American weddings

I never understood the way Americans celebrates weddings. I mean: This woman obviously puts business associates before family and I don't get it. A wedding, in my opinion, should be a celebration with the closest family and friends, or more distant family and friends, should the budget and location allow it - not something to put on your companys representation account.

In Denmark some people choose that minor kids are not invited to the wedding, but I've never heard of a teenage niece not being invited.

Then again, my only knowledge of American weddings comes from newspapers, the internet and the television. Maybe the ordinary American wedding is celebrated with family and friends and not 200+ guests. Please enlighten me.

But I do agree with Abby, that it's rather unpolite to ask to bring someone not invited to the wedding.

Who pays the birth control?

A woman wants to know if she's out of line to ask her boyfriend to split the cost of birth control pills. Her boyfriend thinks so, most of her co-workers, even the female ones, agree with her boyfriend. And so do Abby.

Of course he has to pay half the cost of the pills. He's enjoying the benefit from the as well as she does. If he's not prepared to pay the price, I suggest she stop taking the pills and asks him to wear a condom if he wants to have sex. I predict the he'll pay up rather quickly.