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Wedding advice and etiquette can be a weird thing, especially when you’re talking about alternative and offbeat weddings. We pride ourselves on our compassionate focus on constructive, respectful communication and focus on conflict resolution.

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Renegotiating your marriage with a yearly “relationship summit”

Over on Offbeat Home is where we talk about all the post-wedding-y goodness: marriage, honeymoons, relationships, etc. Last week Homie Cassandra told us about her and her husband’s awesome “relationship summits” that they hold every year on their anniversary…

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When is too soon to book a venue?

We just got engaged less than a week ago and have begun calling around to get pricing info for venues and caterers. Fiancé says its too soon to start planning and I have to relax. I want a wedding in 10 months and don’t want to miss out because I waited.

Am I jumping the gun? When do you start making plans and putting down deposits?

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How my budget app just altered the way I view my wedding

I have been checking and re-checking my wedding budget spreadsheet weekly — especially the estimates vs actual money spent. I am not the first, nor will I be the last that spends a good deal of valid energy on a wedding. But something happened yesterday, thanks to an app, that helped remind me of the fun of wedding planning.