You know the Yeats poem about the heavens' embroidered cloths? There's a line that says something like "tread softly, for you tread on my dreams." You come up with some interesting stuff when you search an image to go with that, let me tell you... Anyway, I think I am going to get a shirt that says this, and wear it to work every day. Or make my brides wear it when they have friends and family "helping" them shop. Maybe that could be their take-home gift. I recently listened to a friend rip a bride's favorite, carefully selected dress to shreds verbally, and I couldn't help thinking to myself "Is this really necessary?" Of course people want to share their thoughts, they want the bride to be as beautiful as she can be. But is it necessary to be cruelly blunt? Especially when they know that their friend is ecstatically happy over a dress? I don't think so. This isn't reality TV, no one is impressed, and the bride will is depressed... no one wins. There are ways to express opinions without trampling on what could be the dress of someone's dreams. Thank you for listening, cyberspace....
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