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Have an actually fun wedding

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Everyone told us that our wedding would be stressful. It wasn’t—it was, in fact, an extremely fun, low-stress affair that left us feeling more connected and more excited to be newlyweds, rather than comatose with post-wedding exhaustion and pre-wedding conflicts. The hardest part was picking out a sports coat that was unusual enough to satisfy Sasha while not being too silly for Cate.

This post was written with Cate Hall. Everyone told us that our wedding would be stressful. It wasn’t—it was, in fact, an extremely fun, low-stress affair that left us feeling more connected and more excited to be newlyweds, rather than comatose with post-wedding exhaustion and pre-wedding conflicts. The hardest part was picking out a sports coat that was unusual enough to satisfy Sasha while not being too silly for Cate. In total, we spent something like $7k on the wedding, but could have easily done it for under $5k. We spent under 20 hours planning it, about 1/4 of which was Cate…

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