As expected…while I was back home over the Labor Day weekend I was bombarded with wedding questions.  Most of them were typical, where’s the wedding gonna be, what does your dress look like, what type of flowers will you have…and then there’s my mom.

She tends to ask the most detailed questions and when I stare at her funny she says, …

So, you’ve met me and you’ve at least been introduced to Brian, but you haven’t had the pleasure of getting to know the other member of our family: Chambers.

Chambers is our one year old Vizsla and the above picture is by far my favorite of him.  Brian took it the first time Chambers saw snow this past winter (he loved …

…have quickly become my biggest wedding pet peeve. You know the ones, the bride and groom are dancing romantically for their first dance when all of a sudden this beat comes out of nowhere (gasp, “what is going on here??” says the look on the bride’s face), and then all of a sudden, SURPRISE! The new Mr. & Mrs. are …

Personalizing our ceremony was of the utmost importance to us. If our guests hadn’t already clued in to our loose relationship with wedding traditions, they got a sense of what awaited them on the very first page of our program:

There were five key ways that we strived to make our ceremony uniquely ours: music selections, choice of officiant, family participation, …

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I’m not sure how to feel about the whole men wearing wedding rings deal. My dad has always worn his and my mom always wore her matching one, both plain yellow gold bands. I was actually pretty surprised to find out that women (now at least) tend to match their wedding band to their engagement rings, and that …

After The Professional Bridesmaid asked why I was bucking tradition by letting the boy see my dress, I thought it’d be a good post topic—traditions I am not following! I should preface this post by clarifying that I’m not disrespectful to all wedding traditions—heck, I’m a girl who will be wearing a white dress and has bridesmaids with {potentially} matching …

Ok, so I have read so many blog posts about changing/not changing/hyphenating/merging names, so I thought I’d weigh in with my decision.

Vince and I have a very unique situation.  His last name has always been Klue.  He moved here 10 years ago from South Africa with his biological mother and his step father who has always been a true father …

One of the things that dr. dave and I had debated prior to the wedding was whether we would see each other prior to the ceremony or not.  While we both liked the tradition of not seeing one another until the moment I was walking down the aisle, there were a few factors that led to our decision to have …

Okay, fellow brides-to-be out there, I have a confession to make about my feelings toward the whole bachelor party thing. This isn’t easy to say, but I’m hoping some of you out might be able to identify with what I’m feeling, which is that I’m not 100% cool with it. In fact, thinking about the bachelor party makes me kind …

We all get to it at some point. The big question: do I change my name or not? Frequently there’s another option: will he change his name or not?When DJ and I were engaged last time, nearly a decade ago, I assumed that I would just change my name. But somewhere in those ten years I grew more …

Every time I go to describe any part of the wedding we’re planning, the one word that keeps coming up is different. I really want our wedding to be different from other weddings our guests have been to. I want our dear friends and family to always look back on our wedding not just as a great time they had, …

As do many of us who began our mini-adult lives with nothing to our name but our grandma’s chipped fiestaware and much-loved box-sets of Sex and the City (I even have Seasons 1-3 on VHS, what-what!), I am firm in my belief that its the accessories that make the clothes that then make “the look.”

And once I had “the dress” …