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Hi all! I am getting married on Saturday & I have been trying to figure out what to do with my dress after the wedding. Has anyone framed their dress & if so where did you get it done? I am seriously...
I know from reading these forums (and just in general) that no one is going to care about our wedding as much as we do. However FH and I were discussing tonight how we feel like both of our families...
We are having a small wedding with no brides maids and no groomsmen. The guy we hired is giving us Boutonnières & Corsages (2 of each). I have 1 sister and my partner has 2 brothers. We have a...
I am a converted Muslim and my fiancé is Muslim . We are planning on have a small party/reception maybe like 50-75 people . We do not drink because of our faith and my fiances family does not. My...
Hello. Would it be rude to have pre marriage parties when we plan to elope? We are planning a reception at a later date where we plan to invite friends and family, but the ceremony will be intimate...
Hi, Is there a polite/appropriate way to tell a vendor I’m not interested in speaking on the phone? I get bad social anxiety (ramped up now that I’m wedding planning) and can’t handle dealing with...
I encourage anyone & everyone to get counseling together, BEFORE getting married!! I've already learned so much about communication & what my spouse not only needs but expects from me as a...
Hello, I know this will be the “Ask the bride about this than us” I am currently dating/ on and off with someone and seeming like things arent going too well, am I in the wrong to unblock someone they...
I know it's a common tradition to get a wedding gift for your spouse, but I have no clues what to get him. Are you guys doing this too? Any thoughts on a good, thoughtful gift?
So I was talking with my future MIL yesterday regarding my fiancé’s side of the family getting invitations and responses to my wedding this June. One of my fiancé’s cousins is a lovely lady with the...
We are not having a Bridal Party. My dad is not in the picture so this hasn’t occurred to me until my Future FIL brought it up this weekend. My FH is wearing a tux, and his dad said he wants to wear...
I feel really bad but I just asked my Photographer if she could edit the photos at our wedding to be true to color vibrant and natural tones. I started off by appreciating her work with my engagement...
Hi girls, I need your feedback! I've heard of a few people doing a video or photo slide show set up on a projector and shown at the wedding or reception. I was thinking of making a small slide show of...
Hi everyone, I’m facing quite a predicament and I’m hoping you can help. I was a friend’s MOH last year. I know her since kindergarten but we weren’t all that close growing up, only started hanging...
Hi community.. I'm going through a nightmare with my name change here in FL. My husband is Puerto Rican where it is standard to be given both your mother and father's family name. When I showed my...
I feel like we have an average sized/priced wedding, but my extravagant spending is on our band. We are paying $13k for an awesome 12 piece band. They advertise as being inclusive of...
The way our guest list has grown blows my mind. One night, we had about 45, then we go over to my future MIL’s place and start talking about more names we might want to add. They came up with about 50...
Is it rude to invite someone to your wedding without their spouse? I don’t have much room to add any more people unless I remove some. My mother has 2 friends that I know of-course as well. However,...
I wrote down the rsvp date 2 months before the wedding to give us enough time for seating charts since I'm planning a destination wedding and there's a lot of moving parts. I didn't think my...
Hi everyone, I am getting married this year and my parents got divorced 7 years ago. 3 years ago dad married his mistress and now have a 1 hear old. My mom refuses to be at the wedding if dad’s wife...