Category Archive

Features

When we want to get more thoughtful, this is the spot for our feature articles. Sometimes we talk big-picture philosophies, other times we discuss wedding trends, and every once and a while we just go ape-shit over a wedding WTF?!

Picture 1

Question: “So how’s it feel being married?” Answer: The same as before, but now it’s in 3D

Yesterday was hubby’s and my 7th month anniversary. (If we kept track of those things. It usually ends up, “Hey! It was our monthiversary yesterday!” “Yay us!”) I got a chance to reflect on marriageness as opposed to weddingness. Which is good because we’re constantly asked by people “So how’s it feel being married?” and while our standard answer is “Pretty much the same, but with jewelry”, that isn’t quite right.

4845444836 667e5d1152

Michael & Jeannie’s eternal Tae Kwon Do wedding

Michael & Jeannie met while learning Tae Kwon Do. They thought the best way to celebrate their union would be through a “sparring match.”

3839343006 5f7d829625 b

Musings of an almost not-bride

I won’t be an Offbeat Bride soon. In fact, I won’t be any kind of bride, because in a month I’ll be married. And for some reason, that’s making me sad. I don’t want to get into the whole “you should be planning for the marriage not the wedding!” or the politics of wedding vs. marital energy/time/money expenditure. I get that, I assure you. I want to acknowledge what an important and huge part of my life and identity being a bride and having a wedding has been for me, and I’m sure for you too. I want to share this journey, and who I am and have become.

goth wedding rings by blue nile on offbeat wed

Planning my second wedding: funny how what was important the last time isn’t this time

I’m engaged and planning for my second wedding. I’ve grown up a bit and now know more about who I am. Plus, I have the right guy as the groom. This time around, I’m not at all concerned with how things are “supposed” to be done. There is no “book” and I’m not going to please everyone else. We are spending time, energy, and money on the things that are most important to my H2B and me, things that are uniquely us, and things we will remember.