Wedding Survival Tips for Single Ladies

Spinsterlicious

I'm wasting a perfectly good Saturday this weekend to attend a wedding. I always have such mixed feelings about these things. They're good friends of mine and I'm happy they've found each other (a Match.com success story) but weddings usually bore me: it's like watching the same play over and over, just with different actors. Of course there are moments of happiness, laughter, fun, and good food and drink, but it's spread over way too many hours of "not much". I usually spend some of that time pondering ways to truncate a wedding and reception, start to finish, to 2-3 hours. Most wedding events take twice that amount of time, during which I try hard to remain social while really wanting to tiptoe out…without being rude.


My "date" for this wedding is a good Spinsterlicious friend of mine. Together, we'll figure out a way to make it fun.


The one thing I want to commend the bride on is that I, a single woman, was allowed to bring a guest. Huge kudos to her because so many people don't extend this courtesy to single people and it annoys the heck out of me. So much so that I've turned down some wedding invitations when I didn't want to go alone. Other times, I've left early because I'm just not that good at working the room by myself and I no longer feel like I have to try if I don't want to.


So it was really timely when someone sent me a link to this article by Meredith Goldstein in the Washington Post called Twelve Tips for Singles at Weddings. The author gets it. I think her tips are smart. Except for #11. I think she must've been drinking when she wrote that one.
Anyway, here's a sometimes paraphrased, truncated version of her list.


1. If you have to travel out of town, STAY WITH THE GROUP, where other people are staying so that it's easy to be included in the pre- and post-wedding activities.


2. EAT. Enjoy the cake. Don't deny yourself.


3. If you're traveling, DON'T BE CHEAP. Treat yourself to your own room. Make it into a mini-vacation.
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http://www.thespinsterliciouslife.com/2012/05/wedding-survival-tips.html