General Admission sucks, especially compared to Colonel Reserved Seating.

Major Sky Box is cool.

I can't do that unfortunately. The concert is general admission and I need to be sure that I actually get a seat.

In my experience, and you can confirm this with the venue, there is usually an accessable section (with pretty good seats) set aside for the disabled person and some number of companions (usually 1).

This happens a lot with my Mother and one Sister at the theater. Sometimes we won't know until day-of that they'll need an accessable seat and the house staff escortst them to one. At GA concerts I've been to, if you show up day-of in a cast and tell them, they walk you and a friend to a section of chairs.

Me, I am fond of Enlisted Officer House Seats.

In all fairness, last night, I was holding a pizza leftovers box, and she was holding her laptop luggage, so that might have made things a bit awkward for the kiss.

The next time you see GGG greet her with a friendly kiss. Don't wait until the end of the date.

How cool is this? [link]

Ha! Pretty cool.

So, it doesn't actually sweep? Bummmer.

I know. But now I'm totally rigging a broom on my Roomba.

And it ends in cake and marriage, which is not so bad (plus, the wedding site you linked to is gorgeous).

The cake had better be *really good*. (Note to self: get good cake.) Oh, yeah, the place is amazing - we are desperately hoping it will be available. It will depend on a few different things working out at once.

Along which lines: Bitches, you're good at the general advice stuff. Would you go to a wedding on a Friday? We have a choice of either going with a Friday, and risking no one coming, or a Sunday, when my priest is unlikely to be able to come (we're hoping he'll do the blessing), or going with a different venue (which will make me sad. But it's probably good for me to learn compromise. As long as, y'know, I always win). The best way forward would be to go with a Friday and just see if anyone is willing to take an afternoon off work. But I don't really want to risk planning for 150 guests and ending up with 7. The Girl and I would like to at least delude ourselves that we're fairly popular.

I can't remember wedding planning. I think there was delegation to the mothers involved.

I'm quite glad that I'm in my 30s. If I were any younger, I'd feel obliged to get my parents involved. As it is, it's quite stressful enough without them. They have been made aware that their role is to turn up on the day and say nice things. My sister wants to wear a hat. She's treating this like a *proper* wedding, the sweetie.

I will save all of you the rant of how this wouldn't happen in other countries I've been to.

Happens to me a fair bit (the UK's Disability Discrimination Act isn't worth the paper it's scribbled on). I shout about it and write letters. Mostly the former. Although, as Trudy was describing, there's usually a mobility-impaired seating area at larger concerts and events (it's the smaller gigs where I lose out). Can you keep quoting the ADA at the place until they either find the right information, or agree to make accommodations? I understood that the ADA was pretty comprehensive about access.