Post Archives

December 2012

• Calm & Bright
• Twelve Days to Go
• Sunny & Phil
• Love, Loss, and the Sum of Its Parts
• e.m. papers: Instant and Affordable Wedding Stationery
• Ask Team Practical: Layoffs and Weddings
• Free Downloadable Gift Labels from A Printable Press
• The Year of Yes
• Elisabeth: Occupation, Housewife
• Georgina & Salvatore
• What My Friend's Terminal Diagnosis Taught Us About Living
• Emily & Colm
• Getting Married Means Making Decisions Together
• Ask Team Practical: How Can I Find Great Vendors Who Will Work With My Budget?
• Beginnings
• Waiting for a Green Card
• Emily & Nate
• What a Post-Wedding Cross-Country Move Taught Me about Marriage
• Madeline: The End Is Just The Beginning
• What Happens When Infertility Creeps Into a Marriage
• Three.
• Married Entrepreneurs
• Anya & Csanad

November 2012

• Ask Team Practical: Unmarried Holidays
• Wedding Dress Roundup: Glittery & Festive
• Healing Old Wounds
• Thoughts on Married Christmas
• Philippa & Bryce
• Zen & Cephas, Part II
• Amanda & Shaun
• The Holiday Talk
• Our First Thanksgiving
• Anna & Daniel
• Why I Wanted Therapy as My Wedding Present
• Anna & Bean
• Ask Team Practical: Parenting Parents
• Confessions of a DIY Bride
• Why Being a Wife and Mother Isn't All That I Am
• Join the APW Team for 2013
• Robin & Rob
• We're Domestic Partners (for Now) but We Want to Be Married
• Elisabeth & Amin
• On Being Happily Single, Part II
• Happy Veterans Day
• Will I Regret Selling My Engagement Ring?
• Meg & Andy
• I Messed up My Own Proposal Story (but I Love It Anyway)
• Do's and Don'ts for Friends of the Pre-Engaged
• My Engagement Is, In Fact, An Accomplishment
• Maine, Maryland, Washington
• Madeline & Brandon
• 7 Reasons It's OK to Be Desperate to Get Married
• Roundup: Indie Engagement Rings from East Side Bride
• I Proposed to My Boyfriend
• Ask Team Practical: I Don't Have a Community
• Caitlyn & Adam
• I Might Never Reach My Adolescent Potential (and That's OK)

October 2012

• Elisabeth: The Great Nail Meltdown of 2012
• Why I Chose My Brothers to Be My Bridesmaids
• Zen & Cephas
• On Loving While Young
• Beth & Spencer
• When One Is Not Enough
• Ask Team Practical: Making Yourself at Home
• Downloadable Wedding Banner Printable
• Making Your Own Luck
• Introducing Emily & Maternity Leave
• Madeline: Comparisons
• How Planning a Wedding Can Feel Like Coaching a Football Team
• Three Generations of Women Have Worn This Wedding Gown
• This Is What Childhood Trauma, Star Trek, and a Gown Mean for My Wedding
• Do Parents Get to Make Wedding Decisions If They Give You Money?
• How To Choose a Wedding Photographer: Part III
• What "Growing Old Together" Means in the 21st Century
• Brooke & John
• Fait Accompli
• Dana & Kris
• Zen: There And Back Again
• Much More Than A "Moment"
• Ask Team Practical: Involving Kids in the Ceremony
• Anna & Kevin
• Why We (Probably) Won't Be Having Gaybies
• Jessica Valenti's 'Why Have Kids?'
• Yes / No / Maybe: Baby
• Madeline: Rain or Shine
• Mixed Motherhood Messages
• Kari & Mike
• On Being Happily Childfree
• What to Do about Demanding Bridesmaids (and Demanding Brides)
• Entrepreneurship: A Business Owner's Maternity Leave
• The Questions That Come up When You Leave a Job to Get Married
• Leeann & Jacob
• What Losing My Job Did to Our Life Together
• When Planning an Intercultural Wedding Is a Lot Like Living in a Romantic Comedy
• Life Doesn't Care About Your Plans
• Erica & Rachel
• There Is No Right Way to Cope after Alcoholism Kills Your Dad

September 2012

• Ask Team Practical: Wandering Eye
• Sarah & Jen
• How To Choose a Wedding Photographer: Part II
• Melanie & Ben
• The Pressure to Be Practical
• Madeline: What about the Dress?
• This is Why I Waited To Have Sex Until I Got Married
• A Nerdy Mozambique Wedding Adventure In A Purple Dress
• When The Vows Aren't True
• Ask Team Practical: Waiting for the Proposal
• Laura & Paco
• How to Support Friends Who Choose Not to Get Married
• Lindsay & Josh
• Forward Motion
• What You Do When You Need More People to Invite to Your Wedding
• I Don't Want to Live Together If I Have to Leave My Home
• New Sidebar & Submissions Request
• The Julia Child Dilemma
• Kaytlin & Ben
• Ask Team Practical: Marriage and Feminism
• 5 Ways You Can Take Advantage of My Wedding
• Pregnant While Feminist
• Tracy & Lauren
• What Should We Call Me? Changing My Name as a Feminist Choice
• The Bride I (Never) Wanted to Be
• Madeline: No More Apologies
• Rocking The Ego Boat
• Kelly & Soren
• On Being a F(f)eminist and Marrying Young: A Response to Hanna Rosin's "Boys on the Side"
• Amanda & Jess
• Ask Team Practical: Now or Later?
• Wedding Graduates Return: Kimberly on Quiet Times
• Elisabeth: Crossing Over
• Evangeline & Adam
• Indecisiveness in Pre-Engaged Land
• Zen: Storytelling
• The Space Between Single And Married
• Happy Labor Day!

August 2012

• Ask Team Practical: Losing Friends
• How To Choose a Wedding Photographer: Lighting And Composition
• Why (Sometimes) Wedding Planning Isn't Worth It
• Nicolle and Paulie
• Prenups Are So Misunderstood, Not Even Attorneys Want Them
• Madeline: Our Facebookiversary
• An Introvert’s Guide to Surviving the Week Before the Wedding
• Mandy & Luke
• The Dirty "U" Word
• Entrepreneurship: It's Not About the Money (Exactly)
• Ask Team Practical: Marrying into Debt
• Dave & Ruchi, by Dave
• How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Uncertainty
• You'll Love This Easy And Stylish DIY Flower Crown Tutorial
• Coming to Terms With an Unequal Success Dynamic in a Relationship
• Zen: The Makeup Experiment
• Ruchi & Dave, by Ruchi
• Brandi & Joe
• Growing Our Marriage and Careers Together
• How To: Dramatic Smokey Eye
• Ask Team Practical: Old Dresses and New Beards
• Easy Finger Waves For Short Hair
• Starting Over Thirty Years Later
• Callie & San
• On Men and Housework
• Madeline: Gift Horses
• Coming To Terms With Childhood Trauma While Wedding Planning
• Wedding Graduates Return: The Marriage We Do Want
• Anna & Will
• Ask Team Practical: No One Is Excited for Me
• Rella & Avi
• The Minimal Makeup Look
• Three Years Ago Today...
• The Newlywed Years
• How To: Easy Braided Updo
• Succeeding (And Being Okay With Not)
• Zen: Adventures In Wedding Land
• You Don't Need All The Things
• Stephanie & Alastair
• The Car Seat
• Ask Team Practical: Dropping Friends from the Bridal Party
• Rachel & Jeff
• How To: Sheer Foundation With A Sultry Bronze Cat Eye
• Your Wedding Is about so Much More than a Show
• How To Create Smooth Curls On Natural Hair
• My Husband and My Best Friend

July 2012

• Madeline: The Jegging Elopement
• How Planning a Wedding Has Made Me a More Thoughtful Wedding Guest
• When a People Pleaser Plans a Wedding
• On Not Crafting for My Wedding
• Ask Team Practical: When People Tell You How To Feel
• Meg on Art & Commerce
• How To: Fresh-Faced Makeup With A Bold Lip
• That Time I Bought A Wedding Dress And Learned To Love Myself, Maybe
• Simple Half-Up Half-Down Wedding Hair
• Andee & Collin
• Zen: Embracing the Nonsense
• Missing Mrs.
• Entrepreneurship: Change & Growth
• Anna & Tim
• Ask Team Practical: Bridal Shower Survival
• How To: Fresh Peachy Makeup with a Bold Eye
• Why Wedding Planning Isn't Project Management.
• Tomorrow: APW + P&G's Ask A Stylist
• Elisabeth: It's Alarming How Charming I (am supposed to) Feel!
• How To: Create A Bohemian Fishtail Braid
• Madeline: "Marriage is Murder"
• Christine & Curtis
• Leigh & James
• Why Wedding Planning Is Worth It
• Ask Team Practical: Language Barriers
• How To Make A Backdrop Anywhere
• My Husband Has Asperger's Syndrome
• On WAMU's The Kojo Show, Tomorrow
• This Love Story Began at a 1941 Communist Party Meeting in NYC
• The 5 Things That 42 Years of Marriage Have Taught Me
• A Tale of Two Project Managers
• Zen: Going Public
• Guerrilla Wedding: Angie & Rohan
• When "You're Wrong" Also Means "I Love You"
• $5 Weddings at Rivertown Revival
• Ask Team Practical: How Do You Know?
• Guerrilla Wedding: Julie & John
• Happy Fourth Of July!
• Wedding Brain: A Disorder That Affects the Cerebral Cortex
• Madeline: The Wedding Investment
• Wedding Undergraduates: What It's All For
• BackTalk: Why Do We Marry?

June 2012

• Ask Team Practical: Marrying Early
• Introducing: Wedding Day Beauty How-To's
• The Bridal Beauty Paradox: We're In Weigh Over Our Heads
• A Young Couple's Guide to Buying Their First Home
• Adventures in Baby Having
• Andria & Tim
• The Next Adventure
• I'm Going to Be Fat for My Wedding and I Don't Care
• Losing Inhibitions and Embracing the Whimsy: What Adventure Living Looks Like
• Team Slow and Unsteady
• Ask Team Practical: Representing Equality at Your Wedding
• APW Pride Week: What You Can Do
• Why We’re Not Crossing the Line
• Jordann & Betsy
• The One About Babies
• Alexis & Marie
• Gay Wedding Planning: You Gotta Have Balls
• Not If, But When
• Welcome to Pride!
• Meg on Forum on KQED at 10am!
• Ask Team Practical: Cheating and a Cancelled Engagement
• How To Make Flour Hearts Anywhere
• Careers, Curveballs, And Hitting Hard
• Emily & Matt
• Slow Motion and Acceleration
• Madeline: Wedding Dreams
• Letting Go of What Was
• Having Faith
• Maureen & Scott
• Ask Team Practical: I Hated My Wedding
• Introducing Guerrilla Weddings: How To Make an Aisle Anywhere!
• Make Up
• Elizabeth & Jarah
• The Devil Is (Not) In The Details
• Zen: The Indolent Engaged Person's Manifesto
• Practice Might Not Make Your Marriage Perfect
• Imperfectly Perfect: Proposals and Perseverence
• Jacqueline & Travis
• APW Presents: Lazy Girl DIY, The Outtakes
• Ask Team Practical: Remembering the Wedding

May 2012

• Sarah & Dawn
• This Is Why Wedding Planning Is Important
• The Big Issues for Feminists Who Are Getting Married
• Why We're Going Big For Our Second Wedding
• Madeline: Game of Names
• Hannah & David
• Ask Team Practical: Guests, RSVPs and Dates
• How To Make A Slightly Fancier, But Still Totally Easy Tablescape
• Entrepreneurship: Embracing Change (Slowly)
• Fiona & Karl
• What Happened When I Gained 50 Pounds After My Wedding
• Zen: Defending Joy
• Taking The Long Road
• Francie & Matthew
• Why Taking My Wife's Last Name Was One of the Easiest Decisions Ever
• Ask Team Practical: Wedding Gifts and Registries
• Women, Marriage, and Money—A Response to The New York Times
• Call for Submissions
• How To Make a Simple, Colorful Tablescape
• On Overcoming Fear of Flying
• Tristan & Erika
• Why My Husband and I Aren't Living Together for a Year
• Madeline: Bona Fides
• Elisabeth: It's All Really Happening
• Lauren & Aidan
• Big Risks for Big Rewards
• Ask Team Practical: Finding Time for Friends
• How To Make a Lush Floral Centerpiece
• This Is What Happened When I Moved in with My Boyfriend before I Was Ready
• Obama Backs Marriage Equality
• Rachel & Jonathan
• Moving (Forward)
• Julia & Wade
• Madeline: Crossing Oceans
• Why Moving in Together is Not Like Test-Driving a Car
• Moving In, The Easy Way
• Ask Team Practical: Hiring Vendors
• Etsy Weddings is Here!!!
• Recycled (Wine) Bottle Centerpieces For Your Wedding
• Wedding Undergraduate: Something Like Zen
• Autumn & Rebekah
• Why We Have No Plans to Move out of My Parent's Home
• Zen: The Dress Rules
• What We've Learned from Unexpected Infertility

April 2012

• Amber & George
• Relationship Vo-Tech
• Ask Team Practical: I Hate Wedding Planning
• How to Make an Ombre Table Runner
• Marrying the Sh*t Out of Myself
• Aubrae & Joel
• How I Very Nearly Almost Cheated On My Husband
• Class Aspirations and Wedding Planning
• Letting Go of the Plan
• Jenifer & Rob
• What Happened When I Fell in Love with Someone Else While I Was Married
• How to Make a Kraft Paper Table Runner & Tie a Tablecloth Knot
• Maddie On Failing Up
• Entrepreneurship: After The Big
• We Abandoned Our Big Wedding Halfway Through Planning
• This Is for Anyone Who's Ever Thought about Scheduling Sex
• The Advent Calendar
• Classic APW: My Wedding Dress
• Christy & James
• Ask Team Practical: It's My Partner's Second Engagement
• The CoLab Workshop: May 21-22
• How to Make Watercolor Wedding Place Cards
• On Not Having It All (At Once)
• Jenni & Karen
• Elisabeth: Going The (Intercultural, International, Wedding Planning) Distance
• Zen: They're Both Real, Dammit
• Wedding Redux: Facing Fears as a Second Time Bride
• Danielle & Jon
• What Learning to Be a Step-Mother Has Taught Me about Parenting and Love
• Ask Team Practical: Bridesmaid Roles and Obligations
• How to Make Easy Modern Place Cards
• Demanding Careers and Equality in Marriage
• Allison & Dakota
• Marriage, Money, and the Long Haul
• Madeline: Indecision 2012
• Broke and Happy: How We're Navigating Marriage without Money
• Rory & James
• Making Something Out Of Nothing

March 2012

• Ask Team Practical: Spending Money as a Guest
• Wedding Planning: You're Doing It Right!
• How to Make a Sparkly Floral Fascinator
• Why Getting Married is The Scariest Thing I've Ever Done
• Kate & Conor
• A Few Hours of Happy Amid the Sadness
• Happy Birthday APW!
• Why Getting Married after You Turn 30 Is Pretty Spectacular
• Zen: The Save The Date Saga
• Elizabeth & Doug
• Something Old
• Ask Team Practical: Prenups
• How To Make a Wedding Veil
• Marriage as Mini-Socialism
• Liz & Guy
• For Richer or Poorer: Being Gay is Expensive
• Madeline: A Bride's Guide to Uterine Fibroids
• Four Layoffs in Four Years
• Lizzie & John
• Women, Money, and Knowing Our Worth
• Worry About the Artichokes...
• Ask Team Practical: Wearing My Engagement Ring
• How to Make a Wild Flower Mart Wedding Bouquet
• If We Weren't Married, We Wouldn't Be Friends
• Entrepreneurship: Growing A Business
• My Dad and My Wedding
• Cheska & Arnold
• I'm Not Worried about Feeling Unhappy on My Wedding Day
• Joan & Jared
• What It's Like to Be Married with Roommates
• Ask Team Practical: Honoring Loved Ones
• Cheap Wedding Bouquets with Grocery Store Flowers
• Couple's Therapy: the Secret That Held Our Marriage Together
• Introducing APW How-To Posts!
• Ashley & Minh
• I'm a Feminist Convert to Islam: This Is What I've Learned
• Kristine & Steve
• Madeline: The Proposal
• Here Comes the MIB
• A Male Perspective: This Is Why I Plan to Take My Wife's Last Name
• Ask Team Practical: Family Teasing
• Emily & Ben

February 2012

• Wedding Graduates Return: Morgan and David
• Anxiety & Knocking It Out Of The Park
• Natalie & Eric
• Zen: Confessions of an Ex-Weddingphobe
• Dear Pre-Wedding Self: Cool The Eff down!
• Building a Life
• Ask Team Practical: Skipping the Meal
• Passing of the Ask Team Practical Baton
• Sarah & Jeffrey
• Is Marriage An Economic Privilege?
• Sometimes Women Want it More
• Everyone Deserves a Moment
• Introducing: The APW Writing Interns!
• Blind Irish Pirate & Curly Haired Husband
• Happy Presidents' Day Y'all!
• APW Book Tour: The Video
• Ask Team Practical: The Beginning Stages of Planning
• Book Tour By Amtrak: LA to San Francisco
• APW Book Tour: L.A.
• Wedding Graduates Return: Nancy & Sean
• Calling Off A Wedding After Illness
• Dianne & Chuck
• Jennifer & Wes
• Maura & Bryan
• Marriage is Awesome (Even When Life Kind of Sucks)
• Kristin & Laura
• Book Tour By Amtrak: Austin to LA
• APW Book Tour: Austin
• Ask Team Practical: Accomodating Guests
• Drew & Barry
• Zan & Stephen
• APW Book Tour(ish): New Orleans
• Amtrak Honeymoon Giveaway!
• Why Being Pre-Engaged is Actually Awesome
• This Is Why a Coin Toss Will Decide Our Last Name
• Book Tour By Amtrak: New Orleans to Houston
• APW Book Tour: Atlanta
• On Being Single, Happily
• Book Tour By Amtrak: Atlanta to New Orleans
• APW Book Tour: Washington, D.C.
• Laura & Matt
• APW Book Tour: Brooklyn
• He Said No to a Wedding
• Book Tour By Amtrak: Washington, D.C. to Atlanta
• This Is How I Managed My Gigantic Guest List

January 2012

• Eva & Tyson
• Alix & Shawn
• Book Tour By Amtrak: NYC to Washington, D.C.
• Why My Queer Marriage Needed a Wedding (Even Though We're Courthouse People)
• APW Book Tour: Boston
• Welcome Talk of the Nation Listeners!
• Book Tour By Amtrak: Boston to NYC
• Sisterhood of the Dress VI - Dress Worn!
• Jenn & Brandon
• APW Book Tour: Denver!
• Why I Want to Have a Funeral for My Parent's Marriage
• Book Tour By Amtrak: Denver to Chicago to Boston
• Angela & Alex
• How a Lot of Talking and a Little Perspective Slew the Pre-engagement Beast
• Meg on NPR!
• Book Tour Stop One: Alt Summit!
• Connie & Brian
• Book Tour By Amtrak: Salt Lake to Denver
• Ask Team Practical: Family Financial Contributions, Part II
• Sarah & Steven
• Infertility, Miscarriage, Loss & Family
• Katherine & Spencer
• Maddie's Guide to Getting Married Young
• Book Tour By Amtrak: San Francisco to Salt Lake
• Sweet Moments During Deployments: Planning a Wedding Over Skype
• APW Book Launch: San Francisco!
• Ask Team Practical: My Parents Don't Approve Of My Partner
• Amtrak Sponsors the APW Book Tour!
• Jessica & Rick
• Working For Yourself: One Year
• What Happens When a New Reality Steps In and Changes Your Plans
• APW Book Tour Talks! (Topics please...)
• Claire & Christopher
• We Chose to Live Intentionally Child-Free and We're Still Happy
• Ask Team Practical: Pre-Engaged and (effing) Facebook
• Wedding Graduates Return: Nicole
• Sarah & Jonathan
• APW Book Tour: San Francisco, Denver, Boston, Brooklyn
• Lauren & Jared
• Welcome to APW 2012!
• This is What Marriage is Like Three Years After We Said "I Do"