I definitely wouldn't (and never have) put up with being spotty or itchy! If spotty+itchy or entirely au naturel were the only two options, I would keep the hair. Thankfully they're definitely not the only two options, though.

I've always preferred a Brazilian, but when I was broke I just went au naturel for months on end and it didn't bother me a great deal. I definitely wasn't going to shave, so I just let it be.

Oh, for the love of God. Just reading it once before hitting "publish" would do. Just using Firefox and switching on the spellcheck option would point out "ouse". Just paying a sub would solve this and SO MANY OTHER problems with these posts. Fucking hell.

I knew someone who'd been planning her wedding since she was a kid and then once she finally actually got to do it she lost that hobby. BUT THEN she became her church's wedding coordinator, and found that to be a hobby that she loved even more because it was collaborative, so it ended well for her. Hurray!

So true. It's not like I go "oh, I ran out of moisturiser, let me pop to Paris immediately" but if I'm going to Paris for work I just stock up. It's not that far away. I'm not at all rich or posh or fancy and I don't care at all about Gwyneth Paltrow… but I do care about Darphin skincare stuff.

I missed M&S when I was in the US. Now I'm back in London and I eat from there and Waitrose almost every day (I pretend to be middle class every lunchtime, obviously).

I was once given illegal cheese that had been smuggled into America. It was the best. Mmm, unpasteurised and illegal…

Her family's been made fun of quite a bit for their apparently recent signet-ring love (it seems really unusual for anyone to wear them here unless they're deeply posh, so plenty of people find it pretentious of non-posh people wearing them)… I do find myself rolling me eyes when I see it.

I just looked it up an apparently it happens in Mexico, so perhaps that's why a) I hadn't seen it before (because I hadn't been to any latino weddings) and b) it was expected at mine (because my husband's grandparents all came from Mexico and a good two thirds of the guests were latino). No idea how accurate that is,…

AMAZING.

Haha! Maybe it's a California-specific thing. (I'd actually never seen it at any weddings I've attended, but my in-laws and several guests told me it's an absolute must.)

No, they weren't complaining — it was just something none of them (ten or twelve people of varying ages) had ever encountered before. It was the first (and only) time I'd heard of it, either, in two countries and in a mostly not-at-all-well-off social circle. I think it makes total sense to limit the bar if a couple…

I work with hotels so there was no way I wanyed to get married in one! (Actually if it'd been in London I probably would've because we could've got good discounts, but it was in Los Angeles and I couldn't swing anything in a hotel there.)

It's mental, isn't it? I got married in January in Los Angeles and we spent less than $3,000 for EVERYTHING (venue, car, cake, full open bar with cocktails and shots and all, my clothes and shoes, make up, hair, photography, music, decorations, flowers… everything) and we had 115-ish guests.

I had no idea people were going to give us cash at our wedding, and was stunned to open the envelopes the next day. I just assumed they were cards.

Ha, we had the opposite happen! I didn't expect to get any money at all (somehow I didn't know that was a thing) and I secretly freaked out a great deal because we were spending two or three thousand dollars in total… and then of course some of the relatives were so unexpectedly generous that we made it all back…

I somehow totally didn't know that guests give money gifts and was really surprised by how much we were given, but even so the vast majority of our friends didn't give us anything other than super dancing, looking amazing, being brilliant, etc. It was AMAZING (and on what I now find out is a budget that's a tenth of…

Or skip the florist entirely — I just went to the flower market the day before the wedding and bought a ton of that white fluffy stuff (baby's breath?) and then spent hours and hours and hours and hours decorating with it. I think the trade off is money vs time — I was only in the country two weeks before my wedding,…

Definitely true on the cakes — they bakery we went with would charge us about $500 for wedding cake for our 115 guests, but we just bought amazing massive beautiful non-wedding cakes from them for about $100, less than $1 per guest.

I've never been to a wedding that wasn't entirely open bar, and when a colleague had a pay bar at hers it was the shocked talk of the office the next day. I was adamant about overstocking the bar at ours, and it was very much worth it.