Unless you’ve been some sort of reclusive misanthrope for the better part of your young adulthood, you’re going to wake up on your 28th birthday neck-deep in wedding invitations.
weddings
music
Hearing it barely even qualifies as bittersweet for me. It just feels like any other favorite song.
weddings
I polled some recently married friends for feedback on the most beloved wedding gifts they received that weren’t on their registries, and the feedback was enlightening.
ihtm contest
What had been a complicated father-daughter relationship became an impossible one.
weddings
Just call me Steff, licensed to marry.
weddings
It sounded too good to be true, and I know how these things end. But I’m a sucker for a bargain -- and a bit of a gambler.
marriage
Women aren’t sad or pathetic for not single-handedly disavowing and dismantling an ever-growing consumer culture that feeds on and magnifies every possible human insecurity.
love
This is the story of a genteel (yes, I said “genteel,” deal with it) courtship that began as a friendship and slowly shifted into something else.
weddings
There would be some years when he would send a birthday or Christmas card, some years when he wouldn’t. Months, and then years, would go by without a phone call.
shoppables
Seven suggestions to help you look completely opposite from how I did at prom.
bridesmaids
It's time for abused bridesmaids to revolt.
weddings
Here’s my step-by-step guide to looking really glam and pretty at the next wedding or fancy event you have to attend -- because yes, you don’t want to upstage the bride, but no one said you can’t look as good as her.
age
Or else I'm just a huge weirdo. OH, NO, WHAT IF I'M BOTH?
friendship
I didn't think I was gonna cry so, of course, I totally cried.
politics
It's kind of like when your friends tell you not to bring your kids to their wedding.
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weddings,
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children,
babysitters,
not taking your kids everywhere
Aug 30, 2012 at 6:00pm | 127 comments
body acceptance
Have I ever told you guys about that time I got married? PLUS: JETPACKS!
a ring is not a marriage
A wedding ring doesn't make a commitment real. It's a symbol. But a symbol can't take the place of the thing itself.
best friends
I'm not sure why I was shocked, let alone hurt, when a girl I had known for 28 years tried to sabotage my wedding. It was right in line with all the other messed up things she had done to me over the years.
julieanne
I call this "the Reverse Cameron Crowe" because instead of the perfect music scoring the perfect emotion, you find yourself hopelessly mid-intercourse, listening to a something best suited to the deaths of major characters on medical shows.
diets
Do my nuptials even count if I look like I'm capable of lifting a champagne glass or cake knife with one noodle-like arm?
inheritance
While 22-year-old me might have rented a party bus and bought a case of Moet, these days, I'm a grown-ass lady. What do I do with the $$$?
bridal gowns
My first experience trying on wedding gowns may have put me off the whole thing forever. Help me pick a dress online?
