Open Thread

When I think of my childhood, I picture all the shenanigans my siblings and I got into, our epic family road trips, and spending holidays with our extended family.

Last week, one of my husband’s friends asked me about that whole kids thing (you know what I’m talking about, just-married-people and also everyone else—because

Last year four of my closest friends got married, and I joked that I spent the year as a Professional Wedding Therapist™ (Why is that not an actual thing?

I’m taking a break from my normal advice-giving beat to delve into a question that evades advice—how much are people really spending on wedding gifts?

Q: I know I can’t be alone in this. Ever since I got married, it seems that my interactions with kids are seen as “practice” for my own future children.

If there is a single upside to marrying your high school sweetheart, it’s that you start out with way less baggage. There are no prior relationships to

If there’s one word associated with weddings, it’s money. Not romance, or timeless, or dreamy, or any of those words wedding media is fond of overusing.

So you recently got engaged (eee! congrats! 🎉), and reality is starting to settle in. Not just the reality of committing to your partner forever, but of

As you all know (hello, look around you), over the holidays, we relaunched APW. That is, we migrated ten years of historical data, rebuilt pages, checked

In the nine holiday seasons that I’ve been writing APW, I’ve been working on figuring out our family holidays. (Given that it’s been almost a decade and