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Philosophizing

How do you feel about your wedding? What does it all mean? How does wedding planning a metaphor for the rest of your life?

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All weddings are awesome — not just mine

I am confused by the attitude that surrounds weddings and costs and ideas and things. Maybe that’s what makes me offbeat… My problem lies in all the intense bitchiness that lives in the wedding world. “My wedding is better than yours because of such-and-such.”

Can we all just chill the fuck out and be nice to each other for like… five and a half seconds?

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What makes a wedding “real”: Why our gay wedding will be traditional

Same-sex weddings are still new enough that a lot of people wonder how different they will be compared to a straight wedding. I suspect that some straight people automatically think that all queers are alternative, counter-culture types and in their minds gay wedding = rainbow musical theatre circus. But here’s why our gay wedding will be relatively traditional…

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Win the Judgey Olympics: transform your petty wedding snarks into personal growth

JUDGEY-NESS. We all do it, and it’s fine — but every time you get all judgey about someone else, you’re missing a chance to learn something valuable about yourself.

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Will living together really make our wedding night less special?

We’ve been dating for four years, moved across the country together — hell, we’ve even adopted a one-eyed kitten together. Personally, I think this situation is awesome. So it’s been interesting to find out how many people think that living together pre-marriage seems to somehow make it “less special”…