There are a few things I want to know today:
1) Why is “sparkly” the adjective of choice to describe vampires lately? Have they all been slathered in Elmer’s glue and dropped into a vat of glitter, or have they simply been turned into a lightly carbonated beverage? Or both?*
2) What kind of alternative universe of morons do advertisers think we live in? Does Domino’s Pizza actually believe they will ever be able to convince me that they have a dedicated team of “chefs” who regularly battle it out for the privilege of creating another shitty processed pasta breadbowl mutation?
3) How long can I get away with drying my hands on the sleeve of a sweatshirt before I am forced to get up to put the load of towels in the dryer?
4) Why did I eat the whole burrito? I mean, it was generously bathed in mole sauce. I know that this explains a lot of it. But still: why? Did I eat the ENTIRE THING??
5) And then I had to follow it with a cupcake? Really?
6) Oh god. It was a very very good cupcake, and I DON’T REGRET IT IN A MILLION YEARS.
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7) Should we have wedding favors? Or just forget about it? Part of me thinks it could be fun and the other part thinks it could be just another time- and money-sucking task. The beau suggested we could do something fun and cool that most people would appreciate, like a pint glass printed with a custom design. I agree that would be awesome. Because we’ve all encountered those completely useless favors, right? I recall at the very first wedding I went to after college, I was given a little corked jar containing sand and shells, with the wedding date inscribed on the outside in metallic ink. I think it rolled around the back of my car for several months before I guiltily threw it out. At another wedding, I took home a white chocolate bar of dubious quality, engraved with the bride and groom’s initials in gold. It sat in the pantry for several months before I guiltily threw it out. I don’t want to send my guests off packing miniature pangs of remorse. Plus, I don’t want them to have to carry something around all night, especially when we have to move from the reception site to a bar for the after party.** And I mean, they probably wouldn’t even notice if they left favor-less, right?***
Hmm. I think I might have gotten one answer out of that session, at least.
* I’m not drinking that.
** Whenever I read or hear the words “after party,” Eugene Hutz from Gogol Bordello begins chanting in my head, “Party party party party party party AFTER PARTY!”****
*** Not least because they will be drizzunk.
**** In super awesome perfect fantasy world, Gogol Bordello plays our wedding. Until 4:00am. And then the after party, too. I can can see it now: My grandmother careening wildly across the dancefloor with the beau’s conservative uncle, guests passed out across the dessert table. Can it be super awesome perfect fantasy world now? No? Darn.
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i like the idea of hip favors – for instance, at k&a’s reception last summer, which was held at a winery, everyone got a corkscrew (the nice ones, not the winged ones that lame people like me use). i somehow ended up with three of them, and they’re totally useful AND make me think of the reception (and hence my friends) every time i pull one out. so i think the favor thing can be done well (and i like the pint glass idea).
I LIKE the corkscrew idea. I’m liking it even better than the pint glass idea, because it seems like people who drink beer also drink wine, but that people who drink wine don’t necessarily drink beer. Hence, more wine drinkers than beer drinkers. I guess it would make more sense for us to choose a corkscrew for a favor if the reception was at a winery, or even if the beau and I were simply wine aficionados, but who said it had to make sense?
1) Effing Twilight.
2) No idea.
3) Two hours.
4) Murphy’s Law of eating.
5) See above.
6) GOOD
7) Yeah, I’m going round in circles over this, too. I vote for doing favors ONLY if a. they don’t break or even strain your budget and b. you think people will actually keep them.
xo
HA HA HA HAAAaaaa.
I like the way you think.
I would just like to focus on #6, as it is what I plan on doing with my evening.
As for favors, it was the last thing I decided on. I wouldn’t have done it if we didn’t have something edible. Andwe had leftover funds for it. I agree no one wants a coaster or some other chotchke with another couple’s names/initials on it.
p.s. I had a candy buffet. It was the only thing my broody teenage cousins got excited about. Plus it was the week before Halloween so it worked out well with leftovers.
Cupcakes for your evening last night? That sounds like a fantastic evening.
Mmm, candy buffet! So did guests end up taking anything home, or did they just scarf what they could right then and there?