Planning a wedding can be an emotional rollercoaster. Here are 15 Sex and the City GIFs that encapsulate some moments you might experience in the run up to the big day...
1. When the venue manager tells you that, actually, it won’t be possible to ride into the ceremony on a horse. Not the answer you were looking for…
2. When you have your first bridesmaids' get-together…
3. When you find the dress…
4. The four words your fiancé should never utter while you’re going through a table plan dilemma…
THE 15 STAGES OF WEDDING PLANNING IN FRIENDS GIFS
5. When your Maid of Honour suggests that you might be going a little overboard with the DIY…
6. When someone tells you the world doesn’t revolve around your wedding…
7. Your sister's considerate words of encouragement when you're telling her about your pre-wedding diet plan...
8. When you realise that just maybe you’re being a bit of a bridezilla…
9. When you have to make a choice between a pair of Louboutins, or a designer suit for your groom…
10. When you can't decide on accessories so you choose them all...…
11. When you imagine a life free of wedding planning…
PLANNING CHECKLIST
12. When you try (and fail) to pretend that you’re fine after being told that one of your maids is sick, and the prosecco might not arrive on time…
13. The reoccurring dream you have every night about walking down the aisle…
14. What you want to do when you see someone at the wedding that didn’t RSVP (awks)...
15. When the big day comes and you’re an absolute goddess. Huzzah!
All images from GIPHY
(This post was originally written for Perfect Wedding magazine)
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04/01/2016
HOW CARRIE BRADSHAW SET WRITERS UP FOR FAILURE
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| Image : Yassein Gonzalez on Pinterest |
You know what everyone always says about Disney giving them unrealistic expectations about love? Well, the same goes for Carrie Bradshaw and her ridiculously lavish life as a columnist. As a writer myself, here are a couple of 'life according to Carrie' expectations that came crashing down when I hit my mid-20s.
Freelancing is a walk in the park
So, apparently, writing one column a week makes you enough money to pay for your Manhattan apartment, a thousand Cosmopolitans a week and fund your unhealthy habit of buying ugly, overpriced shoes. Wrong. Strike one, Carrie.
Exciting things will happen on a weekly basis
And they'll make such perfect ideas for your column, the stories will virtually write themselves. Just sit back and let the magic happen. And, may I add, even though you print every single detail of your friends' sex lives practically on a live feed as they're telling you, they'll still be happy to divulge their deepest, darkest secrets to you. Dude, if I did that to my friends, they'd all be conveniently washing their hair every time I wanted to meet up.
Smoking is sexy
It's not. Carrie probably stunk of ashtray.
Eating out every night is totally normal
Believe me, I wish it was, but unless you're raking in an incredible salary ( cough Point 1 cough), this is not a realistic lifestyle. Stop using your oven to store shoes and get the potato waffles on the go.
It's ok if the guy you love is a total dick to you
Let's be honest, if he didn't want you then, it's unlikely that he'll want you however-many-years later. Big even fucked up their wedding, for god's sake, and she still married him! Girls, please do not let this give you false hope. If he's not that into you now, don't expect him to realise and come running to Paris for you. Move on, marry the Russian.
A room full of clothes
Yes, I live alone and my spare room is a closet for my designer clothes. That's totally normal.
Sleeping with a new man every week is ok
And also a sure-fire way to STD heaven. Let's leave it at that.
Your friends will be at your beck and call
It's a nice idea but I'm just going to put it out there that it's extremely unlikely that four women with demanding jobs, relationships and kids will have as much time to sit around brunching as these ladies do. Unless you're Miranda and can afford to hire a Magda so you can go to lunch and complain about Steve.
Still, I can't deny that I do love SATC, and one thing I have taken away, as a freelance writer, from Ms Ashtray McShoe Addiction is to commence an inner monologue à la Bradshaw whenever I start writing... and I wouldn't have it any other way!
02/02/2015
SUCK IT UP, BUTTERCUP
Here's one I made earlier! Because I like cross stitching and I like being witty. This design is from Subversive Cross Stitch.
22/01/2015
GIRLS OF ALL SHAPES AND SIZES
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| Photo : Elle |
Anyway, the point is, I had been avoiding watching Girls since a friend introduced it to me a year and a half ago.
I kind of forgot about it, until recently when my sister started watching the series and re-recommend it to me. It still took me about a week to do it, but being bed bound due to illness gave me no more excuses. I clicked play on that first episode, and that was it. Four days and two and a half seasons later and I'm hooked. I love it.
I love Hannah, I love the quirky storylines, I love the humour, I love how relatable the characters are. In short, it’s just great.
It was towards the middle of Season 2, however, when I found myself becoming mildly irritated during one of Hannah’s naked scenes. I couldn’t really pinpoint why until, to my absolute disgrace, it dawned on me that it was because of her ‘unconventional’ body.
I was suddenly outraged at myself that such a feeling had even entered my mind, no matter how involuntarily it was. I’m all for feminism and female empowerment (hence the name of my blog being a bit of a tongue-in-cheek take on Urban Dictionary’s explanation of ‘girl brain’) so I began to question how, considering my own personal values, I had come to this subconscious conclusion.
Is it that drilled in to today’s generation that women are meant to have perfect bodies? Are we so used to seeing skinny, no-fat-anywhere types gracing our television screens that we are insulted by seeing any other shape and size? If so, this is something I find extremely worrying.
I applaud Lena Dunham for her bold, bare-all approach in Girls. Having come under an abundance of criticism (cough New York Post cough) for her body she has persevered and challenged societies perception of what a woman’s body should or shouldn’t look like.
Because some women do have a big bum and small boobs... :)
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