Q: Hey APW, can we talk about what makes someone willing to be a destination wedding guest? I’ve fallen in love with a wedding and reception venue that is in Los Angeles, which is where I live now....
72 CommentsThis is supposed to be fun.” The florist might as well have said, “What is wrong with you?” and handed me a wearable sandwich board reading “DEFECTIVE BRIDE/WOMAN/HUMAN.” I was sitting...
83 CommentsFor years I’ve been joking that, despite working for APW, I basically never get to go to weddings. Maybe one a year? So obviously the universe is paying me back for that joke by giving me four super...
220 CommentsHoly moly, marriage quotes can be a pain. Real talk: when Michael and I were putting together our wedding ceremony, we really struggled to find marriage quotes that we didn’t—what’s the word—hate....
22 CommentsHey APW, So I really was hoping that I’d get to talk about the super lovely trip that I took (with my husband! and no kids!) to New York City last weekend. Because man, was it a great trip. And man, are...
461 CommentsWe wanted our guests to feel like they had been transported to an urban oasis yet still within San Francisco. Stable Cafe's outdoor patio area provided a warm, inviting atmosphere with a gorgeous variety of...
6 CommentsQ: A couple I barely know but with whom I have many friends in common got married yesterday, and they stole ALL my ideas. They didn’t know about them, so I know they didn’t do that on purpose...
73 CommentsThere’s really only one thing you need to know about New England wedding photographers Two of Us Photography: Working with Sarah—and her husband Jeff—is basically like having your APW Happy Hour bestie...
7 CommentsAPW is hiring! And I am super excited about it, because this time we’re hiring for an editorial role, AKA, for my department. I’m always delighted when we get to announce that we’re hiring...
12 CommentsQ: Hey guys. So here’s a big one for you: How do I tell my family and friends that we want to elope without breaking their hearts? We’ve been talking about eloping for a while, because we...
54 CommentsConfession: I’m really terrible at talking about sex. Unless you’ve dated me, you’d probably never know this, because in public I’m the “super sex positive, kink positive, no...
20 CommentsQ: Dear Amy, My mother got married young, and her best friend was her maid of honor. Now thirty years later, her best friend’s daughter is getting married and asked me to be the maid of honor. This girl and I...
92 CommentsThree and a half years ago, I saw a lithe, heavily bearded man running toward me through a piazza in Siena, Italy. Two men (who were, by this point, already my friends) ran out from behind me to scoop this...
31 CommentsQ:Should I go wedding dress shopping even if I’m on a budget? My fiancé and I got engaged in late 2016, and we are beginning to plan our wedding. Around the same time that we got engaged, I decided to go...
54 CommentsTwo years ago, we did an open thread on how people fit wedding planning into their busy lives. Re-reading those comments, I noticed that people divided into two major camps. There was the “wedding...
65 CommentsCouple tattoos have got to be one of the more delightful trends currently sweeping the (okay, not actually super mainstream) wedding scene these days. For many people, tattoos are a perfect way to memorialize...
20 CommentsHey APW, It’s been a really fun (and really intense) week over here. We did a huge summer fun themed shoot for Crate & Barrel, which basically entailed me working twelve days in a row. They were days...
523 CommentsWe knew a DIY backyard wedding would take a lot of work but didn’t quite realize how much time, effort, and energy it would take. The lead up to the wedding was months of work from family getting the property...
9 CommentsQ: I just returned home from my incredible wedding yesterday. It went as well as it possibly could and it was absolutely beautiful. Aside from my anxiety, it was pure magic. I was not prepared, however, for...
241 CommentsThis time next year my best friend and I will have been friends for two decades. She’s always been the jelly to my peanut butter; she an outgoing introvert with geeky proclivities who could pass for normal and...
28 CommentsQ: I have the great luck to be getting a husband and a daughter (age ten) in one fell swoop. We would like her to give a wedding reading, something about the power, importance, strength, and/or value of family...
38 CommentsDuring my brief stint in the apocalyptic wedding planning hellscape, I’ve started to feel enormous pressure to make sure my wedding is “timeless” and “classy,” since those are...
120 CommentsWeddings are, duh, stressful. Weddings that unite not only two different people, but two different cultures are maaaybe extra stressful. And weddings with an extra layer of cultural complexity need vendors who...
3 CommentsQ: As long as I can remember, I have been obsessed with weddings. In younger days, my friends and I would dream about the silhouettes of our wedding dresses, the reception food, and the color of our fiancé’s...
96 CommentsQ: My partner invited me to his high school friend’s wedding and, excitedly, it marks my first adult wedding for not-my-family. That being said, I’m running into a wall on what to wear. My partner...
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