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5 Ways To Celebrate Your Original Wedding Date
Here is a thing I’ve learned in adult life: dates have weird power. I mean, in theory they shouldn’t, since...
How Can We Include Our Loved Ones In Our (Suddenly) Intimate Wedding?
Hey APW! Our wedding isn’t until next year, but we’re already thinking about changing our original plan with the possible...
How Do I RSVP For A Wedding I Know Isn’t Going To Happen?
Dear Amy, My friends have been saving for their big family filled wedding for a couple of years and just...
APW Happy Hour
Hey APW, Well here we are. We’re on day 67 of shelter in place, which sounds like a joke when...
Need A Wedding Ceremony Script For Your 2020 Wedding?
So you’re ready to write your wedding ceremony script. But, very likely, you’re not writing it for the wedding you...
How To Plan Your Wedding
Need A Super Affordable Wedding Dress?
The year is 2020, the month is May, and you just might need yourself a wedding dress stat. In fact,...
How Do I Tell My Guests They’re No Longer Invited To My Wedding?
Q: Hi APW, Wondering if you can help with this one. I’ve seen a bunch of “change the date” announcements...
APW Happy Hour
Heeeeyyyyyy APW, How you holding in? As always, I never quite know how I’m doing. Right now my kids are...
We Made You A Wedding Checklist E-Book (For 2020)
Oh hey did you just realize you need a wedding checklist? Because after the initial “HEY HEY WE’RE GETTING ENGAGED”...
Are You A 2020 #CovidCouple?
For many years I worked as a camp counselor, at one of the very few remaining backcountry summer camps in...
We Stopped Trying To Conceive When The Pandemic Hit
It’s been awhile since I was grateful for my period. I have been counting down the months until my husband...
What If This Was Actually The BEST Time To Get Married?
For a while, I’ve had built up anxiety about gathering certain family members and my (non-familial) community in close proximity....
How Do I Celebrate My Friends Who Had To Cancel Their 2020 Wedding?
Q:Dear APW, Two of my close friends had to postpone their 2020 wedding by a year. I would love to...
APW Happy Hour
Hey APW, Sometimes it feels like I chart time through writing Happy Hours. Another week passed! What did I do?...
What Help Do You Need From Wedding Vendors (During This Pandemic)?
Three weeks before my wedding a hurricane was on track to hit New York, and suddenly my wedding anxiety included...
Real Wedding Vows For 2020 (And How To Write Your Own)
It’s funny how not too long ago, wedding vows felt like the thing that landed at the bottom of your...
Teaching Myself Something New Was The Best Thing I’ve done In Quarantine
I do a lot of unofficial coaching. I enjoy a sounding board for my friends in small business. In fact,...
7 Steps To Make Pandemic Budgeting Less Terrifying
Hello all! I’m taking a break from my usual beat to tackle a tricky topic for many of us: finances....
Wedding Dresses You Can Buy Right Now
A lot of people are currently wondering where they can buy a wedding dress right now. And that’s a pretty...
How To Buy Booze For Your Wedding
You’ve probably never used an alcohol calculator before. Because buying booze for a small gathering is one thing, but what...
APW Happy Hour
Heeeeyyyyyyy APW, I’m at the point—in this roller coaster of a new world, where sitting down to write five sentences...
Recently Engaged? Let’s Get Started Planning!
If you were to draw a Venn diagram of wedding planning that cataloged the parts you thought were going to be...
APW’s Work From Home Survival Guide
As some of you may know (or maybe you don’t), A Practical Wedding began at Meg’s kitchen table back in...
How Do I Keep my Dream Dress From Becoming A Body-Shaming Prison?
Q: Hey Team, Another pandemic bride here. Our wedding was supposed to be May 23rd of this year, but we’ve...
I Wish We Didn’t Have Kids Right Now
So here’s the deal. I love my infant. He’s awesome. And I love love love parenting with my wife. She’s...
