Getting Married

Say Yes to Distress

Jill Knapp | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Wedding Planning, Marriage, Couple Friends, Planning a Wedding, Marriage and Friendship, Engaged, Getting Married, Engagement, Friendships and Marriage, Fiances, Weddings, New York News

When my boyfriend got down on one knee, on a rainy night back in January, no one warned me about the long and isolated road that lay in front of me.

Read Post

PHOTOS: See Who Got Married This Weekend

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Wedding Photos, Real Wedding Photos, Real Weddings, Wedding Pictures, Getting Married, Slideexpand, Real Weddings of the Week, Weddings News

For this week's edition of "Real Weddings of the Weekend," we received snapshots from nuptials ranging from a Sephardic wedding in New York to a castl...

Read Whole Story

The 7 WORST Reasons To Tie The Knot

Meredith Bodgas | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Wedding, Getting Married, Getting Engaged, Weddings, Reasons to Get Married, Marital Advice, Engagement Anxiety, Weddings News

There's really only one good reason to get married: because you've found your soul mate. But there are so many bad ones. Here are the seven worst.

Read Post

How To Handle A Friend Who Thinks Your Marriage Is A Mistake

Meredith Bodgas | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Marriage, Getting Married, Engagement, Getting-Engaged, Engaged, Marriage Objection, After the Wedding, Object to Your Marriage, Weddings News

Some people think they know what's best for you better than you do. And if one of them speaks up during your engagement, it can make you second-guess yourself or ruin the relationship you have with that person.

Read Post

How Well Do You Really Know Your Fiance?

Sandy Malone | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Know Your Fiance, Getting Married, Pre-Wedding Research, Social Security Check, After the Wedding, Weddings News

How much do you really know about the man or woman you are about to marry? Have you dug deep? Have you ever snooped? Has he or she ever given you a reason to wonder?

Read Post

Why I Couldn't Wait To Change My Last Name

Ann Blumenthal Jacobs | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Getting Married, Marriage, Name Change, Changing Your Name, Married Name, Maiden Name, Hyphenating Your Name, Weddings News

So, when it comes to changing your name, do what's best for you and your spouse -- if you don't want to take his name, he can take yours or you can start over. What have you done about changing your names?

Read Post

'The Moment I Knew I Wanted To Marry My Spouse'

Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: The Moment I Knew, The Moment I Knew I Wanted to Marry My Spouse, Video, Marry My Spouse, Getting Married, Slidepollajax, Falling in Love, After the Wedding, Weddings News

At HuffPost, we're kicking off an exciting new project and we'd love you to participate! It's called "The Moment I Knew," and is a user-submitted vide...

Read Whole Story

Why We Make Marriage Pacts

Ann Brenoff | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Marriage, Getting Married, Relationships, Weddings, Marriage Pacts, Wedding Pacts, Weddings News

But I recall one day extracting a promise from him that is still being extracted from men and women today: If we both were still single by the time we were 35 (or was it 40?), we would marry one other.

Read Post

To Wed Or Not To Wed?

Stephanie Fairyington | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Lesbian Relationships, Marriage, Open Relationships, Gay Relationships, Monogamy, Getting Married, Gay Marriage, Gay Voices News

My girlfriend is visiting my shrink with me so we can duke out our premarital differences, which can be boiled down to one, ever-nagging question: why, after three and a half happy years together, do I still cringe at the thought of getting married?

Read Post

It's National Marriage Week. Oh Please.

Kate Schermerhorn | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: National Marriage Week, Marriage, Getting Married, After Happily Ever After, Divorce, Unhappy Marriage, Weddings News

Does that mean we should just go out and pick any random person to marry to improve the quality of our lives? Or that we should stay in a hellacious marriage for the sake of the kids?

Read Post

You Just Got Engaged. So Why Are You So Unhappy?

Xochitl Gonzalez | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Planning 101, Planning Your Wedding, Engagement Blues, Getting Married, Getting Engaged, Wedding Planners, Weddings News

Once the bauble is placed on your finger and the news is made public, whatever private wedding fantasy you may have been harboring in your mind has to meet it's sworn enemy: Reality

Read Post

The Best Day of Your Life

Melanie Hick | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Wedding Planning, Planning Your Wedding, Wedding Advice, Getting Married, Etiquette and Advice, Destination Weddings, Weddings News

In Caitlin Moran's brilliant new book, How To Be a Woman, she says you've got to get over the wedding day being the best of your life. I don't agree. Your wedding day really can be the best day ever. The secret is to forget what all the bridal magazines tell you, and make the day your own.

Read Post

Don't Sweat the Wedding: It's the Marriage That Counts

Joanna Dreifus | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Relationship Advice, Getting Married, Relationships, Divorce, Getting Divorced, After the Wedding, Weddings News

Last month, my 8-year-old daughter unearthed my wedding album. She barely remembers us together. "Were you happy ?" she asked. "Yes," I answered. I'd loved her father. I'd loved my wedding. I will never regret the marriage because it gave me her and her little brother.

Read Post

Why 'Smug Marrieds' Don't Know What They're Talking About

Rachel Greenwald | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Cold Feet, Etiquette and Advice, Marriage Doubts, Getting Married, Dating Advice, Dating, After the Wedding, Weddings News

Sitting in the church, it struck me that what I was really witnessing was a crapshoot. Here was this couple at the altar, pledging their lives to each other. And as happy as I was for them, I knew the truth: When you get married, all you can really do is roll the dice and hope for the best.

Read Post

Why I Compared My Sister's Wedding to My Own

Nanette Lepore | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Planning Your Wedding, Getting Married, Wedding Stories, Etiquette and Advice, Sisters, Siblings, After the Wedding, Weddings News

Here's my advice: if you have a sister, make her go down the aisle first so you can learn from her mistakes. And when it comes to a party, no one remembers the details, they just remember the fun.

Read Post

I Hated My 'Perfect' Wedding

Danielle Shamash | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Indiebride, Mother-in-Law, Nightmare Wedding, Dream Wedding, Etiquette and Advice, Getting Married, Wedding Disaster, Dream Weddings, Weddings News

Mine was the kind of wedding that little girls dream about. Exquisite floral arrangements and tapered candles lined elegant tables in the ballroom of a luxury hotel. It was somebody's dream wedding. But not mine.

Read Post

The 4 Most Common Pitfalls In The First Year of Marriage

Dr. Gian Gonzaga | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Relationship Advice, Getting Married, First Year of Marriage, Etiquette and Advice, Relationships, Relationship Tips, Making Marriage Work, After the Wedding, Weddings News

Many couples expect their first year of marriage to be nothing short of a fairy tale and are caught by surprise when the first year proves to be filled with challenges as opposed to an extended period of honeymoon bliss.

Read Post

Indiebride 2.0

Lori Leibovich | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Indiebride, Creative Weddings, Nontraditional Weddings, Weddings 2.0, Independent Brides, Independent Weddings, Planning Your Wedding, Getting Married, Weddings News

I am thrilled to announce that as of today, Indiebride will become part of Huffington Post Weddings, a new site that embodies the spirit and mission of Indiebride -- a commitment to focusing not just on the wedding day, but the years of marriage to come.

Read Post

What's in a Name?

Caroline Donaldson-Sinclair | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Murdoch, Changing Your Name, Rebekah Brooks, Getting Married, Wixhill, Donaldson-Sinclair, Politics News

Does this mean Rupert Murdoch has established himself as an entity in his own right, whilst James gets his somewhat loaded descriptor to highlight the dubious levels of nepotism still raging at News International and the question of how long investors may continue to tolerate his shielding by Big Daddy?

Read Post

Say Yes To The Mess: You Want To Get Married This Year?

TheGloss | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Wedding Planning, Get Married This Year, Wedding Industrial Complex, Getting Married, Love & Sex, Wedding-Industrial-Complex, Wedding-Planning, Wedding Industry, Getting-Married, Women News

Before I got engaged, I had this strange notion that wedding madness was what you make of it. Bridezillas and astronomical wedding budgets were a prod...

Read Whole Story

Before You Got Married, Did You Secretly Know It Wasn't Right?

Emily V. Gordon | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Marriage, Divorce Rate, Getting Married, Relationships, Divorce, Divorce News

A lot of people end up getting married more out of expectation than out of passion for each other. If your options have ever been "we either get married or break up," be careful.

Read Post

Jessica Ravitz: Why I'm Not Married

CNN | Jessica Ravitz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Marriage, Lifestyle, Why You're Not Married, Staying Single, Single Life, Why I'm Not Married, Never Married Women, Getting Married, Tracy McMillan, Single Women, Unmarried Women, Jessica Ravitz Why I'm Not Married, Tracy Mcmillan Why You're Not Married, Healthy Living News

By Jessica Ravitz CNN Tracy McMillan has gotten under my single-status skin. I'm not sure how it took nearly a week for her Huffington Post column, ...

Read Whole Story

The Top 5 Ways To Go From 'Dateable' To 'Mateable'

Marcy Cole, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Marriage, Finding Love, Women, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Dating Advice, How to Find Love, Dating, Love Advice, How to Find a Relationship, Single, Men, Men and Women, Getting Married, Healthy Living News

I believe that for those of you awaiting your beloved, you can experience the dating phase leading to the mating phase in a way that is reflective of your heart's deepest desires.

Read Post

WATCH: Economist Discusses Why Getting Married Isn't Rational

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marriage, Video, Spousanomics, Divorce, Economics, Behavioral Economics, Dan Ariely, Getting Married, Business News

If pure economics is any judge, marriage is just not rational, an MIT economist argues. The benefits of marriage, according to this new video post...

Read Whole Story

Why Planning a Wedding Should Not Take Longer Than 3 Months

Joseph Satto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wedding Planning, Marriage, Getting Married, Nuptials, Productivity, Weddings, Style News

You can pull off a fantastic wedding in much less than a year, and without being forced to mortgage the farm to finance it.

Read Post