Why it’s totally okay to plan a wedding your way… even when you’re told otherwise
When I asked Brian to marry me, tranquil and quiet energy swirled around us. In all the perfection that this was for us, I didn’t expect the whirlwind that would come — the questions, assumptions, unsolicited advice, and all the “good things” that go along with an engagement in two large and loving families. Our quiet serenity on that beach on Toronto island slipped away from me so fast, I went looking for it in all the wrong places.
How cancer prepared me for wedding planning
When planning a wedding you have expectations, and ideas of what your big day should be, right? Sometimes life gets in the way of that. After 11.5 years of living with cancer, I’m getting married at the end of October 2016, and cancer has been the perfect trial and error for this entire process.
Cancer has been no walk in the park. But sometimes I have days where I can walk miles and still have energy to make dinner AND bake some vegan cookies. Other days, not so much.
Planning tools 101: Your wedding timeline spreadsheet
Rad news, you guys: we’ve launched a comprehensive and totally customizable document of wedding planning spreadsheets! This means we’ve got a complete set of planning templates to steer your whole event. In this series, we’re going to talk through all the spreadsheets. First up: the WEDDING TIMELINE!
I’m a wedding pro, and THIS was my top wedding priority…
In all my years of writing about weddings, hearing about weddings, working at weddings, and planning weddings, I’ve decided where my number one wedding priority lies (besides, you know, the right partner and all that lovey dovey shit). Which meant that it was the very first vendor that we booked. Which meant it took me from “what the fuck am I going to dooooo!?” to “keep calm and plan the fuck on.”