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What's more important: a beautiful wedding or a happy marriage?

How Wedding Fever Can Ruin Your Relationship

Seven ways to keep your wedding from overshadowing your marriage.

Tom and Melissa spend their non-working hours fighting about, well, everything wedding-related. Tom is beginning to question whether he really wants to marry Melissa, and Melissa wonders why she never noticed how conventional Tom is. Does he really value his uptight relatives' opinions about the color of her dress more than he cares about her only opportunity to don her dream dress?

Halloween Weddings: Fab Or Frightening? [EXPERT]
How will you make your fall wedding ghoulishly glamorous?

Halloween Weddings: Fab Or Frightening?

Great tips about how to do your autumn-inspired Halloween wedding right!

A bridal party dressed as fairies and pirates? Freshly carved pumpkin centerpieces? Frankenstein groom and a equally frightening bride? A hand-tied bouquet crawling with rhinestone spiders? Halloween weddings are a real thing and it might be the theme of your upcoming nuptials.

4 Common Causes Of Wedding Dress Drama [EXPERT]
Are you stressing about finding the perfect dress?

4 Common Causes Of Wedding Dress Drama

Don't succumb to the wedding dress blues!

Although it's possible that you need to go to yet another ten stores to try on dresses, the reasons why you just can't seem to find the right dress may have nothing to do with dress shopping at all.

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You can have your cake, and eat it too!

Why Small, Intimate Weddings Take The Cake

Over-the-top is out; intimacy is in. Tie the knot with a simple & fresh affair everyone will enjoy.

While we live in a time where big weddings are, for some, a major importance, others are realizing that the greatest day in their life doesn't always need to be a ridiculously over-the-top and over-priced event. If we do take a moment to recall the reason behind marriage, it's historically based on love (or arranged situations in certain cultures), and not about competing to see who can spend more on their nuptials.

Engaged? 5 Rules For Keeping Your Friendships Intact [EXPERT]
Best friends forever or best friends for now?

Engaged? 5 Rules For Keeping Your Friendships Intact

Don't take your girlfriends for granted just because you met Mr. Right!

As you transition from being single to married, your friendships will have to transition as well. This transition can be a major alteration of your relationship or a minor change. But, it is always important to keep a strong bond with your single friends, especially when planning your wedding. Here are five tips on keeping good relationships with your single friends as you plan your big day.

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She gave back the ring and never looked back.

"Why I'm Happy I Didn't Go Through With My Wedding"

They were good at making love, but she knew they would be no good at making a life.

The venue is booked. The perfect wedding dress picked out. Flower arrangements, music, seating chart — all the little details — taken care of. But then you get cold feet. No, more than cold feet: You realize you're making a decision that will leave you miserable for life.

5 Wedding Planning Pointers For A Successful Marriage [EXPERT]
What does your wedding planning style say about your relationship?

5 Wedding Planning Pointers For A Successful Marriage

If you can plan your wedding well as a couple, you can likely live happily ever after.

Planning a wedding is a huge, laborious job, and most experts say that how you plan your wedding can predict the fate of your marriage. So, here are five wedding planning pointers to ensure your marriage will last happily ever after.