With the year coming to a close and a new one starting in a few days, I thought that now would be a good time to start writing those reflection posts. It is always a great exercise to see how things went and to take from those experiences and learn: in the hopes of becoming…
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Seating Charts are the Worst!
Repeat after me: seating charts are an absolute nightmare. They are every bride-to-be’s worst enemy and the cause of many sleepless nights. No matter how much you prepare yourself for the horrors they might bring, you’re never fully ready to take that task on. And I mean, I don’t even understand why you have to…
What Living in the Netherlands Taught Me
If I’ve learned anything lately, it’s that time flies. One moment you’re getting your acceptance letter for graduate school, the next it’s four years down the line and you can barely remember what you studied or where you lived or who you encountered. Wow, it’s been four years since I moved to Maastricht, a town…
The Wedding Invitations are Here!
Wedding planning has taught me to be patient beyond any means. But my patience ran out when the wedding invitations took two extra weeks. I was supposed to send them abroad with family who were travelling but the printers thought that it would be fun to keep them an extra week while completely screwing up…
Waiting
My life right now can be summarized in one word: waiting. And since I was never the most patient person, I don’t like it and I can’t enjoy the moment. To make matters worse, I discovered today at work that I don’t have any vacation days this whole month and I have around five intensive…
The Guest List: Take Three
Of the hardest things I’ve had to do, setting the guest list has been the hardest of them all. It’s such a daunting task when you are trying to limit who you want to share your big day with because you have a budget and catering constraints. It’s so tough that we still don’t have…
Some Manners Go a Long, Long Way (Save The Dates)
Don’t try to hide it, I know you’re online! Even if I can’t see your last seen on Whatsapp or you’re offline on Facebook chat, I know you’re there! After all, you’re sharing stupid videos and articles with tricky, silly titles. Or you’re instagramming your every meal. So please, don’t try to tell me you’re…
The Guest List Revisited
When we started planning the wedding, I put my foot down and announced that I wanted to do things differently. I wanted a small wedding of no more than 100 or people. I wanted the average age of the invitees to be closer to mine and Ahmad’s so that our wedding could be fun and…
The Guest List
I spent the better part of the day editing our wedding guest list. Even though we had a basic one ready, we need to make it better before we finalize our venue search. By Lebanese standards, our wedding is tiny. But I prefer to look at it as intimate: having the people we truly care…
What Costs Less Than A Wedding?
I have been feeling uneasy all this past week and that’s mainly because we shifted focus from the house to wedding planning. We’re researching and calling and meeting with venues, and trying to find something within our budget. Which is difficult, of course, when the majority of places are asking you to sell your kidney…
Beyond Beirut 