Got my aunt at 32 while she was pregnant with her third. Both she and the baby survived and are perfectly healthy today, despite a cancer relapse and second remission for my aunt. No time to lose!

I was going to make the same correction. I found out I have the BRCA 1 mutation 2 months ago and my doctor told me 87% for breast cancer and 50-60% for ovarian cancer. As a 26 year old with a brand new husband of less than 1 year, that news put us into nesting overdrive. We bought a house last weekend and the baby…

Calcium-free night cheese, clearly.

Calcium-free night cheese, clearly.

The key is to move back in with your parents BEFORE the wedding to save money to pay for the damn thing. Then you don't go into early marital debt and you get your newlywed privacy. Still sucks though.

Depends on where you're getting married! For my mostly middle of nowhere Indiana wedding, our DJ ran us $750 if that helps at all.

If the planner is included, then go for it. However, our venue only included a day of coordinator and it was wonderful. I didn't have the funds for a planner either, but having someone to cue the music and move the event along for me the day of was everything and absolutely worth it.

Spent approximately $33,000 on a wedding at a 3,200-seat college campus auditorium in Bloomington, Indiana in May, 2014. 180 guests invited, 110 attended. Would've been more expensive if not for the half DIY centerpieces and the discount received for both of us being former employees of and initially meeting while…

Follow up question: What is the point of a serum? I've always wondered.

And what about interfaith couples? Do they have no "business getting married" as well, simply because they practice different faiths and can't find a cool priest/pastor/rabbi/imam/etc. to sign for them?

I've been on the fence about Shade Court since I discovered it (shockingly) recently. This edition though, pure love. I'm going to put this up there with BCO as a weekly regular read.

Coming from a childhood and teenage years of competitive dance, I am terrified of the scale. I have seen too many friends fall victim to eating disorders and have been on the precipice myself far too many times. I know that having a scale in my house will put me right back on that self-destructive path. Getting my…

I'm finishing my MBA right now and that right there, that they force fed us in our finance and economics courses, nearly made me quit. I'm only sticking with it because my concentration is in Sustainability, so my end goal is to undermine the corporate evil by speaking business gibberish at them to talk them into…

I have been dragged to SIX of these monstrosities in the past 3 years. Please make them stop.

I feel like the world needs this PSA:

So true. I literally went where I was physically pushed through our South Asian wedding weekend. No one was speaking English, I don't speak much Urdu, and the Aunti that was assigned to be my cultural interpreter was much more interested in catching up with her friends than helping me pin my heavy, scratchy scarves to…

This was acceptable when it was our single friend who was kindly officiating our ceremony. It was not acceptable when it was his super-desperate-for-a-boyfriend classmate who I didn't want to invite anyway. We shut that down.

NOPE.

Until you said they divorced, I thought you were my cousin. She also insisted on wearing gym shoes with her dress.