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.

I'd go to a wedding Friday night. If it was far away (i.e., needing to miss work), it would depend on the degree of closeness of the friends and coolness of location involved.

The best way forward would be to go with a Friday and just see if anyone is willing to take an afternoon off work.

Is there a lot of travel involved? I would go to a local/2 hourish drive wedding on a Friday without thinking about it. But, if I had to take Thursday to travel in addition to the wedding on Friday, I would have to consider closeness/coolness.

Would you go to a wedding on a Friday?

I went to one last week.

Even for locals, I think the later in the day you can push it the better. This one was at four pm, and seemed to have a pretty good turnout. But the priest even commented on how many people made it and it does seem like if you can swing 6 or 7 pm it will definitely be easier on some folks.

There's a bit of travel, as London locations are too expensive for us. But it's England-style travel, i.e. not far: about 2 hours for the London-based guests (which is most people). A little more for my friends from Leeds, where I go to university, but they'd have had to take another day off anyway, and there's only a few of them.

We're thinking about an afternoon ceremony, late enough in the day that people wouldn't need to take an entire day off work.

Right. If you make it 4 or 5PM, even with a 2 hour train ride most people can take a half day.

Of course, that puts you at the mercy of British Rail, so there's another thought.