Welcome to reMarriage magazine! With all of the wedding, women’s, and parenting magazines out there, who needs one more? While planning my second wedding, I realized there was no one place for advice. So, I decided to find a way to help people who, just like me, were planning a second (or third…) wedding, not to mention wrestling with those issues that begin when the nuptials end.

The spark of an idea came with a question I had jotted in my journal back in 2002, a particularly perplexing one for a remarrying bride-to-be: “What am I going to wear?” I had pored over bridal magazines, with pages and pages of content, and advertising, aimed at first-time brides. After trudging through bridal store after store searching for the perfect wedding attire, I, who had no interest in wearing a long, white, poufy dress, realized there aren’t a lot of resources out there for remarrying people. After all, my groom-to-be, a widower, and I, who had been divorced, already had five sets of china and three blenders between us. Plus, five children, two full-time careers (one which included something not-so-simple like leading a thousand soldiers during wartime), two homes, a 100-pound dog, a 5-pound, yappy dog, and a partridge in a pear tree. Well, ok, everything, but the partridge.

I thought my problems were solved once I found a dressmaker to design the perfect dress, decided where to seat my husband-to-be’s prior in-laws at the reception, and answered my sons’ inquiries as to why their dad could not attend the wedding celebration. Not so.

You know the word “change?” Not as in “changing” what you are going to wear or seating arrangements, but as in dramatically changing the lives of seven people, aged 6 to 44, all at once in one house? No wedding planner, etiquette book, or well-meaning philosophical conversation with my fiancé, let alone a magazine, had prepared me for that.

Thus, the spark of the idea for a magazine ignited into fireworks– in more ways than one. Fireworks, also known as violent displays of temper or fierce activity, are also hallmarks of celebrations. And so we’re here to walk with you, through all of those outbursts, flashes of anger, and a rainbow of new experiences. To air some issues, offer some solutions, and just share in the fact that our journey is a little different, but no less colorful.

I, like many other remarrying people, have much to celebrate with a second chance to be with the one I love for the rest of my life. And, so, I’d like to raise a toast to all of you, to a magazine for all of us, and a new source of support and joy.

We look forward to sharing that journey with you,

Paula Bisacre
Publisher and Founder