I think the best thing about weddings is that you can serve picnic or bbq style food, which, any southerner knows is the best food to serve to a crowd. Pulled pork holds up way better than grilled salmon. Has anyone ever actually had good fish at a wedding?!?

Obviously there are some circumstances where it is disruptive, as evidenced by the handful of complaints in the article. I guess my problem is the NYTimes article acts like this is some widespread problem.

The cowboy boots with wedding dresses is kind of my least favorite thing ever. But to each their own.

LOL. Yes! Otters should always give you a pass. :)

I didn't actually mean to say that. What I was saying is that I happened to be the first of my friends, but I was no means in it before it was cool. I mean, where do you think I got all my ideas from? Obviously I, too, was just following a trend. And I can understand people hating on it for being trendy.

Thanks!!! I LURVE IT. (my scene looked like this, but this is someone else's wedding I pulled randomly from the site).

Mine had a body of water, a little river, and TWO OTTERS LIVED IN IT. Seeing those otters was just the greatest thing ever.

I live in mosquito-ville, Florida, and we didn't have a mosquito problem at our wedding. Maybe we got lucky with the weather, but I always assumed it was because they kept things sprayed really well (perhaps we gave all our guests cancer?)

It's a very good excuse to have barbecue!

I had a barn wedding (it was beautiful; come at me, bro).

Yeah. I know you love him and I respect you as a commenter and your choices in life, and I wouldn't want to say anything that sounds overtly negative. But I'll say, that sounds abusive, I haven't been a part of that "familiar game" (and I'm married), and I'm really glad he's come to his senses.

I added this to another comment but I think it's worth repeating: we did a fairly informal poll awhile back to test the ages of the common commenters round here (and FWIW, both SugarHill and I are long, long time commenters and readers here) and the youngest readers were 15. And there were a lot of them. So while you…

Do you not find it highly disturbing that the answer, flat out refusing (which I've done, with a guy who didn't initially want to use one... and he got one) isn't a viable option? I'm kind of disturbed by the number of comments that seem to suggest that this isn't a natural part of the conversation, presuming you are…

I TOLD YOU ABOUT THOSE THINGS IN CONFIDENCE SUGAR.

We did a rather informal poll awhile back to test the ages of our most frequent commenters and guess what... the youngest was 15. And there were a lot of them around that age. So suggesting that everyone here has the same sexual knowledge of you is not only totally baseless, its actually kind of irresponsible.

YOU ARE INVALIDATING MY EXPERIENCE. STOP ACTING LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. YOU ARE NOT* A DOCTOR.

HOLY SHIT. This has been bothering me for YEARS. I've always said I don't know why my gym clothes smell a little even when freshly washed. Not like rancid, but never quite fresh. It has literally been perplexing me for YEARS.

I really like James Jeans. They are basically jeggings with the stretch, but they aren't too big at the end of the day.

You can tell this person is super young. I'm only 30, but age 60 seems a whooooole lot younger now than it did when I was, say, 17.

Tall guy from Comic Con with Asperger's - w4m - 35 (San Diego)