As the Manolo might say, here are some links that may amuse:

No one will know we were bridesmaids…

I ain’t know a diamond from extremely great salt.

You: Mod Girl. Smart, sexy, saucy, sophisticated. And now engaged.

They were slapping their foreheads saying, “Why didn’t we think of that?”

A hundred thousand dollars, according to my extremely rough calculations, is how much a family of four spends on weddings, baby and bridal showers, graduations, baptisms and communions and brit milot and b’nai mitzvot and sweet sixteens and engagement parties and fiftieth-birthday shebangs and retirement parties and golden wedding anniversaries.

Here’s a fun little anecdote I received a while back from Svetitsky:

We attended a friend’s wedding a few months ago and during the reception, all of the guests got up to dance a trio of pre-organized dances, each with a special meaning, for the bride and groom. The guests were from all over the country and had not gotten together to practice the three dances before the ceremony. So how did they manage to pull off such a performance? The older brother of the bride sent out CDs on which he recorded himself explaining the dance moves and – yes – demonstrating how the dances would look. All the guests had to do was pop the CD into their computer or DVD player and dance along with the bride’s brother. It was a lot of fun and only slightly embarrassing for the young bride and groom.

As a gift, it wouldn’t work for everyone — I know some people who come from families genetically cursed with nothing but left feet — but if your clique/family/tribe/network loves to don dancing shoes, why not consider putting together a similarly silly tribute?

Incidentally, the two people in the photo above are my mother and father, who divorced roughly twenty-three years ago. But don’t they look sweet? The fact that they can share a dance after so much conflict was one of the best wedding gifts I received.

I don’t do a lot of pink, by which I mean I don’t talk much about pink gear, and I don’t wear much of it, either. I used to be a pink fanatic, but sometime in the last year, I overhauled my wardrobe and jettisoned almost everything that wasn’t black or brown. But while I went with brown bridesmaids, it’s not everyone’s first choice — especially for an outdoorsy, summertime fête.

Pink is generally associated with romance — think pink roses, pink lips, and so on — so, unsurprisingly, it works its way into plenty of wedding palettes. If you plan on outfitting your bridal party in a lighthearted and almost casual pink, or even plan on donning pink to go to the summery wedding of a friend or loved one, the four dresses below may delight and inspire.

Traveling clockwise, they are a Shoshanna pink embroidered floral trellis strapless dress, an Elie Tahari pink crushed velvet ‘Rina’ dress, an Alexia Admor pink mesh v-neck belted dress, and a Tracy Reese pink embroidered ‘Resort’ silk slip dress. They aren’t too flashy, but they aren’t frumpy, either. And they are all extremely re-wearable, so you’ll never have to worry that they will end up in the back corner of a dark closet, unworn and unloved.