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When we want to get more thoughtful, this is the spot for our feature articles. Sometimes we talk big-picture philosophies, other times we discuss wedding trends, and every once and a while we just go ape-shit over a wedding WTF?!

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My paintball hen’s party adventure

I’m by no means a pro paintball player — I just think it’s hilarious fun! So for my hen’s weekend [Editor’s note: aka “bachelorette weekend”], I demanded we go and play paintball for a day. I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate my upcoming wedding than by running around in the mud and shooting my best friends.

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What I learned from canceling my wedding

After canceling our wedding, with a heavy heart, I decided to take my obsession with list-making to another level. Here is a compilation of the lessons I learned in wedding cancellation…

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Offbeat Bride thinking from WAY back in the day

On a slow day at work recently, I was looking at out-of-print children’s books on the Project Gutenberg website. I started “Clover,” by Susan Coolidge (author of “What Katy Did“), and came across a passage that I thought you’d enjoy.

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My wedding is not a college entrance exam: does every wedding choice have to prove a point?

Somewhere in the wedding planning process I gave birth to a beast: you, Wedding-Planning-Me, you were born. And now we have to have a little talk.

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Weddings don’t have to be complicated to be awesome

Wherein Ariel (but not that one) gives us all a little reminder that simple weddings are just as wonderful as over-the-top detailed weddings.

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When “awkward” is actually “awesome”

When an “awkward family photo” is actually an AWESOME family photo that includes the Legend of Zelda and some amazing outfits.