Just because you are getting married doesn’t mean you aren’t still one hot liberated woman. For example, you’re probably still planning on driving, voting and paying taxes post-nuptials. But to do so, you’ve got to make your name change legal. And unfortunately, even hyphenating your married name can add up to a whole lot of…
When squabbles over bridesmaids’ dresses, bachelorette parties, and bridesmaids’ gifts become too much to bear, ditch your older attendants and take refuge with your angelic littlest attendant: your flower girl. Unlike your more cynical peers, flower girls are generally adorable fairy creatures who look up to you, idolize you, and make you smile with their…
Definition of a jewelry box: hideous jumble by which every single bangle, bauble and bead you own molds together in one impenetrable mound of bling. To try and extract one necklace strand is to try and unravel a mystery more complicated than the plot of LOST. Your attendants have enough to worry about on the…
This just in: Over at Ivillage the aptly-named Grrl Genius is petitioning to make September 15th National Bridesmaids Awareness Day. Not only would this holiday commemorate the noble women who have served in weddings everywhere, it would give you all another valid opportunity to wear your bridesmaids’ dresses. The idea is, on September 15th you…
With all this fuss over bridesmaids’ gifts and wedding favors, it is important to remember the VIP of the wedding party gift list: none other than the MOB, aka Mother of the Bride. When you got into that hair-pulling squabble over bridesmaids’ dresses, it was mom who gently intervened. When you quarreled with your fiancée…
Destination weddings are all hot, hot, hot, but amore abroad isn’t all dewy destination wedding dresses and balmy blue waters. There are a few practical considerations to take into account. Here’s our top three. Season: Found a great deal on your dream hotel with an all-inclusive package in Barbados at an amazing reduced price? Awesome!…
Getting kicked off bridesmaids’ duty: thrilling reprieve or humiliating demotion? For heroine Siri Agrell, it’s a bit of both. Happy to be away from bridezilla but bitter from all the money she wasted on bridesmaids’ dresses and shiny shoes, suddenly Agrell finds herself ejected from the wedding, without so much as a bridesmaids’ gift to…
In a touching tribute to her ailing mother, bride Cindy Gruff requested that her attendants forgo bridesmaids’ dresses and instead gave them lavender scrubs as bridesmaids’ gifts to wear during her unique wedding ceremony. The bride wore white scrubs, the groom black and the groomsmen gray. The wedding party formed a circle on the fifth…
There are dozens of books being billed as “perfect bridesmaids’ gifts,” but only a few are actually worth purchasing. This book by nine-time bridesmaid Mary McDermott is an exceptional selection, largely for the “insider” view it provides. Rather than dispensing lofty clichés, McDermott gets deep into the more nuanced side of bridesmaiding, from being the…
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but we have to say this boisterous montage of stiletto boots and wine bottles had us at merlot. The war-like wedding strategies are a hoot, and we guarantee you will be a much savvier bridesmaid troop post-reading. What ultimately won us over was the way…
