Creating our wedding seating chart felt less like planning a party,

and more like brokering a peace treaty between rival nations.

Planning the wedding seating chart felt less like arranging guests for a meal...

...and more like an advanced game of Tetris, where every piece was a family member with an opinion.

My wife and I try to have a weekly 'date night' to keep the romance alive.

These days, 'keeping the romance alive' mostly means falling asleep on the couch halfway through a movie and debating who gets to turn off the lights.

We thought we were being frugal by having the wedding at home

Until we had to take out a second mortgage to accommodate the guest list and the therapist for my mother-in-law