Open Thread

Q: My fiancx and I did a giant venue search, and eventually found a business local to his parents that we loved. It is a new small business, owned by a

When people ask me my engagement story, I tell them my now-husband and I were at our favorite park, the one with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge and the

We all know that the wedding industrial complex is A Thing. And most of the conversation happening around it is discussed by womxn with womxn.

I didn’t grow up with divorced parents. As far as I knew, the whole time I was a kid, my parents were happily married and everything was great—

As far as I can tell, the only thing consistent about holidays as an adult is that they are not consistent from year to year. When I was a kid, the exact

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Let me start this off by saying that I love giving gifts. There’s just something about seeing the receiver’s reaction and knowing that what you got them

Trisha and I are newbies at our relationship. I mean, yes, we’ve got stuff going for us. We’re in our thirties, we’re women (so we talk more openly than

Almost nothing about growing into the holidays as an adult human is easy. The holidays (much like wedding planning) are a process of grappling with tradition.

Everyone I know has an engagement horror story. It might be their own, or it happened to someone they know. There are the ones on Ferris Wheels.