4 sad-but-true reasons to turn your wedding pics into OMG REAL LIFE ACTUAL photo prints
As a wedding photographer, I hear these two statements all of the time: “we aren’t worried about prints right now” or “we will order prints after the wedding.” Here’s why you should think about going through the pain-in-the-ass process of turning that convenient USB drive into real life wedding prints…
What Joss Whedon & Army wives can teach you about being a future military spouse
My fellow Army Wives, Echo and Kilo (who helped write this post) and I, are political progressives, feminists, and romantically involved with soldiers in the US Army. It’s a crazy effing life. One might even say round pegs for the square hole of the US Armed Forces. We are absolutely committed to telling it like it is as professional women with complicated sexualities, careers, aspirations, non-traditional religious affiliations, and cultural clashes with the military… as well as the love, support, and strength we draw from our significant others, ourselves, and our close and ever evolving friendships. And yeah, we had a couple o’ gaps in our zeitgeist that we hope we can help you with.
How much of an asshole am I if I don’t do a memorial at my wedding?
Offbeat Bride has an entire tag devoted to wedding memorials full of ideas for ways to honor your departed loved ones. If that’s what you feel like doing, then good for you! Rock those memorials and share the very-much-missed with everyone. But what if you don’t want to include a wedding memorial? Are you suffering from wedding memorial shame? Should you be?
Use the “trash bag method” to keep your dress clean en route
Remember Ruby and James’ laid-back wedding? One of our favorite parts of this wedding was the ingenious (and hilarious) re-purposing of one of our favorite tips — using a trash bag to help you pee in your big ol’ wedding dress. But she didn’t just use the trash bag to protect her dress in the restroom, she used it to protect her dress all the way to the venue!