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We are having my great abuela who is almost 90 and raised me my first five years of life be our flower girl. (She looks awesome for 89 lmao). Does anyone have any suggestions on names we can call her...
Hi Ladies, Everyone that im going to ask to be in my bridal party is always on FB all the time! I thought it might be a good way to keep all of my girls informed as of events & more. I was thinking...
Like we order wedding bands and I know that goes on top of the engagement ring, but does he put both on my finger or just the band?
My Fiancee and I got engaged in September 10th, I told my Parents and sibling, and a couple cousins and an Aunt; but not my whole family (a lot of them). It is now the beginning of December and i have...
Hi there! Our December 2018 ceremony will be taking place at dusk, with low lighting and lots of candles. We've been going back and forth on having a "technology free" ceremony--not so much because I...
So me and FH consider ourselves engaged, we've talked marriage forever, we have a child and one on the way. We started planning because we are super budgeters and wanted to make sure we could afford...
Traditionally weddings are held from the late afternoon to evening, BUT has anyone ever hosted/attended a brunch/late lunch/early afternoon wedding? Afternoon light keeps things brighter and allows...
I am having a destination wedding and would like to have a welcome dinner the night before the wedding. If I do this am I expected to pay for everyone? Should I just scrap the idea if I cant afford...
Hi, so my FH has only one friend and that's his BM and I have many female friends but I want to keep the amount of each even, so we sent two of my friends and his sister to be his GM. Any thoughts on...
So I booked a dj and gave a $100 deposit, which I will lose and I'm fine with that. My godmother is gifting us the dj but she knows someone so we now have a new dj. According to my contract, I...
Hi WW! Our wedding is on March 17th 2018. I was wondering if an RSVP date of February 16th was too early? I need to have them back by March 1st because my caterer needs a final head count by then....
My wedding was Sept 3rd and we hired one of the best photogs in town. He's a really nice, likable guy. Our contract states 6 weeks for finished photos but it has been over 12 weeks now. I've asked...
I have seen a few posts on here in the past of how parents promised to pay for half or to write a check and never did and it got tense between families. Well FMIL promised us a check, which mostly...
So, basically I want to terminate my coordinator. She has not responded to me in months and said she would book bartenders for me. Never signed a contract for those. She booked them incorrectly, then...
Several of our guests are in nontraditional relationships. Many of them were either married prior to becoming nonmonogamous, or else they reject marriage/hierarchical relationships for themselves, and...
Hi everyone! I'm new here, live in New Jersey but am getting married in St. Pete Beach. I need an outlet for my wedding planning obsession so I can lay off my mom and best friend a bit Anyway, I know...
My father doesn't approve of my impending marriage because I'm marrying a man who has ALS. We are barely speaking these days and he recently told me that he's not coming to the wedding. I'm upset and...
One of my fiancés groomsmen has told us that he refuses to wear a tie/bowtie at our wedding. All the other groomsmen will be wearing bowties. He say's he is "weird" about wearing things around his...
My friends I'm sure already know they're going to be in my wedding but I didn't know if I should do it a cute way or just say it lol. Just wondering how you guys asked your friends to be your...
We sent out invitations to the Rehearsal dinner on FB to everyone we wanted to invite. Only four of the invited couples have children. I'd spoken to most of them about not bringing the kids because we...