If you’re a woman, you’ve been sold on weddings since the day you were born. A year after they got married, a client of mine asked her husband what had been the most surprising thing about planning their wedding. “How much work it took,” he replied. “How did you not know?!” she said. The amount of work […]
In any other realm of our lives, we would actively oppose such blatant sexism. But weddings get away with it because, well, they’re weddings. A client once told me that no matter what she and her fiancé did, her wedding vendors only talked to her. Even if the emails came directly from him, the responses […]
Give her permission to not care. Tell her: “It’s OK your wedding isn’t the center of your whole life. It shouldn’t be. That would be unhealthy.” My work as a day-of wedding coordinator kicks in about a month before the wedding. While I check in with my clients every month, the “dot your i’s and cross […]
When it’s all said and done, you’re not really going to care who walked down the aisle or who gave a speech or who wore what. You’re going to care about how you felt. Despite the headaches they cause, there’s a lot to love about weddings. How often do we get to celebrate someone we […]
