How to Stay Close to Your Single Girlfriends While Planning Your Wedding: Refinery 29

I'm happy to be included in this post on Refinery 29 by Natalie Gontcharova about ways to reduce wedding stress.

My advice on Slide 7 may seem harsh, but I think it's apt and useful to keep in mind, so you can keep your most important single girlfriends close and in your life, even as you plan your wedding:

It's important to spend time with friends and family outside of wedding-related events, too.

And be careful about when (and how often) you discuss wedding planning. “Shut up about your wedding,” says Moir-Smith. (Love it.)

“Especially with your single girlfriends; they don’t want to hear it.

I [got married when I was 35, so I] spent 12, 14, years in New York having to hear about friends’ weddings. Be very selective who you’re talking to and how you’re talking to them about it.

​Your single girlfriends — be incredibly sensitive to the impact. It [can be] triggering stuff for them, whether they acknowledge it or even know it. Be interested in them. They have lives going on.”

View the full slideshow here, including "Just Say No To The Wedding Industry" and "Find Your Solo Bliss"