This winter I was thinking about how to adjust elements of The Wedding Show so that it has more repeat value, costs less to put on, and includes more audience engagement with a smaller cast. These musing led to many sleepless nights and a lot of conversations about what the best parts of the show are. 
One of my half formed ideas was to do all the things before The Wedding but never do the wedding. We'd stage a proposal out in public and turn it into a huge dance party. And then we'd put on another event designed around the theme of a wedding sampling, where everyone who attends gets to taste dessert nibbles, and choose the color palette and wedding scents and even select the wedding dress for the bride. The final event of course would be an off the chain bachelorette or fox-do where we play raunchy games and drink cocktails with suggestive names. I'm not totally ready to let go of all of these ideas yet...but I've come around to believe that The Wedding is the most important thing about the Show. It's not The Wedding Show without a wedding....
So we settled on 3 weddings this year, WITH some pre-wedding engagements to get you all excited and ready for the end of the summer. 
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And I'm here for it! 
We've amassing a pretty solid TWS crew of the years. Sure, not everyone sticks around. Folks move, their lives get busier, they have kids and cannot commit to missing every Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the family...but there's a core of the TWS people that's emerging and this year we're a co-creation crew. More heads are better than one, right? Bring on the chaos! Let's see what we come up with when we're throwing ideas at the wall and seeing one sticks. 
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**A quick aside...when I was about 11 years old I invited a friend over for dinner. My dad had made a tomato dish that wasn't his best creation and weeks early he has made the mistake of showing me how to throw pasta at a wall to see if it was done...so I showed my friend this excellent trick. We launched charred and seasoned tomato slices up onto the ceiling and low and behold, some of them stuck. We were living in a renovated barn with 18 foot tall ceilings, so that tomatoes that did no come down became a part of the house. It probably up there until my dad cut down and dragged in a 18 foot tall pine tree that tickled the ceiling a year later. **