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We are the ultimate secret of womanhood; the things you won’t tell your boyfriend, and won’t tell anyone but your closest friends: we are closet wedding consumers. We keep track of bridal fashion, even if we are single (or already married.) We have super-secret documents on our hard drives with lists of potential venues, decor, floral arrangements, and stationary. We watch all those shows on TLC, and secretly look at the wedding mags in drugstore aisles. We are Wedding Lovers Anonymous.
What is TGW?
TGW is our Kryptonite. Our red sun. Our arsenic. It is The Generic Wedding, it has the potential to destroy us. As lovers of all things wedding, we are very prone to the effects of The Generic Wedding. Symptoms include fatigue, ennui, and cynicism. We strive to keep our love for weddings healthy by constantly finding new ways to celebrate matrimony. Feel free to share your suggestions with us, as TGW is a crafty and deadly affliction, constantly evolving and taking today’s new ideas and making them the standards of tomorrow. Damn the Man, save the Weddings!
On to the articles…
Gorgeous Garters
Anyone who has ever been to a wedding knows the semi-embarrassing, semi-bawdy moment of tradition: the garter toss. After a gorgeous and pure ceremony and reception, it suddenly becomes very clear to everyone at the party – this couple is going to bone. Even with the wedding garter’s highly sexualized symbolism that seems to fly in the face of the [...]
Read More →Tips for Brides and Grooms: how to manage time during your wedding
It’s a well-known conundrum of weddings: you spend countless thousands of hours planning every tiny detail, only to have the day fly by. Before you know it, you’re in the send-off car or at the honeymoon suite, and you realize that you didn’t taste any of the menu you spent so much time choosing. You didn’t get a chance to [...]
Read More →Easy Ways to Add Texture to Your Wedding.
Dear readers* Are you starting to get invitations and save the dates to this summer’s crop of nuptial fetes? Those cardstock envelopes that can’t fit through your mail slot heralding fun evenings and … wait… Another blue and white wedding? Another pink and grey? For Pete’s sake… did everyone read the article about grey and yellow? We’ve already written about [...]
Read More →Fresh Wedding Ideas: Balloons
Look at a few wedding blogs for a couple weeks and everything will start to look the same to you: long tables, round tables, neutral flatware, the same few varieties of flowers in the same vases. Looking for something new and (always a plus) and budget friendly? Look into balloons. Seriously. These aren’t garden variety, birthday balloons. These are chic, [...]
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