Blog Profile / A Practical Wedding
| URL : | http://apracticalwedding.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Relationships / Weddings | |
| Posts on Regator: | 992 | |
| Posts / Week: | 12 | |
| Archived Since: | October 24, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
How To: Make A Bright Colorful Wedding Bouquet
One of the things I’ve never mentioned about my own wedding planning is that we sort of epically failed at making the bouquets for myself and my bridesmaids. I’d spent a fair amount of time poring over Meg’s posts on doing her own flowers (carefully ignoring the part where she, you know, practiced), and it seemed easy enough that [...]
APW Happy Hour!
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy APW, Today’s Happy Hour comes first thing, because let’s be for realz. If you’re in the US, and you’re at your desk this Friday before the three-day weekend, you probably have no desire to actually do any real work. Today is all about pushing papers around your desk and opening your email screen when [...]
Pop The Champagne Events: Chill Wedding Planning In SoCal
Y’all. Sometimes it’s not worth getting complicated. We’ve talked many times on APW about how important it is to have someone else in charge of the logistics of your wedding day… someone who is NOT you (or your mama). Sometimes you have a friend do that, sometimes you hire someone. (And honestly, if you can [...]
Ask Team Practical: Mother-Son Dance
My fiancé and I are not shy about cutting “traditions” that aren’t going to work for our wedding or seem silly to us. Garter-toss? Out. Throwing my bouquet? Uh-uh. Cake-cutting? Make it pie! One tradition we have kept—and one I especially look forward to—is our first dance. We’ve already picked a song (Louis Armstrong’s “La Vie [...]
Elisabeth: I Dream of Summer Camp
by Elisabeth Snell, 2013 APW Writing Intern I grew up going to an all-girls sleepaway summer camp in Maine. For seven blissful weeks each summer, I’d slip on the camp uniform of blue polyester and dash out of a platform tent in the pursuit of pure joy—sailing, hiking, canoeing, taking star turns as Daddy Warbucks [...]
Wordless Wedding: Katie & Roei’s Jewish Wedding In A Friend’s Field
It was perfect because we are in love, and our family and friends felt welcomed, got to celebrate, and had a party with us. Success.
Free Unplugged Wedding Sign From Everly Calligraphy
by Maddie Eisenhart Earlier today Meg wrote a great post on privacy at weddings. It’s a topic close to my heart, as I photograph dozens of weddings each year and am constantly surprised at the ubiquity of cameras and phones present during precious moments like processionals and vows. (This photographer leaves her camera at home [...]
A Private Wedding
A Wedding Invitation Is Not A Media Pass I knew something was changing when a few years ago, I got this question: A reader’s uncle had videotaped her vows on his iPhone, and the day after the wedding had uploaded them to his Facebook page and tagged her in the post. His message was that [...]
Planning A Wedding With A Baby
Back when I was pregnant, I wrote about how the things I’d learned during wedding planning came in handy during pregnancy. All those lessons about boundaries, asking for help, presenting your vision clearly, and dealing with people who are unsupportive? All those lessons apply to baby-having too. At the time my joke was that I’m glad I got married [...]
Rent Your Bridesmaid Dresses with Little Borrowed Dress!
Last week we talked (and talked and talked) about the last few months of wedding planning and the unexpected stresses that can come up in the final push to the finish line. For me, this stress was bridesmaid dresses. I wanted so much to be a laid-back bride, so I rejected the idea of telling [...]
Planning Our Invisible Wedding
It seems like seconds ago that I was packing all of our earthly possessions from our two very separate apartments into a Ryder truck and driving them across the country to move them into one apartment. It was a life changer. The life changer, really, since our day-to-day life changed very little after getting married (transcendent spiritual moments [...]
Reclaiming Wife: Daily Connections
by Lisa M. G. Dennis (Giggles) I love traditions. I love the anchoring they give us. One year into our marriage I wrote a post about how we were establishing our own holiday traditions, figuring out what mattered to both of us from our families and how we were going to make it work with our new [...]
Wordless Wedding: Aimee & Patrick’s Bodega Bay Elopement
Violins, Whales and Winnebagos
The Joy (And Sorrow) Of The Choosing
by Anonymous I lost something today. Something valuable to me. I suppose that is not right, as I know where it went, and in fact it was I who gave it away. And willingly. But it feels like a loss. And it is my loss alone. For my friends remind me that this is [...]
APW Happy Hour!
We’re here! Friday open thread. For me, this week lives in my mind in a string of pictures: taking the baby to his first wedding, my first Mother’s Day, and our first APW shoot in almost a year. (I’m not pregnant any more! I don’t have a teeny tiny baby! I can work a long [...]
Minted: Wedding Invitations by Independent Designers
Screen shot from a Minted video promoting their designers Minted is one of my favorite places to buy paper goods. There, I said it. I’m not currently in the market for wedding invitations (though luckily, lots of you are), but New Year’s cards are one of my important traditions, and I use Minted every single [...]
Wedding Graduate: Lori & Raj’s Rented Beach House Wedding
We wanted a laid-back wedding and our top priority was to be able to spend as much time as possible with our guests, who are scattered around the country and beyond.
How To: Free Downloadable Customized Chocolate Bar Wrappers From A Printable Press
As many of you know, we here at APW believe that you don’t need to give your guests favors. Meg is perhaps a tad militant about it. But I have a dirty secret. I love wedding favors. Maybe it’s because I spent a good deal of time at my grandmother’s house growing up, where anything that could have [...]
Ask Team Practical: Engagement Ring Budget
I was really inspired by the recent post about co-proposing. I’ve been dating my boyfriend for seven years and we’re planning on getting engaged this summer. But the longer we’re together, and the more we talk about it, the less I’m sure a “surprise” proposal is what feels right. But then again I’m worried I’ll [...]
Rachel: Going the Distance
On the rare occasion I tune into Say Yes to the Dress or Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids, I find myself scratching my head. I know reality TV isn’t real, but there is a small detail on these shows that I actually find more odd than anything else: the pushy mothers-in-law and the picky bridesmaids. [...]