Woot woot to your husband! I'm a fellow Classics BA working in the sciences! :D

But that is the correct traditional wording for weddings which are paid for by the bride's parents. Did your in laws not know that? I am confused as to why they would take it personally. You were just following etiquette. I get that there are all sorts of ways to word invites, but it's not like your parents made…

Understatement much?

The Peugeots episode was great! I've always wondered how they got from salt and pepper mills to cars and now I know the whole weird history! My husband and I love Top Gear... but our favorite episodes are always the specials where they go on some crazy road trip. We're also enjoying the many "don't talk about…

I HAVE TO WATCH THIS MOVIE. The link just talks about the release to UK cinemas... do we know if/when there will be a US release?

My husband has a thing about old/expired food and from when we were engaged to our first anniversary kept telling me that there was no way in hell he was going to eat the year old cake. I was like, "But it's tradition (apparently) and good luck (so I'd heard), pleeaasssee." And because my husband is a wonderful,…

Oh my god. I cannot make up my mind on who the actual bride is. The woman on the left looks fancier to me, but the woman on the right is with a man who is wearing a tie the exact color of her dress so I am inclined to believe that is the groom and she is the bride. BUT I CAN'T TELL. I keep going back and forth b/c the…

OH NO!! I'm sooo sorry. The cake is one of the best parts of the whole wedding thing! My husband and I were probably a little dense and just nommed on the cake a little after we did the initial "feed your new spouse cake" thing. The wonderful coordinator that came with our venue also made sure to package up a slice of…

The bride at one wedding I went to last fall explicitly told her band not to play any Robin Thicke and especially not Blurred Lines. The dance floor is packed with everyone dancing and her amazing bridesmen leading these incredible dance offs. Then Blurred Lines came on and everyone immediately left the dance floor.…

OMG I love/hate Oribe. SOO good, but SOO expensive.

I have very sensitive, dry to very dry (in winter) skin and my skincare regimen (a result of lots of experimenting and tinkering) looks like this: a) Clarins HydraQuench Intensive Serum BiPhase (moisturizing serum); b) Clarins HydraQuench Cream (moisturizer); c) Clarins UV Plus HP Broad Spectrum SPF 40; d) Laura…

My husband loves guinea pigs and every time we're at the pet store to buy dog food he'll run over to see the "furry potatoes." He also loves to emulate their little noises at random times when we're at home. But since we have a little Westie whose sole mission in life is to hunt little rodents we can't have one for at…

I think this is a normal thing. Every time I tell our engagement story to someone, it ends with, "And then he got down on one knee and said some really sweet things...I have no idea what those things were... but he said them." Most of my friends' stories are similar.

I think my mother has apologized to me maybe five times in my life. The first time I was five and it was so shocking that the memory is permanently etched in my brain. I loved this entire episode but laughed the hardest at that. The line, "I gave birth to him... that is worth a thousand 'I'm sorry'-s" epitomizes my…

Agreed!!

I really hate to break it to you... but, for the most part, fitted blouses that fit straight off the rack are works of fiction. In order to get that truly fitted look, you're going to need to alter them. Fortunately, putting darts in isn't too hard of a sewing task, so they're fairly easy to DIY and cheaper to have…

WESTIE!!!!!!!! Westies are the BESTIES!!! This one says yours can have the cheese if he can have the peanut butter.

I love this video. It will never get old!

One of my best friends from college told us that within weeks of dating his now wife he knew they were going to be married. They dated the second half of her senior year and his first year of law school and during the first half of her year teaching English abroad. They had been dating for around 8 months when he…

One of my favorite teachers of all time was secretly married most of college! Her parents were so afraid that if she got married before she graduated college that she wouldn't finish and were really against her getting married (not against her boyfriend/future husband, just the idea of her getting married while in…