Planning Stories

Q: Help! My mother-in-law, who I genuinely adore and have a great relationship with, wants my fiancé and me to invite her entire family to our rehearsal dinner.

Hey Girl,You think you’re a chill bride and I love that for you. But you’re not. You will create a zillion curated Pinterest boards.

As a recently engaged person, it would be a lie to say that I’m not already spending my fair share of time perusing Pinterest and thinking about

For a while, I’ve had built up anxiety about gathering certain family members and my (non-familial) community in close proximity. Not because of Coronavirus

I didn’t want a wedding. I wanted to marry my partner because I wanted to be able to take care of him and be a legally and socially recognized family.

As someone who thrives on planning, order, and predictability, the past month has been one of the most challenging in my life and my relationship.

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—

I’d love to say I was one of those cooler-than-cool womxn who had so much going on, that they hadn’t given their wedding a thought until they got engaged.

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.