How a last-minute wedding dress disaster made me remember what really matters
I had an amazing process getting my first dress custom-made. But an incident with my curious kitties made my dress unwearable. In swooped my amazing fiance and bridesmaids who rallied to my aid to find a new dress just one day before my wedding! Here’s how the situation managed to make me realize what really matters when it comes to weddings…
Dress designer Alfred Angelo closing down! Are you losing your dress? Here’s help…
The big news is that wedding dress behemoth Alfred Angelo is shutting down, taking along with it thousands of dresses already on order by brides. Are you one of them? Are you now dress-less? Don’t panic, there are some things you can do to snag a last-minute wedding dress…
Even wildfires couldn’t ruin this redwoods wedding of two filmmakers (with the best “cake cutting” EVER!)
This wedding comes with an unbelievable backstory that involves having to move the entire wedding due to the largest California wildfires ever. But on top of that, there’s the fact that this wedding is FILLED with amazingness all over: the most epic wedding invitation video, the funniest “cake cutting” you’ll see, a T-Rex entrance, and some of the funniest wedding party photos. You’ve just got to see this one, folks…
Beauty from pain: A cancer survivor’s non-wig ways to rock being a bald bride
“Will you postpone the wedding until after your cancer is gone?” asked my friend the week I was re-diagnosed with lymphoma. My response was so feral it surprised even me. “Honey, come hell or high water, I am motherloving having this wedding, and you better motherloving be there because I don’t know how long I’ve got left.”
My cancer came back a few months before my wedding, and I wanted to use my baldness as an opportunity to recognize cancer’s presence while living through it with beauty and joy. Here’s my story…