How to start planning a wedding abroad

Have you decided to tie the knot overseas? Wise decision! There are loads of advantages of doing so, like saving money, being virtually guaranteed good weather (depending on where you…

Bridal Showers Around the World

Two hours to take-off. I’m approaching the weekend and my anxiety is palpable, so much that my heart feels like it’s literally about to leap out of my chest. For…

It Takes Two

Since five minutes after Marvin proposed, people have been asking me wedding details. I remember calling one of my friends with the ring freshly placed on my finger. “Congratulations!!!” she…

Baking Your Cake (and Eating it, Too)

Going into a wedding is, in many ways, like declaring your bid for presidency. Suddenly, there are people around you eyeing VP, Secretary of State, the head housekeeper at the…

Mum’s the Word

.   .   .. Marvin and I picked Carnivale Chicago for our wedding reception. We are so excited to get our party on in the most colorful, festive atmosphere…

Married to the Military

Most of the past three years of my life has been devoted to asserting that Marine Corps partners can, in fact, be independent, career-oriented individuals (and when I say “career-oriented”,…

Same Place

This will be the first time that I will have lived in the same city for two years in a row since I was in high school.  I have packed…

Peace the Way it Should Be

“This wedding is the way the world should be,” Marvin says to me quietly. “Everyone all together.” I agree with him as I look up from our walk by the…

Moving on Out

At 10pm I shed my bridesmaid’s dress behind the doors of the bridal party dressing room and escape the vineyards of New Hampshire’s Flag Hill Winery to the white Toyota…