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FSIL sent me a picture of a dress and I assumed that she was showing me it because she made it (she is an intermediate sewer and her talent continues to grow each time she makes something). When I...
My fiancé and I are not cake people. We are really not dessert people at all. Of course we want to include something sweet at our wedding, but it’s not something we want to put much money towards. We...
I was raised Catholic, go to church on holidays and probably 4 or 5 other Sundays throughout the year. Definitely not devout. I am confirmed and baptized. FH is baptized Catholic but not confirmed and...
Hi all, My family is huge and has an apparent tradition of having female cousins as bridesmaids. I already have a bridesmaid count of 8 of my closest friends and my sister and was hoping to not add...
Okay looking for some WW perspectives on this. I just got an invite to a wedding after mine, and FH (who will be my husband) is not invited. I am on a rec tennis team with the bride and it turns out...
My fiancé and I purchased ties for both our fathers and want to purchase a tie patch to iron on the inside. I'm not overly sentimental/emotional and don't really know what mine should say. So far, the...
Hello Fellow Wirees, As many COVID brides had to, I postponed my wedding. Due to that, I have 200 invitations sitting in a box that have no use. As my ceremony will now take place outdoors in the...
I have two sisters and my fiancé has one sister. This is my core bridal party group. My fiancé has a best friend, a brother, and his sister’s fiancé in his party. I have three best friends, two of...
Hey ya'll! We only have 24 days until we FINALLY get to have our wedding reception! How much am I supposed to tip my vendors? Florist, 2 photographers, videographer, DJ, MC, and photobooth attendant....
Our wedding is this fall & my fiance has a longtime family friend who is recently out of an inpatient recovery center for addiction. From what we've heard, he's really going through with it this...
So I am a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding. Her wedding is in a little over two and a half months. Her mom just texted me and asked if I and another bridesmaid (who she's already asked) could...
Hubby and I want to have our wedding bands engraved with our initials and date we met. We're already married now. What's more common, to use my maiden name initials or married name initials? Thank...
Hi ladies! My FH has a huge extended family. 2 of 5 of his cousins have 12 kids just between them!We wanted to have a small wedding of 50 people. The venue gives us a huge 50% discount for weddings 50...
Due to Covid we had to postpone our wedding a year. The wedding is around an hour away, so we were getting a head count from our bridal party on who would want to stay at the hotel near the venue so...
Okay. So my fiancé's parents, grandparents, and some siblings are all Mormon. So of course they are uncomfortable with alcohol. We originally were going to have the reception at the same place, but he...
My son and his wife were married in May and are planning a wedding celebration in the beginning of 2022 when their new house will be ready. Is it ok to send out invitations to family and friends...
I'm the maid of honor for my friend's wedding, and for her bridal shower we're going to have a wishing well. I'm having trouble coming up with how to say it on the invitation. I just want a line or...
We had to postpone our big celebration and we are going forward with it in May. We may be allowed to have 50 guests by then (which includes vendors). There are 70 other guests that we plan to invite...
I've been with my FH for 13 years and we got engaged last year. No one in my family is excited about our engagement or wedding, which I understand, b/c we've been together so long. My question is...
I had to change my date and venue recently, the new venue is my home church and the pastor said no champagne toast or alcohol of any kind. My friends and family love to drink and a lot of them are...