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Posted by Marielle in Weddings.
Venue: check!
Yesterday we laid down the non-refundable deposit on our wedding venue. A watermarked slip of paper passed from account holder to vendor officially dictates that on September 13, 2009, I will be marrying my beau at a restored colonial farmhouse in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
Weddings | Comment (0)Wedding Dreams Deferred
Posted by Marielle in Weddings.
Above all, I had wanted to keep it simple. No, that’s a lie. If I had wanted a relaxed, effortless wedding, I would not have strived so hard to be unique. I never thought I would have to give up one to achieve the other.
In 2005 and again in May, I watched both my older sisters get married at the same hotel, with the same traditional series of events, and most of the same guests. I knew that if my parents had their way, they’d be giving me away at that hotel, too, in a tried and true template ceremony created by my mother when her first daughter stepped up to the nuptial plate at the tender age of 26.
Weddings | Comment (0)Watching life go back to normal
Posted by Marielle in Weddings.
I have a secret to confess. I’ve been using my friend D. for her wedding. She’s a kind, spiritual and fun person. We’ve been friends since high school and although we’ve never agreed on religion or politics (and probably never will), we have always managed to focus on our shared love of things like sewing projects and the BBC mini-series of Pride & Prejudice.
However, when she got engaged last year, our friendship came to serve me in new ways… soon, we began to bond over weddings. I lent her my copy DIY Bride, made myself available for wedding planning pep-talks, and agonized for days over the proper meter when she assigned me Shakespeare to read at her wedding.
Weddings | Comment (0)Gripe on third-party selling
Posted by Marielle in Weddings.
So two posts back, I was praising David’s Bridal for giving me a boutique experience when shopping for my wedding gown. It took less than a week for them to destroy the image that they worked so hard to build. I’m talking about David’s Bridal selling your information — your personal phone number, your e-mail address, your home address — to third-party wedding-related companies. This problem was compounded when I made the mistake of signing up for The Great Bridal Expo. In the end, I didn’t attend the event, but that didn’t stop their vendors from latching onto my contact info. Soon my phone was flooded with calls from mysterious 800 numbers and my inbox was drowning in spam e-mails so annoying that they would offend the creator of even the thorniest bridal diet Facebook ads.
Weddings | Comment (0)Winning the Battle, Losing the War
Posted by Marielle in US Election 2008.
I don’t want to interrupt everyone’s post-election celebrations (and hangovers), but now is the perfect time to talk about ballot measures. Our country made history last night be electing its first Black president. On the American ballot, you can vote for president, and representatives for the House and Senate, as well as local representatives in your county. Some states also use election day as an opportunity to get a public vote on an issue.
US Election 2008 | Comment (0)Meeting Midway: 5 Tips for Sanity When Planning with Mom
Posted by Marielle in Weddings.
Hello, all! First off, I’d like to apologize for my blogging delinquency. I’d like to say I was busy saving lives or campaigning for Barack Obama (same thing?), but I was tied up only by typical day-to-day life…changing jobs, planning a wedding, and playing Lego Batman for Wii, which has to be the cutest freaking game I’ve played since Kingdom Hearts came out.
But back to weddings, I’d like to take today to talk about navigating a minefield I think many brides have in common — their mothers.
Weddings | Comment (0)Zombie politics
Posted by Marielle in Movies.
I was flicking through the channels one afternoon last week with my horror-buff beau, desperate for something mindless and entertaining to watch, when we discovered a rare jewel in the zombie genre called “Gangs of the Dead.” I knew it was a winner when we read this description:
“When two rival gangs unexpectedly meet in a warehouse in Los Angeles, violence is sure to ensue. But it’s not the gang members causing the trouble in this horror film — it’s the zombies.”
As the premise might suggest, the film teeters dangerously between “bad” and “so bad it’s good,” but the 2006 flick proves to be an interesting commentary on race and economics.
Movies | Comment (0)The Wedding Industry…enforcing positive body image?!
Posted by Marielle in Weddings.
Or, “My totally unexpected wedding dress success story.”
This is my first post in the Wedding blog, so let me introduce myself quickly: I’m a 23-year old queer casual femme who has been planning her wedding for almost two years… and somehow, I’m still in the beginning stages. I’m engaged to an awesome man, a guy I knew I would marry shortly after we met at age 15 (even if I didn’t know much else about myself back then). We’ve both grown a lot since then, separately, but somehow amazingly in the same direction. After a 4-year relationship hiatus, we got back together in college and knew we were meant to be. We got engaged on January 1, 2007 and we’ve finally attempted to set a date for Sept. 13, 2009. We haven’t picked a place yet because of a long and painful saga trying to find a kosher caterer in Eastern Pennsylvania — but that’s a blog post for another time. I’m an Indiebride wanna-be but taming the indie-bridal beast is an ever more daunting task. So hopefully I’ll use my trials and tribulations to help you find a comfy spot between the industry rock and the indie hard place.
So, let me tell you how I was totally shocked by David’s Bridal. Continue reading »
Weddings | Comment (1)Movies You May Have Missed: Penelope
Posted by Marielle in Movies.
Now that the torrential downpour of summer blockbusters is mostly a memory, I’d like to rewind to last February. That’s when my favorite DVD buy of 2008 was released in theaters in both the US and the UK. I know you missed it because the film raked in less than $4 million on opening weekend.
Penelope has all the makings of an indie movie, not-so-tragically flawed with an all-star cast — Christina Ricci (Monster, Sleepy Hollow), James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland), Reese Ritherspoon (Walk the Line, Sweet Home Alabama) and Catherine O’Hara (The Nightmare Before Christmas) work to tell a fairytale for a new generation of women.
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