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When we want to get more thoughtful, this is the spot for our feature articles. Sometimes we talk big-picture philosophies, other times we discuss wedding trends, and every once and a while we just go ape-shit over a wedding WTF?!

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Fear mongering & you’ll seeeee

During wedding planning, we tell each other a lot of scary stories, which all too often become fear mongering. It’s sort of a pre-emptive commiseration — an anticipatory sing-song of Oh, you’ll seeeee….

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Steampunk groom gear breakdown

Check out what showed up in our Flickr pool — some amazing steampunk “groom gear” action from Michele and Matt’s steampunk wedding! Now, granted I am not an expert on steampunk but I think Matt here can give us all a good lesson…

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And the groom wore a pink flower

…And a beard, and fabulous frames, and a beatific smile: We’ll be seeing much more of Dave and his dreads and his fabulous pink flower and GORGEOUS bride next week…

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Spokane couple aims to recycle 400,000 cans to pay for their wedding

Andrea and Pete are combining two different kinds of awesome into one fabulous wedding: they’re trying to pay for their low-budget summer 2010 wedding by recycling 400,000 aluminum cans. In a move that it’s both uber-eco-friendly as well as budget minded, they’re scouring their city of Spokane, WA to find cans to recycle. I cornered […]