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…
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?
Offbeat Bride and the Chicago Tribune talk non-traditional honeymoons
This week we decided to move our real honeymoon profiles over to Offbeat Home. It’s also the week that the Chicago Tribune featured an interview with me about non-traditional honeymoons.
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.