Post Archives

December 2010

• See You In 2011!
• Wedding Undergraduate: Fighting
• Kelsey & Russell
• Lauren's Wedding Planning: Cash Money
• Wedding Graduates: Andy & Estrella
• Ask Team Practical: Year-End Wrap-Up
• Reclaiming Wife: No Honeymoon Phase
• Megan & Paul's Wedding That Paul Planned
• Reclaiming Wife: Cecily, 14 Years In
• Emily & Ian's New Orleans Elopement
• Ask Team Practical: Bridesmaids
• Our Thanksgiving
• Shana & Morgan
• It's Here: 100 Layer Cake (the website!)
• APW Book Club: Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed Round III
• Amanda & Joachim's Rancho Cicada Retreat Wedding
• Ask Team Practical: The Loneliest Bride
• Guest Post on Snippet & Ink Today!
• Melissa & Eric
• Introducing Cactus & Quail - Modern & Affordable Stationery
• Christina & The Un-Fairytale Proposal

November 2010

• Emily & Ed
• Wedding Undergraduate: The Shotgun Wedding
• Traditions and the Baby Family
• Brooke & Brian
• I'm Speaking At Alt!
• Ceri & Nate
• Thank You.
• Friday Wrap-Up and Some Exciting News!
• The Sisterhood Needs You!
• The Last Taboo: Lisa
• The Power of Yes: Lauren
• Finding Friends and Family on APW: Marchelle
• Understanding and Connection: Melissa
• APW Book Club: Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed, Round II
• Rally The Troops!
• Life-Living and Woman-Being Lessons: Liz
• Tune Into the Needs of Your Soul: Class of 1980
• Ten Reasons I Love APW: Katie
• APW Book Club: Committed, The Pictures
• Practicing Practical: DDay Porter
• Operation Community, 2010
• Ask Team Practical: The Pre-Nuptial Agreement
• The Hillratt's Voyage—Money & Independence
• Authenticity and Engagement and Wedding Rings
• Introduction to the Hillratt's Voyage
• No One Asked You To Be A Martyr
• APW Book Club... The Follow Up
• APW Book Club Questions: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Committed
• Ask Team Practical: Bilingual Weddings
• Emily & Artur's Bi-Cultural Munich Wedding
• The Shame Blaster
• Surviving Your Wedding With Body Image Issues
• APW Book Club Locations!

October 2010

• Dress, Given IX
• Ask Team Practical: Honoring Lost Loved Ones
• Tina & Morgwn
• Wedding Undergraduate Lauren, Part II
• Pulling On The Boots
• Eleanor & Armin's German and American Weddings
• Ask Team Practical: Thank You Notes with their Own Anniversary Date
• Secular Ceremony Round-Up
• Dress, Offered IX
• Robin & Ronnen
• Reclaiming Wife: Starting Over 10 Years In
• Sharon & Jason's Giant Farewell Party
• APW Book Club, November
• Helen & Lindi
• On *Owning* Inspiration
• Wedding Undergraduate Lauren, Part I
• Drum-Roll, Please
• Reclaiming Wife: The Road Not Taken
• APW Book Club #2 Poll!
• APW Book Club: Committed (If Women Like it, It Must be Stupid)
• Winners! Amber Marlow Photography Magic! (and other goodness)
• Nina & Richie's NYC Elopement
• Writing a Non-Traditional Wedding Ceremony
• Wedding Graduates: Clare & Sandy

September 2010

• It Gets Better
• When the Road Ahead is Dimly Lit
• Rachel & Dan
• Making A Traditional Wedding Service Your Own
• Kristen & Cory
• On Money And Self Worth
• Camyl & Ryan's Ice-Cream-Cart-Picnic-Church Wedding
• Mighty Summit: In Gratitude For The Blog-o-sphere
• Angela & Jorge's Spanish Two-Day-Long Wedding
• APW Wedding Budgets - Cold Hard Numbers
• Lana & Jeroen's Dutch Wedding
• APW Book Club: Dan Savage's The Commitment, Round I
• APW Meetups - The Pictures!
• Being an LGBTQ Ally and Planning A Wedding
• Wedding Undergraduate/Graduate: Verhext & Vermont
• APW Book Club Questions: Dan Savage's The Commitment
• Britta & Adam
• L'Shana Tova, and Nine
• My Mom Died Before My Wedding
• Book Club Location Madness!
• A Different Take on DIY (and DIT)
• Happiness, Celebration, & Wiggling Toes In The Sand
• Why Wife & Mother Do Not Have To Go Together (Part II)

August 2010

• Christen & Seth and The Local Squared Wedding
• APW Book Club Meetups
• Wedding Undergraduate: It's About Your Person (That's Really It)
• Kristiina & Kevin
• Why Wife & Mother Do Not Have To Go Together (Part I)
• The Sisterhood, Spreading The News
• On First Anniversaries & Forever
• Blending Families (And Building Your Baby Family)
• Brianne & Joe
• Jessie & Steve & The Wedding They Didn't Want
• Weddings, Marriage, Love & Anxiety
• Sarah & Jeremy's Eastern Orthodox Wedding
• Please File Under "Oh, Snap!"
• And It Was Mind-blowing...
• Wedding Undergraduate: Overwhelmed With Joy
• Alternative Bridesmaid Ideas
• Ask Meg: Why Is The Wedding Party So Fraught?
• What Happened When We Found Out We Couldn't Have Kids
• A Year Ago Today...
• Anna & Daniel
• Wedding Undergraduate: On Choosing
• We interrupt our regularly scheduled APW postings...
• Marissa & Nick's Elopement That Wasn't
• From Divorce (And Back)
• Kayla & Josh

July 2010

• Classic APW - Post Wedding Freedom
• Meg's Vacation = Team Practical's Party
• On Criticism and Love
• Team Practical Book Club Meetups
• Classic APW - Wedding Graduates: Cara & Nye
• On Finding Home (Here. Now.)
• Christa & Chris
• The Reveal
• Ask Meg: F*ck The Economy (Get Married Now)
• Meetup Poll!
• Married Life. One Day at a Time.
• The Sisterhood
• Wedding Undergraduate: Brave Bride & Cold Feet
• A Sit-In, And Also Snippets
• This Is What Happens When Your Weight Doesn't Matter on Your Wedding Day
• How We Did It: The Self Catered Wedding
• APW on CNN
• Ashlyn & Miles
• Claiming My 30's
• I'm at Get Rich Slowly
• Wedding Graduate: A Year Later
• As Long As We Both Shall Live
• Dana & Hunter
• Ali & Joshua
• Classic APW - Words To Read When You Wed: Ashes, Tea
• The Hard Stuff

June 2010

• Wendy & Darin
• Wedding Dropout: Joy From Pain
• Classic APW - Words To Read When You Wed: Olives, Leaves
• A Call For Wedding Graduates (Yes, You)
• To Kate.
• Dress, Given VIII
• What We Create
• Best Wedding Readings
• Writing Your Wedding Ceremony - A Modern Jewish Service
• Marchelle & The Three Weddings
• Sex & Marriage: A Bisexual Perspective
• Elopements, The Follow Up
• I Love Being A Wife (Part II)
• OBB Book Reading/ APW Meetup... The Movie
• Marisa & Adam & The 'Blog-worthy' Wedding
• Simple Hungarian Wedding
• Ask Meg: Marriage and Money, Part II
• Ask Meg: Secret Engagements & Proposals
• Nicole & Tim's Homespun Australian Wedding
• Dress, Offered VIII
• Ask Meg: Marriage and Money, Part I
• Sex, Waiting, and Weddings
• Theresa & Clark

May 2010

• Esquire's (I know...) Issue on Women
• The Current State Of Affairs, Here In APW Land
• Ask Meg (and she'll ask someone else): Mothers-In-Law, Part II
• Sponsored Post: Emily Takes Photos (And The Great APW Travel Deal)
• Ask Meg (and she'll ask someone else): Mother-In-Laws, Part I
• Dress, Given VII
• Reminder: The Why of Weddings
• Morgan & David, Part II
• Morgan on Weddings In The Face of Death
• Dress, Offered VII
• April & Thomas
• The Partnership Mission Statement
• A Big One: Law School Graduation
• Dress, Given VI
• A Big Week
• Lisa & Brett
• Reclaiming Wife: Dish
• Rachel & Zach (And Dress, Offered)
• Notes From Inside The First Year Of Marraige
• Birthing A New Family
• On Name Changing And Weddings—The Follow Up
• Yes. I'm Still Adding APW Bells & Whistles
• Lyndal and Stephen (with cheering from Leo)
• Ask Meg: Weddings, Faith, and Honesty
• Molly and Michael's Atypical Traditional Wedding

April 2010

• Sponsored Post: Gabriel Harber Photography
• Dress, Given V
• Nancy & Sean
• Should You Change Your Name When You Get Married?
• New Site Bells N' Whistles
• Notes From The Board Room
• 11 Ideas For Self Catering Your Dessert Reception
• The Details That Mattered
• Wedding Graduates (and Dress, Offered): Sarah & Mike
• OBB-APW Meetup: the Play-by-Play
• Amy & Bracken's Colorado Picnic
• It's All Happening Friday! (That's Today-ish)
• Wedding Undergraduate: The Chair Rant
• The Un-Wedding: Kristen & Natalie
• Planning A Wedding With A Chronic Illness
• On Becoming A Grown-Up (on my terms)
• Jezebel: Time To Wise Up
• Porn For The Bride (yuck).
• Cater Your Own Wedding... With A Cocktail Party
• Team Practical Meetup
• How I Called Off My Wedding
• Katie & Daniel and The Epic Dance Party
• Hello, what is going on here? It looks different!
• What I Learned From Proposing To My Boyfriend
• Welcome Home!
• How A Wedding (Can, Maybe) Shape A Marriage
• Farewell: This is your year, and it always starts here

March 2010

• APW & The Feminist Blog Carnival
• On Weddings And How They Differ From Marriage (wishing you twin elephants)
• What I Learned About Money While Planning My Wedding
• Wedding Undergraduate: 41 Days To Go, And I'm Feeling... A Lot Of Things
• APW Site Nuttiness
• How To Self Cater Your Wedding, Part II
• How To Self Cater Your Wedding, Part I
• APW & Ready Made
• Webby Nonsense
• Classic APW: David's Only Guest Post Ever
• Classic APW: The Wedding Industrial Complex, As It Were
• Classic APW: Steady Happy Wedding
• Classic APW: The Dress Horrors
• On Not Taking Wedding Trends Too Seriously (Even Indie Ones)
• Working Out How To Be A Family
• Wedding Undergraduate: Me
• Coming Soon... hopefully?
• Classic APW: Home
• Classic APW: Mike & Tammar's Magical Forest Lovefest
• Classic APW: Wedding Industry Rage. Rage, I Tell You.
• Classic APW: Georgia & Errol's Vintage Wedding
• The Homestrech
• Team Practical Proposals
• Engagements And Proposals, Part II
• Mamadrama, Part I
• Survey Results, Part II
• Michelle And The (Hot) Traditional Social Hall Wedding
• Survey Results, Part I
• Melissa and Ray's Handmade Brewfest Wedding
• Engagements And Proposals, Part I
• Small.
• Ah, Facebook
• Wedding Undergraduate: I Am Not A Planner
• Meghan and Eric's Cabin Wedding

February 2010

• Sarah & Feminism & Weddings
• Sarah & Josh's Bainbridge Island Wedding
• Rebecca of Princess Max & Her Interfaith Wedding
• Running Commentary...
• The Offbeat Bride Book Second Edition (And Big News)
• Thank You.
• APW 2010 Reader Survey!
• Dear Team Practical (Blog Re-Design Edition)
• Cynical Wedding Marketing: The Paper Edition
• To The 40% of Team Practical In Grad School...
• Cat's Non-Legal But Magical Australian Wedding
• Remember The Lesbians
• Simple, Simple, Simple, True.
• Vilija of Love, V
• Us: Six Months
• Dreamlyn And The Arizona Elopement
• On Second Weddings
• Cara And The Brooklyn Wedding Disaster That Wasn't
• The Grooms Experimental Animation Save The Date
• On A Lighter Note...
• What A Wife Isn't (Part I)
• Sara & The South African Wedding
• Off.
• Wedding Sexism (This Time, It's For Men)

January 2010

• Ironing Out The Details
• Nicole, on Not Loving Her Wedding
• Adrienne And The Mill Wedding
• Your Wedding Is Not An Imposition
• Your Wedding Is Not A Show
• Wedding Reception Entrances (No, They Don't Have To Be Grand)
• Susie And The Las Vegas, Irish, Cowboy Bash
• Clap if you believe in...
• Marriage Ambivalence
• Melanie & Rudi's Funky Fresh New Orleans Wedding
• Read The Printed Word
• Emily Sterne & The Deck of The Titanic
• Go Read!
• Wedding Planning In The Face Of Serious Illness And Even Death
• Not Loving Your Wedding, The Follow Up
• Mayi & Jon And The San Francisco City Hall Wedding
• Tips For San Franscisco Buget Weddings, Part II
• Not Loving Your Wedding
• What I Stressed About For Our Wedding That Was Not Worth It (Lots...)
• Nicole & The Big Things That Matter
• The Season.
• Matrimony Monday (Where Oddly We're Supposed To Talk Only Of Weddings, Not Of Marriage)
• The Next Chapter (Better Than The Last)