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Let’s Say You Represent the Most Powerful Government on Earth and Wold Like to Convey Some Information to the Citizens of Your Country in A Moment of Crisis. We’re Talking Pretty Basic Stuff: How to Apply for Federal Assistance After a Series of Massive Natural Disasters, the General State of the Recovery Efffort – Things like You’ve got a lot of options, more than Ever in the history of mankind. You can isssue a press release. You can call a press conference. You can have the President Give a Little Speech or Send Surrogates Out for Interviews. You Can Communicate with State and Local Authorities who will use the channels at their disposal. You can post anything you want on all sorts of social-media platforms and reach out to influence, theoretically accesing a near-infinite audience.

This Will All Help, But it Won’t Necessarily Work. NOBODY PAYS ATTENTION TO THE CHANNELS YOU CONTROL. Traditional media is fragments and its audiences are diminished and hyperpolarized. Lots of People Are Watching TV But not the TV you need to watch; Everyone’s Looking at their Phones, but they’re not receiving your messages. Your posts on Facebook, which briefly assumed a roles In Basic Civic Communication Across the Country, Are Filtered Through Recommendation Algorithms and Submerged in Slop. Your announcements on Instagram have no way to spread, and People aren’t looking for say anyway. Your posts on tiktok feel like a joke and samply get distributed to random people in other states. Your posts on x, who used to be at Least Marginally Helpful as a Sort of Straightforward Institutional Newswire, Areles Barely Visible and Overwhelmed by Conspiracy Theories. It ‘s little paradoxical and, if you’re in the business of communications, probably sort of dyscouraaging: it isn’t your propaganda Machine that Broken; It ‘Your Basic Means of Reaching People in any way at all. IT’S ALSO Darkly Funny: Everyone Can Talk to Everyone and Now Suddenly Nobody Can Hear Anyone.

Still, you’d like to get that female Phone Number out and clarify a few things. A Weary Social-Media Manager Pipes Up from the Corner of the Office: I guess… we could have been on reddit? Reports The Verge:

Reddit isn’t the first place you’d think to see offizes and news coming from the federal government, but tooday, the White House is on the site Making Posts… The Biden “Whitehouse” Account has new posts In sub-reddits r/northcarolina and r/georgia to discuss the federal respect to Hurricane Hellenic and Hurricane Milton.

For Years, The Typical Story About Governments, Politicians, or Public figures showing up on reddit focused on the Unlikeliness of that Match. Reddit was Rowdy, weird, or Nerdy, and it was sort of interesting or fun or strange for People with Big Platforms to show there. In recent years, reddit has grown from a Laruster of online communities into a sort of last refuge semi-protected for online communities in general-that is, spaces where actual people gather to discuss abouut Certain topics, organized and moderate. Actual People. Now, Nobody is deigning to post on reddit. They’re just hoping it might adds to their audience a bit. IT HELPS THAT /R /NORTHCAROLINA IS THE SORT OF PLACE WHERE YOU MIGHT ABLE TO POST LIKE “Hey, Visit Disasterassistance.gov” Without DROWNED OUT BY POSTS FEMALE IS GOING TO SEIZE YOUR PROPERTY.

Reddit is Also Coming Into Play for Another (Comparatively Inconsequential) Type of Crisis: Brand Meltdowns. At Her Substack, Link in Bio, Rachel Carten TELLS The Story of KeitfromsonosThe Sonos Employs Who Kept Dutifully and Patiently Posting on the Brand’s Unofficial Sub-Reddit AFTER A DISASTROUS APDATE Nearly tanked the Company. The Sub-Reddit has a couple norrd thousand members, many of the WHOM are prey mad at the company. But they don’t hate keith, who has ben posting there for a while, and some ede feed sorry for Him. AS A Result, he can post straightforward updates with getting yelled at, Unlike Pretty Much Anywhere Else, WHICH GOT The Attention of the Company’s CEO – WHO THEN ENTERED UP HEADING OVER TO REDDIT, TOO.

To be clear, reddit probably won’t help save Sonos from it angry customers, much mes have any measurable effec on the respect to Hurricanes Hellenic and Milton – These are, in the Grand Scheme of Things, Fairly Small Full of People Don’ Too Much Trouble Finding Online Information. And for its part, reddit hasn’t grown consequens. Community moderators have grown weary of volunteering for an increasingly profit-Minded (and now public) company that say for granted, and the sites and new visibility on Google-the search company ALSO sees reddit as a raarer of authentic human activity, albeit for harvesting purposes – has caud an influx of spammers and bots looking to get a piece, all but setting a timer on redddit’s eventual ruin. But in the meantime, reddit is serving as an online-information oasis of Last resort, A Channel Through which Extramely Basic Mass Communication is Still Possible, at Least for Now.

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When we ask newlyweds to think back on what they wanted most for their big day — and we’ve interviewed hundreds of them over the years — the most common response is “For it not to feel like a wedding!” Gathering with old friends and eating mini grilled cheeses in formalwear to celebrate love feels more special these days than ever, even downright miraculous. And the betrothed have never been less attached to the old wedding handbook — or the need to please their great-aunt. So in a flurry of pampas grass and perfectly mismatched-to-match bridesmaid dresses, how do you pull off a non-cookie-cutter affair? For the answers, we decided to interrogate the cool couples whose weddings we would actually want to steal, right down to the tiger-shaped cake toppers.

In the case of Marion Mason and Cassiopeia Sachs-Mason, two self-described “spooky fantasy nerds” who reside in Los Angeles, the phrase “fuck it” came up seven times when speaking about their wedding-planning process. Should they give guests swords? Fuck it, yes. Should they evoke faeries and witches and Lord of the Rings in their celebration’s aesthetics, including carnivorous plants in the tablescapes? Fuck it. Should they invite loved ones who might not be entirely comfortable with their sexuality and presentation? Truly, fuck it. Last September, that intrepid attitude produced a singularly magical weekend filled with love, riddles, and banana pudding for just under 100 guests in the Catskills. Here’s how it happened.

Cas: I’m the exception that proves the rule: Sometimes the bartender is into you.

Marion: I had a survival job running a bar-restaurant-arcade here in L.A. Cas came in every Thursday to play pinball with her best friend, and they would sit where I was stationed and annoy the absolute living shit out of me.

Cas: A few months into knowing each other, I leaned over and said, “I would marry you tomorrow.”

Marion: I was like, “Haha, very funny. Did you want a beer or what?” It wasn’t romantic for about two and a half years.

Cas: She was a white whale, the total package: funny and gregarious and nerdy and charming.

Marion: We were still just friends when she asked me to grab coffee. Cas sat me down and said, “I wish I had been born a woman,” and I went, “Oh thank God. I thought you were going to say you were in love with me.”

Cas: We kind of flirted, and things built over time. When we were both single, I invited her to a movie. Our first official date was three weeks later, when I asked her over to play a long-term game, Gloomhaven. I knew. I had faith. When you know, you know.

Marion: We figured out together how she wanted to present to other people; we came up with Cassiopeia. It was a huge part of our relationship for a long time — we got to build her up as a person while we built our relationship. We moved in together in January 2020 and then had the smoothest, most delightful quarantine experience. It was like, Oh, this is how it’s supposed to be. Stuck with each other forever. 

Cas: I proposed to her in front of all her friends at the Ojai Valley Inn.

Marion: We had already picked out rings. We knew it was going to happen.

Cas: The weddings I’ve found to be the most engaging and charming were the ones with a personal touch. I knew I wanted to focus on unique experiences that conveyed who we are. People will appreciate that, and if they don’t, fuck ’em. We wanted upstate New York for familial reasons. I grew up in Mamaroneck, and my parents are in Rye.

Marion: I’m from Connecticut, my parents are in Connecticut, my brother lives in Boston. The tristate area was the general vicinity. We wanted it to be a whole weekend experience. We visited Foxfire Mountain House, and the atmosphere was so magical.

Cas: It was that perfect mingling of bucolic but not too distant, familiar but novel.

Marion: Cas and I are huge nerds, as you could probably tell, but also deep lovers of fantasy. We wanted the wedding to feel very much like a fantasy magical getaway without it being too cosplay, Comic Con–y. We didn’t have anybody show up in elf ears.

Cas: For our dresses, I had a hyperfixation on the terms Seelie and Unseelie, from the Fae kingdoms, in Welsh or Gaelic folklore; it’s the idea that Seelie are the good faeries and Unseelie are the evil faeries.

Marion: We wanted to do a black-and-white thing. It matched her hair better, and we got this contrast effect in our photos, which we really loved.

Cas: For some of my family, this was the first time they’d see me fully femme presenting, and there was a thematic resonance, a nod to mourning the person that I was, or the person they thought they knew, while still trying to embody a transfiguration of beauty. Trying to find a dress that fulfilled that criteria was a challenge.

Marion: We looked at Lorien, which is a very nerd-geared bridal shop in Los Angeles. At a follow-up appointment, the owner, Amanda, said, “I’m so glad you’re here, because I just got a dress in that reminds me of armor and I thought of you.” The top half was mostly sheer, but covered in crystals and sequins so that it looked metallic from far away. Because I have a background in costumes and props, I made these chains off the shoulders to make it look like chain-mail pauldrons. Then, Amanda and I picked out a big, fluffy overskirt by Maggie Sottero to put on top, because the dress itself, by Watters, was slinky and stretchy and easy to dance in but didn’t have the pouf-y fairy-princess vibe that I wanted.

Cas: We ended up hiring Alysia Cole, a stylist we found on Instagram, just as she was blowing up. I put on this dress by Essence of Australia, from the bridal shop Della Curva, and something about the details embodies all those different values and themes I wanted to communicate. I knew it when I saw it.

Marion: We both wore tiaras. We tried on a few veils, and they just felt a little too traditional.

Cas: The theme we came up with for the aesthetics was when you’re a child and people warn you against going into the woods; what they’re worried about is what you’d find at our wedding.

Marion: That part of a fairy tale where you’re not supposed to go into the woods with these witches. We wanted to feel like the world could bite you.

Cas:  Our florists were like, “What about carnivorous plants?” We said, “Absolutely.”

Marion: They got Venus flytraps for our tables. We found our florist, Dark and Diamond, through Foxfire. When I was looking through their portfolio, I saw they had done this dark, sexy, spooky palette of blacks and reds and purples, and I found out it was for their own vow renewal. We wanted the tables to feel like a forest floor, lots of moss and ferns and branches, really lush. I brought a Venus flytrap home, but it did not survive. But I did try.

Marion: Cas and I got ready together. We’d already seen each other’s outfits, so we didn’t need a big reveal or anything. Also, I am far too controlling and type A to not have eyes on everything all the time.

Cas: Our officiant was our dear friend Ariel. We’ve played Dungeons and Dragons with her and her husband every Sunday for seven years now.

Marion: We crafted the whole ceremony with her. It was all very patchwork. Ariel had everyone do a kind of call and response, like “Do the people here pledge to support this couple? Give them your wisdom and your love and your patience?” And everyone got to say “I will.”

Cas: We both have Anglican backgrounds, Irish and Scottish, and we found out about the tradition of hand fasting.

Marion: It’s where the term “tying the knot” comes from. You tie a rope around the couple’s hands as they’re clasped. Ariel held the rope in place as we pulled our hands so that it stayed. We practiced like 200 times and still messed it up. It’s more difficult than you think!

Cas: I liked having a physical vessel that was a symbol of the marriage other than just rings; something we could literally hang on our wall. And we did.

Marion: I think the stumbling was really endearing to everyone.

Cas: Because we met at an arcade, we wanted to have all these lawn games. We had Ice Cold Beer, this game on a pegboard with joysticks. We had little dagger stickers put on clothespins and you could put them on people to “backstab” them. We had swords.

Marion: This company called Upstate Jamboree had all these games, like shuffleboard. People really went balls to the wall with it. Apparently the dishwasher at Foxfire had dagger clothespins stuck to his back because the bartenders and staff started doing it.

Cas: We had edible glitter you could put in your drink as a “potion.”

Marion: I found tiny bottles meant for crafts, and cleaned out hundreds of them, and they became these tiny vials of edible glitter, like little fairy potion bottles. Some of them were color changing, which freaked people out.

Cas: For the seating assignments, we wanted it to feel like little pixies had stolen everyone’s seat order and everyone had to solve a riddle to get their table name.

Marion: Dinner was under the permanent tent at Foxfire. They have a really amazing focaccia there. Brussels sprouts, a mint-and-pea risotto, a sweet corn succotash. Then there was pan-seared branzino and braised short rib on a giant platter. They worked with us to make the whole meal feel like it was an overflowing feast. My one thing was, I can’t let anyone leave this wedding hungry. That is a cardinal sin to me.

Cas: Two of our best friends gave speeches halfway through, and my mom, and both our dads. We found this clip of Marion’s first Christmas, where her dad is carrying her as a baby, shot on an old Handycam, dancing to “Unforgettable.” We dimmed the lights and played this video from 30 years ago, and then brought the lights back up and they danced to it as adults. My mom and I danced, and I hugged her and I can still feel it. It’s such a sense memory, her head on my chest.

Marion: We had a DJ, Jay McElfresh. Our first dance was to a Noah Kahan song that we love, and the rest of the playlist was a lot of indie pop, like standard cool wine-bar music and jazzy bossa nova standards. Then there was the Charli XCX after 10 p.m. once Grandma left.

Cas: I am a large person with a disproportionate amount of Neanderthal blood, so I sweat profusely, and nobody tells you how heavy those dresses are. I changed into a sort of gothic tuxedo top with a frilly undershirt and a two-piece skirt. It was like I was letting out my inner vampire as night fell.

Marion: We had a cake more for Cas than anybody else because Cas’s favorite thing in the world is Funfetti.

Cas: We had a Funfetti cake because my transition goal is to be a basic bitch, and I like what I like.

Marion: Foxfire asked us if there were dishes that meant something to us that we wanted to incorporate into the menu. My mom makes banana pudding, and a chocolate cream pie where the base is pot de crème; they’re seared into my DNA as the two most important desserts on the planet. So they made little jam-jar versions, and they were spot-on. I think I ate five of them. Everyone tells you, “Remember to eat on your wedding day!” I’m like, I’m going to bust out of this dress if I keep eating.

Cas: I still wake up in sweats, thrashing, wishing I could get more of that banana pudding.

Marion: We moved back to the glass house for an after-party, where we had a karaoke machine set up and pomme frites, like big Belgian fries with dipping sauces and little sliders, late-night food.

Cas: Marian and I sang “Shallow” together.

Marion: I don’t think people expected our wedding to be as elaborate as it was. There was a sense of childlike wonder.

Cas: There were some people I did not expect to come and be supportive, and they absolutely were. Did they turn around and vote for the guy who alleges that all trans people are pedophiles and groomers and are sex-changing your child during their lunch break? Yes. But I’m here trying to present a different picture. This was an opportunity. I’m not on a high horse; I think having a neutral or positive experience of people will slowly build to that being more embraced and normalized. Ultimately, this is just an expression of love. We wanted anyone who was receptive to bear witness to that, because this is another tiny grain of sand weighing the scale toward empathy. Making a show of “Hey, I exist, and my existence is not a threat to you, and in fact, maybe you could have some awesome banana pudding?”

Marion: People looked happy, and everything was worth it. When I saw people having the time of their lives? Worth it. Everyone got to feel the same amount of joy that I feel in my relationship.

The couple got dressed together the morning of their wedding day. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

When choosing their dresses, the couple liked the idea of a stark contrast. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

The daughter of the owners of their venue, Foxfire Mountain House, had gotten married in the woods the year before, and her now-husband built the driftwood arch for the ceremony as a wedding present, says Marion. The pair used it for their own ceremony. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

“We knew we wanted to get married in the trees to have that fantasy, Lord of the Rings vibe,” says Marion. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

The couple wrote their own vows, with Marion reading hers off a punny “You are my everything” bagel card. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

The brides held a hand fasting ritual, and the ropes they used now hang on the wall in their living room. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

Marion realized Cas was the one when their being housebound during the pandemic was actually pleasant.  “It was like, Oh, this is how it’s supposed to be. Stuck with each other forever,” she remembers. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

Before and after the ceremony, guests played lawn games laid out near the property’s pond. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

The inclusion of games paid homage to where the couple first met, at a bar-arcade. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

“People really went balls to the wall with it,” Marion says of the games and swords. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

After the ceremony and before the reception, the newlyweds changed into their second looks: Cas a vampiric tuxedo top and skirt, while Marion removed the voluminous overskirt from her slinkier base dress. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

Guests solved riddles to find their table name. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

The tablescapes by Dark and Diamond were made to look mossy and lush like a forest floor, and included mushrooms and Venus flytraps. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

Their first dance was to a Noah Kahan song. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

Cas’s best friend, Warren, who’d accompanied her on all those Thursday nights at the bar where Marion worked, was one of the loved ones to give a speech. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

A video of Marion as a baby, in her father’s arms as he danced to the song “Unforgettable” on her first Christmas, was projected in the tent… Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

…which led into father and daughter dancing to the song once again. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

For Cas, her dance with her mother remains an indelible memory. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

The music was crowd-pleasing, they say, with Charli XCX and the like saved for the later hours. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

Dessert was a Funfetti cake by local Overlook Bakery, as well as banana pudding and pot de crème inspired by Marion’s mother. Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

“Ultimately, this is just an expression of love,” says Cas. “We wanted anyone who was receptive to bear witness to that.” Photo: Chellise Michael Photography

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This article was originally published on May 17, 2018. Since then we’ve had the honor of attending several additional Grey’s Anatomy weddings, including Jo and Link’s long overdue big day.

May is the official start to the made-up thing known as “Wedding Season,” and you know who is always down to oblige with some dramatic nuptials? Grey’s Anatomy. And now with the latest “I dos” that went down in the penultimate episode of season 21, fans of the long-running medical show have attended 18 wedding scenarios featuring Grey’s main characters over the series’ two-decade run. From big church weddings to courthouse ones, from barn venues to ferryboats, from runaway brides to runaway grooms, we’ve seen them all. And now, like any good wedding guest, it’s time to judge them. Below, Vulture looks back at all the Grey’s Anatomy wedding events over the years and ranks them based on how memorable they were (for better or worse). But the romance, the drama, and the dress don’t hurt either. What do you say? Be our plus-one?

Season 7, Episode 11 “Disarm”

The vibe: Sterile Courthouse Chic.

Is it memorable?: It’s memorable only because it’s happening at all. It’s pretty audacious for Teddy to marry a patient in order to get him proper health insurance. The ceremony itself — of which we only see the lead-up — is but a blip on the radar that is Seattle Grace Mercy West Memorable Moments. Teddy probably doesn’t even remember it.

Is it romantic?: Teddy gets a phone call from work and tells the Justice of the Peace to “just skip to the end.” So, no.

Fashion report, please: Teddy wears a cool jacket and nice boots, but no one, especially not the Eeyore of a witness Owen Hunt, makes any kind of effort.

Let’s talk reception: It takes place in an OR and the theme is Intense Trauma Surgery.

Are tissues required?: Only if the Justice of the Peace had a cold.

RSVP?: There’s nothing to RSVP to! We are cheated out of Scott Foley in a tux and that’s an injustice I will not stand for.

Season 12, Episode 24 “Family Affair,” and Season 13, Episode 1 “Undo”

The vibe: It’s your standard small church wedding. There are flowers along the aisle and on the altar, but nothing hinting at the bonkers drama of the day.

Is it memorable?: Sorry, not even the runaway-bride, scream-at-my-sister-in-law-while-holding-a-Slurpee-in-a-convenience-store situation that Amelia causes can ever overshadow the fact that Ben Warren cuts a baby out of April Kepner with a paring knife on Meredith’s kitchen table the very same day. Emergency kitchen-table C-section wins every time.

Is it romantic?: NO. These two should not be getting married. Meredith knows it — she calls the wedding and the marriage “doomed.” The sky knows it — it releases a deluge of rain that day. Why is Owen totally cool with Amelia hopping in a getaway car for a hot second before walking down the aisle? Does he just think Amelia had a Slurpee craving? Oh, Owen, you dummy.

Fashion report, please: Amelia has a Grecian vibe going on with her V-neck column dress and side bun adorned with a white flower. Bridesmaids Meredith and Maggie and best woman April wear dark-purple gowns. April’s ends up covered in blood and guts, so no, she won’t be able to shorten it and wear it again.

Let’s talk reception: Again, it’s pretty standard. There’s dinner and dancing in a basic reception hall with twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. Some Seattle-based twinkle-light retailer is really making a living off the doctors in this town.

Are tissues required?: To dry off from the rain, I guess?

RSVP?: Hard pass. There are at least three more interesting things going on that day.

Season 17, Episode 17 “Someone Saved My Life Tonight”

The vibe: Fancy Beach Soirée.

Is it memorable?: Their first attempt to get married in Meredith’s backyard during the height of COVID (at the beginning of this same episode, eight months earlier) looks pretty — the floral budget at these weddings must be insane — and is, frankly, more memorable than the real wedding because here, Maggie’s dad and Winston’s grandmother are like, This is the lamest way to get married, please don’t do it like this, and that is so funny to me. The real wedding at the beach, when the world re-opens a bit more, is memorable for the wrong reasons: Everyone eventually leaves early to go clap for Meredith when she performs the first double-lung transplant on a COVID patient and Link uses this wedding to propose to Amelia on the beach and gets rejected in front of Meredith’s three children. Never! Propose! At a wedding!!

Is it romantic?: It looks romantic, but we don’t spend much time with the bride and groom. I’d say it’s a rip-off, but they end up divorced by season 20, so maybe it’s better this way.

Fashion report, please: Maggie’s dress for her real wedding is a tasteful lacy number. Honestly, both Maggie and Winston look hot as hell here. The pops of bright florals? Perfect choice.

Let’s talk reception: Looks like a great beachy party! Even Cormac Hayes is dancing, and that guy seems mostly allergic to fun.

Are tissues required?: We don’t get any weepy vows, which is kind of a bummer!

RSVP?: It is objectively one of the prettiest weddings on this list but kind of boring.

Season 21, Episode 17 “Love You Like a Love Song”

The vibe: fairly traditional for a last-minute event.

Is it memorable?: It’s memorable for two reasons. First, it was put together in four days after one of Jo’s patients called off her wedding last minute and Jo snapped up the venue — not exactly the type of karma one might want to invite into their marriage but also hilarious. The second memorable aspect: The groom sings his vows. He pulls out a guitar and sings his vows and everyone just nods along like this is a good, normal thing. Wild, but true.

Is it romantic?: It’s way more cheesy than romantic, but the flower situation (also possibly stolen from the canceled wedding?) is lush and it is kind of nice to see people who have been best friends for decades finally tie the knot. I’m a sucker and I will not apologize for it.

Fashion report, please: While Jo could’ve ended up looking like “1983 Boy George” if she left it up to Link’s mother, who honestly did have the best intention, she ends up in a sleek maternity wedding gown and simple hair and makeup. Boring but nice!

Let’s talk reception: The band (maybe stolen too!!) sounds great and everyone is dancing, you can’t ask for much more than that.

Are tissues required?: Jo’s been sad about not having family to walk her down the aisle, so it is sweet when good pal and officiant Levi Schmitt steps in to assist. And Jo does cry an awful lot when Link starts singing his vows, although not out of embarrassment, which is weird. None of this escalates things to full-on need for a hanky though.

RSVP?: I already wish I could unsee Link and his guitar, so no thank you, but honestly have the best time.

Season 12, Episode 11 “Unbreak My Heart”

The vibe: When we finally see April and Jackson’s elopement (just as they’re signing divorce papers), we learn it was a very tasteful one in a garden. They even have a flower arch! Grey’s loves a good flower arch.

Is it memorable?: All the events before and after this tiny ceremony are much more memorable than the ceremony itself. Although they do still find time to take enough photos for a wedding album. I have so many questions about this: When did they find time to hire a photographer on their way to Lake Tahoe? Did they tell the photographer that they just ran away together from April’s other wedding? There was no one else at this wedding, so is the entire album full of photos of April and Jackson hanging out in a garden by themselves? Can I get a copy?

Is it romantic?: These two lovebirds are so stinkin’ happy, but by the time we see the actual wedding, we know too much and there is a sense of dread coloring the entire thing.

Fashion report, please: Thankfully, April opts to forgo wearing her dress from the wedding she just fled, and instead wears a cute, knee-length white dress with some tasteful floral embroidery.

Let’s talk reception: Just motel sex, I guess.

Are tissues required?: Since we already know these two don’t make it, you may need them for sadness reasons.

RSVP?: You can take a pass on this, unless you’re aching for a reminder of when April and Jackson were happy.

Season 14, Episode 24 “All of Me”

The vibe: Wedding Leftovers (but, like, really nice leftovers).

Is it memorable?: Well, it’s definitely a surprise. After the wedding April planned for Alex and Jo — a lush, outdoor, shabby-chic affair — goes haywire, April gets a surprise proposal from Matthew. Then a minister shows up and it’s fate: They’re getting married right then and there, even though they only rekindled their romance like, yesterday. So, yes, the WTF factor will stay with people for a long time.

Is it romantic?: It’s great that April leaves her tenure on Grey’s Anatomy with a happy ending, but let’s get real. Who is moved by this couple? Reveal yourselves!

Fashion report, please: It’s undeniable: April looks fabulous in the floral dress she wore as a guest to Alex and Jo’s wedding and it doubles nicely as a last-minute wedding dress. Matthew has a great, edgy new haircut and beard which makes my insides confused when I think about how his original proposal to April all those years ago was via flash mob.

Let’s talk reception: Let’s assume they piggyback on Alex and Jo’s. Oh, to be a fly on the wall when they walk in and tell everyone their news.

Are tissues required?: Not because of the actual wedding, but because we are saying good-bye to both April Kepner and Arizona Robbins in this same moment. Arizona walks April down the aisle (tears!) and Jackson is there because he is April’s person forever and always. (Insert ugly crying noises here.)

RSVP?: I have an appointment, but I’ll definitely look at some photos, maybe?

Season 7, Episode 20 “White Wedding”

The vibe: Quick and dirty.

Is it memorable?: Nope. Give me Post-it Note wedding or give me death.

Is it romantic?: Meredith and Derek finally decide to make their Post-it Note marriage legal so that they can adopt Zola and begin building a family together. From that standpoint, it is pretty romantic. Also, those two are so giddy throughout the very short process, it is adorable.

Fashion report, please: Sensible pantsuits all around!

Let’s talk reception: A simple snuggle sesh with Zola in the hospital. Add in a piece of cake, and we’ve got ourselves a real party.

Are tissues required?: It’s always nice seeing Meredith and Derek so happy, but no need for tears here.

RSVP?: Very skippable, especially if you sent a gift after their first wedding.

Season 18, Episode 1 “Here Comes the Sun”

The vibe: Can we please just get this over with — a man has died.

Is it memorable?: The way Teddy and Owen’s marriage situation escalates over multiple seasons is just so them, as in: full of tragedy that definitely could’ve been avoided if they weren’t ding-dongs about it all. They are originally set to get married back in season 16, but then Teddy accidentally sends Owen a voicemail of her having sex with Tom Koracick mere hours before the ceremony. Owen calls their little backyard wedding off, but from what we see it looked pretty mid. When they finally get back together, they opt for an intimate gathering of immediate family in the park … and then their priest gets run over by people participating in a Seattle underwear bike race and he dies on the operating table. Teddy’s very much like “THIS IS A BAD SIGN” and we are all like “YES GO WITH THAT” but instead, Owen and his sister Megan decide to surprise Teddy with a quickie wedding at Joe’s Bar. It’s all pretty memorable and definitely hilarious.

Is it romantic?: Owen’s whole “we waited 20 years, no more waiting” thing is nice and Teddy telling him she never wants to let him go is sweet, but I’m sorry, remember the whole thing where that man died??

Fashion report, please: Teddy’s wearing a simple but nice off-white dress for the park wedding that then gets covered in antiseptic as they race to save their priest’s life. She then puts that dress back on to leave the hospital because I guess she doesn’t keep an extra pair of clothes there even though that seems insane, and she winds up wearing this dirty dress to the bar for the actual wedding. It’s nothing special, but it is situationally appropriate.

Let’s talk reception: Honestly, having your wedding at a bar might be a genius idea? I don’t want to give these two too much credit because, well, they’re terrible, but it is efficient.

Are tissues required?: For that priest’s niece, yes!!

RSVP?: Teddy and Owen are basically a bicycle crash (too soon, Father?) in human couple form, so I would feel compelled to see this go down.

Season 11, Episode 24 “You’re My Home”

The vibe: The hospital chapel is used to sad tears; this time it gets dolled up with flowers and is full of joyful tears. You go, hospital chapel!

Is it memorable?: If only because they are the two “titans” of Grey Sloan Memorial and a few hours earlier they had a screaming match in the ambulance bay and Catherine gave her engagement ring back.

Is it romantic?: After the two make up thanks to Meredith “playing the dead husband card” and reminding them that time is precious and they should get their shit together, Richard promises Catherine that he will be her “safe harbor” — a place where she can fall apart when she needs to. Swoon.

Fashion report, please: Catherine wears a silver ball gown, that seems a little extra — but when isn’t Catherine extra? As the maid of honor, Bailey sports a sensible floral dress, and the man of honor Jackson looks good in a suit (even though inside his heart is breaking as his marriage to April is coming to an end).

Let’s talk reception: This one looks fun! Meredith hosts at the Dream House and as she watches all the dancing (Richard Webber has moves) and merriment, she decides this is the final memory she wants of this house. Derek would’ve loved it.

Are tissues required?: April bawls, but only because of her own drama, so mostly this is a “just wear a smile” type of occasion.

RSVP?: Skip the ceremony, head straight to the after-party.

Season 7, Episode 1 “With You, I’m Born Again”

The vibe: Meredith hosts this wedding in her living room, so it’s classy but casual.

Is it memorable?: Eh, mainly because everyone knows Cristina and Owen are rushing into this thing post-season-six hospital shooting. There are low expectations for this working out.

Is it romantic?: Again, everyone attempting to move on and just LIVE after the horror of the hospital shooting adds a layer of “isn’t love wonderful” to the whole proceeding.

Fashion report, please: Have Cristina and Meredith ever looked better? Cristina’s red slinky gown is the best wedding dress of them all, and Meredith is a bombshell in a sandy strapless dress, statement necklace, and killer eyeliner.

Let’s talk reception: Drinking and dancing in Meredith’s living room is old news, but it’s nice to do it all dressed up surrounded by candles and twinkle lights.

Are tissues required?: You might get misty thinking about how far everyone has come in a few months, or if you happen to catch Mark’s stares of longing directed at Lexie, but otherwise, not really.

RSVP?: Only to see Cristina in that dress.

Season 7, Episode 20 “White Wedding”

The vibe: Outdoor Feminine Circus-Tent Dreamscape.

Is it memorable?: Having two women get married on broadcast TV is certainly a big deal, and within the show, it almost doesn’t happen because Callie’s mom tells her daughter that it isn’t real. It takes a pep talk from Bailey, reminding Callie that the love and commitment between her and Arizona is what makes their marriage real, not some legal document, to get this wedding back on track. It’s a very nice speech which earns Bailey the privilege of being the officiant at the wedding. I’m sorry, the privilege is ours.

Is it romantic?: There’s no big, swoon-worthy moment, but the love is real between Callie and AZ.

Fashion report, please: Callie goes the traditional ball-gown-with-a-veil route, while Arizona is more boho, forgoing the veil for a flower-esque crown.

Let’s talk reception: It’s fun! It’s under a tasteful tent (they ditch the circus-like fabric tent-arch contraption from the ceremony), with, of course, twinkle lights mixed with globe lights. There’s lots of dancing and a giant cake. What more could you want, really?

Are tissues required?: When Callie’s dad shows up to have his father-daughter dance, despite what Callie’s mom wants, uh, yeah, you might need a tissue or two.

RSVP?: Yes! It’s fun and loving and Bailey is running the show, so you better be there.

Season 9, Episode 9 “Run, Baby, Run” and Episode 10, “Things We Said Today”

The vibe: Winter Wonderland! There are trees dusted in snow, a stone fireplace with a roaring fire, and yes, twinkle lights. Why don’t more people get married in the winter?

Is it memorable?: Guests will remember having to wait five hours for the bride to show up. The rest of us will remember Bailey and Webber rushing to the hospital in the limo when they get word Adele is there, and Bailey stripping down to her slip while attempting to save Webber’s wife. Bailey is such a boss.

Is it romantic?: Oh, very. Bailey has finally met someone who deserves her, and as she worries that this marriage will tank like her first, it is only Ben who can calm her down. Yay, love!

Fashion report, please: Bailey looks like a princess in her strapless, body-hugging gown, and she deserves that. Callie, Arizona, and Meredith wear whatever red dresses they have in their closets to be Bailey’s bridesmaids. It should be noted that this trend of coming up with elaborate ways to ask your bridesmaids to be in your wedding pales in comparison to Bailey’s method: She walks up to them and says, “When you get to the wedding tomorrow, don’t sit down.” Can that become a trend?

Let’s talk reception: On the plus side, there is macaroni-and-cheese in cupcake form. The negative, the DJ wears a fedora. It’s a wash.

Are tissues required?: Webber picks Bailey up in a limo! Bailey tells Ben that she loves him “more than (she) can hold in (her) heart!” Webber arrives after Adele has died and imagines him and his wife dancing on their wedding day! Are you a robot? Of course you need tissues!

RSVP?: For both the macaroni-and-cheese cupcakes and the couple who are so very much in love, yes.

Season 19, Episode 19 “Wedding Bell Blues”

The vibe: There’s a real “Every sign is telling me not to do this” feel to the whole day by which I mean among many other things; at one point a robin, the bird Simone associates with her dead mother, crashes into the window and dies as she is getting gowned up.

Is it memorable?: A bride takes off when she’s halfway down the aisle? I’ll never forget it!

Is it romantic?: For Simone and Trey? Not even a little bit. For Simone and Lucas? Oh, baby, yes. Simone learns that her mother was two months away from marrying another man when she met Simone’s father and fell in love and called off her wedding, and Simone realizes what all of us have been shouting at our screens for several episodes: She is in love with Lucas! She needs to follow her heart! She cannot marry Trey, who, not to kick a guy while he’s down but, is kind of a douche! Simone showing up at the hospital in her wedding dress to find Lucas and say, “I didn’t get married,” and he replies, “You didn’t get married,” now that’s romance — or a sign that Grey’s Anatomy has forever altered my understanding of what romance is. Either way, I’m into it.

Fashion report, please: Simone is wearing her mom’s wedding dress and we love a sentimental gesture, but it is so ’80s it hurts.

Let’s talk reception: The only party is what’s happening in that on-call room, and that guest list is limited to two people.

Are tissues required?: Only for wiping the sweat while watching Simone and Lucas finally go there. Very hot!!

RSVP?: The better show is at the hospital after the wedding, but yeah, I’m still going to this to watch the chaos ensue.

Season 14, Episode 24 “All of Me”

The vibe: Last-Minute Ferry-Boat Realness.

Is it memorable?: The whole day is pretty memorable thanks to the shenanigans that go on — the original wedding is a bust once Alex and Jo get locked in a sex shed for hours and the wedding coordinator goes into anaphylactic shock in the middle of the aisle. The impromptu ferry-boat ceremony is memorable because we get to see Meredith Grey officiate the wedding of her best buddy to the love of his life.

Is it romantic?: No matter how you feel about Jo and Alex, you have to admit that it is a gorgeous day atop that ferry boat and #Jolex has been through some seriously tough times. It’s nice to see them laugh and love and get a freaking win for once.

Fashion report, please: Jo wears a white cold-shoulder dress and a little crown, which all seems to fit the “I lived in my car as a teen!” brand.

Let’s talk reception: Party at Jackson’s house! That crew has been drinking all day, so it’s probably v. messy. That seems appropriate for Alex and Jo.

Are tissues required?: Meredith brings up Derek and his love of ferry boats, which seems cruel and also off-topic, but still, the tears come.

RSVP?: It seems like an all-day hoot, so I’m in.

Season 3, Episode 25 “Didn’t We Almost Have It All?”

The vibe: It’s a traditional, elaborate church extravaganza — so, the opposite of what the bride actually wants.

Is it memorable?: It blesses us with Cristina Yang uttering this sentence: “Mama took my eyebrows and now I’m a Burke.” It is memorable before it even gets started … and then it is memorable because it never gets started. Cristina takes too long to walk down the aisle, so Burke goes to check on her and during his long march to the back of the church, realizes he is pretty much forcing Cristina into this and he needs to let her go — so he keeps walking. All the way to Switzerland, apparently.

Is it romantic?: Two couples break up (Cristina and Burke, and Meredith “It’s So Over” Grey and Derek), and Callie crushes Izzie’s dreams of being with George by telling her she and George are trying to have a baby. This wedding is the opposite of romantic. It stomps on hearts and never looks back.

Fashion report, please: After much tribulation, Cristina lands on a strapless, body-hugging beaded number that shows off the Burke choker she’s forced by Mama Burke to wear. The dress is best remembered for Meredith having to cut a weeping Cristina out of it. Here’s hoping they burned that thing.

Let’s talk reception: Things are too dire for even a Twisted Sister Dance It Out session.

Are tissues required?: If Cristina’s heartbreak doesn’t get you, the vision of sisterhood as Meredith holds her best friend might.

RSVP?: At the time, it was the event of the year. You can’t miss that.

Season 5, Episode 22 “What a Difference a Day Makes”

The vibe: Izzie’s idea of a perfect wedding turns out to be Magical Garden Inside a Big Church.

Is it memorable?: Very! What began as Izzie planning Meredith and Derek’s wedding to keep her mind off her brain tumor, turns into a gorgeous gift Mer and Der give to Izzie and Alex once they learn Izzie’s tumor has returned.

Is it romantic?: Are you crazy? It’s a cancer wedding, so yes! What’s more romantic than two people trying to pledge their love to one another before one of them dies?

Fashion report, please: There’s some real Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants–level magic going on here, because somehow the bejeweled gown meant for Meredith perfectly fits Izzie. In what world, Grey’s?!

Let’s talk reception: We never make it there because Izzie is deteriorating rapidly. Worst reception ever.

Are tissues required?: Izzie makes Cristina her maid of honor because Cristina tried to save her life. Izzie gets up out of her wheelchair and attempts to walk down the aisle. When Izzie falters, George walks her the rest of the way. Alex tells her that today, becoming responsible for her, makes him a true man. So yes, all the tissues are required.

RSVP?: It’s the most gorgeous, saddest wedding you will ever lay your misty eyes on.

Season 10, Episode 12 “Get Up, Stand Up”

The vibe: Of all the Grey’s weddings, April and Matthew’s is definitely the most Pinterest-worthy. It’s in a barn! There are wooden directional signs! There are little tins of mints that say “Mint to Be” on your way in! AND THERE ARE BUTTERFLIES IN BOXES! It’s a gorgeous wedding planned meticulously and with care by a person who has obviously been dreaming of this day since she was a little girl.

Is it memorable?: Is a beautiful bride and a handsome groom having their lovely wedding interrupted by another handsome man standing up and professing his love for the beautiful bride, and then handsome man and beautiful bride running away together memorable? UM, DUH.

Is it romantic?: Did you read what I just wrote? It is extremely romantic and it makes my stomach tingle every time I see it. Just, you know, not for the groom.

Fashion report, please: April wears a gorgeous gown with a ball-gown skirt and some sheer netting with embroidery. Arizona, Cristina, and Meredith, the reluctant bridesmaids, wear a coral-pink floor-length gown that surprisingly flatters everyone. This wedding is picture-perfect, although they never make it to the pictures thanks to Jackson’s big moment.

Let’s talk reception: There isn’t one! Though I imagine the spread was going to be wonderful. They probably were going to serve pies or something equally as twee.

Are tissues required?: A definite yes for #Japril shippers, the groom, and probably for whoever found those unopened boxes of butterflies days later.

RSVP?: Yes! I live for the DRAMA.

Season 5, Episode 24 “Now or Never”

The vibe: Simple Locker-Room Romance.

Is it memorable?: More than memorable, Meredith and Derek writing their vows to one another on a Post-it Note because they have no time to run to the courthouse but cannot wait any longer to be married is iconic.

Is it romantic?: For Meredith and Derek, it is perfect.

Fashion report, please: Wear a freshly pressed pair of scrubs and call it a day.

Let’s talk reception: Let’s not? What follows Mer and Der’s Post-it vows is Meredith discovering that John Doe from the horrific bus accident is actually George and he is fading fast. I’ll take a DJ wearing a fedora over that any day.

Are tissues required?: Watching the Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Grey’s Anatomy fully commit to one another is a beautiful thing to behold. When Meredith brings up the possibility of getting Alzheimer’s and forgetting Derek and he promises her that he will remind her who he is every day, well, how can you not wipe a tear or two on your scrubs?

RSVP?: To the most exclusive wedding of the century? Uh, yes, yes, one-thousand times yes.

That hypothetical Question about the 100 men versus the one gorilla is long dead. But UNIL AROUND 8:04 PM Pacific Standard TIME, John Mulaney Versus Three Teen Boys Was Still a Going Concern. At the end of the April, John Mulaney Announched He’d Be Fighting Three Teenage Boys During The Finals of His Talk Show, Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney. As the Weeks Went by and More Teen Boys Were GIVEER Own Fight Promo Shoots, Folks Began to Wonder, Is he really gonna do it? And now we know. Hell yeah, he was. After a performance of “Kids in America” ​​by Sleater Kinney feat. Fred Armisen, John Mulaney Fought Three Suited Teens, and He Got His Ass Handed to Him.

As Joe Mande, Adam Sandler, One of the Writers’ Babysitters, A Cigarette-Ripping Sean Penn, Announcher Richard Kind, and Saymo Loked on, The Teens Worked to Topple Foe. One Kid KEPT TRYING TO GO LOW TO EATHER FLIP OR Three Stooges-Trip Mulaney style, and that was a great instinct. Once John was on the Ground, the Collecive Weight of the Teens were no match for one father of two. He tapped out, and bone thugs-n-charmony heralded th triumph in song. That song was, of Cours, “said Crossroads.” If this is how Everybody’s Live Ends (and God Willing, It isn’t), What a Way to Go. I’m Truly Going to Miss Everybody.

شاركت السيدة الأولى نعمت عون ، ممثلةً رئيس الجمهورية العماد جوزاف عون ، في حفل تors الوطن ”للكاتب نقولا ناصيف ، الذي أقيم في واجهة بيروت البحرية.

وكعادتها ، تألّقت السيدة عون بسوت أبيض راقي بتوقيع المصمممم اللبناني إيلي صف اف الأنظار وجذب إليهات االكاميراميراميراميرام.

وتميّز هذا التصميم الراقي للغاية بالأزرار المعدنية المتلألئة عند طية صدر الستي والتي حددت أطراف الجمبست بالكام. وبحشمتها المعهودة ، تألّقت بهذا التصميم بفضل الأكمام الواسعة أضفت تبايناً ناعماً إلى التصميم المهيكل.

وفي تفاصيل السروال ، أتت أتت قصّة الخر العالية والأرجل الواسعة المصمة بحرفية لتمنح حركة عون الإنسيابية وسية وسية وسية وسية وسية المشي. وتزيّنت السيدة الأولى اللبنانية بأقراط على شكل نصف وردة بالذهب الأبيض مرصّعة بالماس وحبتين اللؤ الفاخر.

صُمت هذه القطعة الخالدة من إيلي صعب ، لتلائم الإلإلالات المختلفة ، يمكنك اعتماد هذا الجمبست النهار بأناقة لا مثيل لها.

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أكدت وزارة البترول والثروة المعدنية أنه تم إحالة بعض الشكاوى أو الملاحظات حول أ minute المناطق بأكثر من ثمنها ، إلى الجهات الرقابية المختصة للتحق.

وشددت الوزارة في بيان لها اليوم على أنه في حال ثبوت وجود أي مخالفات ، سيتم اتخاذ الإجرات القانونية الالالإمة الالإمة الام الام الام الام الام الام عنها ، تأكيدًا لثوابت الوزارة في الشفافية والمساءلة ، وحرصها الدائم على تقديم أفضل الخدمات للمواطنين.

جاء ذلك في إار حرص وزارة البترول والثروة المعدنية على تعزيز التواصل وسائل الإعلام المختفة ، وما أُثير attend المؤتمر الصحفي الأخير المنعقد بمقر الوزارة بالعاصمة الإدارية بتاريخ 28 مايو 2025 ، وفق البيان.

قاطعت صحفية وزير البترول والثروة المعدنية كريم بدوي ، خلال المؤتمر الذي عقده أمس بمقر الوزارة بالعاصمة ،دارية ، لتنقل له شكوى مواطنين من تسليم شركة تابعة للوزارة أنبوبة البوتا mistake لهم بأكثر من سعرها الرسمي بـ 40 ج 50 جنيها.

وقالت الصحفية ليلى العبد للوزير: “هل تعلم أن شركة بوتاجاسكو تبيع إسطوانة البوتاج 250 جنيها في المناطق العشوائية ؟، مشيرة إلى أنها تواصلت مع رئيس الشركة ، وكتبت تقريرًا صحفيا وأرسلته ل ، لم تتلق ردا.

وجددت الوزارة تقديرها للتعاون البنّاء مع الصحفيين ، وحرصها على استمرار عقد لقات دورية لتويح أيح تثائائائائائائائائثائ وائث الإعلام.

وحرصا على سرعة البت في أية شكاوى أو ملاحظات تدعو وزارة البترول والثروة المعدنية السادة المواطنين الإبلاغ أية شكاوى أو ملاحظات ذات صلة عبر الخ الساخن لمنظومة الشكاوى الحكومية الموحدة 16528 بما يضمن سرعة المشكلات وتحديديديcing أماكنها وبالتالي سرعة الاستجابة لها.