Year: 2009

I Love Weddings Almost Most Of All

As you will surely remember, I love wedding blogs. They are full of pictures of flowers, smiling young women with beautiful shoulders, and tulle. What’s

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I should make something clear. Since I hold these opinions – about shoes, purses, typefonts, overt displays of sentimentalism – I CAN write about them.

Ironic Wedding Invitations

MBM asked me a very good question. What is an ironic wedding invitation? Well, in the world of High WASPs, emotions are a very tricky

What The Mother Of The Bride Cares About

Bride: Claire Pettibone. Images, clockwise from upper left hand corner: Camilla Flowers, In the Now, Flickr, WeddingBee, Jerusalem Tallit, Dempsey and Carroll Right off the

5 Things To Watch Out For In High WASPism

What To Watch Out For With Those Tricky High WASPs 1. Colonialism. Exploiting other creatures, i.e. using their capacity without fair recompense, is never good

Saturday Morning at 8:05am

It’s Saturday morning. And my son is home from college. My children are grown. They have not a vestige of body fat left on them

Ironic Lilly

Over in the preppy blogging circles the girl called “Hopsy” was interviewed on the Martha Stewart show. How cute to see someone so young stand

High WASP Code of Conduct Redux

east side bride added “A firm handshake” to the High WASP code of conduct. Yes. I think our handshakes get so firm in part because

I May Need Help

I went shopping yesterday. For clothing. This is an unusual happening. I haven’t shopped for clothes in ages except my sortie to Target, which was