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Find out more about Elizabeth: 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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Can you ask for cash as a wedding gift? Short answer: NO.Why not? Long answer: because etiquette dictates you’re not supposed to ask for ANY...
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Readers of this column have heard me say many times that it’s crucial to check the references of your vendors, but no credentials are more...
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Hats politely and ever-so properly doffed to Miss Jeanne Hamilton and her wide-ranging and informative site EtiquetteHell.com. Emily Post ain't got...
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As someone who is proud to volunteer at the L.A. County Clerk's office performing ceremonies, I say a big, fat BOO HISS! to the unscrupulous clerk who...
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You might find it fun to mock the botched wedding cake attempts at CakeWrecks.com, but I view them as a metaphor for the aspirational-vs-reality...
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I haven’t yet forced myself to watch The Wedding Crashers or the rightfully short-lived The Real Wedding Crashers or any other oeuvre in the...
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- Five Ways To Screw Up Your Wedding, Part One: Don't Get Divorced First!
- Five Ways To Screw Up Your Wedding, Part Two: Go Into Debt!
- Five Ways To Screw Up Your Wedding, Part Three: Have a Wedding You'll Hate!
- Five Ways To Screw Up Your Wedding, Part Four: Have Unrealistic Expectations
- Five Ways To Screw Up Your Wedding, Part Five: Starve, Bore, and Ignore Your Guests
- Write a Mission Statement for Your Wedding
- The Ultimate Budget Wedding Article
- Your Internet Wedding Minister: Will It Be Legal?
- Your Wedding Day Emergency Kit: Are You Ready To Survive the Big Day
- Wedding Planning, the Rotten Economy, and You
- Uninvited Wedding Guests: Three Instructive Tales
- Weddings for the Dying
- Iowa Supreme Court hears gay marriage arguments; Jon Stewart too
- Prop 8--The Musical
- California Prop 8 Hearings and Marriage Equality: Where From Here?
- CA Supreme Court justices consider Prop 8 under threat of recall
- Connecticut new haven for gay marriage
- A Sad Day for Gays In California, Arizona, and Florida
- Fear and Loathing in California's Same-Sex Marriage War
- Battle Royale: Gay Marriage Protests Continue in California
- Mormon and Catholic Organizations Attack Gay Marriage Laws With Lies
- A Real Defense of Marriage Act: A DNC Christmas
- California Same-Sex Weddings: Not Always Gay?
- An Invitation for William Shatner: His First Wedding Etiquette Class
- Webcast Your Wedding
- Victoria’s not-so-secret wedding countdown bra; couples say "we want Wiis!"
- I Heart Geek Weddings!
- You're Invited to a Halo Wedding--Sorta
- A Bejeweled Wedding For Lovestruck Hacker
- Love is tweet: Twitter marriage proposal accepted
- Leggo My Lego Wedding Ring!
- Decoder Wedding Ring Contest!
- An Invitation for William Shatner: His First Wedding Etiquette Class
- Married At The Movies: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers/Rachel Getting Married
- Married At The Movies: Sweeney Todd/The Wedding Singer
- Marriage of Two Legends: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
- Wedding Examiner Personal Bests: Best Movie Wedding
- Boo Hiss To The L.A. County Clerk Who Blew Jessica Alba's Wedding Plans
- About.com: Marriage
- BOOK: Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage
- BOOK: One Perfect Day: The Selling Of The American Wedding
- BOOK: Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition
- BOOK: Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
