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Ariel Meadow Stallings

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http://offbeatbride.com

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Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Here’s the official third-person bio: A writer and editor for a decade, Ariel Meadow Stallings has been published in print and web publications including ReadyMade Magazine, Seattle Weekly, and Movies.com. Offbeat Bride is her first book.

Here’s me rambling about myself: I started writing for public consumption in 1997, first for a small women’s zine in San Francisco, and then for Lotus, an electronic music magazine published out of Los Angeles. I worked my way up from event reviewer to contributor to regional editor and I became Editor in Chief of Lotus in 1998. I spent almost three years documenting America’s rave scene (laugh all you want: Lotus had 30,000 readers nationwide and was an unmitigated niche success) before hanging up my edito...more

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Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
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Quotes by Ariel Meadow Stallings

“Life, weddings, relationships, road trips, gardening, making out, haircuts: few of the fun things in life always go as expected.”
― Ariel Meadow Stallings, Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides

tags: life, relationships, weddings

7 people liked it

“Make peace with the fact that there will be those who bitch no matter what you do. You might as well do what makes you happy, so at least when you hear the bitching, you'll know that the event they're griping about was exactly the one you wanted.”
― Ariel Meadow Stallings, Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides

tags: event-planning, weddings

5 people liked it

“In our relationship, we have very well-defined roles: I am the Vice President of Logistics; he's the CEO of Emotional Support.”
― Ariel Meadow Stallings, Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides

tags: love, relationships

4 people liked it

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