I spent the two days before my wedding watching Say Yes to the Dress marathons while making my decorations, alone in my mother-in-law's living room while my fiancé was knocked out on Nyquil. It was oddly wonderful. (My dress cost £199, so I'm not a big frock person or anything.)

I am pretty sure that good whiskey was the reason my wedding was great. Also, having good whiskey left over was the reason I didn't kill anyone during the priest-fucked-up-the-certificate-TWICE-and-I'm-getting-on-a-plane-tomorrow honeymoon period.

What colour is bashful?!

I've always wondered about that. Like, my sister's bloke is my brother in law… so is his brother also my brother in law?

I suppose they're not mandatory, but I've never been to a wedding without one… it was absolutely non-negotiable for mine. (We bought our own alcohol, and then returned the unopened leftovers… except for the ones we didn't return.)

The everyone-in-the-same look is great if you want a traditional and really wedding-y wedding, and the mismatched look is great if you don't. I've shot both types of wedding, and they tend to be quite different occasions — often now I can predict which couple will go matchy and which couple will go mismatched.

A bunch of guests didn't give my husband and I any wedding presents at all, and that was totally fine. They turned up and looked wonderful and danced lots and were generally brilliant, and that was perfect.

Yeah, I kept seeing the adverts for it and the more I saw the less I wanted to watch it.

Oh yes! Sorry, I forgot about the "position of trust" thing (thought it was just really, really, really immoral if the student was of age already).

I TOTALLY thought I had ringworm on my arm last month. I tried everything and it got worse and worse. I had it for a month. It was entirely covering HALF MY ARM.I was surrounded by a bunch of strangers in a warm country having to cover my arm all the time because I had PAINTED IT WITH NAIL VARNISH and nothing at all…

Oh, absolutely predatory, for sure — I just missed the illegality of it because I'm English.

You said both the things I was going to say. I salute you.

Ah, I totally assumed she was English! (Still can't really get my head around ages for things being different here and in the US).

Yep, the holiness thing is so odd. I realise that it's amazing and life-changing and incredible, etc — but it's not even slightly unusual. I have a colleague who talks to me as though my life is just building up to motherhood and everything I do is either preparing or avoiding having a kid, whereas in fact everything…

YES. I could have ANYTHING at all happen to me and my one particular motherhood-martyr colleague would somehow make it about how she has a kid. Absolutely every topic is about how she had a kid — not so much necessarily about the child itself, but more about her own suffering and how proud of herself she is for being…

Oh, absolutely. But sometimes I'm loath to "unfollow" a friend's updates when I previously really enjoyed them. If there were a way to tell Facebook to stop showing me only the updates related to the new baby/cat/boyfriend/hobby/whatevertheysuddenlykeeppostingabout, that would be wonderful.

He is AMAZING. I am so excited.

Does "adorable" have to be patronising? I'm not disagreeing at all but I'm really interested to know.

Yep. It always amazes me that even after two decades I can *still* think "this time it's worse… something must be wrong…".

My problem tends to be that if I take enough painkillers for the pain to go away, I start getting pukey and dizzy. (I've been trying to figure it out for 20 years, to no avail.) I don't take sick days for it, though, because I don't want to be weak — if I had the same symptoms on a non-period day, I would stay at…