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I was the editor of the now-defunct Offbeat Families, and owner/photographer at Stephanie Kaloi Photography in Portland, OR.
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Wedding dresses you can breastfeed in: nursing mothers rejoice, we have a gigantic round-up just for YOU

All kinds of tops and dresses can are breastfeeding-friendly, especially once you get the hang of it. While I didn’t don a wedding or bridesmaid gown during my stint as a nursing mother, I did experiment with a variety of necklines to find out what was the easiest to maneuver my son around. You also want to wear something that can be folded back/pushed to the side pretty quickly — hungry babies are demanding!

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I need inspiration for fun, non-blah wedding party poses!

You’ve featured non-sucky, offbeat, original suggestions for shoes, wedding rings, etc., but I couldn’t find a thorough compendium of fun, non-sucky wedding pictures/poses. I like the already passé everyone-jumping and everyone-running pictures, but I wonder if there is anything even better.

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A step-by-step guide to making your OWN wedding album with Blurb books

A few months ago I waxed poetic about the amazingness of Blurb books on Offbeat Mama, and it dawned on me that sharing this knowledge on Bride could only do good things for everyone reading.

I recently made a wedding album from a set of photo booth shots, and figured that’d be the perfect thing to share with you guys.

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How to change your relationship status on Facebook without everyone knowing

I get that this is a very twenty-first century only-for-people-who-are-online-a-lot problem, and a silly one at that. Why, at the end of a long-term relationship that really meant something, would your mind wander to your Facebook relationship status? I can’t tell you, I just know that for many people it does, and the creepy-crawly, upside-down-stomach feeling that goes along with those thoughts isn’t the best thing ever. So here’s how to hide your relationship status, updates and all.