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After learning that my high school stint at McDonald’s wouldn’t get me a job at a mag, I worked as a freelance journalist for a few years. With much haggling and many annoying phone calls, I got a job at Cosmo! As web ed, no two days are the same – some days I’ll be at a video or photo shoot, others I’m interviewing celebs or updating myself on the latest goss (all for research purposes, obviously).
Apart from that, I have a healthy addiction to cupcakes, clutches and Christian Bale. I once watched a VH1 countdown of ‘The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever’ and was proud to announce that I loved every last one of them. I’m very good at tripping over, talking too loud and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Oh … and in an acrostic poem that my friends wrote about me, the “e” in my name stood for “embarrassing.”
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Mon 01
Between friends...
There comes a time in every woman's life when she will be forced to talk about weddings. Flower arrangements, bridal favours, the invariably pushy behaviour of the mother-in-law-to-be, and of course, the guest list.
My friend is getting married in November. She's not a Bridezilla (by any stretch of the imagination) and until yesterday, Bride and I had never talked about the wedding, save for the obligatory 'Tell me all about your dress' conversation.
But yesterday, she and her fiance asked my boyfriend and I to help settle a score for them. On the topic of the guest list, they had a few questions. Namely, if they were to invite a single guest, should they add 'and guest' to their invitation? We agreed that, yes, that seems reasonable.
But what, Bride said, if a longtime single had recently started seeing someone - should you feel obliged to invite this person? Yes, we agreed, you should probably invite the new girlfriend.
But what, Bride said, if this person had never told you about the girlfriend? What if you only knew of her presence through other people? What if you'd never met her or didn't know her name? What then?
It's a tricky question, for sure, and one that I'm inclined to answer with, 'Meh, just invite her. It's a wedding - the more, the merrier!' Then again, I'm not the one dishing out $75 so this girl can eat and drink her way through the reception.
I'm at the age where a lot of my friends are thinking about getting married - or actually biting the bullet and getting hitched. In our office, two girls are engaged and it's my bet that a few more aren't far off receiving a ring.
Until now, weddings and bridal parties and hen's nights were always things for the future. Weddings were for adults, for grown up people who'd been around the block a few times and had finally (after a great deal of late-night searching) found someone they wouldn't mind waking up next to every day for the rest of their lives. Weddings were for people who kept their pasta in jars and ordered their coffee without milk. Now, people are asking my opinion on wedding etiquette - which probably means that they think I'm at the age at which my opinion can be trusted on such matters.
Considering I recently bought a Dylan McKay doll, this is probably unwise of them.
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