Discussions by Mary

I just received our kippot (yarmulkes - little Jewish hats for the ceremony) today and the company messed them up, adding buttons when FH is very against buttons on kippot. I ordered them in November,...

I don't know who else to ask (so, if you have ideas on that front, let me know as well). How much should we be giving the temple as the honorarium for our rabbi? It's a mitzvah (good deed) for him to...

We are having a Jewish ceremony, as my finacé was raised Jewish, it's important to his family, and I was raised without any religion. He's not especially religious now, and does not want to put a...

We're getting married and having our reception at a hotel in downtown Chicago. We have been working with one woman, who will be there the day-of and night-of to coordinate everything, who works for...

I'm trying to finish our budget planning. (We're a little over, which is why I'm having a bit of tipping anxiety.) I've read the old posts... We have a photographer, who owns his own business. I've...

I'm really proud of my creations for the week and know that my audience to share that is super limited (until the day of the wedding, and then there will be so many other things for people to be...

Our best man's wife is due with their third baby right about the time of our wedding. We always knew that she wasn't coming, but tonight, one day after we ordered the programs, we found out that the...

I have been doing a bit of registry stalking and am confused about what to do about something. I really am not into silver serve ware, but the salesgirl insisted I look, so I did, and I found three...

I am super excited to be helping a friend propose to his girlfriend tonight. FH and I are both friends of them as a couple. We're going over to his place, setting out cake, flowers, champagne and...

Please tell me your wedding planning crises to make mine seem less important. Mine so far: I've had the wrong kippot delivered, 3 months after I ordered them, was led on for another 3 months by the...

We're having our ketubah custom designed. The artist asked today if the Hebrew needs to go before the English. I didn't know what to say. Any insight? The Hebrew part has all of the "official stuff,"...

We sent our invitations out on Monday (after a lot of drama) and got our first one back last night. Hooray! It wasn't from anyone good, just FH's parents' friends, but I love mail and am wedding...

I had posted about the freak out I was having as my wedding invitations were three weeks late. They arrived on Friday (after some more lies from the artist and my stalking the UPS drivers in my...

I just had one and thought others would want to share theirs too. I was registering for a relay race that FH and I will be doing with a group of friends in October. As I started filling out the...

We have been working with an invitation artist via email since December. We were supposed to receive all the parts of our invitation suite on April 29, but that day she discovered a problem with one...

I bought 5 certificates from wedobo.com when they had a deal for 7 2-truffle favors for $11. I thought that was enough, but my FIL's just told us that they are inviting 13 more people to the...

I have it in my mind that sterling silver pill boxes would be perfect gifts to give my mother and my FH's mother as wedding gifts. I cannot find one that I like. I want them to be new, not antiques or...

We're having little boxes of truffles as "favors" at our rehearsal dinner. I wanted to attach little tags, with people's names, and have them serve as place cards. The truffle people said that they...

We all love saving money and I know that I am building up my lingerie trousseau, so I was thrilled to see today's YouSwoop for Biatta lingerie. It's $20 for $50 worth of lingerie (and...

Did you make them? Did you keep them? I'm finally at that point (holy crap!) and am trying to decide if I should do something to get ready. My ideas were focusing on drinking enough water each day,...