13 things I wish I’d known on my wedding day
Well, the wedding was beautiful and fun and awesome by all accounts, but now I have the “shoulda-coulda-wouldas” and it’s getting me down. But please, LEARN from my mistakes! I offer you this advice as a bride who didn’t think of all of these things before the wedding…
A disappointed bride’s 5 tips to get better wedding photos
Our wedding is all done and it was fantastic, but the photography isn’t. There’s little I can do now, except to share some wedding photography advice with the benefit of hindsight in the hopes that my disappointment won’t be yours as well. Here are five things I wish I would have done differently.
So you feel like you gave in: 3 ways to bounce back from wedding planning disappointments
You can rest assured that it’s going to happen at some point during your wedding planning process: that perfect venue for your vintage submarine-themed wedding is going to fall through. You battle with your in-laws to try to keep the guestlist under 100 people, and you find yourself putting stamps on 200 invitations. Your dreams of locally-sourced, delicately spiced catering is going to be replaced by your mother’s “beef or chicken” menu that reminds you of funeral food (true story!).
It isn’t all sunshine and unicorns: Reconciling my wedding expectations with my likely wedding realities
In which a Tribe member lines up her great wedding day expectations, along with the crushing reality of the likely wedding day scenario, and realizes that, while it’s not all sunshine and unicorns, but it’s still gonna be pretty fucking awesome.