Evening guest rather than an all day guest?

If I had been clever enough to think of this I’d have been able to make an extra mortgage payment with all the money I’d have saved on other people’s weddings. I speak as someone who has been a bridesmaid three times and MOH twice, and a wedding guest more times than I care to count.

I did not get my little sister a wedding gift and she was just delighted I was able to make it out to Youngstown.

Where I live, an evening guest would be the best possible type of invitation, as you don’t have to attend the actual ceremony and just show up for the drinks, food and dancing. Score!

What in God’s name is an evening guest and why don’t I get invited to weddings this fancy?

I literally had the experience of being invited to a co-worker’s wedding. Her father was a sculptor and it was the most expensive wedding I’ve ever seen. It was “semi-formal” so I had to buy a special dress and everything. I wouldn’t have gone but I felt bad because she had no one but family on her guest side. So I…

A friend of mine did a yoga trip/training in India. One night, their host who was Indian made them all pizza because he knew Westerners loved pizza. Every single person except her refused to eat the pizza because they were gluten free/vegan/carb free. She literally cried telling me the story. People are the worst.

She sounds delightful. I am allergic to nuts and I wouldn’t give you the third degree like that.

Well, I baked some thank you cookies for my neighbour, I went and knocked her door to deliver the cookies, she opened, I said, “I baked this for you as a thank you”, her response was, “did you put any kind of nuts in these?”, “nope”, I said, “ I do not know if you are allergic”, “I am not, I just dislike nuts, did you…

With all the celebrity stalkers I’ve been reading about lately, I don’t blame CGM for calling the cops on the kid with the cookies. I’m not famous and if some random person came to my door with homemade cookies I’d be like, go away creepy person. Part of me is like, well he is a teenager and teens are not the…

Just saw this posted down thread by another commenter:

So, video visitation is profitable? Who pays, the visitors or the prisons? If it is the visitors, that really is shitty. I know that some prisons require visitors to be separated from the prisoners by glass and they speak over a telephone. At least with that, you can look the person in the eye and you are “in person,”…

That’s cold

In similar news, some prisons are going exclusively to video calls rather than visitation. So that people’s families are in the same building with them, but have to communicate through a monitor when they may be only a few rooms apart. And of course, the companies providing the video calls are doing so at a profit.

I wanted my husband and I to change our last names to Blackstorm (sounds badass), but something about “he wants to keep his culturally Greek name” blah blah blah. I suppose I could change mine on my own.

I knew someone in high school whose parents’ last names both began with the same basic root so when they had a kid they made the last name only the part that the two had in common. Like, “Steinberg” and “Steinlin” became “Stein”.

I have a non-Anglo name that white people cant pronounce and honestly, I hated it for most of my teenage life but love it as an adult. It’s a connection to my culture and I’m happy to have it.

I appreciate that. I was a teacher and a nanny, so am of course comfortable with kids. But, I came to motherhood late and worry a lot. Thank you for your sensible words!

I think it’s one of the best options out there if you want to have the same last name as your spouse but also want to smash the patriarchy. I don’t like hyphenation because it’s a one generation solution. However, my partner is pretty attached to his last name because it has actual history attached to it, whereas mine…

If they’d just changed their last names to Allah when they got married they wouldn’t be having this problem.