Adorable and coincidentally similar to one another! Dismissed. ;)

Totally feel you on the culturally large wedding thing, my husband is Persian. We sent out over 300 invites (maybe 350?), but half of the invites (150ish) was my parents’ list, my list, and my fiancee’s list. In Persian culture you invite everyone you know and their moms. Like, at one point we were taking photos with…

We decided to make the photobooth the favor. (Also, ours was only $350! And had pro-level shots! You save a lot when you don’t worry about onsite printing.)

Seriously. I got really sick of all the guilt trips about celebrating my marriage with a wedding. We didn’t ride down the aisle on white unicorns or anything–we weren’t outlandish—but our families were happy to spend the money on a memorable, joyful evening that entertained and fed a large amount of family and…

Yes! This is what I see happening with my sister’s wedding, and the only thing that sucks more than navigating such a complex decision is having to justify it or talk through it with a lot of people you hardly know after the decision has already been made. Just let her do her thing, people.

(ETA, found the piece I was searching for! It was in The New Yorker, not The Atlantic: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/…)

The New York Times eschews the standard AP practice of using only last names and always adds Mr/Mrs/Ms in their stories.

Yes, this line of argument absolutely makes sense to me—it is a contradiction to argue for the dignity of animal others by anthropomorphizing them. It betrays a valuing of animals not because they are other, but because they can be productively compared to humans and given human traits.

OBLIGATORY. “Well, well. A Birkin bag! A Birkin bag! A Birkin bag for Rory!”

It’s not crazy in big, in-demand markets. My sister is getting married in Center City Philadelphia in June. She set the date with her church and venue just over 18 months beforehand and only got her date by the skin of her teeth.

This was one of my first thoughts, too.

Agreed! I love wedding ceremonies, or at least for folks I know well and love. But no need to rewatch it (or at least not as a captive audience!).

Our videographer did a (mercifully not too obnoxious) low-budget version of this (without us requesting it, I will say)—in that he set up a laptop on one of the windowsills in the reception hall and had it loop some of the footage he’d gotten during our first look, etc.

While I know you’re asking what’s an unanswerable question, I found this undercover piece (an excerpt from a longer book, apparently) a fascinating window into this world:

The boxes. The boxes tho. #preach

Thank you thank you thank you. I have such a conflicted, fluid racial identity. I’m half Filipino but grew up far away from any of the culture (and also am pretty ambiguous looking) so feel weird asserting that identity, but at the same time don’t like being white-washed. And I don’t always feel comfortable asserting…

Fun fact: people on diets typically lose subcutaneous fat (fat below the skin), but then when they rebound and gain it back it usually packs back on in the form of visceral fat, which is the kind that wraps itself around your organs and carries more potential for things like heart disease and diabetes.

That’s Mother…

Aw booooo. I hope you find good opportunities to turn this into creative and lucrative guilt trips when they’re older.

This gif is a revelation.

YES. There is a big difference between forgiveness and JUSTICE.