It took me quite awhile to get used to the idea of chang­ing my name. It was by no means easy, and for awhile I didn’t know if I wanted to make the change at all. I like the idea of a shared name. I know that it makes us no more or less a fam­ily either way, but I do think […]

For the first long stretch of plan­ning I was sur­rounded by piles of wed­ding mag­a­zines; and vir­tu­ally buried under an enor­mous col­lec­tion of book­marks. And while they’re still there  —  I have a bit of a mag­a­zine addic­tion, I admit  —  as we get closer to the wed­ding I find myself drawn more and more to learn­ing and think­ing about “mar­riage” rather than “wedding”. […]

Let’s get seri­ous for a minute. When it comes to wed­dings, we often get caught up in col­ors and fab­rics and details and things, because let’s face it, it’s pretty fun to focus on them. But when it really comes down to it, a wed­ding is, of course, about com­mit­ment and rela­tion­ships and love and friends and […]