You know who is probably not being showered with enough gifts and attention just for making the huge relationship…

Is there any reason to want engagement photos? Of course not, say the newly engaged, and the unengaged, and me, once…

For the past eight weeks I’ve been waking up and doing 135 crunches before I do anything else. I pad into the living…

I did not expect to give any shits about veils, to be honest. They are just one or a few layers of airy fabric, and…

Everything is going great! will be my last words, just as they are for so many others—right before Satan’s pitchfork…

Is it the hardening of one’s heart that makes one less and less impervious to envy with each passing issue of Martha…

It is one thing to wince at the glow of a Real Wedding staring back at you from a blog, to scroll through—one eye…

If you were to ask me about my dress shopping right when I’d started the process, I’d probably gush all over your…

If you’ve ever dared to utter the “W”-word in conversation with a group of 20-somethings in a major American…

Not gonna lie: I’ve been sort of nailing it these past couple weeks in the wedding planning department. I’ve…

Over the course of three short days last week, my mother and I went shopping for dresses, both hers and mine. It was…

Last week I officially passed the “one year left” mark on my wedding planning calendar. Between celebrating and…

When Joe and I adopted Cheddar, a scared, three-year-old blonde terrier mutt who looked like a small, fat, elderly…

On a scale of one to ten—one being Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, who is literal royalty and has never touched a…

Does my engagement ring conjure a force field when I wield it against prying men? It feels as though it should. It…

Before I met my fiancé, I believed that true love existed in clothes and not much else. A silk blouse that flowed…

Wherein our columnist, currently in early stages of planning her wedding, has a GChat conversation with her fiancé…

If the wedding planning galaxy is a weirdo cosmic circus into which no woman is adequately prepared to be flung…

The other day I saw a child pharaoh on the subway. When she entered the packed car at rush hour, a seat was…

Moments after you get engaged, you’re whisked away to a foreign, barren planet, left to survive and build a wedding…