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WTF!?

Wedding planning offers a non-stop stream of WTF moments, from cringe-worthy articles to heinous wedding supplies. Here, we document the most outrageous.

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Wedding registries: The gateway to lifestyle creep

Wedding registries. It’s awesome to get presents, but it sucks when you realize that all your presents mean you have to spend more money to upgrade everything else to match. You will find yourself purchasing things so that they can “match” your new items. Even if your stuff up until now was perfectly fine, even if you never thought to replace it.

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Maintenance-shaming: You don’t have to pretend you’re so cool that you’re “over” your own wedding

Upon hearing that I want my hair and makeup done, people say, “but you’re so low-maintenance.” So I have invented a term for what I’m going through: “maintenance-shaming.”

Maintenance-shaming is essentially telling a woman that she should not make a fuss about traditionally feminine things, or really that she shouldn’t make a fuss about anything.

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WTF is an STD: Offbeat Bride’s glossary to wedding acronyms and phrases

If you’re new to the wedding planning, there may be some terms you don’t know. Or are you wondering why your engaged friend keeps talking about their STDs? It’s not even the acronyms that can be confusing — the wedding planning lexicon is a strange beast. Here’s a list of stuff that gets mentioned a lot in the wedding industry.

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Why I am glad Offbeat Bride is my main exposure to wedding media

Unfortunately, there is no other website like the this one. No one provides the no bullshit point of view that you get here. When someone on other wedding blogs says “Your wedding is wrong!” they aren’t saying it in a “but that’s totally okay, and who cares” sort of way, like you get here.

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5 things Miss Manners hates that I LOVE

I requested the Miss Manners wedding book (published in 2010 — a mere four years ago) this week from my local library. The dilemma of how to address invitations when many of our friends and relations are cohabitating without being married was confusing me, and I figured Miss Manners would have something to say on the topic. She does, of course. She also has thoughts on everything else to do with weddings. I disagree VEHEMENTLY with some of her opinions…

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I’m a fat bride

I want anything emblazoned with “bride” to be changed to “fat bride.” My identity as a fat woman is no secret, and I’m not ashamed of it. I bare my body with pride. However, not everyone feels the same way.