and when you were married. Thanks.

I work with a guy (6 months at this job now) who is really hard to read. We work in the same department, but we do not actually work together, if that makes sense. Our relationship is strictly social since the pool of younger people in the dept. is small. Anyway, he's kind of shy, but we flirt quite a bit. We are both single. There's lots of verbal teasing/banter. We go to lunch in a group/sometimes alone, pretty frequently and he's very touchy with me - always seems to be finding excuses to touch my arm or he'll accidentally brush into me if we're walking side by side or passing. We have also done the standard happy hour after work a handful of times. That's always mixed company, but he always ends up sitting or standing with me. Just last week we all went out for an early new years celebration and he was by my side all night, kept leaning in unnecessarily close to talk to me, and at one point he even had his hand resting against the side of mine on the bar top. At the end of the night he was the one to volunteer to walk me to my car and he gave me a hug goodbye. He always gives me a goodbye hug after nights out, and I am the only female in the group he hugs. But the thing is he hasn't asked me out at any point. I've suggested hanging out before and he just says yeah we should do xyz, but official plans are never made. So on one hand I'm thinking ok if he liked me, he would ask me out, which means he must not like me. But if not, why does he act the way he does with me?

I don't really drink much, but every body on both mine and my fiance's side of the family drinks EXCEPT my parents. They are paying for the wedding and said there is to be absolutely NO alcohol. I have a hard time in general trying to please everybody, so I'm kinda stuck. I know it's my wedding; however, I still want to respect my parents, but I also want everyone to have a good time. I've tried talking to my parents and my father won't budge. My fiance's parents even offered to pay for the alcohol. I just don't want to have a bad relationship with my parents because of this. Any advice on what to do?

My brother s wedding is less than 5 months away and I m in his party. On his side, with my other brother and two of his friends who have been his friends since he was about 5. We all grew up together so these two are like brothers to me. My parents aren t so keen on the idea and are like "why can t you just be a normal girl and stand on [the bride s] side, you ll only attract attention". I get along very well with the bride, don t get me wrong, but you ll probably agree with me when I say that as the GROOMS sister I should be entitled to stand with him. It s not like I m being forced to wear a suit either, the bride is arranging my dress to be the same style as the bridesmaids but in grey. So why do my parents have such a big issue with this? If the idea of a girl standing next to her brother on his wedding day freaks them out, I don t know what to say/do...

this is her sister -- I don't mind the post!

Looking for a boutique on the eat coast. I saw some but in California. I'm located in Washington DC. Was looking for traditional Khmer wedding dresses.

My fiance and I are in the windstorm of planning a wedding, planning for early 2018. Right now the biggest hurdle is the venue (surprise surprise) my grandparents offered to help us financially but when I asked them for a dollar amount they would not set one so until then I am planning this without their help financially (so we go on what we can afford not promised money that never comes). Venues around here are very expensive and most places offer some special price drop for choosing a date between Jan and March, but what gets me is the food. Obviously these places require us to use their catering services which after doing the math will equal out to more in food cost then venue cost, is that normal? Both he and I have large families and extended families (step parents) right now were sitting at a guest list of 150, how did you decide the cut off for guests? What factors came into play especially if you had to cut based on family and not friends?

Ok so my sister and I have a semi-rocky relationship, but her daughter will be both my ring bearer and flower girl for my marriage. "Duck" will be the only child there for the ceremony. Her sister, "Blue Jay" will be watched by a sitter I plan to hire for all the other kids since I don't want children at the ceremony. My question is should I ask her to also be a bridesmaid since I'm using one of her daughters and basically banishing the other?

I like her she's smart and cool