May I Inspect Your Gadgets? Confused Bride Needs Help With Wedding Registry
Mating for life doesn’t scare me. Choosing plates, glasses and pans that we might be using for the rest of our lives has me FLUMMOXED. Yep, I’m starting to think about registering for wedding gifts,...
View ArticleWill I Ever Be Able to Button This Jacket?
You’d think my wedding day would be motivation enough to finish losing the baby weight. After all, my first dress fitting is just three months away (!!!) and the designer made me promise I’d be at my...
View ArticleYou Take The Cake
Dear Viv, I know wedding planning hasn’t been that fun for you. Lots of long car rides, boring meetings and time-consuming bridal indecision. Plus, grown-ups are always telling you not to touch...
View ArticleTop 10 Irrational Fears About My Wedding Day
1. That I will wake up with a head cold, my period and hives 2. That my best laid bridal beauty plans won’t come together 3. And that I’ll somehow have an 80s perm just like at my bat mitzvah 4. That...
View ArticleShould I Change My Name When I Get Married?
I’m getting married in 5 weeks (!) and I’ve started wondering – should I change my name? Not my last name, silly. “Wruble” is too much a part of me. Wrubes. A-Dub. Amy Roooo. Ruby Tuesday....
View Article5 Advantages To Putting The Baby Carriage Before Marriage
If you’ve been watching me prepare for our nuptials with our 3-year-old in tow, you know that preschoolers make terrible wedding planners. But as I zone in on our BIG DAY (one month away!), I’m...
View ArticleSo Does The Jacket Button?
Back in February, I asked a very important question: “Will I ever be able to button this jacket?” The jacket, a saucy little Theory blazer purchased optimistically in my pre-baby size, was to be my...
View ArticleLove Means Never Having To Say Your Teeth Look Yellow
With two weeks left until our wedding, I’ve been trimming, tinting, plucking, waxing, shaping, toning and otherwise altering every cell of my body. Meanwhile, Dave’s to-do list had one item: “Get...
View ArticleA Mom’s Guide To Her Wedding Registry
I know, this is such a tease. I owe you – the readers I love – a full accounting of the wedding. The problem is, I’m still waiting for the official photographs, and trust me this is not a story that...
View Article5 Things That Went Hilariously Wrong At My Wedding
In the anxious days leading up to my wedding, married friends warned me that no matter how much I planned, some little thing would inevitably go wrong and it wouldn’t be a big deal. I counted five...
View ArticleA Look Back At The Carriage Before Marriage Wedding
I can’t believe our first wedding anniversary is almost here. The year flew by, possibly because we also made another tiny human during that time. I had wanted to blog about the big day right away,...
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