Safeguard your important details with an “oh shit list”
Rebecca and Bryan’s rock opera wedding is now legend around these parts, but this little tidbit of advice may just go overlooked with all the razzle dazzle of the wedding itself. And boy, did it dazzle. Rebecca had lots of little details that were important to her and wished that she had listed them out and delegated them to someone to make sure they happened. Much like an “oh shit kit,” which pulls together all your most necessary items, this “oh shit list” is a list of the most important things you want to make sure go down as planned.
How to plan your wedding using active wedding brainstorming
If you’ve ever worked in corporate America (or the equivalent in other countries), you’ve probably been involved in some fancy-pants organized brainstorming sessions. They’re all about goal-making and no answers are wrong and generally being really structured. I figured that since these sessions can end up pretty useful, that they could probably be applied to wedding planning. And you know what? they totally can. Let’s see how we’d do some high-level wedding planning brainstorming.
What happened when we put OUR wedding needs first…
Somehow, it is portrayed as perfectly normal to make huge exceptions for your wedding day, from going into debt to inviting too many people, to having melt-downs over canapés. Of the traditional wedding “must-haves,” we didn’t want most, don’t need many, and can’t have some. We said “no” over and over — feeling like rather fussy inconsiderate people. But here’s what’s happened since we’ve put our wedding planning needs first…
18 things I wish I could have told my wedding-planning self a year ago (Part 2)
With the benefit of a year of hindsight, I thought I might give some advice to my younger self. Or, failing that — why do we not have time-travel yet?! — I figured I could give some advice to those of you who are still deep in the trenches of planning. The number 18 has great significance in Judaism, so without further ado, here is part two of the 18 things I wish I could tell my wedding-planning self…