Planning Stories

I always know exactly what people are going to say when I tell them what I do for a living. I explain that I’m a wedding coordinator and, nine times out

APW publishes Queer weddings a lot. We share them on Instagram. Our vendors always include them in their portfolios. So when I was pulling this round-up

I never imagined myself having a big wedding. The closest thing I ever had to that fantasy as a little girl was when Ellen DeGeneres came out and I asked

Over the last eleven years we have collected tons of amazing wedding readings in the APW archives. But recently I realized that we’d never collected all

I’ve been chubby since I was a baby. It’s well-known family lore that I was born small, but immediately started remedying that by eating as much as I could

The other day, in the car, my gender nonconforming six-year-old brought up a family wedding that happened two years ago. “You made me wear a suit,” he said.

One of the first weddings I participated in was my mother’s (that’s me in front of her in the picture below, rocking ’90s floral and a bib like it was my job).

Growing up, I daydreamed about my future wedding (when I was old enough to have one). Pretty common for most little girls. Unlike the stereotype, the biggest

Don’t die,” my fiancx likes to whisper in my ear. It’s a joke, but also absolutely serious. It is a truism that all relationships will end, either in separation or in death.

Apparently I don’t know how to use a glue stick. Not a disaster, clearly, but at the moment it seemed like a good enough reason to burst into gut-wrenching sobs.