Is It Rude to Ask Our Friends to Help with the Wedding?
Q: My wedding’s happening a year from now, and I’m totally psyched. For the wedding party, I’ve asked my three best friends. These are the people (outside of my fiancé) who’ve...
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81 Millennial Pink Items You Can Add to Your Registry Right Now
I’m not sure if you guys remember, but the mid-2000s were a time of unfortunate color choices. Brown was the de facto neutral of the moment. And kitchenware came in a blazing assortment of black, white, silver...
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How Do You Combine a Bridal Shower and a Bachelorette Party?
Q:How do I combine a bridal shower and bachelorette party? My delightful maid of honor lives about an eight-hour drive away and has expressed her desire to attend both my bridal shower and bachelorette party....
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What Made You Super Love Your Vendors?
As I’ve helped my BFFs plan their weddings this year, I’ve noticed the same two issues plague them near constantly: family drama and lack of wedding vendors. And while the family drama is making me...
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This Wedding Photographer Only Charges $1700
One of the hardest parts of wedding planning is the emotional work it takes to accept that some things are just out of budget. That no matter how much Googling you do, you aren’t going find that perfect,...
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I’m Tired of Hiding the Fact That My Marriage Is Falling Apart
There are some things that people just don’t talk about. We all curate our lives on social media, posting the highlight reel of our days and shoving everything that can’t be made pretty by an Instagram filter...
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12 Things You Need to Know before Attending a Jewish Wedding
f you’ve been to more than one Jewish wedding, you’ve probably noticed some huge differences in traditional Jewish rituals from wedding to wedding. (And if you haven’t been to a Jewish wedding yet, I hope...
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What Tools And Tricks Help You #Adult?
A few weekends ago, my husband and I made a big list on a piece of poster board to #GetOurShitTogether. It has projects around the house we want to get done, things we need to buy (we’ve been living...
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How to Pick Your Wedding Party
It’s time for some real talk about your wedding party. Look, on the best day, to-do lists give us mixed feelings. On wedding-lead-up days? Constantly nagging you to call back the baker, confirm your hair...
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APW Happy Hour
Hey APW, Does it feel like the first full workweek in ages to anyone else? Or maybe that’s just because the last couple of weeks have had me feeling like I was being tossed around in a cement mixer...
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We Had a Perfect Boho Barn Wedding for $20K
While wedding planning, repeating over and over in my head was the line “ I will not remember what my wedding looked like; I will remember what it felt like” from A Practical Wedding Planner by Meg Keene. With...
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My Future MIL Is Calling Me a “Practice Wife”
Q: I’ve had beef with my future in-laws for years, particularly with my future mother-in-law. It all started when my fiancé’s family collectively found out that I do not ascribe to a religion, and...
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This Is How I Stopped Living Paycheck to Paycheck
In 2009, I decided to become an adult. That doesn’t mean I threw out my Xbox or my wardrobe. (In fact, I will NEVER throw out my beat-up checkered Vans that have twenty-three holes. As a wise woman named Demi...
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A Love Letter to My Former Husband
There are so many things I’ve never said. When we first got together six years ago, I was only twenty, and you were the caretaker that I needed in the midst of deep uncertainty about my life, my future, and my...
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This Photographer Will Make You—and Your Mom—Happy
We talk a lot around these parts about not getting swept up in meaningless wedding “musts” and prioritizing the things that are important to you. And, true. But. Chances are there are other people...
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Help, My Partner Is Cleaning out His Bank Account for His Daughter’s Wedding
Q: DEAR AMY, My partner’s daughter is way over budget for her upcoming wedding. She has had an engagement party that cost her parents $15,000 (the couple took home $17,000), and her bridal shower that...
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68 Wedding Hairstyles for Every Hair Type
When it comes to wedding hair, most folks fall into one of two groups: the I-know-EXACTLY-how-I-want-my-hair-to-look crew, or the OMFG-what-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-hair squad. And you know, I should be...
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What Wedding Apps and Tools Are You Using to Make Planning Easier?
Not so long ago, when my friends got engaged, they’d ask me what wedding websites they should read or what books they should buy. (I mean, APW and the APW book and APW Planner obviously, but there are...
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How to Use Your Wedding Style to Figure out What to Register For
You know why I think so many people end up frustrated with registering for their wedding? It's because the wedding industry has taken all the fun out of it. (What? That never happens!) The "must-have" lists...
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APW Happy Hour
Hey APW, How was your first week back, after the unofficial end of summer? We had a quiet weekend, trying to keep two small children healthy during a heat wave that spiked up to 109, in a part of the country...
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This $40K Hip Sonoma Wedding Is a Blast of Pure Joy
We wrote our own vows and debated keeping them a secret or sharing them. We ended up putting them in a Google Doc, which meant we were able to read each other’s vows and comment on them months in advance. We...
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My Friend Said I Should Sell My House To Afford Her Wedding
Q: After planning my wedding and marrying my love, I went through a shocking divorce. I discovered my husband was cheating for months during business travel and had a side girlfriend while I was planning our...
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5 Mistakes You Should Never Make on Your Wedding Website
Even though there is plenty to complain about when you’re planning a wedding in 2017, we have one thing to be grateful for. We’ve reached the point of total acceptance of the wedding website....
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Q: We are getting married in the next couple of months and there has been some strain over whether or not to provide an open bar. Both of us are professionals (lawyer and doctor) and think it would be kind of...
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What Can a Modern Feminist Learn from Her Grandmother?
The summer before my senior year of college, I stood in the back of the living room of the cabin my family had rented for a week in Whistler, B.C., and listened to my uncle make a speech about my...
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