I just want you to know the ad placement for this article is brilliant:

So, we chose not to have a cake and were very proud of ourselves for being so chill and low maintenance like that. Fast forward to the wedding, where we ended up having a portrait of us in tiny cupcakes (Baked By Melissa - you can do the art on their website) for dessert. My poor (saintly) sister had to assemble the…

Poverty-stricken friends had a brownie potluck instead of a wedding cake. This was a decision no one argued with.

I really feel like it depends on the ex. I personally would like to think he lives in another state or is not in connection with anyone I currently know. There is always the hopeful thought that he is incarcerated, because, well he should be. The rest are so far back I doubt they would care, or if they found out they…

Who gave us Yaaaasss? I want to simultaneously hug and slap them.

UPular is my fav!!! :D

This really does suck, and for me kind of a major turning point in the history of the city. So many of the places I used to go to in the 90s are now gone, replaced by high end condos that nobody lives in. Now, it’s not some random dive bar that is going away, it is a major tourist destination.

It really sucks to be a New Yorker who has loved this city all your life and watch as everything good about it is sucked up by insane real estate developers.

Right? I also read recently that he didn’t even approve of federal currency (or at least, the idea of a federal reserve), so it’s stupid to have him on our money in the first place, let alone the fact that it’s an honor he doesn’t deserve.

Humans are flawed creatures, unfortunately.

As a white man, I vote no, because any recognition that people who don’t look like me get means that I am diminished somehow. I’m not sure how, but it totally means that.

Yussss!

“you’ve never worked with the general public before.”

I’ve been working with General Public so long, he was just Lieutenant Public when I got started.

There has been a proposal floating around NYC government for several months to give letter grades to nail and hair salons similar to restaurant letter grades. This is for consumer protection but Letitia James has also advocated for the workers. I applaud the NY Times series, it was amazing in its depth and humanity,…

Oh lord - my saying “Wear whatever you want” to my bridesmaids turned into EVEN MORE work. Because each of them contacted me individually and asked to set up a time to go looking for their dress with me one-on-one. They said it was because they wanted to make sure I liked the dress that I picked, but, seriously, as…

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this, but often friends come in packs. So I have my MOH and my sister, but I have a group of four friends who have been close since high school and are still there, showing up for me all the time, and I can’t ask one and not the other three, or any combination of the four. Can’t do…

My husband has four brothers, I have one, and he wanted one friend. So we ended up with 6 groomsmen and I wrangled together 6 bridesmaids. Not my dream to have a large wedding party, but we definitely wanted all the siblings involved (you can’t pick and choose siblings!) We made it easy for them though. The girls…

An addition to that tip: Do it in a UV pen. Otherwise, some people might wonder why they were number 65 instead of number 10 or something. If you write it in UV pen, you can still see it when you need it, but the guest won't notice the number and you can side step a bunch of annoyances.

Not a disaster story, but a tip for any of you who might be mailing out invitations at some point: Assign each household a number and put it on the back of the RSVP card. Some people don't remember to put their own names on the card, or the names are illegible. It also gives you a simple way to sort them so you can…