Ulya Fomina’s husband wasn’t a particularly generous or loving man. He exchanged the flowers (Russian) she got on their wedding day for money, complained if the tomatoes in his salad were cut the wrong way and forced her to buy him expensive clothes. After they divorced, he stripped their apartment of wallpaper, hauled out the [...]
By Lara Howsam In asking people what they want to do before they turn 30 there have been some similarities in the responses – people want to travel, people want to complete their education and they want a steady well paying job. What people haven’t said is – marriage. “Usually by the time you’re thirty you would [...]
“Bride and Gloom,” pretty edgy name for a wedding blog, at least that’s what I thought. My plan was to cut through the romance, disengage from the bride-centric language and question tradition to reveal what weddings say about our society. Basically, I planned to hijack the language of weddings to serve as a social critique. The [...]
The average wedding takes 250 hours to plan. That’s a lot of time. It’s more than six work weeks. It’s over 12 flights from Vancouver to Melbourne. It’s about 83 Super Bowl games. Planning time is spent on details like the dress, the colours, and the location. What doesn’t get prep time is the marriage. In [...]
In this season’s token wedding movie, Bride Wars, the old adage “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue” helps calm the tension between two warring brides. This adage is one of the many cherished traditions that shape weddings. In the midst of all these traditions, I have to ask, what values and ideas are we [...]
Happy Chinese New Year, unless you are an April bride. Why? It’s because of three little words. The global economy. The Chinese New Year could thwart your attempts to get that perfect wedding gown or bridesmaid dress. While you may have forgotten about the global economy amidst dreams of romance and flurries of excitement, it underlies [...]
Winter is the season for wedding shows. Throughout January and February convention centres are filled with the “oohs and awes” of brides seeing the hottest new trends for 2009. This year’s new trend? It’s not the green wedding. It’s not the destination wedding. It’s the recession-friendly wedding. With the numbers of job cuts rising and [...]
The traditional role of the maid of honour includes helping the bride plan the big day. As a bride living in British Columbia and planning a wedding in Ontario, the Internet has been the equivalent of my maid of honour. “She” has helped me announce my engagement, take marriage preparation courses, confirm wedding etiquette, pick [...]
Forget about phoning your mom. In today’s social media-saturated world, the first thing you need to do when you get engaged is update your Facebook status. It’s not only your friends and family that hear the big news. It’s the whole wedding industry. As soon as the word “engaged” appears on your Facebook wall, so [...]
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