Lauren Rodrigue's posts

You know who is probably not being showered with enough gifts and attention just for making the huge relationship…

If the world of wedding blogs is a candy-colored, calligraphed, calla-lillied carnival, then wedding Instagram is…

Is there any reason to want engagement photos? Of course not, say the newly engaged, and the unengaged, and me, once…

For the past eight weeks I’ve been waking up and doing 135 crunches before I do anything else. I pad into the living…

I did not expect to give any shits about veils, to be honest. They are just one or a few layers of airy fabric, and…

Everything is going great! will be my last words, just as they are for so many others—right before Satan’s pitchfork…

Is it the hardening of one’s heart that makes one less and less impervious to envy with each passing issue of Martha…

It is one thing to wince at the glow of a Real Wedding staring back at you from a blog, to scroll through—one eye…

If you were to ask me about my dress shopping right when I’d started the process, I’d probably gush all over your…

Recently, I looked back at the preliminary wedding budget my fiancee Joe and I had come up with it about six months…

If you’ve ever dared to utter the “W”-word in conversation with a group of 20-somethings in a major American…

Not gonna lie: I’ve been sort of nailing it these past couple weeks in the wedding planning department. I’ve…

Over the course of three short days last week, my mother and I went shopping for dresses, both hers and mine. It was…

Last week I officially passed the “one year left” mark on my wedding planning calendar. Between celebrating and…

When Joe and I adopted Cheddar, a scared, three-year-old blonde terrier mutt who looked like a small, fat, elderly…

On a scale of one to ten—one being Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, who is literal royalty and has never touched a…

A good reason to not marry me is that I am not exactly a financial genius. While I’ve always been good at making my…

Does my engagement ring conjure a force field when I wield it against prying men? It feels as though it should. It…

Before I met my fiancé, I believed that true love existed in clothes and not much else. A silk blouse that flowed…

Wherein our columnist, currently in early stages of planning her wedding, has a GChat conversation with her fiancé…