So, I’ve always said that this newsletter, nominally about heiresses, was really about gossip and dresses and kissing and money. And then apparently sometime in early 2022, I completely burned out on writing it (sorry about that!!).
Today, I’m starting a new newsletter, Wedding Guest Digest, about one of the things that’s been taking up my brain space all this time: stories about what kind of freak shit happens when you stick a bunch of people in a church or a hall or a refurbished warehouse and tell them they’re there to celebrate love.
There’s a lot of overlap on this topic with the old ‘letter: gossip! dresses! kissing! money! Plus we’ll have passed apps and uncles dancing to “Uptown Funk.” Sure, we’ve replaced “unfair systems of intergenerational wealth” with “patriarchal notions of sexuality and devotion” but you know, same same same.
I’ll be pulling a lot from the subreddits I am idly browsing at any given moment, but gosh I would love to hear and anonymize your own story, so feel free to email me at meredithahaggerty@gmail.com, or even reply here.
If you’re interested, you can subscribe here on beehiiv. The first one should be going out this week. I hope you say “I do… want to hear about all that mess.”