weddings

How to cope with a less-than-perfect wedding day.

Ask Erin: I Need Help With My Post-Wedding Shame

She’s made all the mistakes, so you don’t have to… Ask Erin is a weekly advice column, in which Erin answers your burning questions about anything at all.

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5 Ways Being Queer Is Actually An Advantage For Me

Straight people, it isn’t that you aren’t awesome; so many of you are! It’s just that, while you enjoy the numerous advantages that your straight privilege allows you, I’d like to celebrate the little things that make being queer totally rad.

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Bibliotherapy For The Wedding-Obsessed Bride 

No exaggeration, when I close my eyes— even for a second— I see white dresses.

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Help! How Do I Know If I Should Get Married?

I know I love my boyfriend and I think I’m ready to get married but how do I know if he’s the one I want to spend the rest of my life with?

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If I Ever Want To Get Married, I'll Do The Proposing

Equality is four-syllables forever tripping off our tongue and yet when it comes to marriage proposals we're all clamoring for the knee-drop.

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Ravishly's Top 5 Reads Of The Week

Facial hair, marriage, privilege, play parties, ugliness. Just another week at Ravishly.

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Turns Out Weddings Have Nothing To Do With Marriage—And Other Matrimonial Thoughts 

I want to lie belly-down with someone in life's trenches. To do the work. To stand up, however sheepishly, and say: I don't want to go it alone.

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It's Not Funny: Flash Fiction

“Don’t you smash that cake in my face, or I’ll never forgive you,” she said, and she never did, not really.

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