Dear me, Your wedding is not a blog post. OK? Got that? I know you already know that, but I think you needed a reminder, because you were seriously having a little meltdown there for a while. Hell, you still are. That’s...
Read MoreI’m willing to bet that you’ve been to a wedding before — once or twice, perhaps. Well, since you’re the expert here, I want to know: Have you ever spotted Wedding Terror Face? Wedding Terror Face (which...
Read MoreFor most of my life I assumed that if I got married, certain things would happen a certain way. I assumed I’d get married in a church. I assumed I wouldn’t see my partner on the wedding day before the ceremony. I...
Read MoreA few of us were hanging out on the porch on Saturday, sipping cocktails. The topic of bridal showers came up and someone wondered aloud what a guy’s equivalent of a bridal shower would be. “A groom’s...
Read MoreConfession: I have been avoiding creating a bridal shower registry. Like it’s some kind of wedding plague. Here I’ve been racking my brain, trying to think of suitable solution — and quick, because this shower...
Read MoreI told a friend that I had finally found a couple of dresses I really liked. Would she like to see what they look like online? Her eyes went wide in terror. “No!” “Buh?” I stammered, a bit bewildered....
Read MoreWhen the beau and I decided to get hitched, I got nervous about the state of my relationship. With my mother. Even before I got engaged, I bore witness to mountains of drama between brides-to-be and their parental units. Serious...
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So, a couple weeks before I found out that Saja bridal had come to Los Angeles, I made plans to...
Read MoreOh, the questions. So many are running rampant through my head today. Why did I finally cave in and buy the skinny jeans with the tapered ankles? The kind I hadn’t worn since 7th grade? The kind I’ve mocked...
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So. I never told ya’ll the story of how the beau and I met, did I? Warning! Potential schmoop alert! Also: REALLY LONG POST alert. Evidently I am not that good at self-editing when it comes to schmoopy topics. In summary:...
Read MoreSo, at some point during my life, I fell into reading a couple of blogs. By mothers. Of children.* I am not quite ready for the idea of children yet (did I mention scary in the first footnote? because OH MY GOD, SCARY), so my...
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