As much as we’ve loved following Eleni’s adventures in wedding planning over the past seven months, her wedding is fast approaching—and that means we’re on the hunt for her successor!

Are you engaged and planning a wedding? We want to hear from you. Do you want to share your lessons learned (and get advice from readers), your most—and least—favorite parts of wedding planning, and lots more with Washingtonians?

If you’re a bride-to-be (or groom-to-be!) who’s willing to share your story, send us an e-mail with why you think you’d make a great wedding blogger. 

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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I can’t explain why, but each February I find myself contemplating and second-guessing every aspect of my life. From my career to my hairstyle, I always become a bit uneasy in February, and this apprehension has brought me to a contemplative state when it comes to the wedding.

Sitting in bed one lazy Sunday morning, I began to think that maybe I didn’t really love my dress. Maybe I forced the inexpensive dress to be the dress I adored, and maybe I’d given up the search too early. What about the bridesmaid dresses? Were they really the right feel for the venue? And the caterer—were we being naïve to think we could actually make her work in our price range? These questions swirled in my mind with the other dozens of questions about the other parts of my life.

The best and worst of this season's The Bachelor.

Hide and seek.

Note to bridal salon owners: Don't pick up and move overnight.

The perfect wedding for 35 people.

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Photo by Jennifer Smoose

As executive director of Americans for Fair Trade, Ernest Baynard spent the first few months of 2005 making appearances on CNN and CNBC, speaking out against a Central American trade deal.

At the Department of Commerce, senior adviser Lindsey Dickinson spent her days fighting for the proposed agreement. All’s fair in love and war—and this time, it was both: Baynard and Dickinson had been dating for two years.

The couple, who live in DC, met backstage at the 9:30 Club in November 2002. Ernest was friends with members of the evening’s band, Galactic, and Lindsey had won a radio contest to meet the band.

“I found out he was a Democrat in our first conversation, and it didn’t bother me,” says Lindsey, now senior director for federal-government affairs at Comcast. “It was nice, actually, meeting someone who wasn’t part of the Bush administration but still shared some of my interests.”

They both saw the band again the next night, and Ernest called Lindsey that Monday. They went on a few dates, but the romance started when they parted ways for the holidays. While home with her family in Vermont, Lindsey was impressed to see a quote from Ernest in Time magazine—and touched that he called her on Christmas. From the night they got back to DC, they were a bipartisan couple. 

9021-over. No wedding for Brian Austin Green.

Doing good with your big day. [via Always a Blogsmaid]

Pointers from Anna Post.

What's a meowly catrimony? (Hint: The bride and groom exchanged collars.)

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Eleni, right, with her bridesmaid Jillian.

Hello! I’m Jillian, one of the lucky few that Eleni hand-picked to be in her wedding. I couldn’t be happier for Eleni and Ron—they’re such lovely people. Although I’m extremely excited to be a bridesmaid in this fancy affair, I’m no novice. Not including my stints as a flower girl, I’ve been a bridesmaid in three other weddings.

The first was my sister’s wedding when I was 17 years old. I was the maid of honor in name only. I was more concerned about getting my braces off than I was about what color scheme my sister was going to pick.

My sister, like Eleni, had a big wedding party. My brother-in-law comes from a family of nine, and I come from a family of five, so when you include all siblings and throw in a few cousins, you have a wedding party the size of a small army. To this day, I have no idea how my sister pulled it off.

Spring vs. summer. [via Always a Blogsmaid]

A memo from the maid of honor.

And out came Bridezilla.

Guests shouldn't move the place cards, and the groom can write thank you's, too.

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