Can a feminist be a bride? A feminist can be whatever she likes. That's the whole point.
Ali Catterall
London SW10
Laura Bates' wedding plans don't seem at all unusual. The weddings I've been to over the past five years have overwhelmingly been modern and equal, with couples walking in together, best women making speeches and grooms changing their names. If everyone is having "non-traditional" weddings, who are the people having "traditional" ones?
Jessica Metheringham
London N7
I didn't set out to have a feminist wedding. I did, however, make the proposal, choose not to wear an engagement ring, walk myself up the aisle with my sister, make a speech and keep my own name. You only have to buy into the absurd bridal stereotype if you actively want to.
Alison Tarrant
Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan
The issue isn't patriarchy. A feminist can do what she wants because she thinks it through for herself, and gets on with whatever she deems to be "right" for her and whomever else it affects. Laura Bates just needs to drop the middle-class angst and she'll find life a lot freer.
Nette Humphreys
Leeds
I don't understand the fuss: for our church wedding in 1979, it wasn't hard to do as we wanted: no asking permission, no proposing, no dieting, no giving away and no promising to obey; but white dress, bridesmaids, wonderful music, wonderful day.
Sue Benson
Epsom, Surrey
The most chilling phrase in Saving The World One Rock At A Time, was the description of Dhuvaafaru as "formerly an uninhabited jungle", before describing how the vegetation was razed to the ground. Uninhabited, provided you don't count the flying foxes, lizards and untold numbers of invertebrates that depend on this habitat for their survival, to say nothing of the millions of plants. It's precisely this attitude that got us into the trouble we're in.
Sally Nex
Combe St Nicholas, Somerset
There was something missing from your Hello Dolly! fashion shoot: a wasted opportunity to use a shorter, curvier model, rather than the predictable cigarette-shaped one.
Erinna Mettler
Brighton
Given her views about Sam Wollaston's "gratuitous use of foul language", I hope Alison Norman did not read Paul Weller's Q&A.
S Upton
Reading
Surely most reptiles are green because that colour is good at absorbing sunlight and so heat? Being cold-blooded, it is vital for survival. Mammals, on the other hand, generate their own heat, and if covered in fur often have the opposite problem of trying to lose heat.
Gerry Brown
Launceston, Cornwall
To Christy Turlington's "investment pee" may I add my friend Michelle's "nervous no-wee", to describe the pre-date/pre-interview/pre-travel wee you're convinced you need, and so have to attempt, even though you don't.
Jackie Goode
Wilford, Nottingham
A couple putting the walls back into their Victorian house; a man who finds his concrete city garden more peaceful than the countryside – how will the hipsters cope with such individualists?
Deirdre Mason
London SE23
Just a hunch, but is Tim Dowling in a band?
Mike Hind
Thurgoland, South Yorkshire
• Got something to say about an article you've read in Guardian Weekend? Email weekend@theguardian.com, or comment at theguardian.com. To be considered for publication on Saturday, emails should include a full postal address (not for publication), must reach us by midday on the preceding Tuesday and may be edited. Follow Weekend on Twitter.
