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Ask Team Practical: Post-Elopement Reception
My husband and I eloped last fall. Now we’re hoping to plan a celebration this coming summer. Navigating this hasn’t been easy. There were definitely people who were hurt that they weren’t included...
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Ask Team Practical: Judgmental Bridesmaid
I just got engaged (wahoo!) and am trying to figure out my bridesmaids. I have a lot of friends who have been with me in different seasons of my life so it was hard enough narrowing them down. I’ve...
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Ask Team Practical: Accepting Giant Gifts
I’ve been thinking aloud about hiring a local DJ my fiancée and I both love to play our wedding. Friends of ours hired this DJ at a discount, and I just found out that they paid this DJ what would be...
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Open Thread: Wedding Party Problems And Celebrations
Two weekends ago, I went to Chicago to be a bridesmaid in the wedding of one of my best friends. In September, I’m heading to western Michigan to be a bridesmaid again, this time for another best...
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Ask Team Practical: Supporting My Friend’s Marriage
Q: My dearest friend in the world is going through a bit of marital crisis at the moment. It’s the sort of thing where something she and her husband had been glossing over for their entire...
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Ask Team Practical: Stingy Guests
Q: My husband and I were married this past February. In our wedding party we chose mostly family as attendants. Two of them were married couples, two of his cousins who had actually married two of my...
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Ask APW: My Friend Cheated
Q: One of my very oldest and dearest friends has always been a bit dramatic and self-involved. I have never thought of her as being a “bad” person since her self-created problems usually only affected...
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Planning a Wedding After The Loss Of My Best Friend
She was my first soulmate. I told her that. I told everyone else that too at her funeral about eight years later. I am rapidly approaching the point at which the time spent without my friend will...
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Should I Attend a Frenemy’s Wedding?
Q: There is a “friend” who is just truly not a friend to me. My feelings about her are that it is time to move on and stop playing the “pretend friend” game. There is just one catch: she is getting...
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