Most supportive

I am immensely grateful to my best friend for all she's had to listen to ahah in my rants and stuff because while dating, my husband and i obviously had our issues.

Honestly I feel like everyone in our circles stepped up the plate for us. (Probably because they had been dying for us to get married for nearly 7 years lol).

Our friends and families came in from across the country. One even made a 15 hour drive from IL to MD and back!

My girls were there for me every step of the way asking how they can help. My MOH even got mad at me for not giving them anything to do haha.

My husband's best friend from high school was our officiant. And his childhood best friend thanked me for finally taking him off of his hands after 20 years of friendship.

Some of our friends provided services for either a discount or for free so it would be one less thing fo us to worry about in the end.

And most importantly our parents..... Mine paid our deposit as their gift, and my in-laws paid for the rehearsal dinner as theirs. No questions asked, they just handed over a check.

Everyone was supportive throughout our whole planning period and were gracious to follow our requests when needed.

My dad and stepmom have been amazing. First - my dad called that I was in love with DH *before I started dating him*. (Dad's a therapist, he's irritatingly good at that kind of thing.)

They also helped pay for the wedding. When it's not COVID time, they visit constantly, or pay for us to go visit them, they've helped me buy a small condo, and honestly I gotta stop now, because I haven't seen them since November and I'm going to cry.

It took a while for FIL to come around (oh, boy, was THAT a Thing), but MIL and I have bonded since early on, and she's - well, like me, she doesn't talk to her mother (going on 26 years, life goal!) for very valid reasons. She doesn't try to be *my* mom, but she is absolutely a mothering presence in my life and has been so supportive and amazing after this miscarriage. They threw us the most amazing rehearsal dinner (and cooked most of it themselves, because omigod I married into an Italian family for a *reason* y'all), at their apartment...

We've been blessed.

Oh, and shout out to our friends who kept chucking bridal bouquets at my head once I started dating DH. They liked him and wanted us both to know.

That is awesome!

Everyone is supportive of our relationship. As far as the planning, we've done the bulk of it ourselves and paid for most of it ourselves as well (so far about 12k in all, with about 5k more left), both the rescheduled big wedding and our mini COVID one that we moved forward with this past July. My mom offered to help with some of the wedding things (she bought cupcakes for our mini COVID wedding and will be buying the cake the rescheduled "re-do" next year, along with some of the decor I had picked out for that but not bought yet) and one of my close friends (she's technically one of my BMs for the wedding next year) stepped up a few days before our COVID wedding to officiate (and did AMAZING) when our original friend we'd asked to officiate was being flaky and not listening to our requests.

That's great! That was really nice of your bridesmaid

I'd probably have to say my FH. He's been amazing through it all. I've tried to keep most everyone else out of the planning as I didn't want to burden friends / family with Covid woes. Although those that do know me have been great in reminding me that my job has prepared me for our wedding planning for years. (I plan corporate events). So, when I'm feeling frustrated or down, I think to those words and it usually pushes me through the hard stuff.