Publisher: Carriage Before Marriage -

I’m Amy, a reality television producer turned freelance writer and blogger currently at home with my little girl, Viv. The twist is that while I am raising my daughter, I am also planning my wedding to her father. Carriage Before Marriage! Welcome to the blog! When I fell in love with Dave, I was pushing 40 and had no patience for weddings. We moved in together, fast tracked our baby and got engaged when Viv was 6 weeks old, on Valentine’s Day. Now that we’re all finally sleeping through the night, we’re ready to get hitched. Our parents are more than ready. We’re preparing for a July, 2014 wedding while (why make things easy?) also trying to get knocked up again. Join me as I blog about our adventures in wedding planning, family planning and all the goofy stuff that happens in between. For more about our story, check out this post: First Comes Love. New here? There’s a “Favorite Posts” pull-down menu on the home page, and below that, “I Love Lists” – an fun & easy place to start reading. Carriage Before Marriage was named a Top 100 Mom Blog by Babble and a Top 25 Funny Moms blog by Circle of Moms. It was quoted on Today Moms at MSNBC.com and has been syndicated on BlogHer. When I’m not blogging here, I write for The Huffington Post, Lifetime Moms, mom.me, Parenting, What To Expect, Circle of Moms/Pop Sugar, In The Powder Room and Families in the Loop. what was i thinking book I was proud to have two essays featured in a funny anthology called What Was I Thinking: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories alongside my writing idols Cindy Chupack and Carrie Fisher. You can read one of my stories, “Junk in the Trunk,” here on MSNBC.com or watch the digital “VidLit” version. My work also appears in the In The Powder Room anthology You Have Lipstick on Your Teeth.