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Every year, my own Christmas card photoshoot has to be something fun and unique and memorable. Last year I was five months pregnant on the shorts of the Mediterranean, the year before I made a fake sunset, and one year we were in Costa Rica on our Christmas card. It’s become a personal challenge and…
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Hey, newly-engaged and newly-wed you: have you talked about how you will decide what holiday traditions to start in your new marriage? My husband and I took very seriously the advice to “communicate about everything” but in the six years since we started down the “engaged” path and into the “married” category, we have only…
look who’s beautiful!