This cracked me up — except for the part where the bride growls "I WANT WEDDING FLOWERS." Fuck that stereotypical shit.

Ok, so you've all heard of Trash The Dress, the photography fad of doing a shoot with the bride after the wedding where she destroys her wedding dress.

I posted very briefly months ago about why I didn't like TDD, but I realize that I actually didn't go into much depth there, and based on a discussion I recently had with a wedding photographer, I realized I probably should say more—

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In this episode of Mailbag, a reader explores the rip-off of wedding limos.

Hi, Ariel. I'm a bride from Southern Maine and while researching Limo companies in my area I came across Mr. Limo in Scarborough, who advertises 10-passenger limos. His "basic rate" is $45 an hour. His "wedding rate" is $250 for three hours including "complimentary red carpet service and champagne." So that's $115 MORE for the same thing only with "complimentary service"? Not too complimentary. I emailed him on this and here's his response:

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I'm introducing a new offbeat feature here on the website — Mailbag! I get so many great emails from readers and someone of them are just meant to be shared with the world. In this first installment of Mailbag, we hear from Siouxzi, who had a nightmare dress shopping experience

Hey Ariel,
I wanted to say thanks I bought your book when we first got engaged. I really appreciated the anecdotes and advice. I thought I'd share what I'm going through right now with you.

My mother has stage IV lung cancer and also cancer in her pelvic bone. I don't say that for pity. It's just the situation we're in. My fiance and I never really did the whole on the knee surprise engagement. We'd decided drunkenly on night ages ago (I think this new year's maybe?) that we wanted to get married. My mother asked if we'd set a date, and the answer was no. We didn't even have an engagement ring. We saw it mostly as a thing for her to look forward to, maybe in Spring 2009.

Tuesday I got the call from my mom. The tumors are growing again, her lung was filled with fluid, they were going to drain it and start chemo on Friday. After a lot of crying and thinking and talking we decided to push up the wedding. To
November 2007.

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