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Hynes Eagle Boutique Tote | CorporetteA friend of mine just got this bag, and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed for a $30 bag. The brand has a ton of nice looking, well-reviewed, stylish bags, and many of them have intelligent little details, like colored linings, interior pockets, and more. For today's Coffee Break, I liked the look of this 15″x5″x11″ tote, with handles as well as a cross strap — the bright red color looks lovely, and if you're on the fence about such a bright color, the price will certainly help you take the plunge: it's $27 at Amazon (eligible for Prime — and also available in brown). Hynes Eagle Boutique Tote (L-4)

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  1. BB

    Tipping/parking question: Do any of you live in condo buildings with valet-only parking? If so, how much do you tip the valets each year (assuming you only do the one time during the holidays)?

    We’re looking at potentially buying into a place that has valet-only and trying to figure out what the additional annual cost would be. Also, honestly, I kind of hate the idea of valet-only parking. Am I overthinking this – what are the pros/cons you’ve experienced? I am not totally on board with the thought that someone has access to my car (I love the car) and not being able to just walk down to the garage to get it, since I’d have to call first.

    • MJ

      I would hate this. I’d worry about leaving anything valuable (down to my sunglasses or parking meter quarters), I’d worry that some teenager was going to ding my car, I’d worry about Ferris Beuller joyride scenarios (even though my Touareg is not that cool). The only thing I would like is not having to worry about being a woman alone in a parking garage if I were coming home late at night.

      • Wildkitten

        I’m shocked this is a thing. Must be a feature for the people who park their boats in their other boats?

        • anon-oh-no

          its actually pretty common in big cities.

          I had this when I lived in new York and was not a fan for the reasons OP lists. That says, in NY, I didn’t use my car very often so it wasn’t that big of a deal. if I had to use my car every day, this would drive me crazy.

          • Wildkitten

            Yeah I guess it’s not as awesome as it sounds. I’ve never heard of it in DC.

        • LilyS

          My Dad lived in a building with an automatic parking system, which I think is the UK (relatively expensive labour) version of this.

      • BB

        As much as I love my car, at least it wouldn’t be the nicest one in there :P. From what I can tell, it’s a feature in some urban condo buildings because they couldn’t build a garage that either 1) has normal spacing or 2) is attached to the building. I’ve heard it’s valet-only for “insurance purposes”…not sure what that means…I just also assume it has to be a perk for some people, right?

        • Killer Kitten Heels

          I worked in a place that was valet-only – it was valet-only because the garage was too small for normal-sized parking spaces, and the cars were basically parked in these long columns, one behind the other, with very, very little room between them for the driver to get in and out of the car.

          The residents mostly hated the valets, and a number of cars did end up scratched while I was there (anecdotally, the ruder you were to the building’s staff, the more likely your car was to end up dinged up). The valets had a really good routine on weekday mornings, because they kept track of when everyone left each day and would pull cars on that basis on a regular schedule, but weekends were usually a mess because most people didn’t keep a standard schedule, so sometimes people would end up waiting a while for their cars to be retrieved.

    • January

      I rented a condo in a place that had valet-only parking. It had its ups and downs. Like MJ, I appreciated having a place to park my car and not needing to worry about being alone in a parking garage late at night. The building had a pretty good system for getting cars out and on the front ramp for the morning commute.

      It was a pain on weekends, though. My days aren’t usually so planned out that I would know far in advance when I would need my car, and sometimes it could take up to 20 minutes for them to get my car on a Saturday afternoon, especially if a person in the garage didn’t answer the phone. And the valets sometimes acted like it was my car and I just drove it – I was surprised by the number of times I got back in my car and found the temperature changed or the radio turned off. Occasionally one of the valets lost the key to my car, which was annoying (they always found it later, thankfully).

      • Meg Murry

        Radio off wouldn’t annoy me so much as if they had turned it on or to a station I don’t like – which happens when I take my car to the garage or for an oil change sometimes, but luckily that’s infrequently enough (and the garage is cheap enough) that I don’t care.

        I guess a “perk” of valet is that you could pull up and unload right up at the building? My sister lives in a condo building with assigned spots, and since her parking space is at the far end of the garage if she doesn’t have her little folding cart with her it could take 4-5 LOOOONG treks to get things out of her car from a shopping trip, involving stopping to unlock 3 or 4 doors along the way.

    • Anonymous

      I rented a condo in a building like this. It was a PAIN having to call down in advance to get the car. And although the valet guys were generally better than at a hotel, there were still times when they were slammed and it took a long time for the car to come up. It would definitely be a dealbreaker for me if I were looking at buying in that building. I don’t think tipping is a huge expense. At least at my building, we just tipped them at the holidays, so it was basically just like extra doormen. Not a big expense (at least compared to the hundreds of dollars a month we paid for parking).

    • S in Chicago

      I love that dress. I never do necklaces when the neckline is interesting–otherwise, it’s competing. If I felt the need for jewelry, I’d wear a nice pair of earrings and/or bracelet instead.

    • houston, we have a problem

      I would be open to wearing a short string of pearls, or longer opera length necklace but I’d likely just wear earrings.

  4. ezt

    Letter of resignation: say where you’re going, so your file reflects that you left for another job, or keep it short and sweet without any extraneous info?

    • MJ

      Never say where you are going. Always say you are pursuing another opportunity. You don’t owe them any information whatsoever. You’re out.

  5. Anon

    Single people, do you only ever socialize with single people?

    Married people, do you only ever socialize with married people?

    All my friends are getting married, and friendships are changing. I’m just curious.

    • Mpls

      My friends are a mix. Some I’ve known as they moved from single to coupled or dating to married. I tend to see the marrieds with children less than anyone else, but I do still see them.

    • TO Lawyer

      I see my single friends more than my married friends. It takes a lot of effort and planning to get together with my married friends whereas my outings with my single friends are more spontaneous.

      I will say though, that now that I have a boyfriend and we want to do things together, including outings with our various groups of friends, it takes a little more planning than it did when I was just planning for myself, but I think that’s just the nature of having to coordinate multiple schedules.

    • Must be Tuesday

      As a coupled person, my friend group is mixed. As a single person, the only time I ever socialized exclusively with other singles was when I was too young to have married friends. By the time I was in my 3rd year of college, I had a few friends who were married.

    • Anon

      Married- I socialize with whomever I like (friendships usually predate marriage, mine or theirs). It’s a mix of single and married now. I frequently socialize without DH, so when I do see my married friends who naturally ALWAYS do everything together, I feel like the awkward honorary single person. I don’t think that my own marriage changed how I socialized much.

      I’d say that in some sense, my good friendships have “changed,” but not really all that much. My other friendships have, though, and some of my married friends I don’t even really feel like I’m friends with anymore because they refuse to see me without their spouses and there are many things I’d love to talk about with them but would feel uncomfortable with their spouses knowing/being part of that conversation.

    • Zelda

      I’m single and I socialize with both. My core group (weekly or sometimes more often) are mostly single, but I see my local married friends every 2-3 weeks. Sometimes I hang out with married friend alone and sometimes with the couple. One of my friends’ husband has joked that we’re “sister wives” because the three of us hang out so often. They’ve been together since college, so I’ve known him over a decade and have fun with both of them as well as just us girls.

    • Emma

      I mostly hang out with married people. It’s not so much about the marital status, it’s more that as I’ve gotten older (in my early 30s), the qualities I look for in friendships has changed. I enjoy spending time with people who are also in their 30s or beyond, and those people tend to be married.

    • Anonymous

      Married — friends consist of married with children, married with no children, couples, and singles.

      My socializing tends to break down as follows:
      — Me (and/or spouse) hanging out with a couple that has kids (we tend to invite ourselves over for a meal or a drop-by with some food/wine/flowers); I have done this without my spouse, especially if he is otherwise engaged for the evening.
      — Me (and/or spouse) hanging out with a couple (only happens when I like both halves of the couple; same goes for when spouse is there, i.e., he has to like both halves of the couple)
      — Me (and/or spouse) hanging out with a group that consists of various couples, singles, etc.
      — Me hanging out with a friend one-on-one
      — Me hanging out with a group that is all lady friends (so any partners are not there)
      — Me hanging out with a group that is professionally or otherwise connected (partners may or may not be there)
      — Me + spouse hanging out with a single friend or a coupled friend sans partner (this happens with some regularity, and it is very important to both of us that friends never feel third wheeled)

      I know what you mean about friendships changing. I’ve had a few friends who have stopped socializing once they’ve gotten married (or who can’t socialize without their partner), and those friendships have largely ended or are now on very limited terms.

      I think there are really two elements at play in the shift that you’re talking about. The first is the value that a person places on community, and the second is how a person views the balance of separateness/togetherness in a relationship. I highly value having a sense of community and I have put a lot of effort into building and maintaining the community around me. Because this is important to me, I’ve chosen a spouse with shared values and we spend a lot of time cultivating our respective friendships, making an effort to get to know each other’s friends, mixing our friends together, and just generally trying to facilitate a sense of community in our lives.

      With respect to the second element, I think that it’s very healthy in a marriage/partnership to cultivate an ability to be separate. My spouse is my favorite person in the world and I absolutely love spending time with him, but our lives are so much richer than if we did everything together all the time. I know many other people who don’t share my philosophy that a healthy sense of independence is desirable for a strong marriage/partnership.

      All that is to say that I would suggest starting to specifically look for friends who have similar values to you with respect to community and couple identity. It makes things a lot easier.

      Separately, if you’re single, definitely think about these things when you’re dating. If you and your partner are not on the same page with respect to the values I mentioned above, it turns your social life into a stressful minefield (spoken from both personal experience and watching this play out with others).

  6. Jules

    Cute bag. I’m always on the lookout for non-leather options so I checked out this brand on Amazon. The product descriptions, apparently translated from Chinese by a non-native English speaker, are too funny. From a description 0f a work tote that includes a removable rose embellishment:

    “It fits for sweet ladies as well as feminine women.”

    ” For a dress, a rose on the shoulder may rich femininity of a lady; for a handbag, the rose also may enhance its hostess’s feminine type. The bag is a mild lady. She shows her feminine. The bag is also extraordinary. She has her own individualities. It may like Angelina Jolie, a woman with mystery, but very charming. ”

    http://www.amazon.com/Hynes-Eagle-Arrival-Pattern-Detachable/dp/B00NNKRYZI/ref=sr_1_15_mc?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1429558224&sr=1-15

    • Anon

      Love it! And the bags look nice. I think I’m going synthetic when my leather bags wear out

    • Bargain hunter

      YES! I was just coming here to post about the description for the tote bag: “Hynes Eagle Decent and Delicate Ladies Tote Bags are made of synthetic leather. The whole bag looks brief and decent. In front, only one leather strap was adorned. In the back, there is a zipper pocket. Besides, it’s the double handles and the hardware. No luxurious ornament, but with it, you can still find your individuality, the monotony of gorgeous.”

      The monotony of gorgeous. I’m dying.

  7. Leigh

    I have to take an appetizer to a get together in a few weeks. I need fast, tasty, and best served at room temperature. What are your favorite room temp appetizers? I usually do baked brie, but I think I want to go another route this time…

    • la vie en bleu

      Figs. Figs sliced in half, top each with a dollop of goat cheese and half a pecan. And then drizzle the whole plate with balsamic vinegar. They are delicious, quick to throw together, but look way more impressive than it is ;o)

        • la vie en bleu

          I remembered the original recipe is with walnuts, but I like pecans better.

          They are so good. I could eat them all day. And now I am dying for fresh figs, oops.

    • N.C. anon

      I remember working on an event that had a tasty tortellini salad. It was basically tortellini, grape tomatoes, and mozzarella balls. When I searched those terms, I found a tidier and more versatile option: check out tortellini skewers. You could put those items on a skewer or just the pasta and serve with a variety of dips.

    • Anonymous

      caprese salad skewers. the easiest–different cheeses and charcuterie w/ grapes and apples. i’m a complete cheese addict though.

      • Anonattorney

        The caprese salad skewers are so great and so easy. And they look pretty. And everyone likes them.

    • Clementine

      I recently had a get together at my house and served mini-Reubens. They were a big hit!

  8. la vie en bleu

    I can hear a manager doing an orientation training right now, and she has been doing this nervous giggle everytime she gives the most important instructions. Putting that on my mental “Never Do This As A Manager” list because it is so painful and makes her sound so not-confident and not-in-charge!

    Besides the controversial ‘don’t bake’ rule, what’s on your “Never Do This” list?

    • Walnut

      I’m working on not saying “please” unless I’m actually asking for a favor.

      • Emmabean

        Maybe I’m reading this out of context, but I usually say please when I am asking someone to do something – whether it’s another attorney or an assistant. I always say thank you. “Please can you prepare this letter to go out today? Thank you.”

        Real question, no snark – why wouldn’t you say please?

        • Rosie

          Same question. I find my emails can be a bit short, so i try to make my emails friendlier, especially with our staff located outside NYC.

    • tesyaa

      Don’t say “sorry” unless you’re actually apologizing for something. Don’t apologize if you have nothing to apologize for.

      • Baconpancakes

        I’m not sure if it actually makes people think better of you or not, but it certainly makes me feel more like I’m more entitled to respect if I don’t apologize for something that I don’t actually need to apologize for.

    • NOLA

      Don’t ever give feedback that comes from someone else to one of your staff unless you can own it. Otherwise, you just sound like you can’t back it up and it can damage your credibility. If you must, get the full story from the other person until you understand the nuances and can fully support the feedback.

    • Snickety

      I routinely review my emails and remove the words “I think.” Always superfluous.

      • sweetknee

        Same for “I believe”.

        I must disagree.. with the “please” comment. I always say please and thank you to the people that I work with and that directly report to me. ( “Allison, please make 10 copies of Dr. X’S deposition for the hearing.”.) I guess I don’t see that as being weak, just good manners.

        Do agree with the “I’m sorry” one though. Spent a few minutes talking to my 15 year old daughter about this just this past weekend. Something happened to me ( not her fault), and she kept saying ” I’m sorry.” We had a conversation about how that is a bad habit to get into in the working world.

        • Coach Laura

          +1 Have a junior person at work who says “I’m sorry” every third sentence. And I routinely say “please” when requesting anything from a photocopy to a 20 page report.

      • Anonymity

        +1. I’ve started doing that as well. Makes you sound less authoritative.

      • Anonymous

        +1 to reviewing emails before sending and removing “I think” and “I’m sorry.” Also sometimes I say “I just wanted to…” and I remove the “just” on a second read through. I totally agree that saying “Please” is just good manners if you’re asking someone to do something, whether that person is a subordinate or a superior, e.g. “Please make copies,” “Please provide comments on this draft,” etc. What do you do if you don’t say “please”…just something like “I need X copies of this document on my desk tomorrow”? That seems more than a little rude & abrupt.

    • L in DC

      In my early 20s, I had the realization that my voice frequently went up in pitch at the end of a sentence so that it sounded as though I was asking a question rather than making a statement. I started making a conscious effort to sound more declarative, which promptly fixed the issue. I now have the opposite problem of sounding so authoritative that people assume I know what I’m talking about even when I’m just brainstorming.

  9. Anoniest

    Reposting from this morning in the hope that West Coasters are more likely to be on the later in the day thread:

    Bay Area folks: can anyone recommend a therapist/psychologist/counselor/whatever for anxiety? Preference is for South Bay (anywhere from San Jose to Mountain View would be ideal), but I’ll take recommendations for someone great outside of that area, and would very much like someone who takes insurance. Thank you!

    • Hollis

      Not in your area so I can’t be helpful, but EAP, your OB/GYN or PCP might be helpful. If you are in a certain profession or faith, there might be ones that specialize in those areas as well. Good luck!

      • Anoniest

        Thanks for the ideas. I’m relatively new to the area and without a long-term doctor relationship here, so hadn’t thought of a physician referral. But, I’m headed to my first gyn appointment here next week, and this would be a great question to ask there–really good idea.

  10. curious

    Hi all – I’m have a merit discussion with our practice chair today (which is unexpected) to discuss raises and promotions. I’ve never had one of these discussions before where I actually negotiate and would appreciate any and all advice! Ideally, I’d like to ask for a promotion and a 20% raise. It’s a bit tricky as I haven’t been here a full year, but a colleague was in a similar position and received a promotion and good raise, so it’s not unheard of.

    – If I’m offered a X% raise, am I allowed to ask for 20%? It seems odd to be doing this with the practice chair instead of either my boss or HR. Or is this something I should save and write to HR about?
    – Is there a good way I can phrase asking how I can get a promotion? (Or if I don’t get a promotion, why I didn’t get one and how I can get one moving forward?)
    – Any other advice?

    Thanks in advance!

    • Ellen

      Alway’s ask for a lot b/c they are cheep and will not give you everything you ask for. I learned this with my clotheing allowance, which you should ALSO ask for. If you are good, ask for 20% and they will give you 10% If you are schlubbey, ask for 10% and you will get 4-5%.

      As far as a clotheing allowance, ask for 50%, and if you look good in pump’s make sure that leather belts and shoes are included. Also, accessories often are forgotten, but if you ask for the 50% to cover accessories, baubles and brooches should be covered. The rationale should be that you ONLEY would buy these for work and that it causes men to focus on your clotheing and not your legal arguement’s. That is why my win rate is so good.

      This guy Wick keep’s texteing me. I do NOT think I could EVER get used to a name like that, let alone MARRY a guy named Wick. The manageing partner says it is a Western name, but I could NOT find it in the baby name book. Grandma Trudy said it is Kismet for me to meet a guy named Wick, b/c I should let him dip his Wick as he wishes. I said I am not sure what she meant, but now that Myrna told me, I udderly refuse to let a guy dip his wick in me. NO WAY HOSE. He was gross, and probably was not even circumscribed! FOOEY on that! I wish Grandma Trudy would let me conceive a baby MY way. DOUBEL FOOEY!

  11. curious

    I’ve been reading this blog for while now and I feel like a true member of the hive today. An answer from Ellen. If I were a scrapbooker, I would scrapbook this!

    • Senior Attorney

      LOL I always feel the same way.

      Can you imagine how sparkly an ELLEN scrapbook page would be?

  12. Hollis

    Does anyone here use a purse organizer for their tote bag? I am sick of looking for my phone inside my longchamp medium bag and there are a dizzying array of purse organizers so I’d like a reco from the hive. Thanks.

    • Maddie Ross

      I use pouches – one for cosmetics, one for pens, one for misc. items (parking pass, reusable name tag, etc.) and one for tampons.

    • Anon

      Is there a reason you don’t just put your phone in the little interior pocket (the one that is flush with the top of the bag, behind where the snap is)?

      • Hollis

        My phone doesn’t fit into the little interior pocket without sticking out about a half inch.

    • Must be Tuesday

      I have specific pockets in each purse (I have about 3-4 purses in rotation) for my wallet, phone and keys. Otherwise, I use separate pouches or small bags for different categories of things that I sometimes, but not always, carry with me like make-up, tampons and pain relievers, snacks, gym clothes, etc. Bigger things like books, magazines, scarf/hat/gloves, sweater, just get dropped in because they don’t tend to get lost very easily.

    • Anonymous

      Look up pursebling. They make purse organizers specifically for Longchamp. They come highly recommended by thepurseblog forum users. I personally don’t own one but I do use a Longchamp for my laptop/folders and can commiserate.

  13. Wedding Q

    This might be too late to get any traction, but here goes. I’m newly engaged and already overwhelmed at the idea of wedding planning. Here’s the thing – my fiance and I are not dancers. At least, we’re not a couple who dances together. I admit i have a good time dancing (after a few drinks) with girlfriends at a close friend’s wedding, but that’s a rare occasion. We don’t want to have a first dance or mother/son; father/daughter dance (as we both hate this kind of attention) but I still want my friends to have fun at the reception. Would it be weird to have a dance floor off to the side, near a bar? We’ll definitely have music and want people to drink and have a good time.

    So how would you navigate encouraging others to dance and have fun without making the dance floor the center stage so that the guests expect the traditional wedding spotlight dances? Or generally any words of advice for the couple that hates being the center of attention but wants to throw a good party?

    Thanks in advance for the collective hive wisdom I can always count on receiving (or, er, reading, when I’m usually lurking)!

    • Anon

      How about, instead of a traditional first dance, you have a “the newlyweds and their families would like to invite ALL of the guests to join them in their first dance”? Make everyone hit the dance floor at the same time and then, after that first song is over, you can gracefully bow out when you want to.

      • Senior Attorney

        That sounds like a totally genius idea! And believe me, none of the guests will miss the “traditional wedding spotlight dances.”

      • Sydney Bristow

        That sounds like a great solution.

        We are skipping the dance floor altogether. You could also just skip the spotlight dances. I don’t think anyone would be offended by that.

      • Wildkitten

        And make sure you tell people to join ahead of time or else people will awkwardly wait anyway. So tell your MOH or whoever to jump in right away so other people do too.

    • Must be Tuesday

      Have a dance floor. Don’t dance. Let other guests dance if they want. This is what I’m doing, except I’m a dancer and so is my mother (but my fiancé is most definitely not), so my mom and I and a few of my friends will definitely be among the first on the dance floor. We’re skipping all the traditional first dances. We’re also skipping a lot of the other traditional stuff as well.

      To offer unsolicited advice for a question you didn’t ask – find a venue that’s all inclusive. We went with a place that does everything – food, drinks, bartender, servers, cake, table décor, sound system for music. We’re bringing our own playlists, one for cocktail hour and dinner, and a separate one for after dinner with more danceable music. The venue could have provided an officiant too, but we have a friend who is able to perform the ceremony. We’re conducting the ceremony on site and the ceremony area will turn into the dance floor after dinner. It’s made wedding planning so much easier and not remotely stressful. All we have to do is purchase and send invitations (almost done), put together the music for the playlists (my fiancé wants to do this), find clothes to wear, get rings, and show up. No wedding party, no personalized vows, no programs, no favors, no cake topper, no guest book, no registry list. Planning has been very relaxed so far.

      • Wedding Q

        Thanks for the advice! You answered a question I didn’t even know to ask! It all feels so overwhelming, especially for someone who hates the spotlight – but reading your response gets me excited about how to do this in a way that works for us!

    • new anon

      I’m recently married and found planning similarly overwhelming. I’ll second that you don’t have to do spotlight dances, dance yourselves, or even offer dancing if you’d rather not. As a piece of unsolicited advice, I’ll offer that you should give some thought to what you’ll do if having no spotlight dances disappoints someone close to you (thinking specifically of your dad or your fiance’s mom, probably). Their upset, overall, isn’t your problem, but parents have sometimes been looking forward to things and will be sad if they don’t happen. Whether or not that changes your decision (and there’s no reason it necessarily should), you should think about being emotionally prepared for their disappointment at losing what they may have anticipated as a special moment with you.

      Relatedly, even parents who you wouldn’t have anticipated being into the performance/traditional-ish aspects of a wedding may surprise you. My in-laws, who themselves had a very simple, very atypical (by 2015 US standards) wedding, assumed from the beginning that they were expected to handle a couple of relatively big items that we’d anticipated doing ourselves or not having. These were items that were definitively not present at their wedding, and we were truly surprised by their expectation. Things worked out really nicely, in any case, but I think it’s worth a cautionary note that people’s expectations can sometimes be really really different from what you’d anticipate.

      • Anonymous

        Yes, think carefully about whether cutting out the traditional dances would hurt your dad/his mom. My husband and I are not center of attention people, and he rarely dances. We (reluctantly and awkwardly) did the first dances, and I didn’t feel weird at all. If I recall, we told our band to keep them short. Also, completely against character, we spent the entire reception after dinner on the dance floor together having a fantastic time. A full skirted wedding dress does a great job hiding poor dancing skills!

    • JL

      Or you can do what I did and pick a very slow song you can basically sway to, and just look at each other adoringly — based on the feedback, I think we distracted people with our googly eyes. Pick a short song and tell the band/DJ to transition quickly into the next song (for Father/Daughter or ‘everyone on the dance floor’ dance).

      • Meg Murry

        We didn’t do any solo spotlight dances – had a “first song” but we asked the (small) bridal party and parents and grandparents to join us initially, and about halfway through we had the DJ invite everyone to join in. We also didn’t do a spotlight father-daughter or mother-son dance – we had a song picked out for us to dance with each of our parents for, but there wasn’t a big announcement about it, the DJ just announced it as “a song we had picked out” which was the cue for the photographer to find us and take some shots. It worked out well for us – I was happy to give my dad a dance and we got some good pictures of it, but we didn’t have everyone staring at us as the 2 of us danced alone.

        And yes, our dancing was basically just swaying – no fancy moves on our parts. But it’s kind of cheesy fun to have “our song” to be able to smile to each other about if we hear it elsewhere.

    • Flower

      This would depend on your venue, but when a friend of mine got married, she also wanted to avoid the dancing spotlight, but provide it if others wanted. They had an outdoor wedding, so the rest of the area was for lawn games – horseshoe, bocce, etc. It was really fun and took the pressure off “let’s all stare at the bride & groom!”. They did something similar for the cakes – just announced that dessert was served rather than the official cake-cutting part. It was a great wedding and it fit the couple perfectly.

    • Diana Barry

      We had no dancing at our wedding. It was like a giant dinner party and we had a jazz trio. There was also no room for dancing so nobody danced. Perfect! :)

      • Suburban

        Same here- not dancers. We swayed for maybe thirty seconds then my dad cut in – everyone laughed-my husband scooped up his momma and everyone was invited to dance. Having a great band kept the party going. Also: younger people will dance to older music but it doesn’t work the other way, in my experience. Have fun!

    • Hollis

      I have a bag a lot like this and it’s totally appropriate for work. I even carry a laptop bag made of nylon that looks like a sportier messenger bag.

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