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SWM, 27, Funny, Seeks Invitation to Wedding
Posted on Apr 20, 2008 5:36:24 PM  |  By Margit

Ok men (if any of you are reading this blog), here's a way to get invited to a wedding with that girl you're trying to impress: pitch yourself in a video! Real Simple staffer Katrin Warren sent along this video from a guy who'd been flirting with her friend Lauren during a bachelorette party in D.C. Said guy, Adam, and Lauren's friends were trying to convince her she should invite him to the wedding. Lauren wrote to me via email, "I told him to submit a video and an application (I was joking of course) since I had to be sure he would be a good date. After a couple weeks emailing about the video he actually did one. Needless to say, it won him a date to the wedding." Here's that video. What do you think? Should this have won him a date? Personally, I'm not sure about those...

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The Unexpected Wedding Guest
Posted on Apr 11, 2008 10:40:18 AM  |  By SimplyStatedAdmin

So about that long lost cousin in Tasmania... My mom called, "Margit, can we squeeze one more in?" Let me back up, to explain that my wedding is small-ish, limited to 64 people at a restaurant just outside of New York City. Our guest list is at 68. We started off thinking we'd have a bigger 150 person wedding in my hometown, Philadelphia, but decided -- since we're older, a hair wiser and wanted something really special -- we'd pick a great restaurant and invite just immediate family and a few close friends. Of course we started at a guestlist of 30. Oops. The only thing I regret about our choice is that there's no room, really, for dancing. We'll have a jazz quartet, but, sadly, no room to bust a move. Back to Mom: "G (we'll call him G) is coming in to stay with Uncle G in California...

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