Happily Ever After: Part 2

By: Abby Van Ness | Posted: November 8, 2012

Read Happily Ever After: Part 1 here.

Last night, as I laid in bed, I tried to replay…

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Happily Ever After: Part 1

By: Abby Van Ness | Posted: November 1, 2012

It’s amazing how fast it all goes by. I’ve officially been Mrs. Abby Dean for eleven days and I still can’t believe the…

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Bridal Beauty Trials

By: Abby Van Ness | Posted: July 17, 2012

I’ve always been a girly-girl. I loved dress-up, Barbie dolls, and just about anything involving bows, sparkles, or the color pink when I…

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Choosing a Color Scheme

By: Abby Van Ness | Posted: June 5, 2012

One thing you should know about me is that I’m a very indecisive person. Jack, my friends, and my entire family…

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Fit in Five

By: Abby Van Ness | Posted: May 24, 2012

One of my married friends recently told me that she had thought of her wedding as her “Academy Awards”—it was her excuse to…

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Point and Shoot

By: Abby Van Ness | Posted: April 12, 2012

This weekend, we will begin to tackle our wedding registries. Crate and Barrel, Target,…

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Must Be Minnesotan

By: Abby Van Ness | Posted: March 28, 2012

For me, choosing a photographer was one of the most important wedding decisions I’ve had to make. I spent several weeks scrolling through…

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Good Bride/Bad Bride: Coping with Wedding Stress

By: Elisa Becker | Posted: August 25, 2011

There are only five months until January 21, and it’s time to start making big decisions and big progress. We have a mile long to-do list, a wedding party of almost two dozen, and an entire ceremony to write. Oh, and we still have our regular lives to lead on top of it all. How do I cope? Let me introduce you to my new…

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Winter Wedding Honeymoons

By: Elisa Becker | Posted: August 15, 2011

Tim and I are getting married during what is historically the coldest week of the year in Minnesota. When I tell people our wedding date, I usually get one of two reactions. The most popular is, “Really? January?” closely followed by, “Oh, so you must be doing a destination wedding! How great!” While we’re excited for a winter wedding in our great snowy hometown state,…

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The Wedding Singer

By: Elisa Becker | Posted: July 28, 2011

For the past few years I’ve volunteered at the Starkey Hearing Foundation’s So the World May Hear awards gala as a celebrity handler. For a weekend, the volunteer handlers are assigned to a (sometimes) awesome celebrity and have the opportunity to make them feel at home in St. Paul. In addition to wearing a stellar gown and supporting an incredible a cause, the gala…

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