by Amy | Jun 16, 2014 | Couplehood, List, My Family, Our Situation, Wedding Plans
If you’ve been watching me prepare for our nuptials with our 3-year-old in tow, you know that preschoolers make terrible wedding planners. But as I zone in on our BIG DAY (one month away!), I’m realizing some hidden advantages to doing things backwards 1....
by Amy | Apr 18, 2014 | My Family, Wedding Plans
1. That I will wake up with a head cold, my period and hives 2. That my best laid bridal beauty plans won’t come together 3. And that I’ll somehow have an 80s perm just like at my bat mitzvah 4. That the officiant will begin, “Mawwiage. Mawwiage is what bwings us...
by Amy | Mar 9, 2014 | My Family, Our Situation, Wedding Plans
Dear Viv, I know wedding planning hasn’t been that fun for you. Lots of long car rides, boring meetings and time-consuming bridal indecision. Plus, grown-ups are always telling you not to touch anything, like that’s a reasonable request. I hope we made it...
by Amy | Oct 24, 2013 | My Family, Our Situation, Wedding Plans
It’s no secret that my fiancé and I had our daughter out of wedlock. Most people have been cool with it, and I don’t think our child, relationship, or society-at-large have suffered for our jumping the gun. However, I have discovered that there is one serious problem...
by Amy | Sep 8, 2013 | My Family, Our Situation, Wedding Plans
We’re 10 months out from our wedding (frightening to read that back, since that time frame implies I should be, um, planning something?), so I decided it was time to start training our daughter to be a flower girl. Certainly, that would be easier than any of...