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Why Did It Take So Long For My Son To Be A Flower Boy?
The other day, in the car, my gender nonconforming six-year-old brought up a family wedding that happened two years ago. “You made me wear a suit,” he said. “Why did you make me do that?” The truth is, I didn’t...
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I Am Really Into These Plus Size Wedding Dresses
When we started digging into the plus size wedding dress industry last year, the first thing we did was to...
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Can I Tell My MIL I Don’t Want Her With Me When I’m Getting Ready?
Q: Dear APW, How can I politely tell my mother-in-law and sister-in-law that I don’t want them to hang out...
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Our $7K Rustic Bohemian Vermont Summer Wedding
Having your wedding on your brother's property, with a river, a camper and all of your family in the Vermont...
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Steal These: Wedding Website Wording Examples
Putting together your wedding website should be easy. And for the most part it is. Thanks to our longtime partner,...
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How To Plan Your Wedding
I Still Feel Guilty About My Expensive Wedding
I was never the little girl who dreamed of her wedding day. In fact, I was fairly certain I would never get...
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APW Happy Hour
Hey APW, I’m not going to sugar coat it: what a horrific week to be a person of reproductive age...
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Five Insider Tips Your Wedding Photographer Wants You To Know
For a brief moment in time (aka roughly four years), I was a professional wedding photographer. I shot nearly a...
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Our $20K Queer San Francisco Wedding Celebrated Our Immigrant Families
Our favorite thing about our wedding day is that it was a reflection of our individual identities and the intersectionality...
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How Do I Manage My Out-Of-Control Mother At My Wedding?
Dear APW,Six months out, one thing is keeping me up at night: how to manage my alcoholic mother at wedding...
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4 Wedding Dress “Rules” You Can Totally Ignore
If you’ve spent even five minutes planning a wedding, you’ve probably learned that there are a lot of rules. (Just...
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How Are You Avoiding Tears at Your Blended Family Wedding?
One of the first weddings I participated in was my mother’s (that’s me in front of her in the picture...
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How Do I Revoke A Wedding Invitation?
Q: Dear Amy, How do I revoke a wedding invitation? We initially sent a friend a save the date for...
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Did You Procrastinate On Finding a Wedding Photographer?
You know that phrase “beggars can’t be choosers"? I always want to cross out beggars and write in procrastinators, because...
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What’d You Obsess About Before Your Wedding That Was Totally NBD?
I was reminded the other day (thanks to a great thread in the comments of Ask Amy March) that almost...
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APW Happy Hour
Hey APW, How was your week? Last weekend, I took a dance class with one of Beyoncé’s choreographers, Chris Grant,...
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A $22K Theatre Kid Wedding At The Pasadena Shakespeare Club
We had always talked about having a wedding “variety show,” where we would collaboratively officiate the ceremony with our wedding...
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So… Meg’s Planning A Vow Renewal
I started APW because I love weddings. I’ve always loved weddings. Ten years after my own, I still love them....
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I Think My Sister’s Wedding Is In Trouble
Q: Dear APW, My younger sister is getting married. She moved across the country three years ago to live with...
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This Book Is Like Wedding Therapy
When I got engaged way back in 2008, I went out and bought one of those big wedding magazines. You...
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My SIL Copied My Entire Wedding… BEFORE MINE
Q: Dear Jareesa, My (future) sister-in-law got engaged to her boyfriend six months after I got engaged. I talked to...
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Are We All Screwed In The Modern Workplace?
I‘m Dana. While I’ve hung around the APW crew for a few years, I’m brand new to being on the...
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These Are Our Favorite Wedding Centerpieces For 2019
As a florist, wedding centerpieces are my favorite. Unlike the seriousness of the high-stakes wedding bouquet, wedding centerpieces give you...
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APW Happy Hour
Hey APW, Let’s start with the good stuff. We had a huge photoshoot this week, with headdresses and color-blocked florals,...
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Our $13K Luxurious Black Wedding At Something Old Dayton
Kiaya, Diversity inclusion practioner & Jason, Videographer sum-up of the wedding vibe: A celebration of Black love & legacy, dripping...
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