How to start planning a wedding abroad
Have you decided to tie the knot overseas? Wise decision! There are loads of advantages of doing so, like saving money, being virtually guaranteed good weather (depending on where you go) and being able to honeymoon in the same place. Whether you’re raring to start booking everything or you’re just curious about what organising an [...]
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Bridal Showers Around the World
Two hours to take-off. I’m approaching the weekend and my anxiety is palpable, so much that my heart feels like it’s literally about to leap out of my chest. For one thing, I’m traveling again. Walking into the airport is like putting on an old, comfortable pair of shoes. I remember the motions, the smells, [...]
Wedding Photo Booths: Silly or Seductive?
I wanted to take a moment to reflect this week on an issue that has been brought to my attention via my bridesmaids. It was a plea for advice (and its subsequent response) on maybe one of the best advice columns ever, Dear Prudence. It goes something like this: Q. Photo Booth Reveals an Affair: [...]
 on maybe one of the best advice columns ever, Dear Prudence. It goes something like this: Q. Photo Booth Reveals an Affair: [...] "Pin It")
It Takes Two
Since five minutes after Marvin proposed, people have been asking me wedding details. I remember calling one of my friends with the ring freshly placed on my finger. “Congratulations!!!” she exclaimed. “So, where are you going to have it?” I hadn’t even had a chance to sit down yet, and I was already being asked [...]
Baking Your Cake (and Eating it, Too)
Going into a wedding is, in many ways, like declaring your bid for presidency. Suddenly, there are people around you eyeing VP, Secretary of State, the head housekeeper at the White House or Presidential Palace. Everyone wants to make posters and help you campaign. The immediate world seems to zero in on your event. The [...]
Mum’s the Word
. . .. Marvin and I picked Carnivale Chicago for our wedding reception. We are so excited to get our party on in the most colorful, festive atmosphere ever. The only person who was seemingly not excited was my mother, who claimed to have a conflict with her church picnic on that day. [...]
Married to the Military
Most of the past three years of my life has been devoted to asserting that Marine Corps partners can, in fact, be independent, career-oriented individuals (and when I say “career-oriented”, I, in fact, mean oriented in their OWN career). As a proud USMC girlfriend, I suffered the losses and celebrated the achievements of our service [...]
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Same Place
This will be the first time that I will have lived in the same city for two years in a row since I was in high school. I have packed and moved 10 times in five years with home in Ohio anchoring me down to at least one place on this earth. I feel obligated [...]
Peace the Way it Should Be
“This wedding is the way the world should be,” Marvin says to me quietly. “Everyone all together.” I agree with him as I look up from our walk by the banks of the river. We briefly watch my friend Moussa, the groom, dance with his seven year-old daughter who is visiting from Senegal. She’s in [...]
Moving on Out
At 10pm I shed my bridesmaid’s dress behind the doors of the bridal party dressing room and escape the vineyards of New Hampshire’s Flag Hill Winery to the white Toyota Highlander waiting outside. Two hours later, I am in line to take the Bolt Bus from Boston to New York. I’m chatting with Marvin who [...]
