Coming up on my fourteenth wedding anniversary, I've had a bit of time to reflect about not only our nuptials, but about the wedding process itself, and in doing so, I've found that retrospect has provided me with certain tools in which I could assist future brides. First, the ring. If you are with a man who loves you unconditionally, who can put up with your bullshit for an entire lifetime, and whose bullshit will only drive you to drink occasionally, but who isn't exactly cash rich, it would seem to make more sense to put aside the shallow need for diamonds, and accept his proposal, and his promises for a beautiful future at face value. The baubles and bangles can come later, when they won't put him (or you both) into debt. Speaking of debt, don't begin your married life drowning in it. While I understand that putting one's self into debt is currently America's favorite past time, it is a terrible thing to be saddled with maxed out credit cards during...