Discussions by Miss Michal

Follow up to my earlier rant post. Obviously, there are things that really are important to me: Marrying in my chosen faith tradition, which includes some time preparing with the priest and getting...

So I added my honeypie to our Amazon registry yesterday (he wasn't all that interested until I told him he could put a deer rifle on it--see previous discussion) and between us we've come up with...

Hey ladies, My fiance and I are planning a celebration with no more than about 30 people--basically, our parents, children, siblings, and nieces and nephews and a few close friends. Our ceremony will...

...New ducks keep showing up! My dad's GF, who was going to read the Prayers of the Faithful at the ceremony, had an outpatient procedure a week or so ago and isn't healing as quickly as she expected....

So five days out from the wedding, I'm finding myself with tons of great ideas that just didn't fit into the final product. For example, I wanted to use the angels above the altar at the Cathedral as...

I think bold red lips would look just fabulous with my white dress and dark hair. How should I do my eye makeup to go with that?

For those getting married in the wintertime: What are you wearing with your dress to stay warm? I thought of dropping the big bucks on a fur coat that I can wear again (unlike the dress), but as a...

Huh...32 days out and I find myself in need of a ceremony musician. I do actually know HOW it happened (we switched churches, and the "before" church took care of the ceremony music), but I'm kicking...

35 days from now, I'm going to marry the man of my dreams. It's a fairly low-key event that will make me the happiest girl in the world. So why does it feel like I'm preparing to invade Normandy? Ugh!...

As my mom observed more than once when I was growing up, not every dress is a church dress. I wouldn't show up to church on Sunday in a strapless dress, so why would I do it on my wedding day? I'm...

I'm not a "theme wedding" sort of girl, but between my honey's love of horses and my hat fetish, we're thinking a Kentucky Derby wedding would just be the greatest thing ever! The first thing I've...

Hi all! I've been gone for quite a while, but I'm back on with a brand new wedding date. We never really got un-engaged, but we did cancel the wedding. I started getting sick in the middle of August,...

Since my hair is super short, I've been thinking about wearing a hat for the big day. Not a birdcage/fascinator thing, but a real hat. Maybe like this one (only in white):...

Event one: FH's job has ended, and with only two months left to pay for this wedding, we went into a bit of a panic. Event two: My brother's wife, whom he met in Kandahar during his deployment and...

It's the Friday after Catholic Engaged Encounter, the marriage prep retreat weekend, and I think FH and I have ALMOST recovered. We started calling it the Emotional Ironman a few hours in. There was a...

I have had no luck finding flats yummy enough for the big day, but now I've found khussa! Khussa are intricately beaded slippers from India. Besides being to die for, they're really inexpensive--the...

I guess "strategy" implies a goal, which in my case is to inform our guests of our needs, preferences, and tastes without offending anybody. What has your goal been? What has your thought process been...