The wedding industry isn’t targeting you… it’s targeting your parents
One thing that my time working as telemarketer gave me — other than a very black conscience — is understanding about how different generations process and interpret media.
We spend a lot of time here laughing about the Wedding Industrial Complex, and we should, because it’s fucking hilarious. But it’s not really directed at us. It’s directed at our mothers.
The “faux-ficial” Bridesmaids’ Bill of Rights
I’m planning to officially ask my potential bridesmiads to be my maids of awesome/wedding goon squad/honor guard/etc. In the package I put together for them, I included this faux-official Bridesmaids’ Bill of Rights, both for a laugh and to assuage any nervousness.
Flexibility & hand-holding: 5 tips for having a successful costume wedding
A costume wedding isn’t all that different than a regular wedding. Most weddings are actually costume weddings, unless you wear white formal dresses and tuxedos on a daily basis, which isn’t out of the realm of possibility (and is totally awesome — is your work hiring?).
But for these instructions are for a full-on costume wedding, in which you ask the wedding party and guests to dress up around a specific theme. And here is how you can successfully pull that off…
How to let people help you with your wedding
One of the first things I ever read on Offbeat Bride was an article about having open expectations. It really resonated with me, and I tried to keep that philosophy through the entire process. It also helped that I was planning a long-distance wedding, so I HAD to let people help me to stay sane… or to avoid massive amounts of credit card debt from flying from Salt Lake City to Wisconsin a gazillion times. Did I have some minor freak-outs? Yes. But the wedding went off swimmingly, and it was better than I could have done myself thanks to the helping hands I had along the way. But here are some tips I learned, and maybe even those of you who are extra detail-obsessed can step back and let someone help you!