One yr in the past, in Might 2021, I wrote a publish about my very own marriage ceremony planning drama and messiness. I used to be one month out from getting married (!!!), my fiancé (now spouse) and I have been spending a whole lot of time crying and having tough conversations with household and pals whose emotions have been harm by our small marriage ceremony plans. I’m right here to inform the story, although. We made it by, we’re married, and we even filed our taxes collectively this yr… victory.

Two years in the past, in Might 2020, I wrote this publish once we delivered to you the very first on this sequence of open threads. We knew then, two months into the pandemic, that it was going to be a marathon, not a dash. And the way proper we have been. These month-to-month posts have change into an exquisite place for people to seek out each other, chat about their marriage ceremony plans (the great, the unhealthy, and the postponed), and extra. We’ve provided free steering once we can, you’ve crowdsourced solutions to questions you’ve, and also you’ve supported one another with endurance and understanding.

As we’ve barrelled into the third calendar yr of this collective fever dream, it’s change into ever extra clear that endurance, understanding, and ‘complaining breaks’ are precisely what we’d like. So, pals… right here we’re once more. That is your open thread, your house to be and present up precisely as you might be, the area the place folks will actually get what you’re going by, and a spot the place you’ll be able to ask for steering or simply merely vent.

A few of you might be about to succeed in the end line of marriage ceremony planning… in a pandemic.

A few of you might be just lately engaged and diving into planning… in a pandemic (the tail finish, we hope).

And plenty of of you’ve graduated from the marriage planning courses of ’20, ’21, or ’22.

No matter the place you might be on the journey, we’re right here for you.

xo,
Alyssa