Hey APW,
Can we take a minute to call shenanigans on how busy January is when you’re an adult? I always want it to be like the start of the school year, where everyone is getting their footing and you don’t have real homework for the first few weeks. (In this fantasy, we’re still in eighth grade.) But alas.
After a crazy nonstop month, things are starting to settle down around here and I’m looking forward to a little boredom. This will be the first time in five years that I’m not shooting weddings every month, and I’m still trying to figure out what these weekend things are made of. (After reading the comments of last week’s paper flower tutorial, most of last Saturday was spent sobbing over Fried Green Tomatoes and trying to teach my geriatric dog how to use a ramp. These things are not related, but they are both true.)
This weekend, however, is all about that glorious Hallmark holiday… Valentine’s Day. Michael and I don’t have any big plans (unless you count getting the aforementioned geriatric dog an X-ray on her knee). But that’s okay, because APW is obviously my valentine anyway. To celebrate the occasion, I got you this box of Russel Stover chocolates, courtesy of Sarah Deragon‘s awesome candy study on Instagram (check out the #candystudy hashtag for more of your childhood favorites).
May your weekend be filled with the good kind of caramel and Ryan Gosling before he was off the market.
Cheers,
Maddie
Highlights of APW This Week
The five most important topics to discuss before getting married.
This wedding ceremony script involving whisky and The Princess Bride is the one you’ve been looking for.
An 8,000 mile road trip wedding.
Is stay-at-home-motherhood a choice when you didn’t get to choose it?
Get the ultimate personalized wedding ring, from Brent & Jess.
What wedding day details are the most important?
“His parents want a giant rehearsal dinner. We don’t.”
DIY your own faux agate wedding decor using paper and a printer.
Let Pop! Wed Co. plan and photograph your D.C. elopement for you.
A New Orleans style wedding in Virginia.
“Why I’m happy to work in a Pink Industry.”
Link Roundup
The women of SNL reunite to talk backstage secrets and more.
This revenge porn creep is going to prison.
Seven reasons you’re always late.
Fiat Lux’s annual maker’s contest and raffle (and a party for SF locals).
Exploitation in the name of literature.
Lusting out loud: women, social media, and desire.
What can a pregnant photojournalist cover? Everything.
Seventeen black history moths who are so glad its February.
The Internet from A to Z.
How to make an accused rapist look good.
The greatest commuter story of all time.
Watching Fresh Off The Boat with 999 Asian Americans.
Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on women doing office housework.
Even Kim Gordon doesn’t “have it all.”
Letting my toddler dress me for a week.
The anti-vaccine movement should be ridiculed, because shame works.
Creative mornings and messy bathrooms.
Should the word “slut” be retired?
Cate Blanchett takes the bus to avoid wrinkling her dress.
Wearing my wedding dress out on a regular Saturday night.
Feminist Jamie Fraser. Happy Valentine’s Day, Outlander fans.
64,000 missing women in America all have one important thing in common.
Meet Etsy’s richest seller.
What I imagine my boyfriend’s ex-girlfriends are doing right now.
Strangers assume my girlfriend is my nurse.
Study finds nearly 4,000 African Americans were lynched in one 73 year period.
The NYT writes about lynching by white people without using the word “white.”
Federal prison is nothing compared to the inhumanity of Rikers.
What ever happened to Ellen Cleghorne?
Pregnant with cancer: one woman’s story.
Australia’s oldest man likes to knit mini sweaters for penguins.
The best mini-bottles of booze to sneak into the movies on Valentine’s Day.
