Destination hen dos are definitely a thing here. I've avoided going to them because I can't afford it (I had to stick half of an in-town hen do recently because the events just cost so much, even though I didn't have to travel). It's for rich people, or people who have crazy overdrafts, I suppose.

Yep. There are a lot of medical conditions on their list that I'm sure are also on other countries', too (I've only dealt with US immigration personally, but I do remember there being some medical reasons I could've been barred): http://www.immigration.govt.nz/opsmanual/4563…

I saw her Hysterical Literature video, and she is SO adorable. So smiley.

Exactly! Cab drivers whine to me about "bloody foreigners" and when I tell them I married a bloody foreigner and got him a visa and am actively helping him get a job here they say that it's totally fine because he's American. So very odd. (I heard similar craziness when I was an immigrant in the US — apparently a…

Exactly — there's no concept of "Mexican" here (I'm generalising massively, of course). English friends and family think of Mexico as though it's Spain West, which is hilarious to me after living in Los Angeles for years! I know English people who are wretchedly racist against immigrants (even British-born children of…

This is fascinating to me — I don't have kids yet, but probably will in the next few years. All my husband's grandparents were born in Mexico and I'm English — when we lived in Los Angeles, we were a "mixed-race couple", but now we live in London generally people just consider him white. It's so interesting to me that…

I LOVE BIG FREEDIA SO MUCH!

Ha! Yes! They cut out all the really silly bits, so it wasn't even as sitcom-my as it could be. There's so much groan-worthy bad comedy; I coincidentally saw a stage production of Henry V a few days after the Hollow Crown version was on telly and it was so interesting how different it was.

I forgot how fucking brilliant that whole series was. I haven't seen him in anything else, but I loved everything about those adaptations.

Ah! Yes! He is the best. He's a really good bloke, too.

Yep, I didn't think that one's in-laws siblings could really be your in-laws as well… but I want there to be a word for them! Might have to make one up.

Hurray, a free-for-all!

We ate so much food while getting ready. And drank ALL THE FLAVOURS of André Champagne. It was one of the most fun times I'd ever had.

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.