This blew my mind:

She always sounds so tired when she practices talking. Like she wants to take a nap.

She is Italian, which I'm sure had something to do with the pay structure. And she is just a really good person, which accounts for why she'd make sure we weren't screwed over by terrible tippers.

Part of it was that the food wasn't that expensive, and it was a really small place; if I remember correctly, there were seats for only 20 people.

I left in 2005 but kept in touch with the owner for awhile. She told me their rent was jacked up, so they had to close; "there's only so much you can charge for a plate of pasta" is how she put it.

That was on top of an hourly wage that was more than twice the minimum wage at the time.

I waited tables at a restaurant where the owner would cover the difference if the tip wasn't around 20%.

I starred this because I recently learned that vaccination rates for children in Iceland are not high enough to maintain herd immunity for diseases that require 90% immunity in a population.

And ground transporation at my friend's wedding wasn't a party bus; it was privately chauffered cars, carrying no more than three passengers each.

This is a friend's story: She was seeing one guy pretty seriously, and he totally loved her, but she was a serial cheater. She finally got caught when her boyfriend found a used condom inside of her from when she had had sex with someone else earlier that day.