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July 2009

Don’t be Intimidated by a Portrait Painting of your Child

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Years ago (too many to count at this point) I remember standing in front of John Singer Sargent’s oil portrait of Madame X. I stood there mesmerized. The magnificent attitude of the sitter, the beauty of her alabaster skin, the elegance of her black dress. At that moment, I understood how a portrait painting could [...]

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Girls Need a Little Red Dress

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Older girls know that the little black dress is a must. It’s up there with clean underwear. Remember how your mother always told you to wear clean underwear in case you got into an accident. [Of course if we were in an accident, clean underwear would be the least of our worries. But I digress.] [...]

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Practice Makes Perfect Flower Girls

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Etiquette provides little guidelines that help loved ones navigate unknown situations and the rules of etiquette provide a framework of what to do in different situations. A wedding, not surprisingly, may place loved ones in unfamiliar situations where they don’t quite know what to do. So does that mean if we follow the rules of [...]

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Bribing your Kids to Wear a Fancy Dress

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Okay, so I know that you are absolutely, positively NOT supposed to bribe your kids to get them to do something that you want them to do…like say wear a party dress. I understand that it sends the wrong message. Truly, I have seen how smart children are and how quickly they can turn a [...]

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