27 Apr | Amanda Fitzsimmons | No Comments
Hey APW! It’s been a pretty chill week here, mostly dedicated to catching up on our to-do lists. But on Tuesday night we got to attend a bonkers over-the-top dinner at The Claremont Hotel. For those of you not in the know, The Claremont is a beautiful sprawling Victorian hotel in the Berkeley Hills that …
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stefania, community coordinator & anthony, high school college counselor Sum-up of the wedding vibe: We ate, drank, and danced the night away with help from our family and closest friends. Planned budget: $10,000 Actual budget: $15,000 Number of guests: 85 LOCATION: Riverdale, New Jersey Where we allocated the most funds: The venue fee, rentals, food, and drinks made …
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Q: My fiancé and I have been engaged for three years and we finally get to wed this upcoming November. It will be my second marriage and my partner’s first. His older brother has been married to his elementary school sweetheart for nearly two decades. This morning, his brother told the two of us that …
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Does anyone else remember that part in Old School where Will Ferrell delivers a super eloquent counterpoint in debate and then is like, “What happened, I blacked out?” Yeah, that was basically me after my wedding ceremony. People were coming up to me all night afterwards, saying, “That ceremony was so beautiful.” And even though …
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Some of you tried to get tickets to The Compact Summer Camp last week, and then you guys sold that shit out… fast. But if you signed up for the waitlist hoping we’d open up more tickets, today is your lucky day, because we did just that. We opened up twenty more tickets to the first …
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Disclosure: I love a good best man speech. I tend to play it cool, but let’s be honest: I’ve made a living working in weddings, which means I love how on that one day, everyone shares how much they love you (even guys, who normally don’t wear their hearts on their sleeves). And that means that …
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When I got married, I had no idea that fake flowers could look real, so I didn’t spend a second thinking about the (now obvious in retrospect) idea that I could use silk flowers for my wedding and have them look good. Obviously, it was real or bust. And that’s fine, if you have a …
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On the morning of my wedding, as I sat in a stylist’s chair getting my hair re-curled, my father called me breathlessly to let me know that all the flowers we’d purchased for our bouquets (which had yet to be assembled) were dead. My stepmom had followed every instruction included with our online order, and …
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For the longest time after my wedding I was embarrassed every time anyone asked me archly, “So, how’s married life?” What was I supposed to say to that? That it was horrible; that within the first week of our marriage I was half-wondering if it was too late for an annulment; that we had each …
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Here’s an insider secret picked up from looking at a lot of wedding photos over the years: When you’re getting serious about choosing a photographer, always ask to see a few full wedding galleries. Websites and Instagram are fantastic highlight reels, and for good reason. No one wants to look at hundreds of photos of …
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