Hi, I'm Margot.

For six years I worked as a day-of and full-service wedding coordinator up and down the Oregon coast, which means I've personally stood in the rain holding a golf umbrella over a bride, re-ironed a groom's shirt forty minutes before a ceremony, and renegotiated a catering invoice at eleven at night the week of a wedding. Something Borrowed is everything I learned doing that work, written down the way I wish someone had written it down for me.

Why I started writing this down

Coordinators see the same mistakes repeat across dozens of weddings a year — not because couples are careless, but because almost nobody tells you the real numbers, the real timelines, or the real list of questions to ask before you're already emotionally attached to a vendor or a venue. Wedding media is full of beautiful photography and curiously short on specifics. I wanted to build the opposite: fewer mood boards, more actual price ranges.

What you'll find here

Mostly: vendor pricing broken down by city and by what's actually included, registry and budget advice based on what guests genuinely purchase rather than what looks good in a gift guide, honest comparisons of honeymoon booking options, and the planning logistics — venue questions, weather contingencies, timelines — that I used to handle for couples professionally and now write about for anyone planning their own wedding without a coordinator on retainer.

I also write essays, occasionally, about the parts of this whole process that have nothing to do with logistics at all — vows, dresses, the stuff that's harder to put a price range on.

A note on vendors and recommendations

When I reference specific pricing or vendor examples, I'm working from current rate sheets, reader-submitted numbers, and my own professional experience in the industry. Some posts on this site include sponsored content or affiliate links, always disclosed where they appear, and none of it changes what I'm willing to say about a price, a vendor, or a process that didn't go well.

Say hello

You can reach me through the contact link in the site footer with questions, correction requests, or just to tell me how your own planning is going. I read every message, even if it occasionally takes me a wedding season to reply.