Wedding planning is much harder than I thought. MUCH. Let me clarify: I never expected it to be easy. But MAN is there a lot to do! I was never someone who spent much time thinking about my wedding, and by extension, wedding planning. I hadn't dreamt of my dress, picked out a location, or imagined the reception. Until I joined Pinterest, that is. After a few months resisting the urge to create a wedding board and letting all of the beautiful pictures float away, un-pinned, into the abyss, never to be retrieved... I gave in. How could I not? For the first time in my life I was thinking about what my possible-eventual-hypothetical wedding might be like, and it was REALLY fun. But I didn't have a fiancé, or even a serious boyfriend, so I tried to keep the crazy pinning lust to a minimum. Because who wants to date a girl with 3,000 pins on her wedding board?
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If you asked 100 vegans you would hear 100 different opinions, but I believe there is no right or wrong answer to this question. This is not, unfortunately, a black and white issue. Ridding your life of animal products for good can be a long process or even impossible in today's world. The way they are used in just about everything, whether or not they need to be, makes transitioning to a fully vegan lifestyle a struggle. Do you drive a car or take the bus? Do you own a computer? Do you watch movies on film? You're using animal products. In today's world, the prevalence of objects containing animal products is staggering. So what should you do?
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