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Classic APW: Mike & Tammar's Magical Forest Lovefest
You guys. So. I think about this wedding all the time, and I realize that most of you have never seen it. This is the very first wedding I was ever sent by a reader. A reader, that is, who read APW...
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Classic APW: Home
I found this in the archives and my eyes started to well up. The ring pillow that was really a brick from their house. This isn't particularly feasible inspiration, but it's so exactly right. It's...
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Coming Soon... hopefully?
Hello All,I miss writing for you guys. I literally just took a break from tagging posts (it's open in the other window) to send this small missive. Remember when I told you we were going to have a...
View ArticleWedding Undergraduate: Me
Whoa. In going through archived posts last night, I found this one, unpublished. I wrote this two months before our wedding, and I never published it, because it just made me feel to vulnerable. I can...
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Sponsor Introduction: Jenn Link Photography
I'm thrilled to get to write a post about Jenn Link Photography in Washington DC today, 1) Because this means I am *writing* for APW, writing about something I believe in (wedding elves) instead of...
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Sponsored Post: Jenn Link Photography - The Amazing DEAL edition
Um. You guys. I'm, what's the word? A moron. Or maybe we can just chalk it up to the horrible side effects of re-tagging all my posts? Anyway, Jenn Link wants to offer you all an amazing deal... and...
View ArticleWorking Out How To Be A Family
The always cuttingly sharp Cate left this comment, and I thought it deserved to be shared. This is absolutely how I think about the process of getting married looking back. I feel, for example, a...
View ArticleOn Not Taking Wedding Trends Too Seriously (Even Indie Ones)
... Or why you should ask your fiance's opinion on wedding decisions.I just remembered a slightly intoxicated conversation I had with David and our friend Rachel about indie wedding trends. I feel like...
View ArticleClassic APW: The Dress Horrors
This was my first dress post ever. It was every single thing I was feeling in one tiny paragraph. Little did I know this was step one in what would be an endless dress epic. And epic that would end, as...
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Classic APW: Steady Happy Wedding
So. This post only ran a year ago, but since I'm revisiting the very best of APW, this is a MUST. When Christina first sent me her wedding graduate post I remember just sitting in the kitchen and...
View ArticleClassic APW: The Wedding Industrial Complex, As It Were
Ahhhh.... well this one can stand alone, don't you think? And, go!I have started to notice that I use the phrase WIC quite a bit on this blog as a shortcut, and I've never discussed it at length. I...
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Classic APW: David's Only Guest Post Ever
You know how you guys are always begging for David to do a guest post? Well he did one. Once. Two years ago. I know that by now we've trod back and forth over these ideas for a bit, but it's DAVID, and...
View ArticleWebby Nonsense
We're moving APW's URL to a new owner this weekend. So! If you see anything bananas going on (hopefully you won't) never fear.
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Sponsored Post: A Turtle Love Committee
Long time sponsor Turtle Love Co. has been growing and changing lately (look at their new tag line - artisan. indie. eco), and it's such a joy to watch. Today I get to highlight their eco friendly...
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APW & Ready Made
Heyyyy - APW got a mention in Ready Made this month (you know, a magazine I actually *read*) along with a bunch of otherfabulouswomen. I'm choosing to take this as an auspicious sign for the week of...
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How To Self Cater Your Wedding, Part I
So. As promised, we are going to begin our foray into discussing self catering your wedding. I've gotten approximately a billion posts from y'all on the subject, and over the next few weeks I will be...
View ArticleHow To Self Cater Your Wedding, Part II
When I got this email about self-catering from reader Mandy, it came with the disclaimer, "maybe this is stuff everyone already knows." And when I started reading it over, I thought, "No, but this is...
View ArticleAPW Site Nuttiness
Hello All-Are you getting error messages, and forwarding messages and all kinds of weirdness when you come to the site? Sigh. Well. We all are, and I'm sorry. It's a boring story, but in essence my URL...
View ArticleWedding Undergraduate: 41 Days To Go, And I'm Feeling... A Lot Of Things
So. It turns out I have several unpublished posts from the days leading up to our wedding. Things were hard, my mom was very ill, and I wrote stuff down, but didn't always feel strong enough to share...
View ArticleWhat I Learned About Money While Planning My Wedding
I wrote this post for Dana to run on Broke-Ass Bride a few months back. Then I sort of modified it for the new Offbeat Bride book. But I've never run it on APW, and I think it deserves to be here. It's...
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