Fifteen Weddings In A Year? It's Time To Start Saying 'No'

"When a friend divulged that she’d had a “massive breakdown” in July, my first question was whether anyone close to her had died (they had not). Was she getting enough sleep? Yes. Eating well? Yes.

- OLIVIA PETTER

Relationship problems? Happily in love. Money troubles? She works in finance, so... probably not. What, then, was the problem? “I’ve been to 15 weddings this summer,” she confessed, head in her hands. “And six hen dos, organising two of them. I’m on the brink.”

To some, this might sound ridiculous. Your affliction is, erm... too many weddings? What, all those open bars and buzzy dance floors are getting you down? Too many free three-course dinners? Oh, poor you; where’s the violin? And so on. But for those traipsing up and down the country every weekend, or hopping on planes and trains and automobiles to get to events abroad, often spending hundreds of pounds in the process, all to have the following 48 hours or so dictated by someone else’s future mother-in-law – well, it’s a different matter altogether.