Discussions from Etiquette and Advice

My parents have been divorced since I was a baby and I've had little contact with my father. He always sends birthday cards and we've visited back and forth a few times, but he's never been there...

Hi, I'm Tessa and I'm really new to this site. What do I do if my mom is being a bridezilla about my wedding? I love my mother to death, but since she sisnt get to have an actual wedding for my older...

I was really excited that my aunt agreed to officiate our wedding. She wants to include a part before the vows about how we met/how long we've known each other. FH thinks this could be embarrassing...

My fiance has a man-style claddagh ring (two hands holding the heart) that he bought when he was in Ireland with his father years ago. It is special to him because it signifies a bond between him and...

Good or bad idea? We don't really have a close relationship but since I will be having my mom walk me down the isle, I wanted him to till have his moment. Would it be a terrible idea to have him...

I got a text from my cousin and I'm still a little confused by it! She asked what was I doing memorial day weekend. I asked her what it was in reference to. She said she's having a small ceremony that...

Hi! I'm new to these forums. Recently engaged as of two weeks ago. We are looking at getting married next March. I've been lurking here since day 2 and now need some advice! I don't have a...

Hi all! I am wondering how to properly address my STD for a married gay couple with the same last name. I looked on google first, and all of the examples had the couples with different last names or...

My mother has been nothing short of difficult since before we got engaged, and it's only getting worse as the wedding planning goes along. She complains about every single detail, she doesn't like any...

For those of you who were wondering what happened with excluding the SIL (DH's brother's wife) from hell from our wedding pictures... Let me start with rehearsal dinner night... Thursday. We went to...

My fiancé got fired a couple weeks ago due to snow. We live in an apartment building and the snow removal people didn't come until 6pm so my fiancé had to call out of work which he wasn't originally...

I have a dilemma. I live 10 hours away from all my close friends & family who live in my home state. My wedding is going to be in the state where I live, not in my home state so there will be quite a...

Let me preface this by saying it’s definitely a whiny vent, but I think the rest of my family is even more hurt than I am. My younger brother is my only sibling. Our relationship has had its ups and...

I have no idea where I got off on my numbers but I just went over our guest list and we are over by 8 people. Our venue can only hold a maximum of 110. We have 118. We haven't sent STDs yet but I am...

So I am trying to pick a song to walk down the aisle to, but I am clueless. All I know is I don't want it to be the traditional Canon in D. What song did you ladies walked down the aisle to?

How do you handle the awkwardness that arises when cutting people from the guest list?! FH and I both have very large families. With such large families there are relatives neither of us see often,...

So I have 7 bridesmaids and my fiancé wants to have 10 grooms men (3 are my brothers) I don't know what to do I really want my brothers in my wedding. & he can't choose just 4 friends. What should I...

So I know it's the thing to do at showers to open all your presents in front of everyone....but I am absolutely cringing at the thought of this!!! I imagine this being so boring to sit through as a...

We're expecting maybe a dozen kids to be at the wedding, with a wide variety in ages. We have an option of ordering a kid's meal for them or letting them eat at the buffet with the adults, but the...