Yeah, so I thought. But I try to focus on their other virtues now. I try to balance not wanting to be too judgemental of others with taking care of myself. You can probably guess I often fail at the latter. But the last thing I want to do is lose a good friend over a mistake. I imagine many of my friends didn’t know wedding etiquette at the time? I married young…(or maybe I’m just too forgiving).

Now that my friends are starting to get married, I’m following etiquette and I’m getting them appropriately expensive gifts (read: quite expensive, especially given my budget now). I’m human, so I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t bitter.