Pour a little sugar on me

My sister-in-law, she of the crape myrtle, called looking for an intermediary in her current row with her mom, my mother-in-law. Like I should become embroiled in that conflict, right?

The opinion put forth by MIL: one should give shower as well as wedding gifts. SIL thought no, a wedding gift was sufficient. So I drug out my 16th edition Emily Post. While not up to the minute, some things, like the to-do surrounding weddings, never changes.

Mom was correct, of course. While the shower gift can be any small thing, the wedding gift should be something larger. But both are required.

As any southern belle worth her salt will tell you, good manners are just a set of laws for human behavior. It doesn’t hurt that they put people at ease, and it just might help to know all the right words to say when cutting someone because their skirt is a little too short.
If you’ve never seen a belle in action you’re missing out, really. But bring an interpreter to navigate through the honeys, sweethearts and darlin’s that will issue forth. If you’ve never been ’sugar’d’ by a belle, you just haven’t lived.
King of The Hill’s Nancy Hicks Gribble does a credible Texas belle, with her ’shug’, but it’s not the same….

The wedding is in sin city, which is the only reason why I’m thinking of attending… and looking at vegas hotels. It’s time Vegas got a little sugar poured on it…