I'm all for looking out for a other women in skeevy situations, but a word of caution that sometimes the well meaning woman can become the skeevy one. My mother once asked a woman to keep an eye on me on a flight to Georgia when I was 16 or so. After much misadventure, it ended with her wanting to share a room with…

I do not watch this show, but from the clip I saw, it looked like the rumba was previously selected as her favourite dance. If you're on a reality show, do you not automatically assume that everything you say to anyone associated with the show can and will be used against you?

Hmm. Maybe something even raunchier. Tentacle porn? Bukkake with a bunch of ill equipped Kens?

While I agree that it's her body and she should wear whatever makes her comfortable, going on a dancing show and picking the rumba is an odd choice if modesty's your goal, no?

So the ultimate has to be her in playboy, right?

Oh, Radiolab. You never disappoint!

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"Stop your messin' around
Better think of your future
Time you straightened right out
Creatin' problems in town
Rudy a message to you
Rudy a message to you"

White guilt, indeed! We stayed away from Apache poems and the dreaded Corinthians. We opened by having the officiant say how this was just a normal day - people go to work, people go to school, and these people are getting married.

God is not my scene, so we also went secular. I used this book to help me break down the components of the ceremony: The Wedding Ceremony Planner

I found ripping away all of the extra stuff to be the most satisfying part. Had to fight with the officiant, though. She kept pointing out good places to insert readings in our ceremony. She didn't understand that Mr. winesnob and I wanted what was legally required and not a second more. Happily, she performed the…

Sweet! You know who you won't be disappointing? Yourself!

On the one hand, the older kid has already paved the way, but it would suck to not see either kid get married. City hall? Or the surprise option?

There's always the surprise wedding option. Invite everyone over for dinner, and then have the officiant show up. That way no one has any time to complain, and you can keep it small.

Exactly! Disappoint everyone equally!

re: Fawning. It can be insufferable. I've patented a pretty killer "you can't be serious with that shit" look, so people usually leave me alone. But YMMV.

I wish I'd eloped.

This this this! My pre-wedding diet involved unintentional purging and starvation as a result of the stress. I suspect a nice little wedding at city hall (or somewhere else) would have kept me from melting down.

Awesome, thanks!

This is seriously beautiful! Can I ask where you got the pattern?