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11 Sep | Amanda Fitzsimmons | No Comments

How to Use Your Wedding to Figure out What to Register For

Photo by Maddie Eisenhart, Styling by Kate Levy for A Practical Wedding 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 almost exclusively focus on practical essentials, cookware, …

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11 Sep | Amanda Fitzsimmons | No Comments

Sweet Botanical Southern Wedding with Metallic Accents

Modern and organic, this botanical wedding from MorningWild Photography, Something Perfect, and Nectar Floral Designs hits all the right notes. Morgan and Casey met at a concert, so they infused their most important day with a personalized playlist and great tunes from a local bluegrass band. We adore the metallic arch with flowers the couple …

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11 Sep | Amanda Fitzsimmons | No Comments

These Two Grooms Met at a Madonna Concert

Chris & Dave (a.k.a. CHRAVE, how cute?!) are going to steal your heart today with their sweet, bursting smiles. They’ve got the kind of love that’s contagious. My favorite part of their story? They met outside a Madonna concert! So, it was only fitting that her lyrics would make an appearance at their ceremony. I urge you to peruse the …

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10 Sep | Amanda Fitzsimmons | No Comments

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 beautiful, heartfelt wedding. A year after my divorce, I’m still adjusting to life on one income with a crazy …

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10 Sep | Amanda Fitzsimmons | No Comments

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. Wedding websites have so totally hit the mainstream, that instead of complaining that it’s tacky, your grandmother is going to complain …

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10 Sep | Amanda Fitzsimmons | No Comments

Can We Have an Open Bar with Teetotaling Family?

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 weird for us not to have an open bar—it’s kind of expected. Still on …

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10 Sep | Amanda Fitzsimmons | No Comments

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, British Columbia, and listened to my uncle make a speech about my then-eighty-five-year-old grandmother. My Grandmother And Her Family I was twenty-one, fresh off a semester …

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10 Sep | Amanda Fitzsimmons | No Comments

Tell Us What You Really Think about Getting Engaged

I recently got what turned out to be one of the best group texts I’ve gotten in a zillion years, from one of my super-long-time besties, asking me and her sister for advice on proposing to her boyfriend. No surprise, we had a lot of advice, most of it of the all caps sort. Our more …

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10 Sep | Amanda Fitzsimmons | No Comments

53 Stunningly Unexpected Bohemian Brides

Let’s get real about “bohemian wedding inspiration”: when I’m browsing through images online, and looking at wedding images in particular, I think, “Damn, I might be able to pull that off.” But the problem is it’s hard to find women that reflect what I look like in images across the web because I’m not the typical …

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10 Sep | Amanda Fitzsimmons | No Comments

APW Happy Hour

Hey APW, I got to spend just over twenty-four hours in Orange County last weekend for a family wedding. It was a huge and amazing Orthodox Jewish Wedding (the kind where a guest list of 250 is considered “on the small side”). It was a total delight, plus I rented this dress from Rent the …

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