“This is not about weddings but I thought I would share this story because you guys will appreciate it… A few years ago my mom bought this card that said (I’m paraphrasing), “A woman is like a teabag — you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” So she adopted this quote as a kind of woman-empowerment thing, and started calling people teabags. As in “You go, Teabag!” This was all harmlessly amusing until she bought me an LLBean tote with “#1 Teabag” embroidered on it. When she eventually wanted to know why it never left my closet, I referred her to urbandictionary.com. Luckily she found the whole thing hilarious, and told her co-workers about it (she brought the tote in as proof and I haven’t seen it since). To this day it’s a running joke. But I can’t help wondering what the good people at LLBean thought when they got that order….”

(This is from an Indie Bride thread about funny things mothers-of-the-brides say. I have to say this one actually made me laugh out loud.)