That's delightful!

Is it normal to give everyone plus-ones? We only invited people we knew – it would've been a *huge* wedding otherwise!

I'm with you.

I thought this too, so I Wikipediaed and have found that they're named after ROYAL H BURPEE!

It's all optional!

I'm not really all that interested in heroin, to be honest.

I think I just must've thought all my drug friends had a pleasingly quaint turn of phrase! (They all thought my use of "reckon" made me sound like a cowboy, so we were even.)

Fascinating! I used to hang out with far too many meth addicts and you'd think I would've heard it with all the xanax and more everyone was taking… but perhaps I never noticed it because to me it was just a quaint phrase for falling asleep.

Ooh, this is fascinating to me from a wordy point of view — is "nodding off" a specially drug-implying phrase nowadays? I hadn't heard it in that context before but noticed a couple of other people on this post saying it too… to me it's more of an old-fashioned phrase that my nan might use (and my nan is really…

Ha, maybe we're just all old-school here.

Ha, I'm UK married to US, too! I planned our whole Californian wedding from London and only arrived a fortnight in advance, so no one beyond the two of us really got much input into anything. (Plus, I'm lucky that my in-laws know better than to do any weird surprise shit.)

Yeah, there's no way in hell I'd wear the dress my sister's stipulating for fun, so I'm glad I'm not paying for it!

I actually got married in the US and we (the bloke and I) paid for almost all of it ourselves. We're clearly doing it wrong!

This makes me glad I'm not American and didn't get involved in bridesmaiding while I lived there. I always thought brides pay for everything they require of their bridesmaids (which has been my experience both as a bride and a matron of honour).

I kind of want it. My willpower is rubbish.

As someone with not much money but family on the other side of the planet, I could totally see myself sticking my kid on a flight (solo, doit2julia! style, not solo-with-entourage North West style).

How is that "solo"? I'm so confused. That's like saying a baby left with two grandparents is "home alone".

I lived in the US for most of my 20s and fuck, that "10 days a year" thing is insane. How on earth is anyone supposed to go anywhere? Everyone I know here thinks it's horrific.

I'm with you — I have a colleague who, among other seemingly inoffensive but, over time, infuriating habits, apologises constantly. Her awkwardness makes everyone else awkward. It stops conversations. It's really affecting her job (she's not being given any out-of-the-office activities, and she's angry about that). It…

Yep, it's so tiresome. And it totally doesn't work! They can't convince me to look at anything by phone, because I can't see the pictures and the map, so it's a waste of their time.