We registered on Amazon and included lots of things like DVDs and a lawn zombie.

I'm just terribly sad Teppy is non-glutinous, so I can't persuade her to take ME as her helper for wedding-cake tasting at The Bonbonerie.

A small wedding is just as complicated as a large one in many ways, I think. We had about 65 people, and I still had to answer questions for the caterer about which flatware style which is the kind of thing I'd hoped to avoid. My parents mostly stayed out of it (but paid for it all) except to add steak and ice cream to the menu.

Sox and I both had some sibling rivalry to roll our eyes over, because our fathers are 12.

Flea, since Teppy is non-glutinous she NEEDS you to do the wedding cake testing.

black coffee

The overwhelming majority of garter fetching and placing wedding moments have been just fun and silly in my experience.

My church had a money tree at the reception that anyone could tie money to at any time. It struck my younger self as sort of gauche--why did we buy all those presents if we could have just stuck money on the tree?--but it seems much more civilized.

Sox and I both had some sibling rivalry to roll our eyes over, because our fathers are 12.

Yours might be 12. Mine is 4. And your wedding was the bestest. The guy you hired to do the balloon animals for the kids? Totally excellent.

All quiet here. Stayed home --will be packing today.

Steph, you kept your cool admirably in a tough situation. Maybe future wedding discussions with your father should occur over breakfast?

I was at one wedding where the girlfriend of the groom's brother caught the bouquet. Several other men pretended to compete with brother for the garter. Note the word "pretended."

If Hubs and I ever hold a reception (we celebrate our 25th anniversary next year! good grief!), I'm going to try to talk him into "registering" for donations to one or more specific charities.

I haven't been to a wedding with the pin the money on the bride down, but I know it happened at my second cousin's wedding. He married a nice Catholic girl and they got married in the Catholic church and part of her Texas Catholic traditions was the pin the money on the bride.

This was considered scandalous by several of my family members. I was raised with the idea that giving money as a gift at a wedding is lazy and means you don't care enough to buy the couple a gift from their registry or something that you think they might like. For a while my great aunt (the cousin's grandmother) refused to attend the wedding because it was being held in a Catholic Church. But no one fell for her power play and it was pointed out that if she wanted to miss her oldest grandchild's wedding then it would be her choice.

I find it interesting how there are all different traditions and expectations.