My Consolation Prize

Girls who hang out with mommy get cute prizes.


I love the bib front and the buttons.

And the back has good pintuck detailing and a flared waist! For a classic shape like the blazer, it's the little details that matter.

In exchange, I merely had to endure a nine hour lecture about why:

• it's un-bridelike to enter the room without The Bridal March playing. Apparently the big white dress will not sufficiently indicate my status as the evening's center of attention
• wedding invitations should be bright red or bright pink because ivory and white are Chinese funeral colors.
• the cake should have at least four tiers even if three tiers feeds over 100 people.
• I really need to consider having at least three costume changes through the course of the night, because it's absolutely wrong (that's right, wrong) to greet your guests, eat dinner, and send off your guests in the same dress.
• studio wedding shots are an absolutely indispensable part of the wedding process. I was misinformed in thinking they were a tacky, self-aggrandizing, vain waste of money. Apparently photos are intended to let you and all your friends find out how glamorous you can look with hazy lighting and a ton of airbrushing, not to remind you about where you were and how you actually looked on your wedding day when you're old and gray.
• a wedding will be boring without karaoke.

I basically have to keep repeating my opinion that while a wedding should be lavish, if the only reason to do something is to show off then it gets crossed off the list (glamour shots, multiple dresses, custom ordered personalized favors, and excessive number of bridesmaids, all make this list in my world). Someone put me out of my misery.