Weddings
Dear Mary
Q. Our best friends own a house in Morocco which sleeps about ten. They rent it out but go two…
It’s got to be perfect
When I order a cup of tea in Costa, the barista says: ‘Perfect!’ I ask for tap water in a…
Your problems solved
Q. We moved recently and new neighbours invited us to join them for dinner at a nearby restaurant. I planned…
The moths are coming!
After this mild winter, you can expect a clothes-ruining epidemic. They’ve already got my best suit
Your problems solved
Q. My husband-to-be and I both work full time. We are getting married from his family HQ and his kind…
Dear Mary: Another way to deal with a maddening blackhead
Q. Might I suggest an alternative solution to E.B. of London’s problem (3 October) about the person sporting a ‘maddening’…
Diary
My Cambodian daughter and her husband have just got married again. Wedding One was a Buddhist affair in our drawing…
Dear Mary
Q. When sending wedding invitations, does one put the full titles on the card, or can one just put, for…
Letters
Let’s subsidise weddings Sir: Fraser Nelson (‘Marrying money’, 15 November) points out that marriages tend to last longer than cohabitations and…
High life
The vicissitudes of getting old are linked to the mystical innocence of childhood as one daydreams the precious time away.…
My 50 weddings
The lessons of a perpetual guest
Dear Mary
Q. To ask for money in lieu of a wedding present (Dear Mary, 3 August) is ghastly, but an established…
Must we celebrate gay weddings twice?
Apparently I’ve proposed to my civil partner. He claims that on BBC Radio 2, on the Jeremy Vine show (he…
