Moving On

The Divorce Party

After years together, you and your spouse are officially apart. Now you're looking to commemorate your freedom.

The city of Las Vegas cordially invites you to come party at their place, with an event costing between $200 and $2000 a person, plus transportation and hotel. They have Divorce Party experts, party planners who will put together a boys' or girls' night out complete with limos, a tour of the hot night spots and a cake with only half a couple on top.

Maybe a newly exed wife would like to host her friends with a spa trip, hours of pampering and prettifying. Or she could throw a pajama party in a high-end suite, with all-night room service and a screening of "The War of the Roses" in which divorcing spouses battle to the death. Gifts? A mini coffin for her wedding ring or a voodoo doll of her former husband.

The Los Angeles Times describes all this and more as the new trend in divorcing. Apparently it's not enough to throw thousands at lawyers; now you're expected to cap it off with thousands more in a finale of debauched excess.

Well, we at LoveHowTo don't believe the end of a marriage warrants a party. A low-key marking of this milestone makes much more sense than throwing money into the gaudy Vegas machine. Wedding ring coffins? Ghoulish. Voodoo dolls? Childish.

After a divorce you're officially a grownup, so act like one. Save your money for a child psychologist for your kids, and a personal trainer, some new clothes and an online dating subscription for yourself.

Celebrations by definition mark happy events. A divorce is nothing to celebrate.