I’m a frustrated groom who feels pushed out of planning my wedding
It’s funny how my future in-laws offering to contribute to my wedding ends up with me, the groom-to-be, feeling pushed out of the wedding planning equation. I will be lucky if I know even 20 percent of the people at our wedding. You know what? That makes me the weird creepy guy sitting in the corner that nobody knows at my own wedding.
Well, I can tell you that I did NOT want to be “that guy,” or that groom rather… yet here I am. I feel like it’s time to sink ever so slowly into the background of my own wedding.
In the case of a sexless marriage…
We’re barely in our thirties, but H and I are currently in a “sexless marriage” (defined as a couple who have sex “10 times a year or less”). I am writing this because I want other partners in similar situations to know that they aren’t alone…
Why I’m changing my last name, and why I won’t be apologizing for it
Since changing my mind and deciding to change my name, I have received some eye rolls and unsolicited comments from my like-minded liberal community. So what made me change my mind? For me, it boils down to one word…
10 super-obvious things I forgot to add to my wedding budget
When I started planning my wedding, I scoured the web for as many budget breakdowns as I could find. I made spreadsheets and included everything I could think of, in super-granular detail. I thought I had thought of everything I could possibly think of. I was wrong! Here are some things I discovered I had not budgeted for, despite looking at dozens of online sample budgets…