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conflict resolution

Dealing with wedding planning conflict sucks — especially when it’s family drama. These are our wedding advice posts all about helping you deal with arguments, disagreements, boundaries, and frustrations. We even have posts full of copy-n-paste responses to negative wedding feedback!

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How do you deal with homophobic wedding guests at your gay-friendly wedding?

Do you have family that is prejudiced? How did you handle homophobic wedding guests? This is an important issue… here are a few of our ideas.

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My fiance is more traditional than me

While wedding planning is lots of fun, it can also be stressful, especially when the each partner has different ideas of what the wedding should look like. While I try very hard not to subscribe to the Wedding Industrial Complex‘s idea of “everything is about me, me, me.” Sometimes it’s hard to compromise. Sometimes I get pouty and selfish, maybe even demanding, and in those moments, I am not loving my fiancé.

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“You’re wearing a dress with sleeves, right?” Choosing to show off your tattoos at your wedding

You love your tattoos, your partner loves your tattoos, but your family isn’t always so approving.

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Wedding junk mail: When life gives you garbage, make confetti!

With my marketing and public relations background, I really should have known that once I started calling vendors, my name would wind up on someone’s mailing list. For the last several weeks, I have been receiving regular junk mail from my area’s WIC staple vendors. So I’ve come up with several solutions of what to do with all that gross junk mail…

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The drama-minimizing guide to not inviting family members to your wedding

Ug. This is a post no one wants to write, but that definitely needs to be written. Unfortunately, for a whole bunch of legitimate reasons ranging from addiction to abuse, crime to communication problems, some of you are going to face the challenge of not inviting certain family members (or ANY family members) to your wedding.

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From pissy to pretty calm: How to plan your wedding, Project Manager-style

My fiancé and I are both project management types — at work, and in our general personalities. So, we have weekly wedding planning meetings with agendas. This has managed to keep us sane, speaking to each other, productive, and focused on other things, like unpacking the house we just bought, getting through a terribly hectic time at work, enjoying each other, and focusing on my nearly-six year old son. Here’s how we plan our wedding, Project Manager-style…