OPEN THREAD: How to kill the hours between ceremony and reception?
I booked the reception venue, which we are only allowed to use after 6pm, way before booking the church. I did not know then that the church would only do a wedding at 1pm. So, assuming the ceremony lasts an hour, we have four hours to kill between the ceremony and the reception. What should we do with that time?
How do you include the non-tech-savvy into your tech-y wedding?
How do you dealing with the fact that, technology-wise, you are living in the 21st century, but your parents and their friends are not? I’m finding I’m having wedding planning complications with our evites, the online-only registries, and the concept of photo sharing.
Why is my wedding making everyone ELSE insecure?
As soon as my fiancé and I announced our engagement, there were a number of questions and comments we heard over and over and over again. But I was very surprised to hear this comment repeatedly: “Uh-oh, if you’re having a wedding that means I really have to start changing my body so I can be there!” I’ve done a lot of thinking about why people just attending a wedding feel the need to change their bodies. Understanding their reasons has helped me figure out how to best communicate to my friends and family that I love them just the way they are, and that they shouldn’t feel the need to change for me…
What my wedding taught me about being a better wedding guest
I had this whole “being a good wedding guest” thing down. Now that my own wedding has passed, I realized that there were some wedding guest mistakes I was making, despite my best intentions. These are the things I’ve learned about being a good wedding guest that I never would have realized until having my own wedding…