Discussions by FutureStephD

Curious if any brides ordered their wedding cake or conducted a wedding cake consultation via phone or email? Am I crazy to ask a bakery to do so? Our venue sub-contracts out the wedding cake to a...

So excited! We just booked our honeymoon hotel - Sandals Regency La Toc. I'm obsessed with the Pitons so we booked a room with the view of them. Now to book airfare!... flight times kinda stink from...

FH's parents are "gifting" us a bag piper and drummer who will play for 15 minutes during dinner. The bag piper and drummer are not charging anything since they're part of a police fraternal order...

Hi all! I have my FIRST dress fitting Saturday. I'm SUPER NERVOUS because since purchasing the dress I've gained five pounds (well, I gained ten and then lost five) and I'm pretty sure it won't zip....

Can the married ladies share their before and after of their bustles? (and share the name/ type of bustle?) Thanks!

FH and I mailed our invitations last weekend and the RSVPs have started rolling in! We've made it fun but guessing who an RSVP is from (look at postmark and guess); what they want as an entree (filet...

I'm curious if anyone is DIY-ing their place cards, and if so, what do they look like? I was going to do marble tile place cards, but I'm not sure now... my mom was going to do cricut for them but...

How do you do a monogram for someone with a hyphenated last name? I.e. Jane Lynn Smith-Doe jDl??

Hi! Is anyone not doing a registry at all? We just sent invites Saturday and already two people have received their invitation (eek!!!) and both have visited our website, noticed we didn’t have a...

We literally just finished stuffing all our invitations and FH's step-mother texted to tell us a guests husband just passed. FH and I have been chatting and we don't know if we should send as is (Mr....

Am I getting to theme-y and buying my BMs too little or too much?... All of my BMs like wine and I'm a big wine-o. I recently went to Napa and on the trip I purchased each one a bottle of wine I...

Hi all, I’ve had our budget put together for a while and I’m figuring out how much cash we need to pay vendors ahead of time (some require cash). Am I missing anything from the budget?! VENDORSDJ -...

We're going to our venue this weekend and doing our menu tasting!!! Our event planner also mentioned we could pick out place settings and chairs and etc. I'm going to bring my vendor list, seating/...

I've been having difficulty with my venues "event coordinator". On a few occasions she has told me incorrect information, including telling our that DJ he has to bring a generator for our ceremony in...

Hi all, Long story short, it's incorrect to have a bachelorette party with people not invited to the wedding, right?? Long story: my sister/ MOH asked all my BMs and a handful of my friends about...

For those of you that secured vendors on your own and then hired a DOC, did you introduce your DOC to your vendors ahead of time? If so, what did you say to them? Thanks!