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Elizabeth Oakes is the braintrust behind MarriageToGo.Com, a unique marriage licensing and wedding officiation service in Los Angeles, CA. She creates and conducts hundreds of civil and event weddings per year and writes from the trenches about weddings, marriage, and our changing culture.

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Urgent-need weddings, part two: health insurance and immigration

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Urgent-need Weddings, Part One: illness and hospitalization In Part One on urgent-need weddings, I wrote about Ellen and Thierry (not their real...
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Urgent-need weddings, part one: illness and hospitalization

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Her eyes were filling with tears. "I have a cake at home, flowers...the cousins flew in...he really wanted to have a party..." And...
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Why everyone hates wedding rehearsals

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Just like my coordinator friend Amber Gustafson confesses in her Amber Events blog, I find wedding rehearsals to be my least favorite part of the...
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The "PayPal wedding invitation" and the problem of money vs. tact

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The title of this recent ABC News item titled "PayPal Wedding Invite Irks Some Guests" is a bit misleading; the invitation was not sent...
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DIY wedding photo booth, t-shirt wedding dress, and colorful cake!

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One of the few silver linings around our current economic cloud is that weddings are returning to a more authentic financial basis, i.e. couples are...
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Wedding websites, stealth marketing, and what you need to know

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One bride told me during our initial meeting, “I just started doing wedding searches a couple days ago and I went online to...
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Weddings 101: proxy marriage

A soldier deployed in Iraq emailed this weekend asking about the possibility of phone marriage with his fiancee. Unfortunately phone marriages are...
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Wedding music, morality, and food for thought

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The latest news on the JK Wedding Dance raises an interesting question. Kevin and Jill have now created a webpage with a link soliciting contributions...
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Weddings101: how to choose a wedding vow

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Now that more and more couples are marrying outside of established religious institutions, I am often asked, “What will I say for my vows? Can...
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Getting Married 101: where do I start?

Getting engaged can be very exciting; needing to get married quickly for legal or healthcare reasons can cause hysteria. Once the head stops swimming...
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