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This Low-Key Lakeside Wedding Is a Breath of Fresh Air
“When dating, I was meeting people who weren’t ‘it,’ and I wanted to clarify what ‘it’ was for me,” says Daisy, who lives in Duluth, Minnesota. So, she created a note on her phone with 17 things she was looking for, like ‘emotionally available’ and ‘lives a joyful life’ and ‘can start a fire or change a tire.’ She met Ted in 2019 and said that she manifested him. They got married in July 2021 on Lake Superior. Here, Daisy talks about Goodwill wedding decor and a joke in her vows that people told her not to make…
“During the pandemic, we had date nights where we dressed up, cooked a nice dinner, drank wine, and danced around our apartment. It was very sweet. At one of those dinners, Ted proposed. We try to make things special, but we don’t necessarily do a lot of pomp and circumstance. So, our wedding wasn’t going to be a big production. We wanted to celebrate in a way that felt super chill and true to who we are.”
“I know this may sound like some people’s nightmare, but we picked a date one month away and told everyone. Then we had to find a place. Duluth is gorgeous in the summer, and we wanted to do it outside. We found a community center at the beach with a slot open in the afternoon. I think it was $125 to rent. Day of, we showed up, took a swim in the lake, and then got ready in the community center. I wanted flowers in my hair, and my friend brought baby’s breath. I got the dress off the rack from Nordstrom and did my own makeup.”
“In summer 2021, with Covid travel restrictions, my family and friends from Tanzania couldn’t come. So they Skyped in.”
“We walked down to the beach together, and the tall grass formed an aisle.”
“Before the wedding, we came up with the idea to do the ceremony with our feet in the water. It felt right given our love of Lake Superior. My best friend officiated.”
“We had a gathering the night before for out-of-towners, and I joked that I was going to start my vows with ‘Someday, we’re all going to die…’ Everybody thought that was a terrible idea. In this photo, I’m laughing because I went with that opener. For me, it was about death being a reminder to maximize life. In my vows, I said I wouldn’t want to spend my life with anyone else.”
“It’s a public beach, and when we kissed, strangers nearby cheered and clapped along with our friends and family. That was lovely.”
“The community center is a government building, so it’s not the cutest, but having the party outside helped. I went to Goodwill and found lace panels, which made it feel more private and intimate since the field is pretty big and along a street. A friend who is an interior designer helped with set up. Someone else brought their lawn games.”
“I could totally feel the wedding industrial complex. We briefly worked with a wedding coordinator who was used to doing more extravagant weddings. Whenever we suggested something, they’d take it up five notches. I just kept thinking, I don’t care about this stuff, and I’m not going to go into debt for it. We stopped working with them and put our money toward the particular things we did care about. Like, we cared about food, but we didn’t care if the meal was fancy. We hired a food truck, and it was great. Total, I think we spent around $2,000.”
“Our friend Peter Witrak, a musician, did such a great job as our DJ. He also strummed a guitar on the beach before the ceremony.”
“It felt like a backyard hang with friends when a good song comes on and people just get up to dance. We had the perfect wedding for us.”
Thanks so much, Daisy!
P.S. More wedding posts, including four New York city hall weddings, and a stoop wedding in Brooklyn.
(Photos by Liz Pawlik.)
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Hurdle hints and answers for April 29, 2026
If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.
There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it’ll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.
An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.
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If you find yourself stuck at any step of today’s Hurdle, don’t worry! We have you covered.
Hurdle Word 1 hint
To admire.
Hurdle Word 1 answer
ADORE
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Hurdle Word 2 hint
Heavy.
Hurdle Word 2 Answer
HEFTY
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Hurdle Word 3 hint
Two-legged.
Hurdle Word 3 answer
BIPED
Hurdle Word 4 hint
Hefty.
Hurdle Word 4 answer
HEAVY
Final Hurdle hint
Pointy.
Hurdle Word 5 answer
SHARP
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Moon phase today: What the Moon will look like on April 29
It may appear full, but the Moon isn’t actually at 100% illumination yet. In fact, we’re still a couple of days away. But it’s still big and bright enough to do some moon gazing, so keep reading to find out what features you might be able to see tonight.
What is today’s Moon phase?
As of Wednesday, April 29, the Moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. Tonight, 94% of the moon will be lit up, according to NASA’s Daily Moon Guide.
Without any visual aids, tonight you should be able to see the Mares Vaproum, Tranquillitatis, and Imbrium. With binoculars, you’ll see the Mare Frigoris, Clavius Crater, and the Alphonsus Crater. And, finally, with a telescope you’ll see all this plus the Apollo 17 landing spot, Rima Ariadaeus, and the Fra Mauro Highlands.
When is the next Full Moon?
The next Full Moon is predicted to take place on May 1, the first of two in May.
What are Moon phases?
According to NASA, the Moon takes roughly 29.5 days to circle Earth once, going through eight distinct phases in the process. Even though we always see the same side of the Moon, the amount of sunlight hitting it changes as it moves in its orbit. The shifting light creates the changing shapes we know as full, half, and crescent Moons. Altogether, there are eight main lunar phases.
New Moon – The Moon is between Earth and the sun, so the side we see is dark (in other words, it’s invisible to the eye).
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Waxing Crescent – A small sliver of light appears on the right side (Northern Hemisphere).
First Quarter – Half of the Moon is lit on the right side. It looks like a half-Moon.
Waxing Gibbous – More than half is lit up, but it’s not quite full yet.
Full Moon – The whole face of the Moon is illuminated and fully visible.
Waning Gibbous – The Moon starts losing light on the right side. (Northern Hemisphere)
Third Quarter (or Last Quarter) – Another half-Moon, but now the left side is lit.
Waning Crescent – A thin sliver of light remains on the left side before going dark again.
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The ASUS TUF Gaming F16 gaming laptop is down to a record-low price at Amazon — now $400 off
TL;DR: Amazon has the ASUS TUF Gaming F16 gaming laptop on sale for $899.99, down from its $1,299.99 list price. That saves you $400 on a 2025 gaming laptop with an Intel Core i5-13450HX processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 graphics, 16GB of DDR5 memory, and a 165Hz FHD+ display.
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Finding a current-gen gaming laptop in today’s economy for under $1,000 is already amazing, but Amazon’s latest ASUS deal is offering you an all-time low bargain.
As of April 28, the ASUS TUF Gaming F16 gaming laptop is on sale for $899.99 at Amazon, marked down from $1,299.99. Price tracker camelcamelcamel has confirmed that this is the lowest-ever price for this gaming laptop.
For that price, you’re getting the RTX 5050 and Intel Core i5 version of the TUF Gaming F16, which is built around an Intel Core i5-13450HX processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU. It also comes with 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a 512GB PCIe Gen4 SSD, so it should be nicely suited for jumping between games, school work, everyday browsing, and plenty of tabs without causing your sessions to come to a sudden crash.
With those sorts of specs, this version of the ASUS TUF Gaming F16 lets you comfortably run games from the latest graphically demanding titles — including Crimson Desert, Cyberpunk 2077, Black Myth: Wukong, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Pragmata.
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The 16-inch FHD+ display is a big part of the appeal, with ASUS’s fitted 165Hz 16:10 panel with 100% sRGB color giving you extra vertical space compared to a standard 16:9 screen while keeping motion smoother in fast-paced games like Fortnite and Counter-Strike 2. The handy Adaptive-Sync also helps cut down on stuttering and screen tearing when your frame rate starts shifting during intense firefights or brawls with lots of assets moving around at the same time.
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The TUF Gaming F16 keeps the series’ usual more rugged angle, as well. ASUS has had the laptop tested to MIL-STD-810H standards, while its 2nd Gen Arc Flow Fans, full-width heatsink, and full-width vent are designed to help keep performance steady without making the machine unnecessarily loud.
If you’re after a laptop that’s more for work than gaming, Samsung’s ultra-sleek Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 just got a $450 price cut.
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