Hey Apw,
What a week! I don’t know if you’ve noticed something new around these parts this week, but we relaunched the site on Monday and have spent the rest of the week working out the bugs. We’re pretty damn happy with it. Mostly we have a fancy new minimal header, but if you poke around in any individual post, you’ll notice a bunch of tiny new things, lists of posts you might be into, staff favorites (a staff favorite), and fancy new header images. In a way, we hope you don’t notice it that much but that it seamlessly improves your user experience on the site. Over here though, we love it a lot, and we’re going to particularly notice the nap we’ve all earned this weekend. Hats off to the team at Cooper House that made this a reality.
But that’s not all! APW wisdom made the style section of the New York Times this weekend, in half page, full color form. In a moment I never thought I’d live to see, the all-Vera Wang all-the-time Style Section ran a huge feature on the awesomeness, flexibility, and tradition of potluck weddings. Hayley, half of one of our most kick-ass couples, was the bride quoted throughout, and I was one of the major expert sources, with a bullet pointed paragraph of tips. I don’t usually get too worked up about press, but I’m not ashamed to say this piece brought me to unexpected tears of gratitude over my toast.
With that big week behind us, we’re off to enjoy the Indian summer hitting the Bay Area. It’s your open thread. Do it!
Cheers,
meg
Highlights of APW This Week
When you’re no longer growing up.
How to plan a laid-back, late spring wedding in Ontario.
Logo hacks for your wedding website.
Introducing Shane and Lauren! Wedding photographers for the San Diego area.
Getting people from Point A to Point B without losing your mind.
Naturally, Mercury is about to be in retrograde as we head into The Witching Hour.
Just the two of us, and a haircut.
What to wear to a wedding this fall.
When you couldn’t have missed those wedding-day feelings if you tried.
Try on dresses at home. Send them back. Place your order. Bam. Brideside is that easy.
Sticking to your guns when everyone has an opinion.
Link Roundup
“Little is known of Amal’s earlier relationships (we assume she was climbing that corporate ladder and smashing glass ceilings) but she’s tying the knot with an actor, whose name is George Clooney, we’re told.” (And a behind the scenes look at her dress.)
What it’s like to be a black woman trying to make it in TV.
This article on Airbnb in New York made me lose whatever remaining faith I had in tech. Related: Uber is proud of their teacher drivers. So… that’s… nice? And concluding: “The ‘sharing economy’ masks a failing economy.”
Somewhere between the C-suite and stay at home mom-ing.
Studio Mucci: the tassel-making queen.
“When blogging becomes a slog.”
Go home, Bret Easton Ellis, you’re drunk.
For no particular reason: beautiful stills from Moonrise Kingdom.
The women’s heart attack.
A surprise proposal via Magic: The Gathering.
The Toast hires Roxane Gay to write its new sister site, The Butter.
Behind the scenes of Thug Kitchen.
Peek inside the four hundred abandoned suitcases discovered in the Willard Asylum.
Your weekend reading: two long pieces on Paula Deen that are oddly fascinating.
“Mickey Drexler, in creating J.Crew’s new womenswear stores, shrewdly read the market and realized that stocking nice clothes wouldn’t be enough: He’d have to tell a story along with them. Drexler didn’t have any stories, so he bought ours.”
“I am more than okay with ‘not having it all.'”
“It’s silly to be frightened of being dead.”
The forgotten story of Classic Hollywood’s first Asian-American star.
In a truly disappointing move, Intel buckles to an anti-feminist campaign by pulling its ads from Gamasutra.
Decor for your next Halloween party.
California enacts the “Yes Means Yes” law (Oh Yes Means Yes!), defining sexual consent. The jury is out on how good a law this will prove to be (vs. policy), but there is plenty of healthy debate in California.
Related: meet the college women starting a revolution against campus sexual assault.
All aboard the nostalgia train: Pizza Hut is bringing Book It back for adults.
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