Think the tab for the typical US wedding is high? Imagine if you had to tack on an additional $200 bucks each for a group of  20 or 30 guests, whom you've never met before. It's high wedding season in Japan right now and the new trend, in the name of saving face, is to rent out wedding guests if you don't have enough real names to add to your list, reports Yoko Kubota, for Reuters.

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2008 was an exciting year for YourTango: we moved to a new URL and changed our name from Tangomag to YourTango (does this mean we got married?). Our staff also had an excellent year, with one wedding, one new baby and lots of sex (with other people... mostly). In 2009 we resolve to continue publishing content that will make you guffaw, tear up, give you goose bumps and make you go "awww." And when we're not working (rarely!) we have personal lives, which occasionally involve relationships. Below, the YourTango staff's 2009 love and relationship New Year's resolutions.  

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It got slammed in the reviews. Then, this weekend, when I stopped by my favorite neighborhood boutique to gawk at cute dresses on my way to the theatre, even the salesgirl started in: "It was awful. You wouldn't believe the things that came out of these characters' mouths!" And yet, three friends and I were still hell-bent on seeing the new Kathering Heigl star vehicle this past Sunday.