Wedding Tactics

First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

For all of you new readers, I’m very thrilled to be a part of the 451 Press team. I’m have some great ideas up my sleeve to keep you informed, entertained, laughing, and most of all, to keep you reading. These will all be unveiled over the course of THIS week.

I want to give a shout out to all the bloggers and readers who are also getting married this year. If you have questions, concerns or anything you think is relevant to an entry, send me an email or leave a comment and let’s get this forum really hopping. Also, a personal note to my good friend T, who is getting married in October, CONGRATULATIONS, YOU! ARE GETTING MARRIED THIS YEAR!

I’m really just an average gal. I’m not overly girlie; in fact, I sort of have to force the girly-ness sometimes. I’m very practical and down to earth, most of the time. However, when it comes to my own wedding, sometimes I am very concerned about the flowers and favors, sometimes I am not.

More relevant to this blog, I have been knee deep in research about wedding traditions around the world, random wedding facts, and lots of very irrelevant wedding related trivia. Stay tuned this week for an idea of what there is to come this year.

Of the myriad of things I will be discussing here is the relevance of a milk-bath in a Moroccan wedding ceremony, and why the bride and groom both kiss their parents knees in a Sudanese wedding ceremony and how the word “wed” is actually derived from the Greek word “pledge” and why that means that no matter in what country you choose to marry, if you wed, you are pledging yourself to someone else.

All of these random good facts and more are in the pipeline as well as tips and strategies for wiggling out of bad vendor relationships and tips for managing stress, talking with in-laws, combining and not combining finances, when to do it, and throughout all of this will be the laughable and tear-inducing truths of my own wedding-planning and marriage-planning endeavors.

Stay tuned.

Happy New Year!