Addicted to Dialogue

Last March, I started this blog on a whim, wanting an outlet for all of the insane wedding talk running through my head, not really knowing where it would go. I never thought that 8 months later I’d have close to 200 subscribers. What? That many folks wanting to read whatever random crap I come [...]

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Why are we all so insecure?

So I love that so many of the women whose blogs I follow got married at around the same time as me; it has been wonderful watching us all negotiate the early days of marriage together. Thanks to this syncronicity, it seems that lots of ladies have been talking, lately, about how it feels to [...]

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Preface

About a month before our wedding, I let you in on my dirty little secret–that I didn’t actually care about our wedding living up to the ultra-personalized, as beautiful as a magazine photoshoot, standards that seem to be perpetuated by many wedding blogs. Soon afterwards, the wonderful East Side Bride posted that “your wedding is [...]

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100

This is my 100th post. How on earth did that happen?
One of my first posts on this blog was a self-conscious assessment of why I was doing this at all–why was I blogging about my wedding? I was worried that I was becoming one of those women; the kind that lose themselves in their weddings [...]

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The required meta post: my feelings about blogging about the wedding

I am not sure if I’ve mentioned this in this space yet, but I’m an academic, and I actually currently work in a field that is very interested in being self-reflexive. So here I am, a self-proclaimed laid back, laissez-faire bride, the kind of person who was so concerned with not making her wedding the [...]

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