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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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The weddings that weren’t

I’m going to a wedding this weekend and I’m feeling just a little jealous.

It’s been over two months since my wedding. It was everything my partner and I could have asked for, in four hours of pure awesome. The professional photos are stunning and capture how was very “us” it was. The wedding I’m going to this weekend is also very representative of the bride and groom — a guitar-themed, tequila-shooting wedding.

But a guitar-themed, tequila-shooting wedding is definitely not me… so why am I having wedding envy?

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Planning a wedding while dealing with the emotions of being a domestic abuse survivor

I have gone from being a young bride, to a survivor of domestic abuse, a divorcée, a fiancée, and now I find myself planning a wedding again. A wedding is supposed to be a happy experience. For me, this doesn’t seem to be the case. With my looming nuptials I can’t help but feel emotionally and physically drained. I remind myself every day that “he isn’t my first husband.”

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Goodbye, micromanaging bride: How a Latin exam helped me calm down for the wedding day

As the day of the exam approached, Professor Rigg sat us down and told us that the day before the exam, we should not open our books. We should have a good dinner and get a full night’s sleep. “There is nothing you can do in the last twenty-four hours that will change how well you do on the exam,” he said. “By the time you’ve reached that point, either you know Latin well enough to succeed, or you don’t. No amount of cramming will help you.” The point of this long metaphor is that this has been my attitude towards wedding planning…

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