( Why I support the ruling, and why it still hurts. )

(this one is especially for sdn who is the first person I thought of when I saw the "wedding pinata ( Read more... )

Another wedding dream last night in which I ripped the battery and hard drive out of the laptop of an entitled bride as bargaining collateral. On the subject of weddings, I think I've officially crossed the line from "has issues" to "morbidly obsessed." The dream was pretty much a revenge fantasy about ruining weddings ( Read more... )

( A long cascade on Doris Lessing, Jane Austen, Fay Weldon, women's self-definition, and marriage. (Sorry, I just can't seem to avoid the subject lately.) )

Last night I had an absolutely wretched wedding dream ( Read more... )

The bride told me this morning that she hadn't originally understood my reluctance to be maid of honor. "I didn't really feel like I was asking that much of you," she said. "But after the wedding I can see the enormous emotional weight to the honor. I felt like you were my big sister protecting me through the entire wedding. I don't even know how ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm going to try writing about the wedding again, since I missed some parts and don't want to come off sounding like it was all awful ( Read more... )

Today is the day of Rosebud's wedding, the wedding that has been eating my life, my pride, and my wallet. In another 18 hours, it will all be over ( Read more... )

The bad news is that the bride decided on rhinestones, which means there will be both shoe shopping, and shopping for a wrap in my near future. Rhinestones just don't go with pointy, chocolate, suede mules. Neither do they go with autumnal shawls, or my sheer scarf ( Read more... )

Shoes arrived today, and I picked up my bridesmaid gown. I tried everything on in varying combinations, and finally arrived at something I liked with an old pair of pointy mules, and a gossamer scarf with random bits of embroidery all over it. The look will require a pair of absurdly long earrings, but as I looked at myself in the mirror, I thought ( Read more... )