There are a lot of different ways to choose a reception menu. Some brides and grooms opt for food that’s beautiful versus their actual favorite foods which are perhaps less fancy. Other couples try to please all of the guests with buffets or popular dishes or food that’s inoffensively bland. Still other soon-to-be-newlyweds go about choosing a reception menu using their wedding budgets as a guide.

There’s no one right or wrong way to choose a wedding reception menu, of course, though I will warn all the brides- and grooms-to-be out there that no matter how conscientious and inclusive you try to be when picking wedding food, someone is going to complain.

And if someone is going to complain anyway, why not lean toward a menu you’ll enjoy? Maybe even a menu that includes all sorts of yummy things that, for whatever reason, you don’t eat all that often! I absolutely love this photo of a Boston bride and groom in lobster bibs from Shang Chen Photography. Before I stopped eating meat, I couldn’t get enough lobster, but I can totally understand why some people might not relish the idea of cracking into some sweet, sweet tail in their formal clothes.

So wedding lobster? Maybe not the most popular choice from a guest’s point of view, but you know what? If you think lobster is just the best thing ever and it fits into your budget, do it. I know there are plenty of people who’ll disagree with me – I’ve actually read comments on another site from people angry that they had to eat Rice Krispies squares instead of cake at the wedding of a bride with celiac disease – but is it really fair to ask brides and grooms to serve something other than what they really want at their wedding receptions? I’d say no.

Even if the wedding reception menu a couple chooses is so weird, so out there that we can’t identify a single thing on it, why get peeved? It’s one night out of our lives, and we can always stop for a sub on the way home. Or wear a lobster bib. Or try something new.

Ever look at a wedding dress and think that there’s just too much going on? I have to give all of the wedding dress designers props because every day I see so many gorgeous gowns that I can’t get enough of – but everyone has their off days. Now and then I encounter some weirdness like giant bows sewn onto bosoms, ripped hems, and my absolute favorite horrorfrock, the frankendress! I’d venture to suggest that this Vera Wang number falls into that category.

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Cheesecake? No, cheese cakes. As in big old wedding cakes made of cheese and nothing but cheese. And not just any cheese, but really fancy cheese that yours truly thinks tastes a lot like a dismembered toe that’s been left in the sun too long. But I understand that the world is full of cheese enthusiasts or else why would there be roughly 10000000 varieties of cheese? Anyway, we’ve mentioned cheese wedding cakes here before, but I don’t recall that we’ve ever shown you any and I happened to run across these lovely specimens from The Cheese Shed.

While I’ve read here and there that wedding cheese cakes are a growing trend or trendy or a trend on its way out, nearly all of the shops specializing in them that I’ve found have been in the UK and I don’t know anyone (nor have I heard of anyone through acquaintances) who’s had one. That said, if the idea appeals, I can’t see that it would be too hard to DIY provided you live near a nice cheese shop and are just a bit handy when it comes to decorating things.

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Oh em gee, these robot cake toppers are too dang ADORABLE. Perfect for… the robot lover? The engineering types? The sci-fi enthusiast? The Beard? Find them at Button Eyed Teddy Bear for $50, and have ‘em customized to match your wedding colors!

Every now and then I like to pop over to J. Crew to check out what’s new in their wedding department, and I’m usually not disappointed. Their wedding dresses are usually what I’d call accessible in terms of style, but also a little bit quirky (sunburst polka dots? femme ruffles?). But I have to say, the brand isn’t doing themselves any favors with this:

And by this I mean the way it’s presented, not the product being sold. What you’re looking at is not some hybrid formal-casual wedding dress, but rather a gorgeous $3,000 skirt made of layer upon layer of shimmering pleated Italian metallic foil-printed tulle, topped off with volumes of solid French gossamer tulle. We’re talking about the good stuff, crafted by master weaver Sophie Halette. And J. Crew, to advertise it, pairs it with a ratty-looking old t-shirt on a slouchtastic model, making an amazing skirt look like some crap from a teen shop. I hate that. Does that drive anyone else nuts?

Aren’t these pretty? More than a wee bit unusual, sure, but pretty nonetheless! All four dresses are from Marchesa‘s Spring 2010 collection (so in fashion terms, a blast from the past) but they caught my eye and I thought they might inspire. I actually like Marchesa’s non-wedding dresses much better than their bridal lines, which tend to be rather boring in their glaring whiteness when compared to all of the interesting things happening elsewhere in the brand.

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Oh well.

Last week I hit you all with this seemingly deathless image:
and you came back with… zero responses. Bummer, dudes.

Since I just can’t let go of this without a joke at all, I’m going to provide my own punchline. Here it is:

For Demi Moore’s third wedding, she chose the most exclusive designer of painted wedding finery in the world.

Yay me.

Sniffle.