London! Yay!

My friend just gave me the best news. Better than the news that he is getting married, this news makes me not just happy but grateful. He's getting married in a London bar. Flights to England cost $800, regardless of the time of year (I would like some answers for why taxes on international flights are 100% of the ticket price), so an English wedding normally costs an American visitor the price of the flight, a train ride to some country location, a hotel room for two nights, and the necessity of a friend to drive her around. A wedding in London means that an American visitor can stay with mutual friends in London, and everyone can take a cab to the venue, drink loads and not have to worry about driving home. I love my friend for making this decision and implore all of my friends, in London and otherwise, to make such decisions from now on. Don't get married in Vergennes, Vermont; Tarrytown, New York; or Saco, Maine (beautiful, moving weddings all). Get married in a bar in New York or a restaurant in Boston or a lounge in Washington, where everyone has at least one friend or relative to stay with for free and can take a cab or even a subway to the event and back. Please. As a wedding-poor, perennially single, carless urban dweller I BEG YOU.