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Divorce Parties – What Do You Think?

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Picture this – your best friend has just gotten out of a terrible (probably depressing) marriage and she wants to celebrate. Would you go? Would you want to celebrate the downfall of her marriage? Or would you see it as celebrating her freedom?

Divorce parties are all over Hollywood and I am not sure what to think about them. What do you think ?

I like the idea of a party to re-connect with friends and to share with them your strength for having made a life changing step. (Walking away can be harder than staying). But I hate the idea of a bitter twisted throw the groom of the cake (as seen above ) type angry party.

This is of course not just for the gals as guys get their hearts broken too. Such as the guy above who is knocking the heck out of a broken heart pinata. (We should find the DIY for that).

Share your thoughts below, but please keep it nice and respectful of others thoughts.

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Head over to Melly Sews to learn how to sew on velvet fabric. 

And if you want to learn more about that lovely blue velvet dress shown, she has a post that tells more about it including 2 ways to style it depending on if you want to be more dressy or more casual.

[photo credit: Melly Sews]