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Wedding Stories

Letter to Mom: Finding Love

Written by: chesarasara, on 05/13/2013
Mommy, you and I have always been close, just as you and your mother were always close. We have similar interests, enjoy similar activities, and think alike. We also apparently look alike, too -- complete strangers regularly tell us that we're clearly related.So it was only natural for us to talk about relationships. Even when I was in middle school, you started sharing with me the lessons you'd learned throughout high school, college, and your marriage with my Daddy. You t...

Finger Foods for the Bride

Written by: seamstressofwords, on 04/18/2013
When I think of weddings, I think of delicious cakes and finger food and expensive plates with small portions of food (assuming you can see your food from underneath the large center pieces). I wouldn't imagine ever cooking for my own wedding, there's just so much going on that cooking shouldn't be the bride or groom's responsibility. But maybe, if you need an idea or two of what to serve, this post can help you out!So, if you're doing finger food, I don't think you'll want...

Watching the Wedding Come Together

Written by: seamstressofwords, on 04/16/2013
My older sister, bless her heart, got engaged to her now fiance in November, and has set the wedding date to some time in 2015.Don't get me wrong, I am super excited for my sister because she's about to embark on this huge journey in her life with her fiance, and it's an exciting time for everyone involved. However, in being an outsider, I can see certain problems. My sister is 24 and still lives at home. She acknowledges that she can't afford to live on her own (and her ...

Getting Married at 23 and Still at University? It is Possible!

Written by: Ruthie77, on 04/15/2013
So your loved one has just proposed to you. The future is looking bright and rosy, you are thinking about your future you will have together… once you have completed your studies. Is it possible? If you are studying and you still want to marry the love of your life, don’t panic! It is possible! Juggling the textbooks with the restraints of a budget can still allow you to have a dream wedding; you just need a little bit of imagination. At the end of the day you are marryin...

In The News: Marriage Between Man and Women

Written by: KtotheA, on 04/08/2013
There are big debates going on in social media about if gay rights should be legal. I myself am against the idea of the same sex have the right to marry! The bible says that marriage is supposed to between man and woman! I live the laws of god so saying that I’m for it is going against my beliefs. The town I live in has almost the same beliefs as mine, so I have always been surrounded by people who believe the same things as me, so if I have ever heard about gay rights I hav...

Permanence and Timing

Written by: SamanthaBise, on 03/03/2013
My best friend loves her boyfriend, even when they are disagreeing on something. She can sit in front of the TV for hours watching Say Yes to the Dress. The conversation always drifts to her dream wedding—the flowers, the dress, the food. She dreams of her “special day,” like most girls in love do. It’s really a beautiful thing, in a romantic kind of way. Personally, I’ve never craved that kind of romance in my life. I’ve never wanted my life to be that linear—the boyfriend...

Our Story - A Love story which started 22 years ago.

Written by: marcrod, on 02/03/2013
It's said that the chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces which we cannot control.On my first day of high school in 1989, I walked into my fourth period class at Morgan Park High School. It was data processing, and I was fairly sure that I had picked the wrong class, seeing that I was the only freshman in a sea of upperclassmen. I decided I would drop the class during lunch and take some...

Our Story

Written by: marcrod, on 01/31/2013
OUR STORYMarco Rodriguez & Alisa ReynosoIt's said that the chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces which we cannot control.On my first day of high school in 1989, I walked into my fourth period class at Morgan Park High School. It was data processing, and I was fairly sure that I had picked the wrong class, seeing that I was the only freshman in a sea of upperclassmen. I decided I would ...

White Wedding

Written by: Kwweesten, on 01/21/2013
This weekend, I attended a breath-taking wedding in Pennsylvania. I wasn’t sure what to expect since the last wedding I attended was decades ago and I can barely remember much, but this one will be very difficult to forget.As I walked through the cobblestone alleyway to get to the door, I held my date’s arm in hopes that I wouldn’t be the first guest to wipe out in these heals. We entered through the double doors into a room of eagerness and anticipation, all wrapped up int...

Stage of Life needs help taking storytelling mobile!

Written by: Nate DeRose, on 12/11/2012
Hello All,Stage of Life is proud to announce its latest endeavor - the development of the first mobile storytelling game! For the last three months, we have been putting our creative efforts into drafting Writing Race, a multiplayer story writing game for Apple iPhone where friends will collaboratively (or competitively) write a story together using their mobile phone.Our idea to expand Stage of Life’s literacy initiative to the mobile realm began as some scribbling on a...

MEETING HER WAS LOVELY

Written by: Aarondn007, on 11/27/2012
MEETING HER WAS LOVELYWe met by sheer coincidence on a summer day much like the day we will be married. My best friend introduced us as the happened to be neighbors. I soon after asked her to be a last minute date to my cousins wedding. Since then she has completely captured my heart. I admit getting married is intimidating but being with Paula makes me feel like anything can be accomplished. One of the most terrifying thi...

Written by: skiier007, on 10/23/2012
Our love story is that of second chances, as we both previously came from broken marriages. I was a single mother of two and Greg, a rancher - both too busy to think of love or even where to find it. With encouragement from friends, we both search on match.com. When I first saw Greg's picture, I instantly smiled. I couldn't stop thinking how much I wanted to meet this man. So I 'winked' at him. After two weeks past without a reply, I finally recieve the sweetest message back...

My Love For You (part 3)

Written by: leonardo, on 10/21/2012
My Love For You (part 3)As I promised, today I am going to narrate how that summer when I met my girlfriend (now my wife) came to an end and something unexpected happened.As I said in my previous stories that year I ended my schooling and decided to find a job till I decided what I was going to do. My wish was to become a teacher but to do that I had to go to college which meant a couple of years without money in my pockets. I wished for so many things that several of m...

Can anyone help with a wedding issue?

Written by: Jokergurl, on 09/27/2012
I have a huge issue about my wedding. I'm getting married in three years, maybe two it's up in the air. But the problem is my hubby's family lives in Illinois. My family lives in Pennsylvania. How in the world are we able to pick a place to get married so both families can attend? And also we are a Pagan couple. Does anyone know a pagan legally ordained person to marry us legally?...

Wedding Blues

Written by: Jokergurl, on 09/14/2012
Nothing is more detrimental than no help in planning a wedding. Which in my case, is exactly what's happening. My 'legal' wedding is set for All Hallows Eve 2014. And am I getting any kind of help from either family? Of course not. My own mother doesn't even believe I'm getting married. On the bright side, at least my future husband goes along with my ideas. I have to do all the planning, even putting in my own engagement announcement in the paper. But you know what's most ir...

How Many Women Suffer from Post-Nuptial Depression?

Written by: RevDrAngela, on 08/23/2012
In the United States, there is a great deal of importance placed on wedding days. And the more emphasis there is on the executing a grand event, the more pressure that exists for those who are planning said wedding. With the recent explosion in the wedding business (experts estimate it is worth over ten billion dollars per year) has come a greater stress to create the perfect day.This has led to post-nuptial depression – a condition suffered by women of all ages...

Premarital Counseling

Written by: RevDrAngela, on 08/23/2012
Premarital counseling is the best way to become better prepared for the many challenges you will face in your marriage. During counseling we will help each partner to express themselves on each topic. Premarital counseling will teach you the techniques needed to prevent, better deal with, or discontinue any difficult habits and unhealthy patterns that can be hard to break once they are well established. Subjects covered▪ Conflict Resolution ▪ Fi...

Every Girl's Dream

Written by: sjluvsu, on 08/23/2012
I close my eyes and daydream what my wedding will one day be like.[b]What dress will I wear? Mini, medium short, or the elegantly longWhat color will it be?Pink, lavender, or the classic whiteWhat fabric will it be?Silk, chiffon, or the beautiful laceWhere will my wedding be?Ballroom, church, or the private gardenWhen will my wedding be?Summer, fall, or the snowy winterWhat kind of ring will I have?Sapphire, ruby, or the famous diamondWhich cut wil...

I wonder about my marriage.

Written by: permutations, on 08/01/2012
I wonder about my marriage;Will it be as melodious as the birds chirping to their mates,Or will it be like a king and queen riding in a carriage?Will it be arranged like the old days,where parents choose the mate, while the son is going craze?Or will it be a love one, with roses sweeping across the air,when even love’s name makes one tingle with pleasure,and love-struck eyes meet in an endless stare?Will it be as ferocious as bears wrestling for their partner,or ...

Wedding Season: How I Gained New Perspectives

Written by: CoachTheresa, on 06/30/2012
In the morning of my wedding day, I looked calm, but those butterflies in my stomach were fluttering their wings. By 11:00 am, the bridesmaids had arrived at my sister’s house. Once they put on the beautiful burgundy dresses, they were transformed. My six-year-old niece, being the compliant child she has always been, was doing everything her mother told her to rehearse as the flower girl. As my sister was putting the finishing touches of the makeup on my face, the doorbell r...

May we always give each other butterflies

Written by: Romie121, on 05/06/2012
My fiancé and I met almost ten years ago. We were really good friends. He was an amazing friend. He was there for me through everything I went though. I never saw him as anything more than a friend even though he was only person I could talk to for hours, and he was the only person that I could tell anything to. Then after seven years we were talking, and I saw him in a different light. I thought to myself " oh my god I think I love him." I have been searching for love when i...

Where Have You Been? A Story of True Soul Mates

Written by: KimmieJoy, on 04/12/2012
My high school friend Pete Joy & I met back up after over 20 years of not seeing each other. I was in 6 car accidents (I was the passenger in all but the last one) over those 20 plus years. I could not walk, barely & I was in pain all the time for over 13 years. When we met back up he had his head in his hands and his face turned bright red, he told me he had always loved me since high school and I was his fantasy girl & I told him I felt the same way about him after being i...

the pledging of this aging groom and his hen pecking spouse

Written by: sir2my1st, on 03/30/2012
OUR WEDDING VOWS page turning suspense filled the vaulted sepulchral air ushering the veiled spouse to bewhile afar off trumpets did blare (arranged by the well known matchmaker Harriet Kuritsky)creating the ambiance analogous to a renaissance faire yet contrasted in that this bachelor and other men related to mesegregated with females and males at a set distance away i.e. not physically near dictated by mandates of the Hebrew coda ...

Wedding TV: Obscuring our Views

Written by: Dobbs17, on 03/21/2012
When brides-to-be watch a wedding show such as "Say Yes To the Dress" or even something like "Bridezillas" they get a false sense that wither everything in their wedding will go right, or will fall to pieces before their eyes. In "Say Yes", nearly every bride finds "the dress" with the exception that the dress is thousands of dollars out of her budget. Normally, one of these shows ends in the bride's mother/father agreeing to pay more than previously decided. When a bride in...

A pep talk for small-budget brides like me

Written by: bluecollarbride, on 03/06/2012
I enjoy weddings big and small, but I'm definitely not a typical wedding junkie. I'd never picked up bridal magazines until I agreed to have one of these things myself, and they pretty much confirmed the idea that "traditional" bride-dom was not for me. As a bride-to-be I've become more curious about how my the people who share my genes (and aversions) have celebrated marriage. My grandparents' unfussy wartime wedding (photo here, bride and groom center) and my parents' elope...

Then & Now: When I was young I feared I would never get married, now that I am older I find that I can look back on the fear wit

Written by: reb.bec.lam, on 02/29/2012
When I was young I feared that I would never marry, now that I am older I find that I can look back on the fear with amusement. I remember fearing the “old maid” status and as it fast approached, I tried to convince myself that I didn’t care. I told others that I was ok being single because I had done so much with my life that others had never been able to do, due to the ‘marriage’ status they held. I also learned, at this time, that most people who say “single and loving it”...

Then and Now: Then, Now, and Forever

Written by: Janice Blakeley, on 02/26/2012
When i was young, i use to dream of far away places. But, my purse was small and those dreams faded. As I grew the things I once thought I wanted. Are soon replaced with new dreams. As a teenager i dreamed of a young man, strong but gentle. Taking long rides in his car down the county roads. With the windows down and the wind blowing threw my hair. This handsome young man, would have one hand on the wheel and one arm wrapped around my shoulders. Our favorite music blasting o...

Then and Now: When I Was Young, Marriage Eluded Me. Now, I Am Preparing To Tie The Knot!

Written by: uplifting, on 02/25/2012
When I was young, love played tricks on me. It was like a game of hide and seek, but I could never catch-up to love and marriage. Would I ever become the bride or be resigned to playing the dutiful bridesmaid? Some would say marriage eluded me. I unsuccessfully tried dating coaches, online dating, and a series of blind dates which lead nowhere fast. While I mulled over accepting a life of singlehood, a part of me longed for the kind of love that my parents shared. They were ...

Then and Now: How it is to be Married

Written by: Sharon Greenthal, on 02/11/2012
When I was young, I saw marriage as a means to an end. I fell in love with my husband for many reasons, not the least of which was his stability and the fact that I believed he would be a great father, which he is. Marriage was not as much about one man, one woman as it was about creating a family, the family I had dreamed of since I was a little girl. When I was young, I didn’t really understand the enormous responsibility being married would bring to me. My parents had di...

The optimal number should be from five to twenty

Written by: ruthnwilson, on 01/13/2012
How To Plan A Stress Free Bridal ShowerIf you are the person planning the bridal shower you may be feeling stressed but there is no need. This can be one of the most exciting things you have ever done and you will be part of bringing joy to the bride as well as the guests who are more than happy to attend and bring a gift for her. Here are some tips to help make the planning less stressful.When you are planning a bridal shower one of the most important things to consi...

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