Trends to Watch in 2012
2012 is just around the corner, and that means that the experts are lining up to tell us what’s hot and what’s not for the coming year. I’ve browsed a few of these lists. Some of them contradict one...
View ArticleKristen-Alexander Dishes on Getting Married
Meet Kristen-Alexander Griffith. He’s an actor. He’s living in New York. He’s engaged. And he’s gay. Since they got engaged in November, he and his partner, Aaron VanderYacht, have been finding they...
View ArticleHow To Be Part of Your Own Party
(Illustration via Delightfully Engaged) If you listen to conventional wisdom, you’ll learn that you won’t remember a single moment of your wedding. It will all be a blur. And that is true for some...
View ArticleWho’s In Charge?
When it comes to planning a wedding, everyone has an opinion. You may be one of the lucky ones who doesn’t get a lot of unsolicited advice or unreasonable demands from friends and family… but what if...
View ArticleMatchmaker, Matchmaker, Find Me a Photographer
This is the gypsy matchmaker from The Sims 2. Give her enough money, and she’ll find your Sim a life partner to make him or her happy. If you don’t have the simoleans for that, though, you can...
View ArticleHow to Cope With and Reduce Wedding Stress
Planning and throwing a wedding is a stressful thing to do. You’re making a major life change and throwing what will mostly likely be the biggest, most elaborate party of your life, and doing both...
View ArticleKid Week: Keeping Small Guests Happy
Welcome to day four of Kid Week at Manolo for the Brides! Enjoy your stay. (Illustration via Yuba City Wedding Photography) There’s an art to keeping wedding guests happy, but it’s really not that...
View ArticleIt’s Okay To Enjoy This
As I was meandering the wedding blogs, I ran across this entry at A Practical Wedding and realized that I know precisely how this lady felt. Sometimes between the Wedding Industrial Complex and the...
View ArticleGood Advice and Bad Advice About Money
It ought to go without saying that all wedding budget advice is not created equal. That certainly is the case when the question is who is going to pay for what! Just this morning I felt myself...
View ArticleHow (and Why) to Chill Out for Your Wedding
See Natalie Nunn. See Natalie Nunn throw things – hissey fits in particular – at her wedding. See what a bad idea that is. I had – blessedly – never heard of Natalie Nunn before she showed up on...
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