Discussions from Family and Relationships

Hi everyone! I have been having a really tough week. My fiancé and I got into an argument over something small that had just blown up so much bigger. He started bringing up ther things that we have...

The other day, my fiancé was texting his sister and she said something about her BF of about a year & a half will “be a flower boy in your wedding or the officiant” (we aren’t doing flower girls;...

Hi everyone I'm trying to keep my kool because my FH doesn't understand that this is a wedding. Not a club and just inviting people he runs into and think that all these ppl cares. They see a place to...

My fiance has a...um...strained relationship with his father. His father has an issue with alcohol among other things. It was my fiance's decision to not invite him. My BIL, who is slated to be the...

Most women have to deal with their MIL. I'm lucky I don't have that but I do have that in a future SIL. FH is 2 years younger than I am and his older sister is 1 year older than him. I'm older than...

My fiancé and I getting married this year and we trimmed our guests from 200 to 100. We did our homework who to invite, asked advise to married couples and so on. We are strong believers and we stand...

Needing Maid of honor and general advice. My best friend and maid of honor and I have been best friends since kindergarten (roughly like 16-17 years) she’s always been very loud and opinionated...

So I have a monster in law. We finally told her after keeping our engagement a secrete from his family last week after four long months mainly because we knew my FH mom Wouldn’t support us. Yesterday...

I'm sorry to say this isn't entirely wedding related, but just something that's been bugging me more and more lately. I grew up with a hyper critical parent, so I've done some really work to unlearn...

My parents are paying for my entire wedding, and there was no question that they would. In our culture, the father pays for the wedding. Period. So I just kind of went along with it. Well now...

I recently had my bridal shower. Only the female family and friends were invited aside from my fiance, father, grandfather, and ring bearer accompanied by his father because he's 9 and came with my...

Hi ladies! We are in the midst of finalizing our guest list. We want a wedding on the smaller side so we found a beautiful venue with a strict cap of 150 so that we definitely can’t go over it. I have...

So I have had my wedding planned for 3+ years (Covid & unplanned pregnancies). My cousin has only been engaged for a 1.5 years. I've posted before about how she switched her venue from a museum to...

Hello 👋 one of my bridesmaids has a really controlling boyfriend an I got a message from him one day saying she can’t be in my wedding cause he says she walking with another guy an saying I’m super...

My sister and I are both in our 40s. I was married once for over 2 decades. She's never been married or even lived with a man other than her 2 sons. She's been dating her bf for about a year. I've...

First off my parents are paying for the majority of the wedding. In laws have been more than helpful enough with offering to pay for added bonuses which I appreciate greatly. We agreed on 100 guests...

I’m venting here because me being “officially” engaged is apparently a huge gamechanger for my Mom. She’s obviously trying to compensate or keep up with the Joneses through me. We have yet to have a...

Hello darling bride friends! Idk if I'm looking for advice or more to vent, but here we go... As my title indicates, I am in a bit of a pickle regarding certain invitations to extend to certain people...

So I feel beyond immature about this, and that why I wanted to kind of talk it out so that I could get over it. But on the wedding day the flower girl, my niece, didn't have her basket because my SIL...

This is just a throwaway account to help save feelings just in case. My fiancé and I were just going to have a small courthouse wedding so I asked a friend that lives close to me to be the witness....