True or False - Wedding Planning Edition

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? True

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? I don't have any bridesmaids

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? Neither, don't have any

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? True, it was easy, I knew exactly what I wanted and found it right away

8. You are a budget bride? True

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? False, both of our families are super supportive and happy

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? FALSE. My FH and I are paying for it all.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True, but she's never been married, so she doesn't really know how to plan a wedding

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? True

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to throw you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True. My MOH is handling it

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? n/a have not gone dress shopping yet

8. You are a budget bride? False

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? True. My FMIL told my FH's older brothers who are in their 40s that they will not be groomsmen. It was not her place to tell them, and my FH was furious she did that

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding?

True AND False. My parents told me up front how much they were willing to put towards our wedding and whatever else there was left we had to pay for (which we have). Actually was about 50/50 split between us. My fiance's parents are only paying for the rehearsal dinner.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother?

100% True. She's been my best friend and rock through the whole process!

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks?

True only one of them though.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning?

False for the most part. I have told him a lot of the decisions my planner and I have made but other than helping to get the suits for the guys, he hasn't done a thing. Which I actually prefer.

5. Wedding planning is FUN?

This one is a tough one. It was fun for the first 6 months and now I just want it to be over. It is getting very tiring and stressful. So I guess both True and False?

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower?

Again True and False. I am not having a party per say. That just isn't my style. I am taking a day with my friends to go out to lunch and we are getting our nails done. That's about it.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be?

False. I was thinking it would take forever for me to find my dress but I only tried on maybe 4 dresses at 2 places. I also thought I would get really emotional while I did get the feeling of "this is what I want to be married to the love of my life in" I never got emotional. My mom cried her eyes out though.

8. You are a budget bride?

True. I don't know of any bride who isn't a budget bride. That is a dangerous game to play!

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama?

True. My sister and MOH got engaged Christmas Day and told me she would wait to get married until after me. She didn't. Honestly thats not why I got angry with her but she got married at the courthouse and they didn't tell us for 3 weeks. Didn't tell his family for a week or 2 either. While I was upset she didn't keep her word, I am more upset she did it behind our backs. I have hardly spoken to her in a month. We do have a scheduled phone call this week to try and talk things out but I think she is expecting things to be solved in one conversation and I already told her it would take time and effort on her part. She didn't even come down for my bridal showers. She's my sister and I love her and I am all about forgiveness but it for sure can't happen overnight for me because of how hurt I am. She is upset I am not coming down for her "after wedding shower" soon and I told her I am just not ready to travel down there and act like I am happy an supportive when I am still extremely hurt over it (and when she didn't make the effort to come down for my shower). I am hoping we can be on at least ok terms before my wedding in just a little over a month.

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False. My parents have been so supportive and accommodating in the planning process.

Well, most would call my situation sad!
Me and my FH are paying for our own wedding. My mom passed away suddenly 6 years ago- so her absence affects me a great deal.
Im having a small bridal party- 3 bridesmaid's 3 groomsmen, a maid and best man. My older sister is the maid we speak almost everyday but i live in Denver she is in NY. The same with my bridesmaids- Atlanta and NY. They don't really contact me. They know the colors etc. But have not contatced me. I didn't even think about that until i read this post? His parents aren't involved, they asked a few questions but thats it.
My FH does make decisions with me but im doing mostly all of the research etc.. (at the moment im not working, just finished a grad program) so i do most of the research, driving around to check out ideas for decor and take care of our son.
No one has spoken to me about a bachelorette party.
My appointment for dress shopping starts April 1st. I was going by myself and my sister said we can duo, so it will be like she is there, but my FH cousin said that's sad and offered to go, so she will meet me.
I am a realist and therefore a budget bride, i don't do extravagance unless its called for, so i won't spend thousands on a dress but will pay more on good food and drinks.
So far, my only wedding drama is me uninviting my Stepfather, who i didn't think would come anyway because early on i made it known his girlfriend- i don't know is not invited. Im sure it will be more bc i had to streamline my guest bc my family is ginormous!
Thats pretty much how its going. For me, i have always done stuff on my own, no one checking on me or anything im pretty used to it. The process is a bit stressful but im coping.

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? True or False

Somewhat both. My fiance and I are paying got majority of our wedding (the venue). My parents are paying for my dress, our honeymoon, all of our vendors that are not included in our package, and our welcome party.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True or False

True! I love my mom and am so blessed to have her in my life!

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? True or False

True - They're great!

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True or False

True. He definitely has his own opinions and has been helpful when I need him to be. I've been taking the initiative on all of the planning.

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True or False

False. I haven't found anything fun about the planning. I can't wait to get to the fun stuff; pre-wedding events and parties!

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True or False

True. Bridal shower is being planned by my MOH with help from my mom and I'm not sure about the bachelorette party. I dont really want one. A girls day is good enough for me.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? True or False

False. I thought I would try on a lot of dresses and not be limited to just a few at a time. I still enjoyed the experience.

8. You are a budget bride? True or False

False. I don't like budgets lolll

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? True or False

True. Not really drama but one of my cousins hasn't gotten it through her head that she's not invited because I've only seen her a handful of times throughout my life and I don't really have a connection with her. I'm still trying to figure out how I want to handle her.

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? True or False

False. It has been truly, "whatever you want", and not them trying to make it into part 2 of their wedding.

1. True for mine, not true for FH's family. Maybe not 100%, as my FH and I are both contributing here and there, but the majority is my mom and dad.

2. True. Not overbearing, kind of the perfect level of involved. I give her a task that's overwhelming me and she does it.

3. True. Very blessed with this.

4. True. Probably more than I'd like (or he'd care to admit). Things would be DONE if he didn't want to be so involved. But I also think it's sweet that he wants to "help".

5. True, for the most part. There have definitely been some stressful times but in the end I'm liking it.

6. True. Had both last weekend. So much fun!

7. False. I expected it to take longer. The second dress I tried on at the first shop was "the one". I still tried on a few more, but didn't go to any other shops. Pretty quick and painless.

8. True and False. There were somethings I wanted to spend the money on (venue, food, photographer) and lots of other things I was like "nope, not wasting money on that".

9. True. Aunt just told my mom today that she's not coming because she's mad at my mom. Grow up, Aunt Kelly.

10. False, for the most part. I've had to "present" my dad with all of the big ticket items and get his "ok" but really it's just a formality.

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? False--we are paying for the whole thing ourselves.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? False--My mom passed away several years ago, but my FMIL is awesome!

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? False--my daughter does; but we still have over a year, so the rest of them will get with the program when it gets closer.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True, sort of. He will listen anytime I want to run something by him, or ask his opinion. He sometimes gives his opinion, sometimes just says "whatever you want babe."

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True AND False--sometimes yes, sometimes not so much.

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True!

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? True!!

8. You are a budget bride? True

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? True

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False-everyone is letting us do our thing.

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? False... We are paying for it. Although my best friend bought my dress.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? False... I love my mom but she is neither supportive nor very involved.

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? False.... My best friend does but none of the bridesmaids.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True... He does have his moments where he is super involved amd answeres any question i ask amd offers suggestions but he does pretty much let me do whatever i want.

5. Wedding planning is FUN? Falsw... I have had fun talking about ideas and doing DIY with my moh amd fh. But it's mostly stressful. Although I think it will be fun once the events start and the planning is done.

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? False my moh has but my bridesmaid seem very uninvolved.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? False.... It was so much better.

8. You are a budget bride? True... Even if i had loads of money I would still be a budget bride. I'm very simple.😂😂😂

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? True.... My fh family has been kinda awful since shortly after we got engaged.

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False.... Although my aunt keeps telling me things i most do. 😂😂

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? False. My dad gifted us photography but otherwise it's all us.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? Supportive, yes... involved, no. Lol

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? True for MOH...

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True! He's been excellent!

5. Wedding planning is FUN? Mostly true

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to throw you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True-- bridal shower. Not really having a bachelorette to speak of.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? Mostly true although I didn't try on as many as I wish I would have now.

8. You are a budget bride? True!!

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? False. Our families are awesome.

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False!!

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? False! Paying it all ourselves unless someone throws money at us between now and then, lol.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True? Not very involved, but supportive.

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? False. We're not far enough into planning yet for that. I still haven't technically asked my gals.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? False, he doesn't really care lol.

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True!

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? False, but it's still early

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? False! I bought my dress second hand off Facebook.

8. You are a budget bride? TRUE!

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? False (so far)

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? True

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? False

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower?False

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? False

8. You are a budget bride? False

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? True

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? True

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? FALSE

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? TRUE

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? 1/2 and 1/2

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? TRUE

5. Wedding planning is FUN? FALSE

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? TRUE

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? TRUE

8. You are a budget bride? TRUE

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? DEFINITELY TRUE

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? FALSE

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? False. They're helping here and there, but we're paying for the majority of it ourselves.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True and false. My mom and I have a complicated relationship.

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? True and False. Some are better at this than others! But any time I ask for their opinions, they give them to me.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True to the extent of he does the tasks I ask him to. Other than that, he isn't super involved.

5. Wedding planning is FUN? Definitely true! I've been waiting for this for a long time! I'm enjoying and savoring this time!

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? They haven't mentioned much about it - my mom is throwing the shower, and they'll help with that. I know they plan on doing some sort of bachelorette party, but they are all married mothers, so I expect it to be local and pretty low key.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? True. Although I wasn't expecting to find a dress as quickly as I did, and my nieces excitement was more than I could have ever imagined.

8. You are a budget bride? 100% true. I cannot believe the amount of money that gets spend on a wedding on average!

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? False. Hopefully it stays that way!

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? Definitely false. We both have great parents that just want us to have the kind of wedding we want.

TRUE or FALSE: Post your answers in the comments!

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? False- Him and I are paying

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? False- she trys but has a lot going on. She did go dress shopping with and gave me 400.00. Other than that she keeps saying weddings are depressing and we should have eloped.

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? Both, they offer but haven't gotten their dresses or been around but in their defense other than the dresses I haven't asked for anything.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? For the most part false. He thinks weddings are a money pit and a waste. He preferred an elopement. He did help with tasting and choosing venue. He also cut wood slices for our centerpieces. I have done all the rest.

5. Wedding planning is FUN? Both. Sometimes it is stressful with cost and contacting all vendors. Plus keeping up with time lines and things to do. I enjoyed making centerpieces, choosing flowers, and songs. Plus planning a few surprises for the FH.

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? False. My friend who is not a BM contacted my MOH and planned the bachelorette party. No mention of a bridal shower.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? False-I hate my dress experience. We were there 4 hours. I did get a dress. Everyone including myself loved but it upset me because it was waaaaay over budget. Hence the extra 400 from my mom because she kept pressuring me to shop outside my budget. Now it has been 5 months and I'm not sure if that was I wasn't my dress. I go to try it on for first time since Oct this Sat when I make final payment and pick it up.

8. You are a budget bride? We have a budget and try to follow it but did have to increase our budget. I have shopped around for affordable vendors

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? Oh yes. His sister doesnt get along with her mother. She is a BM. We recently lost his father unexpectedly. My mother lost her job and is super depressed. My brother who doesnt get along with my mother wants to stay with us for the wedding. The list can go on and on.

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False

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1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? False-ish. We're paying for the wedding, but his parents are gifting us with the alcohol to supply our bartender, and my parents are gifting us with some cash.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True, I supposed. She's supportive but not involved in the planning.

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? Semi-true. One bridesmaid does this, because she's also my wedding planner leading up to the wedding. My other bridesmaids have their own things going on.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True.

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True, but still crazy stressful.

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to throw you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True. We're doing a combined bachelor/bachelorette at an Airbnb somewhere. I know the weekend of the party, but nothing else.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? False. I've always dreamed of going to a shop and trying on all the dresses, but I didn't want to fall in love with a dress out of my budget so I opted out of that.

8. You are a budget bride? TRUE. At least in my opinion.

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? True. With my MOH who is also my older sister, haha. Of course.

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False. They're not dictating, but highly suggestive of certain choices. I stand firm in my decisions though.

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? True with absolutely no help. (*EDIT* False I miss read it lol)

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? True AND False I have a very involved mother but she is very rarely supportive. This is the same for my entire life.

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? True kind of. They usually make time to go to thing I ask or help when I ask but they don't call me to ask how it is going or offer to help but they are all adults with their own busy lives. I don't expect them to be thinking about my wedding 24/7 like I am.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? False. He doesn't plan but he helps to make every decision and he gives me so much credit for planning

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True but it is stressful. If I was planning for someone else and I didn't have to pay for it then it really would be the best thing

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True my MOH is insuring I have the very best and I really don't think I can ever thank her enough for it.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? False dress shopping was the absolute worst part of the entire process.

8. You are a budget bride? False lol I used to think I was and I probably should have been but I went a bit wild with spending

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? True. My mom and I have fought every step of the way. I am sure once the invitations go out there will be more

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? True. The insisted I invite the entire family. They tried to get me to have it at the community center (once it was official I could not have it at the church) and that I should either self cater or have potluck. I have had my venue booked (with a $2000 non refundable deposit) for a year now and my dad is still trying to convence me to change it.

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding?

True. Both our families contributed, but we also paid for about 1/3 of the overall budget.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother?

True. My mom has been amazing. We butted heads a bit at the beginning when it came to the venue but we ended up finding a place we both loved and since then she has stepped back and let me do my thing. Any time I've needed help though, she is right there. FMIL has also been super involved and supportive. Anytime my mom couldn't be available to help with something she was happy to step up!

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks?

Mostly, false. We're all at a busy time in our lives but that doesn't make it any less disappointing. MOH lives out of town and has a newborn but has always kept in touch and offered moral support/advice. But she couldn't make it to bridesmaid dress shopping which is the only time the girls have gotten together besides my shower (which another bridesmaid did not make it to but she was in a bad car accident a few weeks prior which is a TOTALLY valid reason) But other than MOH and one other bridesmaid who is also engaged not a lot of involvement there.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True. Now I am a meticulous planner and handle the household budget and he knows this. So he knows when to just step back and let me do my thing. But it is OUR wedding and he has been great about sharing ideas and suggestions for ways to make it our own.

5. Wedding planning is FUN?

True! Budgeting is of course a stress factor but that aside its been a great experience!

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to throw you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True or False

FALSE. This one was a bummer because it did hurt my feelings a bit when no one stepped up. However, it is tradition with my dad's large family that all the aunts get together and host a shower and they did an amazing job. My bach is a month away and after I finally gave up on anyone offering to plan it I just came out and asked one of my girls for help. She was more than happy to take over at that point so in the end everything worked out fine.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? True or False.

False. I watch way too much say yes to the dress. However we have a consignment dress shop here in town that I decided to check before moving on to the big boutiques. I just popped in on my way home from work one day. Behold, they had the perfect dress and at half the price. I sent my mom a picture and took it home that day. All the girls shopping for prom while I was there were super supportive though, so I had an entourage of strangers!

8. You are a budget bride? True or False

True. Overall we're spending about 12K with 100 guests We DIY everything.

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? True or False

True. This one is probably unavoidable, just don't let it take the fun out of planning. We had some minor drama over choosing a venue and the cost of catering but everything worked out in the end!

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? True or False

False. Again there was some minor struggle at the beginning, and FMIL can be a little overbearing sometimes (she means well though!) But at the end of the day they understand that this is our day and have really only stepped in when we ask for help or advice.

TRUE or FALSE: Post your answers in the comments!

1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? True

2. You have a supportive / involved mother?False

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? False

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? False

5. Wedding planning is FUN? True

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? False

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? Haven't done that yet but know it won't be what I imagined

8. You are a budget bride? True

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? False maybe because I'm keeping everything to myself

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? False

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1. Your and/or your FH's family is paying for your wedding? True. We're all splitting it.

2. You have a supportive / involved mother? False. My mom means well but I think because she is helping us out with so much of the wedding (and her personality in general), I think my mom has kind of been a more stressful aspect than supportive.

3. Your bridesmaids check in on you, ask about your wedding, and offer to help with wedding related tasks? True! My MOHs have been incredibly helpful, but my bridesmaids have also been amazing in general.

4. Your FH is involved in the wedding planning? True. He's been helping me so much with transportation and hotels as well as coming with me to all of our vendor meetings.

5. Wedding planning is FUN? False.

6. Your bridesmaids have offered to through you a bachelorette and/or bridal shower? True. Bachelorette has been more of a group collective effort, but I don't expect them to throw it all for me since we're traveling to another state and it's costly.

7. Your dress shopping experience was exactly how you imagined it would be? False. I didn't think I'd have a "Say Yes to Dress moment" (I didn't). But the style of the dress was not something, in my wildest dreams, be something I would wear. But I kept smiling while wearing it and comparing all of the other dresses to that one, so I knew it was the one.

8. You are a budget bride? False

9. You have had some sort of wedding related family drama? False

10. Your parents are trying to dictate your wedding? True