Foy Vance is a Northern Irish guy who’s made an identity out of the American South. His new, bluesy soul album, From Muscle Shoals, is quite proud of being recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and is jam-packed with love songs. In keeping with that infatuation, you might think that the track, “You Love Are My Only” is addressed to the state, but it looks like Alabama actually is Vance’s one-of-many; a second album, To Memphis, is dropping in September. There are clearly lots of fun hidden layers here, but the most striking revelation about either of these albums is that Ed Sheeran has a record label– called, wait for it, Gingerbread Man Records– and Foy Vance is on it. Honestly, we should have known.
Who among us can define “barnyard chic”? No? What about “New Years Casual”? Newsflash, friends: it is not helpful to invent your own wedding dress code, particularly when it’s just a set of words with no explanation. The Goods just gave voice to what we’ve all been thinking in this very handy article where they explain what the classic dress code names actually mean (pls think twice before tossing around “semi-formal”) and rail lovingly on challenging titles that the betrothed mistake as cute. Yes, we want to come to your party; no, we don’t want to guess what outfit we “think might be fine?”
Did you know you can marry yourself in three states? Well, you can’t get married to yourself; you can officiate your own wedding to another person. And it’s more like two and a half states, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and DC. Either way, in the capital, you’re permitted to simply pronounce yourself married and even complete the paperwork after the fact, for a total of $45. Before you get swept up in the extreme ease of the situation and get married willy-nilly, remember that an ensuing divorce would be a significantly larger headache. But at least one thing is simple.
Anyone going the traditional wedding dress route might want to know that Floravere is Everlaning its way to the top. Sending the work of fancy factories direct-to-consumer, they’ve commissioned top-tier designers and knocked the price off of some pretty splendid gowns. But get married naked for all I care. You can do the paperwork after.
