Hilarious video about the “wedding tax” on wedding flowers
This cracked me up — except for the part at the end where the bride growls “I WANT WEDDING FLOWERS.” Fuck that stereotypical shit.
Why I’m not into Trash The Dress
While I respect the visual kick of trash the dress shots and absolutely understand why photographers and couples could love the concept, for myself, I find the idea wasteful. Indulgently wasteful, actually.
One Offbeat Bride’s nightmare at Macy’s Bridal
I get so many great emails from readers and someone of them are just meant to be shared with the world. Today, I wanted to share this email from Siouxzi, who had a nightmare dress shopping experience Hey Ariel, I wanted to say thanks I bought your book when we first got engaged. I really […]
Who picked THIS engagement pose?
Is it just me, or do the crossed arms of the headless groom-to-be comes off as creepily paternalistic? (“No, you’re not getting your bride allowance — you’ve been naughty this week!”)
Game over t-shirts
I totally get that this is just comedy, and I don’t want to seem like a humorless gender-warrior, but I guess on a certain level I just don’t quite understand why it’s funny … as a groom, do you really want to be thought of as unhappy about your marriage? As a bride, do you want to be seen as “winning” some game that results in your frowny-face partner being stuck with you for the rest of your lives?
Authors behaving badly
Last year I was contacted by someone on Flickr who was collecting wedding photos for a book about the unseen wacky and wild sides of brides. They wanted to use this photo in the book. I was a little weirded out by the fact that they were building a book of photographs that they weren’t […]