A few years back, celebrities started getting knocked up before their wedding days and it has become the latest rage. These days, nearly every bridal shop has a maternity section.
My mother was way ahead of the trend and she got married when she was eight and a half months pregnant with me (her second child) in a blue and white polka dotted dress in communist Russia in 1987. Sad thing is that there are no pictures because my mom felt ugly, but she also had a moustache so I can’t be blamed entirely.
Pregnant brides don’t have to feel ugly anymore with all the options out there today. Staying sober at my wedding is not an option, but if you’re okay with not getting drunk at your party (READ: you don’t have a choice!), then let the planning begin…
Just make sure to follow these fashion tips:
1. Can you still wear white? Of course! If everyone followed the rule that only virgins can wear “the color of purity”, there wouldn’t be any white weddings anymore. You’re a lady who plays by her own rules and that means any color goes.
2. Fittings, fittings, fittings.Be aware that your body will be changing all the way down to the wire and you need to get a dress that will work with you. Your boobs will grow, a lot; get a dress that will support them.
3. Yeah, you need support, but show off your big boobs. They will never look this good again.
4. Going along with fit, make sure the dress is empire waist or very formfitting or you will look like a tent.
5. NO A-line or princess dresses.
6. NO Mermaid dresses…you will look like a Russian nesting doll.
7. NO dropped or natural-waisted dresses.
8. Be inventive with bling accessories like a brooch or innovative headpiece to move people’s eyes.
On the following pages, I’ve picked out my do’s and dont’s.
Jeremy and Jaime won last week’s contest. Will they defend their title this week or will a new couple beat them out? You decide!
Remember you can vote once a day. The poll closes at 12:05 am PST on Friday!
1. Jeremy Caul & Jaime Imbeault
Location: Kekabeka Falls in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Date: November 6, 2009
Jeremy & Jaime
Jeremy writes:
Jaime, and I are students, living in Thunder Bay, ON, Canada. We’ve been together for almost two years now, and have lived together the whole time. In October, my great-grandmother passed away, leaving me feeling like life was short. Since I love Jaime and was planning on proposing soon anyway, I decided to go out and get a ring. Once the ring was in my coat pocket, I knew I couldn’t wait.
Three days later, during the four-hour drive home for the funeral, we stopped at Kekabeka falls; a local falls just outside Thunder Bay. My excuse was that I needed to take some pictures for my photography class, which was partially true. We walked around the falls a while taking some pics, and it was the first beautiful, sunny day in a long stretch of rainy days – this is how I knew that today was the day.
I asked her to pose for a picture, leaning on the rail looking towards the falls with her back to me. I didn’t even take the picture but when I told her I was done, she turned around and I was on one knee with the ring box open in my hand. She didn’t even let me stand up to put the ring on! She was so excited that she immediately dropped to her knees to give me a hug and kiss, nearly knocking the ring out of her hand.
Today, we are happier than ever. We hope to graduate and begin working in three years time, and then we will have our wonderful wedding. The date we have just chosen is August 23, 2013 – which will be our 5 and a half year anniversary. I love my wife-to-be, and we plan on having a great, long, life together.
2. Jonathan Stahl & Amy Stewart
Location: Paris, France
Date: August, 2007
Amy & Jonathan
Jonathan writes:
It was the summer after college graduation and Amy (my then-girlfriend soon-to-be-fiancé now-wife) and I were on vacation in Paris, where we stayed at my uncle’s lavish apartment. She had chosen the ring several months prior and I had brought it with us on the trip.
She knew it was coming, but the question was when. As she tells it, she intentionally left the room for 10 minutes to give me time to hide it somewhere she wouldn’t see it until it was time to propose.
It happened in the Jarins de Luxembourg (Luxembourg Gardens). I told her to look at a statue or something, and when she turned back around I was on one knee with the ring. I told her that I hadn’t prepared any Earth-shatteringly romantic statement, and that I knew she loved shiny things, so I’d let the shininess of the ring speak for itself.
We then did it in the middle of the park, surrounded by onlookers. It’s all true (except maybe for that last part). You can ask Amy!
3.Bobby Black & April Price
Location: The canals of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: Friday, November 27, 2009
April & Bobby
Bobby writes:
Each November, my company HIGH TIMES hosts The Cannabis Cup—the world’s biggest marijuana festival in Amsterdam. It was here, on Thanksgiving Day 2006, that I met the love of my life, April Price.
Since she was from Phoenix and I from New York, we spent the next year flying across the country to see each other—often at other pot-themed events. In August 2007, we embarked on a two-week desert odyssey—camping in Sedona and the Grand Canyon, a week at Burning Man, and a hot-tub weekend in Vegas. By the end of the trip, I knew she was my soul mate and asked her to move in with me. In May 2008, she packed up her belongings and we drove cross-country together. She’s been with me ever since.
This November, we returned to Amsterdam for our fourth Cannabis Cup together. It was there, on a candlelight canal cruise in the City of Diamonds, that I dropped to my knee and asked her to be my wife. Tearfully, she replied, “I would be honored!” After the cruise, I brought her to our favorite pot-friendly bar Barney’s Uptown, where our friends were waiting to toast us with weed, hashish, and champagne.
Now that you’ve read the stories, it’s your turn to weigh in. The winning couple will be revealed Friday.
February 15, 1867
Feodor Dostoyevsky & Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina
The Dostoyevskis
In October of 1866 at the age of 44, Feodor Dostoyevsky, author of classics Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, found himself in a predicament.
He had been contracted to write the novel The Gambler and only had a few weeks to finish. If he didn’t complete it on time, he had agreed that he would forfeit the money for all of his writings for the next nine years.
With the clock ticking, a friend suggested that he hire a stenographer so that he could dictate the story and save time.
Dostoyevsky took his friend’s advice and Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina, a 20-year-old typist, showed up at his door. Over the next few weeks, they spent every waking hour together and Dostoyevsky fell in love.
He was afraid of rejection, so he dictated his marriage proposal to her as a plot point in the novel. After getting her opinion on whether a younger woman would fall for a middle-aged man, he had the courage to ask her in real life.
She accepted, they finished the novel on time and were married only a few months later. In the years after their marriage, he produced some of his greatest works.
Writer’s block might be the worst affliction an author can encounter. But for Dostoyevsky, it ended up being one of the best things to ever happen to him. He and his wife were married for the rest of his life.
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