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In honor of Wedding Week on Dear Wendy, I’m re-posting this helpful list, originally published on February 6, of a bunch of wedding must-haves you can totally skip if you want, no matter what your grandmother or best friend (or, ahem, Gator Girl) says.
Four years ago today, I got engaged on a snowy bridge in Central Park on a Friday evening after work. Five months later, Drew and I were married in a sunny garden in Central Park on a Friday morning surrounded by about 70 of our closest friends and family. I wore a dress I bought on eBay for about a hundred dollars. I did my own makeup and hair. I made my own bouquet. We didn’t have a wedding cake. In fact, there were plenty of things we didn’t have and didn’t do that lots of people, “experts” and concerned citizens alike, proclaim are wedding must-haves. And yet, despite our apparent missteps as planners, we had a beautiful wedding — one that some of our guests still count among their favorites, several years later. For any of you stressing about all the details you’ve been told you have to include in your wedding, here are 20 wedding “must-haves” we happily skipped — or could have skipped — and you can too (if you want! And if you want to include them, that’s perfectly fine, too.).
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by Wendy on May 16, 2013
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In honor of Wedding Week on Dear Wendy, I’m re-posting this handy-dandy guide to surviving wedding season originally published on June 5, 2012.
June marks the unofficial start of wedding season and chances are you probably have at least one or two weddings you’ve been invited to this year. If you’re around, oh, 28 or so (22, if you’re from the South), you may even have 5-7 wedding invites you’re wading through this summer (10 or more if you’re Mormon). And with tight budgets, limited vacation time, and issues with fellow guests, to say nothing of the state of your own personal relationship (or lack thereof), other people’s weddings may be your own private battleground. So after the jump, 25 tips for surviving the season with your sanity, heart, wallet and pride still intact.
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by Wendy on May 14, 2013
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Finally, for most of us in the northern hemisphere the weather is warming up, the trees have finally popped and allergy season is just about behind us, and that glorious two-week period — three weeks, if you’re lucky — known to us as “spring” is upon us. It’s a season of light jackets and shoes without socks, planting herb gardens, and getting the bikes tuned up for the warm weather riding months ahead. I love it, and I love these things that are currently making the brief transition into summer so enjoyable.
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by Wendy on May 1, 2013
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The Huffington Post recently ran an article called “35 Things I Wish I Had Done Before Turning 35,” which got me thinking about all the things I was glad I hadn’t done in my youth, especially things I had the opportunity to do or came close to doing. Sure, there are plenty of things I wish I had done — save money, end bad relationships sooner, wear sunscreen more often — but it makes me feel better to think about what went right instead of what went terribly wrong. So here are 30 things I’m glad I didn’t do before I turned 30.
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by Wendy on April 24, 2013
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Jackson turns 1 1/2 in a few days! He’s clearly not a baby anymore and, while I’ve mourned the end of his infancy, I’m discovering that I much prefer mothering a toddler to mothering a baby. Jackson is endlessly curious, is fast to laugh, and expresses so much love for me and Drew and others that every day I think my heart may explode. That’s not to say that things have necessarily gotten easier, but, for me, they’ve definitely gotten better. And along the way, I’ve learned some pretty important life lessons:
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by Wendy on April 3, 2013
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