Do you have a winter wedding to attend?

Barbara Quinn's article in the Grand Fork Herald offers some interesting insight into how our nutritional health goes out the window in the days leading up to, during and after a wedding.

Like the holidays, at weddings, people tend to eat a lot and drink a lot, and there goes the diet.

You can end up with a sugar hang over from wedding cake or a Viennese table just as easily as a hang over from too much alcohol. And as Quinn points out, you might end up eating wedding leftovers for days -- since we all fell obligated to take home the leftovers that have cost us so dearly.

She writes: "Just because a wedding is over doesn't mean the wedding is over. There are rental items to return and explanations to be made over a groomsman's shirt that no longer has sleeves. And there were leftovers of food we were obliged to bring home."

"I finally plopped on the couch one afternoon when my friend called to see how I was faring. “What are you doing?“ she asked. Eating a piece of wedding cake ... for lunch, I said sadly. "

Okay, so no one is forcing you to eat left over cake for lunch, but you get the picture.

Our trick for weddings is to eat before we go, lay off alcohol and eat enough to feel too full for cake.