I really liked it! I thought it was better than Heart Shaped Box. Dark and funny.

I guess it's just one of those personal taste things. I felt the ending was really vague and didn't offer a lot of closure, just a lot of unfocused ruminations on love. I really enjoyed the writing throughout the book though.

Great book that seemed to run out of steam at the end. I have hard time imagining it as a movie though, it's too sprawling, not enough action.

Am I the only one who found the last letter in that article even tackier than the wedding one? "My friend is planning her own baby shower, can she ask her sisters and sister in laws to pay for it?" Is that a thing?

As someone who spent time living in Mexico... I would rather die than listen to mariachi music for 4 straight hours.

Same. We put a note on our website stating that gifts were not expected, but since we were leaving the country money would be appreciated over stuff. Of course our families are both Italian so were were mostly going to get cash anyways.

Right? I googled it just to double check before I started complaining.

This is slightly off topic but... the Mendoza Zoo is only outside of Buenos Aires in the same sense that Disney World is outside of DC. It's in Mendoza, a totally different city, that is literally a 12 hour car ride away from BA.

Oh I'm long out of school, but yeah that is basically what I did- bare minimum meal plan for the rest of my years. Crazy price gouging though!

Actually I appear to have exaggerated. Only $2600, as if that's much better: http://www.emory.edu/dining/dining_…. Freshmen are required to live on campus and required to buy an expensive meal plan. It's absurd.

Aramark ran our dining hall in college too (at least for the first year, it was a releif when they switched to Sodexo). We used to do anything possible to avoid eating at the dining hall, which is hard when you have a mandatory, $3000 a semester meal plan.

What if England did? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_…

Really?! Well whatever worked for you guys!
I just had a maid of honor (who I let pick her own dress) and my friends were pretty cool with it. Still showed up early to help me get ready and drink champagne, which I feel is the bridesmaids main function.

Well, technically you said "Trust me, the guys aren't the ones looking for the big wedding". That's the part people are responding. Women aren't always the ones looking for the big wedding, sometimes it's the dudes pushing the higher price tag. Or the enormous peer-pressure machine that is the Wedding Industrial…

Alternate solution: Just don't have bridesmaids! Your friends will still love you and support you on your big day- maybe even more since they won't be secretly bitching about all the money you're making them spend...

These articles make me feel lucky that at 29 I've only ever had to be a bridesmaid once.

Alternate solution: just don't have bridesmaids! They actually aren't required. Your friends will still be there for you and nobody has to buy a stupid dress.

Oh please, if it were solely up to me we would have eloped to Mexico and skipped that pricey stressful wedding BS. It's not always the bride pushing for the big wedding.
Although for what it's worth, I didn't have bridesmaids.

Well I guess this is me. I am 29 and both my husband and I are temporarily living with my Mom. We are both fully employed, but economically this was the most sensible thing to do. We are moving across the country next month so it really is a temporary stay, but I hate how crappy I feel when I think about the fact that…

What about those of us who graduated in 2007?