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How divorce has positively affected my wedding planning

My parents and my future husband are all divorced. And this is probably going to sound like a really odd, coming from someone planning her first, and hopefully only wedding. But I wanted to share some thoughts I had on how divorce has, in fact, positively affected my wedding planning process.

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Offbeat Divorce, Part 2: The Separating

As I said in my previous post, my marriage failed. After a period of struggle, we decided to separate (and have since divorced). The separation process was also fraught and sometimes felt impossible, but I got through. Here are a few things I learned.

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Offbeat Divorce, Part 1: The Struggling

Hi, my name is Kate and I failed. I had a somewhat offbeat wedding, was married for 8 years, ultimately failed at it, and got divorced.

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Why did a bunch of my guests break up right after our wedding?

“I just got married last year, and I noticed something really strange: after our wedding, several guests who’d attended went through break-ups with their boyfriends and girlfriends.

…Was it something I said?”